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Suggested Citation:"The Authors." Institute of Medicine. 1989. Assessment of Diagnostic Technology in Health Care: Rationale, Methods, Problems, and Directions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1432.
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Suggested Citation:"The Authors." Institute of Medicine. 1989. Assessment of Diagnostic Technology in Health Care: Rationale, Methods, Problems, and Directions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1432.
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The Authors DR. HERBERT L. ABRAMS is professor of radiology at Stanford University School of Medicine and was formerly He Philip H. Cook Professor and chairman of radiology at Harvard Medical School. A member of the Council on Health Care Technology of the Institute of Medicine-National Academy of Sciences, he is co-chairman of He Meth- ods Panel of the Council. He has played an active role in diagnostic technology assessment during the past two decades, and he is the co- editor of a book on the rational utilization of diagnostic imaging proce- dures. DR. DOUGLAS OWENS is a clinical assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, with a major involvement in heady policy research. His previous wow involves me~odologic ap- proaches to technology assessment and test selection. DR. HAROLD SOX is professor and chairman of the Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, and formerly professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medi- cine. He is He author of numerous papers on health policy and technol- ogy assessment, as weD as a book on clinical decisionmaking. SUSAN STERN is a fourth-year medical student at Stanford Univer- sity School of Medicine, with a major interest in heady policy research. 143

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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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