附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Increasing the rationality of coverage decisionmaking -- Strengthening the connection between evaluative research and coverage decisionmaking / Lucian L. Leape -- Manufacturers' responses to the increased demand for outcomes research / Ann K.M. Marshall -- Paying for evaluative research / Alan M. Garber, Douglas K. Owens -- Health care reform: some reflections on technology / Susan Bartlett Foote.
Setting the stage -- Introduction / Gerald D. Laubach, Annetine C. Gelijns, Holly V. Dawkins -- Nature of technological change: incentives matter! / Burton A. Weisbrod -- Impact of technology assessment on decisions by health care providers and payers / Bryan R. Luce, Ruth E. Brown -- Provider decisionmaking -- Role of the hospital in the acquisition of technology / Gerard F. Anderson, Earl P. Steinberg -- Physicians' decision regarding the acquisition of technology / A. Mark Fendrick, J. Sanford Schwartz -- Third party payer coverage decisions -- Decisionmaking in the health care.
Technology Assessment, Biomedical financing administration / Kathleen A. Buto -- Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association initiatives in technology assessment / Susan Gleeson -- Kaiser Permanente's new technology committee: coverage decisionmaking in a group model health maintenance organization / Paul D. Lairson -- Autologous bone marrow transplantation: a microcosm of the U.S. health care system / William T. McGivney -- Technology assessment, benefit coverage and the courts / Lee N. Newcomer.
