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Guidelines for the Clinical and Economic Assessment of Health Technologies

The Case of Magnetic Resonance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Gordon Guyatt  and
Michael Drummond
Gordon Guyatt
Affiliation:
Departments of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics McMaster Health Sciences Centre Hamilton
Michael Drummond
Affiliation:
Health Services Management CentreUniversity of Birmingham
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Extract

That new health technologies often diffuse into the health care systems of developed countries without adequate evaluation has long been a cause of concern (I). In addition, where clinical or economic assessments have been carried out, they often contain methodological weaknesses which reduce their usefulness to health policy makers or clinical practitioners (5,6).

Type
An International View of Magnetic Resonance—Imaging and Spectroscopy
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , July 1985 , pp. 551 - 566
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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