Technology Assessment, Biomedical

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Bayesian method for synthesizing evidence. The Confidence Profile Method. 
  • A cluster randomised trial, cost-effectiveness analysis and psychosocial evaluation of insulin pump therapy compared with multiple injections during flexible intensive insulin therapy for type 1 diabetes: the REPOSE Trial. 
  • A conceptual framework of outcomes for caregivers of assistive technology users. 
  • A framework for the conceptual modelling of assistive technology device outcomes. 
  • A new forum for health services research in critical care medicine. 
  • A study design to assess the safety and efficacy of on-pump versus off-pump coronary bypass grafting: the ROOBY trial. 
  • A systematic review of studies concerning observer agreement during medical specialist diagnosis using videoconferencing. 
  • Accuracy of segmentation of a commercial computer-aided detection system for mammography. 
  • Advancing Value Assessment in the United States: A Multistakeholder Perspective. 
  • American College of Radiology Imaging Network: new national cooperative group for conducting clinical trials of medical imaging technologies. 
  • American Society of Echocardiography Cardiovascular Technology and Research Summit: a roadmap for 2020. 
  • Assessing the economic challenges posed by orphan drugs. 
  • Assessing the quality of medical information technology economic evaluations: room for improvement. 
  • Choice Experiments to Quantify Preferences for Health and Healthcare: State of the Practice. 
  • Clinical PET scanning. A "short-lived" orphan. 
  • Clinical data bases. Accomplishments and unrealized potential. 
  • Clinical effectiveness protocols for imaging in the management of ureteral calculous disease: AUA technology assessment. 
  • Clinical trial metadata: defining and extracting metadata on the design, conduct, results and costs of 125 randomised clinical trials funded by the National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment programme. 
  • Comparison of the appropriateness of coronary angiography and coronary artery bypass graft surgery between Canada and New York State. 
  • Congressional update: Report from the biomedical imaging program of the National Cancer Institute. Research recommendations from a lung cancer screening workshop. 
  • Consensus Conference III: Assessing innovations in mechanical ventilatory support. Conference held January 13-15, 1995 in Ixtapa, Mexico. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of the implantable cardioverter defibrillator. 
  • Delayed assessment and eager adoption of laparoscopic cholecystectomy: implications for developing surgical technologies. 
  • Development of a serial comparison program for conduction defects, acute myocardial infarction, and the use of additional leads. 
  • Economic evaluation in medical information technology: why the numbers don't add up. 
  • Efficacy assessment criteria based on risk and cost. 
  • Eliciting and combining subjective judgments about uncertainty. 
  • Estimating country-specific cost-effectiveness from multinational clinical trials. 
  • Evaluation of cervical cytology. 
  • Evaluation of diagnostic imaging technologies and therapeutics devices: better information for better decisions: proceedings of a multidisciplinary workshop. 
  • Evaluation of synchronous twin pulse technique for shock wave lithotripsy: determination of optimal parameters for in vitro stone fragmentation. 
  • Evidence-based practice center network and health technology assessment in the United States: bridging the cultural gap. 
  • Flattening filter-free accelerators: a report from the AAPM Therapy Emerging Technology Assessment Work Group. 
  • Fundamental imaging characteristics of a slot-scan digital chest radiographic system. 
  • Gaucher disease. Current issues in diagnosis and treatment. NIH Technology Assessment Panel on Gaucher Disease. 
  • Germ-line gene therapy: keep the window open a crack. 
  • Giving Patients a Meaningful Voice in European Health Technology Assessments: The Role of Health Preference Research. 
  • Hot Topics in Biomechanics: Hip Fracture Fixation. 
  • Implementation fidelity: a framework for evaluation in the health information technology field. 
  • Improving the process of developing technical reports for health care decision makers: using the theory of constraints in the evidence-based practice centers. 
  • Improving the quality of rural nursing care. 
  • Infliximab for the treatment of adults with psoriasis. 
  • Integrating ethics in design through the value-sensitive design approach. 
  • Integration of behavioral and relaxation approaches into the treatment of chronic pain and insomnia. NIH Technology Assessment Panel on Integration of Behavioral and Relaxation Approaches into the Treatment of Chronic Pain and Insomnia. 
  • Intermediate outcomes: diagnostic and therapeutic impact. 
  • Intersociety Council on Radiation Oncology essay on the introduction of new medical treatments into practice. 
  • Issues facing clinical trials of the future. 
  • Large-scale evaluation of automated clinical note de-identification and its impact on information extraction. 
  • Measurement of the detective quantum efficiency in digital detectors consistent with the IEC 62220-1 standard: Practical considerations regarding the choice of filter material. 
  • National Cancer Institute Workshop statement. Advances in clinical imaging using positron emission tomography, September 14-16, 1988. The Workshop Panel. 
  • Overview of CT technologies for children. 
  • Personalized medicine and disruptive innovation: implications for technology assessment. 
  • Practical guidelines for development of web-based interventions. 
  • Precision of 3.0 Tesla quantitative magnetic resonance imaging of cartilage morphology in a multicentre clinical trial. 
  • Quantitative imaging test approval and biomarker qualification: interrelated but distinct activities. 
  • Recommendations for improving the quality of care through stroke centers and systems: an examination of stroke center identification options: multidisciplinary consensus recommendations from the Advisory Working Group on Stroke Center Identification Options of the American Stroke Association. 
  • Short message service (SMS) text messaging as an intervention medium for weight loss: A literature review. 
  • Structured lifestyle education to support weight loss for people with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and first episode psychosis: the STEPWISE RCT. 
  • Symposium introduction: technology assessment and guideline development: concerns and opportunities for academic general internists. 
  • Technology Assessment Status Evaluation update: transvenous intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS). April, 1997. ASGE. American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 
  • Technology Assessment Status Evaluation--update: endoscopic band ligation. November, 1996. ASGE. American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 
  • Technology Assessment Status Evaluation: guidewires in gastrointestinal endoscopy. February, 1997. ASGE. American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 
  • Technology Assessment Status Evaluation: stents for gastrointestinal strictures. May, 1997. ASGE. American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 
  • Technology Assessment Status Evaluation: tissue sampling during endosonography. February 1997. ASGE. American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 
  • Technology assessment status evaluation: bipolar and multipolar accessories, February 1996. 
  • Technology assessment status evaluation: overtube use in gastrointestinal endoscopy March 1996. 
  • Technology assessment: vigilance required. 
  • Technology for mobility in SCI 10 years from now. 
  • Testing efficacy with detection controlled estimation: an application to telemedicine. 
  • The Translational Research Working Group developmental pathway for image-based assessment modalities. 
  • The future of implantable neuroprosthetic devices: ethical considerations. 
  • The hypertension team: the role of the pharmacist, nurse, and teamwork in hypertension therapy. 
  • The impact of echocardiographic results on treatment decisions for patients suspected of mitral valve prolapse. 
  • Therapies for Macular Edema Associated with Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion: A Report by the American Academy of Ophthalmology. 
  • Toward a taxonomy of assistive technology device outcomes. 
  • Transesophageal echocardiography. When is it superior to standard imaging in clinical practice? 
  • Use of extracorporeal life support in patients with congenital heart disease. 
  • Usefulness of positron emission tomography in evaluating dementia. 
  • Wheelchair users are not necessarily wheelchair bound. 
  • Why Physics in Medicine? 
  • Why not real economics? 
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  Keywords of People

  • Allori, Alexander C, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Plastic, Maxillofacial, and Oral Surgery
  • Bradford, William Dalton, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Charles, Hal Cecil, Associate Professor of Radiology, Radiology
  • Lo, Joseph Yuan-Chieh, Professor of Radiology, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Myers, Evan Robert, Walter L. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the School of Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Sullivan, Daniel Carl, Professor Emeritus of Radiology, Radiology