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Topic and Scope of Consensus Development Conferences: Criteria and Approach for Selection of Topics and Properties for Assessment
Pages 18-22

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... Therefore, not surprisingly, the need and demand for comprehensive assessments of health care technologies have grown in the developed world. A technological assessment should provide decision makers with useful information and guidelines on policy questions that concern the application of medical technology.
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... Thus, the participants may formulate the best current judgment of a given technology in relation to the health care service requirements, the patients' desires, and the demands of the society. The aims and the expectations of a consensus development conference differ between countries because of variations in the cultural settings and in the health care systems.
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... NIH arranged a conference on hipjoint replacement, and a similar conference was held on the same topic in Sweden. The conferences provided the opportunity to compare consensus development in two cultures with different health care systems.
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... have been examined. The initial intent of the NIH program was to emphasize new and emerging technologies, although most of the conferences in the United States and other countries have addressed established technologies already in widespread use.
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... 95-623. Health Services Research, Health Statistics and Health Care Technology Act of 1978.
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