Health Care Technology and Its Assessment
An International Perspective
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 August 1993
- ISBN 9780192622976
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages376 pages
- Size 236x163x27 mm
- Weight 712 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line drawings, tables 0
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Short description:
In a technological society, with increasing dependence on technology, concerns are natural. Health care technology is associated with a number of these concerns, including whether it is beneficial, too costly, or associated with unacceptable social costs. An important method for evaluating health care technology and its implications is technology assessment, and a growing number of countries are now using this technique in health care as a help to policy-makers, clinicians, and patients in making difficult choices.
MoreLong description:
This book presents an international perspective on health care technology and its development providing fully up-to-date coverage of this most rapidly developing area. This is the only comprehensive review of the subject available. Thoroughly referenced it deals with all types of health technologies - drugs, devices, and procedures and combines cost and other socio-economic analyses with information on diffusion, dissemination and use, as well as efficacy and safety testing. For all those faced with decisions concerning health care technology, this is an unrivalled guide.
'The newcomer to health technology issues would find much of value in this section which would provide a good start for further investigation.'
Dr. D. Hailey, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Canberra, Health Policy 27 (1994)
Table of Contents:
Section 1: Background on health care technology
Important concepts in health care technology assessment
Historical perspective on technology in health care
Section 2: The development and diffusion of health care technology
The development of health care technology
The adoption of health care technology
Use of health care technology
Section 3: Assessing health care technology
A system for health care technology assessment
Evaluation of efficacy and safety
Financial costs and their evaluation
Health care technology assessment and health-related quality of life
Assessing social implications of health care technology
Assuring the quality of health care
Section 4: Selected case studies
The assessment of prevention
The assessment of medical imaging
The assessment of surgical practice
The assessment of drugs
Picture archiving and communication systems
Section 5: An international perspective
Health care technology in Sweden
Medical technology in the UK
Assessment of health care technology in the Netherlands
Medical technology assessment in the USA
The development and assessment of health care technology in Mexico
Medical technology in China
Selected experience of other countries
Conclusions
References
Index
