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1 online resource (viii, 143 pages) : illustrations |
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Monograph of the Council on Health Care Technology |
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Monograph of the Council on Health Care Technology.
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""Assessment of Diagnostic Technology in Health Care""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""REFERENCES""; ""1 Rationale for Assessment of Diagnostic Technology""; ""THE PATIENT'S PERSPECTIVE""; ""Safety""; ""Efficacy""; ""Economic Issues""; ""The Benefits of High-Quality Studies""; ""The Risks of Poor or Absent Assessment Data""; ""Summary: The Patient's Perspective""; ""SOCIETY'S PERSPECTIVE""; ""Safety and Efficacy""; ""Economic Issues""; ""Summary: Society's Perspective""; ""THE PHYSICIAN'S PERSPECTIVE""; ""Safety and Efficacy""; ""Economic Issues"" |
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""Summary: The Physician's Perspective""""SUMMARY""; ""REFERENCES""; ""2 The Use of Diagnostic Tests: A Probabilistic Approach""; ""FIRST PRINCIPLES""; ""INTERPRETING TEST RESULTS: THE POSTTEST PROBABILITY""; ""Important Definitions""; ""The Assumptions of Bayes' Theorem""; ""THE PRETEST PROBABILITY OF DISEASE""; ""MEASURING THE PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF DIAGNOSTIC TESTS""; ""Designing Studies of Test Performance""; ""EXPECTED-VALUE DECISIONMAKING""; ""Setting Up the Decision Tree""; ""Weighing the Outcomes for Quality of Life"" |
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""Calculating the Expected Value of the Treatment Options""""THE CHOICE AMONG DOING NOTHING, TESTING, OR STARTING TREATMENT""; ""SUMMARY""; ""Glossary Of Terms""; ""REFERENCES""; ""3 Assessment: Problems and Proposed Solutions""; ""MEASURES OF CLINICAL EFFICACY""; ""Technical Capability""; ""Sensitivity and Specificity""; ""Diagnostic Impact""; ""Therapeutic Impact""; ""Impact on Clinical Outcomes""; ""THE SYSTEM OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN THE UNITED STATES""; ""The Pyramid""; ""PROBLEMS WITH THE CURRENT SYSTEM""; ""RANDOMIZED TRIALS OF DIAGNOSTIC TESTS"" |
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""Limitations of Randomized Trials""""Trial Design""; """"OFF THE GOLD STANDARD""""; """"ON THE GOLD STANDARD""""; ""A PROPOSAL FOR MODEL-DRIVEN TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT""; ""A Technology Should Be Compared with a Competing Technology""; ""STUDIES SHOULD BE PLANNED BEFORE ENROLLING THE FIRST PATIENT""; ""ALL THE DATA THAT ARE NEEDED FOR CLINICAL DECISION MAKING SHOULD BE COLLECTED""; ""BIAS IN PATIENT SELECTION SHOULD BE AVOIDED""; ""PATIENTS SHOULD BE OBSERVED FOR ADVERSE EFFECTS OF THE INDEX TEST""; ""INTERPRETATION OF DATA SHOULD BE FREE OF BIAS"" |
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""INTEROBSERVER DISAGREEMENT SHOULD BE MEASURED""""THERE SHOULD BE ENOUGH PATIENTS TO REPORT THE RESULTS IN CLINICALLY USEFUL SUBGROUPS OF PATIENTS""; ""SUMMARY""; ""REFERENCES""; ""4 Primary Assessment of Diagnostic Tests: Barriers to Implementation""; ""PLANNING AND PROTOCOL DEVELOPMENT""; ""Choosing a Clinical Condition""; ""Patient Population""; ""Endpoints and Study Design""; ""ACCURACY""; ""OUTCOME""; ""COMBINED STUDIES: ACCURACY AND OUTCOME""; ""SHORT-TERM OUTCOMES: A SYNTHETIC APPROACH""; ""Economic Analysis""; ""Efficacy Versus Effectiveness""; ""Comparative Assessment"" |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Diagnosis -- Methodology -- Evaluation
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Medical technology -- Evaluation
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Medical technology.
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Diagnostic Services -- economics
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Technology Assessment, Biomedical -- economics
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Medical Laboratory Science
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Medical Laboratory Science -- trends
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MEDICAL -- Laboratory Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diagnosis.
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MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Assessment & Diagnosis.
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Medical technology
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Medical technology -- Evaluation
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United States |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Sox, Harold C.
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| LC no. |
89062666 |
| ISBN |
030904099X |
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9780309040990 |
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0585001928 |
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9780585001920 |
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9780309535885 |
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0309535883 |
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9786610214181 |
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6610214182 |
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