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Consensus Conferences in Different Countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Buch Andreasen
Affiliation:
Danish Medical Research Council

Abstract

The different models of consensus development conferences (CDC5) are analyzed in relation to democratic technology assessment. In some countries CDCs are mainly concerned with influencing the quality of clinical practice and thus are dominated by medical experts. In other countries, CDCs are directed towards the public and the decision makers on the political and administrative level. The Danish experience demonstrates that CDCs may be a forceful social technology with a strong potential to influence decisions about medical as well as non-medical technology

Type
General Essays
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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