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3085230

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-6-6
pubmed:abstractText
The health care system is routinely confronted with promising new technologies. In the past, most new technologies have been integrated into clinical practice without a rigorous demonstration of their effectiveness or efficiency. In order to provide a more rational approach to the adoption and utilization of health technology a comprehensive set of guidelines for both clinical and economic evaluation is proposed. While conceived of as an ideal that is unlikely to be universally met in practice, it is argued that decision making can be improved by striving towards this goal. The clinical guidelines stress the advantages of subjecting major new technologies to randomized controlled trials and insisting upon a demonstration of patient benefit in the application of diagnostic technologies. The economic guidelines stress comparisons with relevant alternative uses of the resources and the assessment of the impact on the quality of life. While application of the guidelines will produce rigorous and useful evidence, the final decisions concerning the allocation of health care resources must rest fundamentally on social value judgements and not solely, or even primarily, on informed expert opinion.
pubmed:keyword
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
E
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0277-9536
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
22
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
393-408
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:otherAbstract
KIE: It is contended that health care technologies have frequently been used in diagnosis and treatment without a rigorous demonstration of their effectiveness or efficiency. Clinical and economic evaluations must be conducted using randomized controlled trials, demonstrations of patient benefit, comparisons with alternative uses of resources, and assessment of impact on quality of life. Final choices about technology must reflect basic social value judgments.
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
Guidelines for the clinical and economic evaluation of health care technologies.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial