National Priorities for the Assessment of Clinical Conditions and Medical Technologies : Report of a Pilot Study.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Staff, Institute of Medicine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington : National Academies Press, 1989.
Series:Publication IOM National priorities for the assessment of clinical conditions and medical technologies
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Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • National Priorities for the Assessment of Clinical Conditions and Medical Technologies; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Contents; Summary; ASSESSING MEDICAL PRACTICE; A NATIONAL APPROACH; PRIORITY-SETTING CRITERIA; TWENTY ASSESSMENT PRIORITIES; USING THE PRIORITIES; ACCOMMODATING CLINICAL CONDITIONS AND TECHNOLOGIES; NEXT STEPS; 1 Introduction; 2 A Pilot Process for Setting National Assessment Priorities; ELEMENTS OF A NATIONAL APPROACH; NATIONALLY APPLICABLE PRIORITY-SETTING CRITERIA; Primary Criteria; Potential (for an Assessment) to Improve Individual Patient Outcome.
  • Potential to Affect a Large Patient PopulationPotential to Reduce Unit or Aggregate Cost; Potential to Reduce Unexplained Variations in Medical Practice; Secondary Criteria; Potential to Address Social and Ethical Implications; Potential to Advance Medical Knowledge; Potential to Affect Policy Decisions; Potential to Enhance the National Capacity for Assessment; Potential to Be Readily Conducted; A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR PRIORITIES; The Clinical Condition Approach; The Technology Approach; Integrating the Clinical Condition and Technology Approaches; METHOD OF THIS PILOT STUDY; Overview.
  • Round I of the Modified Delphi ProcessRound II of the Modified Delphi Process; The Priority-Setting Group's Meeting; Activities Following the Priority-Setting Meeting; 3 Twenty Priority Assessment Areas; CLINICAL CONDITIONS; Breast Cancer; Improve Individual Patient Outcome; Affect a Large Patient Population; Reduce Unit or Aggregate Cost; Reduce Unexplained Variations in Medical Practice; Advance Medical Knowledge; Affect Policy Decisions; Cataracts; Improve Individual Patient Outcome; Affect a Large Patient Population; Reduce Unit or Aggregate Cost.
  • Reduce Unexplained Variations in Medical PracticeAffect Policy Decisions; Enhance the national capacity for technology assessment; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Improve Individual Patient Outcome; Affect a Large Patient Population; Reduce Unit or Aggregate Cost; Reduce Unexplained Variations in Medical Practice; Address Social and Ethical Implications; Enhance the National Capacity for Technology Assessment; Coronary Artery Disease; Improve Individual Patient Outcome; Affect a Large Patient Population; Reduce Unit or Aggregate Cost; Reduce Unexplained Variations in Medical Practice.
  • Advance Medical KnowledgeGallbladder Disease; Improve Individual Patient Outcome; Affect a Large Patient Population; Reduce Unit or Aggregate Cost; Reduce Unexplained Variations in Medical Practice; Advance Medical Knowledge; Gastrointestinal Bleeding; Improve Individual Patient Outcome; Affect a Large Patient Population; Reduce Unit or Aggregate Cost; Reduce Unexplained Variations in Medical Practice; Affect Policy Decisions; Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection; Improve Individual Patient Outcome; Affect a Large Patient Population; Reduce Unit or Aggregate Cost.