Technological innovation
Subtitle: comparing development of drugs, devices, and procedures in medicine
By: by Annetine C. Gelijns
Contributors: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Technological Innovation in Medicine
Publisher: National Academy Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Washington D.C
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Pharmaceutical Technology; Trends; Equipment and Supplies; Drug Industry; Clinical Trials as Topic; Drug Evaluation
Description: This paper is intended to serve as a background document to this workshop. Its objective is to provide a comparative analysis of present day evaluative strategies employed in the development of new drugs (Chapter 2), medical devices (Chapter 3), and clinical procedures (Chapter 4). Chapter 5 considers the implications of these strategies for the development process and concludes with some opportunities for improving both the effective and efficient translation of biomedical research findings into clinical practice.
Notes: Title from caption (viewed June 18, 2001).

"A paper to the Committee on Technological Innovation in Medicine, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences."

"This paper was prepared as background material for a workshop, "Improving the Translation of Research Findings into Clinical Practice: the Potential and Problems of Modern Methods of Clinical Investigation," conducted May 3-4, 1989 by the Committee on Technological Innovation in Medicine of the Institute of Medicine."--P. ii.

Includes bibliographical references.

Mode of access: Internet.