Tools for Evaluating Health Technologies
Author : Gordon Press Publishers
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 1996-04
Category :
ISBN : 9780849068928
Author : Gordon Press Publishers
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 1996-04
Category :
ISBN : 9780849068928
Author : Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/AHRQ
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 15,64 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1587634333
This User’s Guide is intended to support the design, implementation, analysis, interpretation, and quality evaluation of registries created to increase understanding of patient outcomes. For the purposes of this guide, a patient registry is an organized system that uses observational study methods to collect uniform data (clinical and other) to evaluate specified outcomes for a population defined by a particular disease, condition, or exposure, and that serves one or more predetermined scientific, clinical, or policy purposes. A registry database is a file (or files) derived from the registry. Although registries can serve many purposes, this guide focuses on registries created for one or more of the following purposes: to describe the natural history of disease, to determine clinical effectiveness or cost-effectiveness of health care products and services, to measure or monitor safety and harm, and/or to measure quality of care. Registries are classified according to how their populations are defined. For example, product registries include patients who have been exposed to biopharmaceutical products or medical devices. Health services registries consist of patients who have had a common procedure, clinical encounter, or hospitalization. Disease or condition registries are defined by patients having the same diagnosis, such as cystic fibrosis or heart failure. The User’s Guide was created by researchers affiliated with AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program, particularly those who participated in AHRQ’s DEcIDE (Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions About Effectiveness) program. Chapters were subject to multiple internal and external independent reviews.
Author : Vitaly Herasevich, , , MSc
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Medical informatics
ISBN : 9781498766470
Governments and clinical providers are investing billions of dollars in health information technologies. This book provides an easy-to-read reference outlining the basic concepts, theory, and methods required to perform a systematic evaluation of HIT.
Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 1995-08
Category :
ISBN : 9780788118326
Contains 5 background papers describing health research techniques: using patients' reports; large administrative database analysis; large & simple randomized trials; meta-analysis; & clinical-economic trials. Describes new methods & new adaptations of health technologies that work best. Measures outcomes in competing medical technologies; which competing medical technologies are more effective. References & tables.
Author : Jytte Brender McNair
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 15,69 MB
Release : 2006-01-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0080533450
The Handbook of Evaluation Methods for Health Informatics provides a complete compendium of methods for evaluation of IT-based systems and solutions within healthcare. Emphasis is entirely on assessment of the IT-system within its organizational environment. The author provides a coherent and complete assessment of methods addressing interactions with and effects of technology at the organizational, psychological, and social levels. It offers an explanation of the terminology and theoretical foundations underlying the methodological analysis presented here. The author carefully guides the reader through the process of identifying relevant methods corresponding to specific information needs and conditions for carrying out the evaluation study. The Handbook takes a critical view by focusing on assumptions for application, tacit built-in perspectives of the methods as well as their perils and pitfalls. Collects a number of evaluation methods of medical informatics Addresses metrics and measures Includes an extensive list of anotated references, case studies, and a list of useful Web sites
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 25,46 MB
Release : 2019-10-17
Category :
ISBN : 9264805907
This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 20,90 MB
Release : 1985-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 030903583X
New drugs, new devices, improved surgical techniques, and innovative diagnostic procedures and equipment emerge rapidly. But development of these technologies has outpaced evaluation of their safety, efficacy, cost-effectiveness, and ethical and social consequences. This volume, which is "strongly recommended" by The New England Journal of Medicine "to all those interested in the future of the practice of medicine," examines how new discoveries can be translated into better care, and how the current system's inefficiencies prevent effective health care delivery. In addition, the book offers detailed profiles of 20 organizations currently involved in medical technology assessment, and proposes ways to organize U.S. efforts and create a coordinated national system for evaluating new medical treatments and technology.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 11,94 MB
Release : 1989-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 030904099X
Technology assessment can lead to the rapid application of essential diagnostic technologies and prevent the wide diffusion of marginally useful methods. In both of these ways, it can increase quality of care and decrease the cost of health care. This comprehensive monograph carefully explores methods of and barriers to diagnostic technology assessment and describes both the rationale and the guidelines for meaningful evaluation. While proposing a multi-institutional approach, it emphasizes some of the problems involved and defines a mechanism for improving the evaluation and use of medical technology and essential resources needed to enhance patient care.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 19,66 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biomedical engineering
ISBN :
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".
Author : Marcial Velasco Garrido
Publisher : WHO Regional Office Europe
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 16,49 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9289042931
New technologies with the potential to improve the health of populations are continuously being introduced. But not every technological development results in clear health gains. Health technology assessment provides evidence-based information on the coverage and usage of health technologies, enabling them to be evaluated properly and applied to health care efficaciously, promoting the most effective ones while also taking into account organizational, societal and ethical issues. This book reviews the relationship between health technology assessment and policy-making, and examines how to increase the contribution such research makes to policy- and decision-making processes. By communicating the value and potential of health technology assessment to a wider audience, both within and beyond decision-making and health care management, it aims ultimately to contribute to improve the health status of the population through the delivery of optimum health services.