Assessment of Diagnostic Technology in Health Care:

Rationale, Methods, Problems, and Directions

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Size: 152 pages, 6 x 9

Publication Year:1989

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Council on Health Care Technology, Institute of Medicine
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Technology assessment can lead to the rapid application of essential diagnostic technologies and prevent the wide diffusion of marginally useful methods. In both of these ways, it can increase quality of care and decrease the cost of health care. This ...
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Front Matter	i-viii
Introduction	1-7	(skim)
1. Rationale for Assessment of Diagnostic Technology	8-22	(skim)
2. The Use of Diagnostic Tests: A Probabilistic Approach	23-54	(skim)
3. Assessment: Problems and Proposed Solutions	55-72	(skim)
4. Primary Assessment of Diagnostic Tests: Barriers to Implementation	73-106	(skim)
5. Costs and Sources of Funding	107-119	(skim)
6. A National Program for Assessing Diagnostic Technology	120-128	(skim)
7. Problems of Multi-Institutional Studies	129-142	(skim)
The Authors	143-144	(skim)

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Technology assessment can lead to the rapid application of essential diagnostic technologies and prevent the wide diffusion of marginally useful methods. In both of these ways, it can increase quality of care and decrease the cost of health care. This comprehensive monograph carefully explores methods of and barriers to diagnostic technology assessment and describes both the rationale and the guidelines for meaningful evaluation. While proposing a multi-institutional approach, it emphasizes some of the problems involved and defines a mechanism for improving the evaluation and use of medical technology and essential resources needed to enhance patient care.

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