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Setting Priorities for Health Technologies Assessment: A Model Process (1992)

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Appendix B
Abbreviations


AHCPR

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research


BPD

Bureau of Policy Development


CHCT

Council on Health Care Technology


DHHS

Department of Health and Human Services


FDA

Food and Drug Administration


HCFA

Health Care Financing Administration


IOM

Institute of Medicine


NCHCT

National Center for Health Care Technology

NCHSR

National Center for Health Services Research and Health Care Technology Assessment

NIH

National Institutes of Health


OHTA

Office of Health Technology Assessment

OIG

Office of Inspector General

OTA

Office of Technology Assessment


PHS

Public Health Service

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The problem of deciding which health care technologies to evaluate is urgent. With new technologies proliferating alongside steadily increasing health care costs, it is critical to discriminate among technologies to direct tests and treatments at those who can benefit the most.

Given the vast number of clinical problems and technologies to be evaluated, the many months of work required to study just one problem, and the relatively few clinicians with highly developed analytic skills, institutions must set priorities for assessment. This book sets forth criteria and a method that can be used by public agencies such as the Office of Health Technology Assessment (in the U.S. Public Health Service) and by any private organization conducting such work to decide which technologies to assess or reassess.

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