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List of Authors Bj0rn Backe Researcher Norwegian Institute of Hospital Research Trondheim-NTH Norway Sharon R. Baratz Research Associate Council on Health Care Technology Institute of Medicine National Academy of Sciences Washington, DC USA Renaldo N. Battista, M.D., Sc.D. Director Division of Clinical Epidemiology Department of Medicine The Montreal General Hospital Montreal, Quebec Canada 161 Gerard Breart, M.D. Director of Research Unit No. 149 Epidemiological Research on Mother and Child Paris France Robert H. Brook, M.D., Sc.D. Professor of Medicine and Public Health Center for Health Sciences University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA USA and Deputy Director Health Program The RAND Corporation Santa Monica, CA USA
162 Anton F. Caspar~e, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Socio-Medical Science Department of Health Policy and Management Erasmus University, and Chair of the Scientific Council CBO (National Organization for Quality Assurance in Hospitals) Utrecht The Netherlands Ingemar EckerIund, M.Sc. The Swedish Planning and Rationalization Institute for the Health and Social Services Stockholm Sweden Clifford Goodman, Ph.D. Director Council on Health Care Technology Institute of Medicine National Academy of Sciences Washington, DC USA Stefan Hakansson, Ph.D. The Swedish Planning and Rationalization Institute for the Health and Social Services Stockholm Sweden CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT Itzhak Jacoby, M.D. Director Division of Health Services Administration Depa~ent of Preventive Medicine and Biometry Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Bethesda, MD USA Egon Jonsson, Ph.D. Professor The Karolinska Institute and Director Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care Stockholm Sweden Torben Jorgensen Department Head Danish Hospital Institute Copenhagen Denmark Arnold D. Kaluzny, Ph.D. Depa~ll~ent of Health Policy and Administration School of Public Health and Research Associate Health Services Research Center University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC USA
LIST OF AUTHORS Anna-Liisa Kauppila, M.Sc. Planner The Academy of Finland -Helsinki Finland Nick Klazinga, M.D. Staff Member CBO (National Organization for Quality Assurance in Hospitals) Utrecht The Netherlands Pedro Koch, M.D. Medical Service Swiss Federal Office of Social Insurance Bern Switzerland Jacqueline Kosecoff, Ph.D. Executive Vice President Value Health Sciences, Inc. Santa Monica, CA USA and Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Public Health Center for Health Sciences University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA USA Jonathan Lomas Associate Professor Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Health Sciences Center McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada 163 Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Ph.D. Health Policy Analyst The RAND Corporation Santa Monica, CA USA Tore Schersten, M.D. Professor of Surgery Department of Surgery Sahigrenska Hospital Goteborg School of Medicine Goteborg Sweden Jackie Spiby, M.B., M.F.C.M. Consultant in Public Health Medicine North West Thames Regional Heady Authority London United Kingdom I.~.E. van Everdingen, M.D., Ph.D. Staff Member CBO (National Organization for Quality Assurance in Hospitals) Utrecht The Netherlands Caroline Weill Professor National School of Public Health H6pital National Saint Maurice France