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Assessing Medical Technology in Less-Developed Countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Samuel Sideman  and
Joseph D. BenDak
Samuel Sideman
Affiliation:
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Joseph D. BenDak
Affiliation:
UNDP, United Nations
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Abstract

Less developed countries (LDCs) are limited in medical resources. Medical technology and the management talent required to handle it play a particularly major role in their national health care and has significant economic, political, and ethical ramifications. This study of the assessment process of medical technology in the LDCs proposes a limited framework for the analysis of the major parameters involved, i.e., stakeholders, boundaries and constraints, goals and objectives, criteria to be met, performance measures, and measurement of performance. The importance of the intangible factors is elucidated.

Type
Research Notes
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , Spring 1997 , pp. 463 - 470
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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