Technology and the Cost of Health Care: Report |
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Page 1 - Health, the National Center for Health Statistics, and the National Center for Health Services Research and...
Page 4 - The development of cost-effectiveness analysis is needed because of the extreme •complexity of medical-decision problems. I recognize that these decisions require difficult judgments in the face of uncertainty, with wide variations in the responses of different patients, and often a wide...
Page 13 - Program was begun with the assistance of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Radiology, and the American College of Surgeons.
Page 6 - Alain Enthoven and Roger Noll, "Regulatory and Nonregulatory Strategies for Controlling Health Care Costs.
Page 7 - Perspectives on the Growing Debate Over the Cost of Medical Technologies.
Page 11 - increasing advocacy for managing health technology toward serving the public more efficiently and effectively...