Medical technology -- the culprit behind health care costs: preoceedings of the 1977 Sun Valley Forum on National HealthDepartment of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Office of Health Research, Statistics, and Technology, National Center for Health Services Research, 1979 - 306 pages |
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Page 120 - Both the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have been involved in evaluating CT scanners.
Page 121 - Efficacy: The probability of benefit to individuals in a defined population from a medical technology applied for a given medical problem under ideal conditions of use.
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