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Medical and medical-technological developments [PDF]

open access: possible, 1987
The amazing strides in medicine and social facilities during the last century, manifested in better health care facilities, hygiene, vaccination, the introduction of antibiotics etc., have had the effect of doubling life expectancy at birth in the industrialized countries. 1)
Henk A. Becker, C. F. Hollander
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The NICE Medical Technologies Advisory Committee and medical technologies guidance [PDF]

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The Medical Technologies Advisory Committee (MTAC) is the driver of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Medical Technologies Evaluation Programme (MTEP). This aims to identify novel devices and diagnostics with plausible claims for advantages to patients and/or to the NHS.
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ASSESSING MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN DEVELOPMENT

International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 2000
Our study aims to provide a practical contribution to the field of medical technology assessment within a new paradigm. This paradigm indicates the need for more comprehensive technology assessments in the development stage of a new technology.We introduce a method, based on Saaty's Analytic Hierarchy Process, which quantitatively supports discussions ...
Gerhard Rakhorst   +3 more
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Medical Technology

Health Care Management Review, 1980
Technology was once considered automatically beneficial. Today the health care industry is carefully weighing the consequences as well as the advantages of medical technology. Medical technology has become a policy issue of great importance in public and private sectors.
Clyde J. Behney, David Banta
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Adopting Medical Technology

Medical Decision Making, 2014
New technologies are often incorporated into clinical practice with few data on their benefits and risks. In this issue of Medical Decision Making, Gold and colleagues report results of interviews with radiation oncologists and surgeons about factors that led to adoption of one treatment, accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI).
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Medical Science and Technology

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1981
The intimate juxtaposition of science and technology—both often spoken of in the same breath—is currently threatened by those who view technological advances with mistrust. Nuclear fission and genetic engineering provoke almost as much apprehension among scientists as they do among laymen.
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Medical Technology Assessment

Anesthesia & Analgesia, 1998
I n attempting to address the issue of medical technology assessment, it is important to define technology. There are numerous definitions of technology. From the broadest perspective, John Kenneth Galbraith defined it as organized knowledge. The United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment defines medical technology as “the techniques, drugs,
Srinivas Mantha   +2 more
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Evaluating Medical Technology

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1976
Excerpt Stross and colleagues, in this issue, report a carefully planned extension of coronary care units to small community hospitals of rural, sparsely settled northern Michigan.
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Patenting medical technology

Journal of Legal Medicine, 1990
(1990). Patenting medical technology. Journal of Legal Medicine: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 263-319.
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DEMYSTIFICATION OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

Pediatrics, 1977
... it makes good social, economic, and professional sense for countries to take the choice of intervention options nearer to the consumer whenever they have the chance. If I use my diarrhoeal disease example, I would say that making rehydration salts for babies available to mothers in every home is likely to be more useful in the short, medium, and ...
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