Adopting new medical technology /
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| Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1994. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Medical innovation at the crossroads ; v. 4 Medical innovation at the crossroads ; v. 4. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11106725 |
| Summary: | What information and decisionmaking processes determine how and whether an experimental medical technology becomes accepted and used?<br>Adopting New Medical Technology reviews the strengths and weaknesses of present coverage and adoption practices, highlights opportunities for improving both the decisionmaking processes and the underlying information base, and considers approaches to instituting a much-needed increase in financial support for evaluative research.<br>Essays explore the nature of technological change; the use of technology assessment in decisions by health care providers and federal, for-profit, and not-for-profit payers; the role of the courts in determining benefits coverage; strengthening the connections between evaluative research and coverage decisionmaking; manufacturers' responses to the increased demand for outcomes research; and the implications of health care reform for technology policy. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585001758 9780585001753 9780309586412 0309586410 0309050359 9780309050357 |