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Health Care Technology Assessment: Implications for Modern Medical Practice. Part II. Decision Making on Technology Adoption
Am J Orthop. 2007 February;36(2):71-76
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Read G. Pierce, MD, Kevin J. Bozic, MD, MBA, Bruce Lee Hall, MD, MBA, PhD, and James Breivis, MD
Dr. Pierce is Intern, Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Dr. Bozic is Assistant Professor in Residence, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Hall is Assistant Professor, Division of General Surgery, Cancer and Endocrine Surgery Section, School of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
Dr. Breivis is Assistant Physician in Chief, Retired, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San Francisco, California.
Health care technology assessment, the multidisciplinary evaluation of clinical and economic aspects of technology, has come to have an increasingly important role in health policy and clinical decision-making. In Part I—Understanding Technology Adoption and Analyses—this review addressed the difficult challenges posed by assessment and provided a guide to the methodologies used. Part II presents the factors that drive the technology choices made by patients, by individual physicians, by provider groups, and by hospital administrators.