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Strategies in Technology Assessment and Implementation in the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Donald A. Young
Affiliation:
Prospective Payment Assessment Commission

Extract

There are many ongoing activities in the United States that can be characterized as strategies in technology assessment and implementation. A comprehensive strategy, however, is lacking. The richness and diversity of the groups with a stake in technology assessment is in part responsible for the inability to move to a comprehensive strategy. Important conflicts within and across groups must be resolved before a comprehensive program of technology assessment can be put in place.

Type
Technology Assessment: Policy, Clinical, and Methodological Issues
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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