Disease relevance of Technology Assessment, Biomedical

• OBJECTIVE: To conduct an evidence-based technology assessment to determine whether the routine use of anastrozole or any of the aromatase inhibitors in the adjuvant breast cancer setting is appropriate for broad-based conventional use in clinical practice [1].
• The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of sibutramine in the management of obesity: a technology assessment [2].
• The use of mitoxantrone (Novantrone) for the treatment of multiple sclerosis: report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology [3].

High impact information on Technology Assessment, Biomedical

• PURPOSE: To update the 2003 American Society of Clinical Oncology technology assessment on adjuvant use of aromatase inhibitors [4].
• Reassessment: vagus nerve stimulation for epilepsy: a report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology [5].
• Policy statement: minimally invasive coronary artery bypass surgery. STS/AATS Ad Hoc Committee on New Technology Assessment. American Association for Thoracic Surgery [6].
• PARTICIPANTS: Clinical, technical and scientific personnel with mixed experience of CASA techniques, but all interested in semen assessment technology [7].
• Sensitivity analyses demonstrated that priorities for technology assessment research include estimating the value of information to patients in resolving uncertainty, evaluating the impact on patients of being labeled with a diagnosis of MS, and measuring the test characteristics of MR [8].

Anatomical context of Technology Assessment, Biomedical

• Assessment of vagus nerve stimulation for epilepsy: report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology [9].
• Fludarabine as second-line therapy for B cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: a technology assessment [10].

Associations of Technology Assessment, Biomedical with chemical compounds

• MATERIALS AND METHODS: Course literature of the Association of University Radiologists' 'Basic Technology Assessment for Radiologists' course and the McMaster University Health Information Research Unit's 'How to Teach Evidence-Based Medicine 1999' course were used to identify major publications in each discipline [11].
• Using air monitoring data from NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluations and Control Technology Assessments, we evaluated the ability of COSHH Essentials to select adequate control technology for vapor degreasing and bag filling operations, and the ability of the recommended control approaches to successfully limit air concentrations [12].
• Implementation of an accurate, reliable index of cost effectiveness would help to advance technology assessment and reimbursement of MR imaging procedures, including gadolinium enhancement [13].
• Evaluating total parenteral nutrition: final report and statement of the Technology Assessment and Practice Guidelines Forum [14].
• To meet this challenge, the Kaiser Permanente, Northern California Region developed a comprehensive medical device technology assessment and equipment planning program [15].

Gene context of Technology Assessment, Biomedical

• PACS/IMAC technology assessment [16].
• We outline several reasons for the poor state of medical device evaluations and the dangers of using devices without adequate information, and include the recently developed device assessment and reporting guidelines created by the Task Force on Technology Assessment of Medical Devices [17].
• Hospital technology assessment: Part I [18].
• The usefulness of the NHS Economic Evaluation Database to researchers undertaking technology assessment reviews [19].
• Technology assessment for management of congenital diaphragmatic hernia: immediate versus delayed surgery [20].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Technology Assessment, Biomedical

• This paper describes the use of technology assessment as a framework for comparing two diagnostic technologies, fundal camera and ophthalmoscope, for use with Aboriginal people in central Australia [21].

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