Tools for evaluating health technologies
Subtitle: five background papers
By: Office of Technology Assessment, Congress of the United States.
Contributors: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Series: Background paper; Background paper (United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment)
Publisher: The Office
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Medical technology -- United States -- Evaluation; Medicine -- Research -- United States.
Description: 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".
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"February 1995"--P. [4] of cover.
"OTA-BP-H-142"--P. [4] of cover.
Table of contents: value: Using patients' reports to evaluate medical outcomes / by Floyd J. Fowler; value: Large administrative database analysis / by Jeff Whittle; value: Large and simple randomized trials / by Julie E. Buring, Michael A. Jonas, and Charles H. Hennekens; value: Meta-analysis / by Matthew P. Longnecker; value: Clinical-economic trials / by Neil R. Powe and Robert I. Griffiths.