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Tools for evaluating health technologies : five background papers / Office of Technology Assessment, Congress of the United States.
LIBRA R855.5.U6 T66 1995
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Series:
- Background paper (United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment)
- Background paper
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical technology--United States--Evaluation.
- Medical technology.
- Medicine--Research--United States.
- Medicine.
- Medicine--Research.
- Evaluation.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 149 pages ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : The Office, [1995]
- Summary:
- This volume contains five background papers describing in greater detail some of the research techniques discussed in the report "Identifying health technologies that work: searching for evidence".
- Contents:
- Using patients' reports to evaluate medical outcomes / by Floyd J. Fowler
- Large administrative database analysis / by Jeff Whittle
- Large and simple randomized trials / by Julie E. Buring, Michael A. Jonas, and Charles H. Hennekens
- Meta-analysis / by Matthew P. Longnecker
- Clinical-economic trials / by Neil R. Powe and Robert I. Griffiths.
- Notes:
- "February 1995"--P. [4] of cover.
- "OTA-BP-H-142"--P. [4] of cover.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0160454999
- OCLC:
- 32184391
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