Health Care Technology and Its Assessment in Eight CountriesDIANE Publishing, 1995 - 368 pages Examines the management of health care technology in 8 countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, the U.K & the U.S. Six technologies (or sets of technologies) -- including evaluation & management efforts & how the technologies diffused -- are presented & compared: treatments for coronary artery disease, imaging technologies (CT & MRI scanning), laparoscopic surgery, treatments for end-stage renal disease, neonatal intensive care, & breast cancer screening. Extensive bibliography for each country. Charts & tables. |
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... percent ) blockages . Although restenosis occurs in 25 to 35 percent of patients , usually within six months of the procedure ( 46 ) , PTCA has excellent later results , with few recurrences af- ter six months . PTCA was not tested in ...
... percent ) blockages . Although restenosis occurs in 25 to 35 percent of patients , usually within six months of the procedure ( 46 ) , PTCA has excellent later results , with few recurrences af- ter six months . PTCA was not tested in ...
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... percent of the pa- tients , and plans for radiotherapy changed in 8 percent . Although most MRI scans are of the brain ( 11 ) , a specific advantage of MRI lies in diagnosis of spinal cord problems , where MRI may replace myelography ...
... percent of the pa- tients , and plans for radiotherapy changed in 8 percent . Although most MRI scans are of the brain ( 11 ) , a specific advantage of MRI lies in diagnosis of spinal cord problems , where MRI may replace myelography ...
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... percent of the potential savings in Canada and only 13 percent of those in Australia . TREATMENTS FOR END - STAGE RENAL DISEASE ( ESRD ) Hemodialysis and renal transplantation are two life - extending therapies developed in the early ...
... percent of the potential savings in Canada and only 13 percent of those in Australia . TREATMENTS FOR END - STAGE RENAL DISEASE ( ESRD ) Hemodialysis and renal transplantation are two life - extending therapies developed in the early ...
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... percent survival for five years after one transplant and 45 percent after a second transplant ( if the first one fails ) . The five - year rate of survival from live donors ( about five percent of the total ) is about 85 percent : for ...
... percent survival for five years after one transplant and 45 percent after a second transplant ( if the first one fails ) . The five - year rate of survival from live donors ( about five percent of the total ) is about 85 percent : for ...
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... percent , fall- ing to about 20 percent at 18 years after entry . For women 40 to 50 years of age at entry , the reduction in mortality was small ( about 5 percent at five years , and not statistically significant ) ( 17 ) . These ...
... percent , fall- ing to about 20 percent at 18 years after entry . For women 40 to 50 years of age at entry , the reduction in mortality was small ( about 5 percent at five years , and not statistically significant ) ( 17 ) . These ...
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Advisory Angioplasty Australia benefits breast cancer breast cancer screening budget CABG Canada Canadian cardiac cardiac surgery centers cholecystectomy Committee coronary artery costs countries coverage CT scanners CT scanning Department of Health diagnostic dialysis diffusion disease drugs ECMO economic effective equipment Erythropoietin ESRD established evaluation federal financing France guidelines health care system health care technology Health Council health insurance health services imaging impact increase introduction laparoscopic cholecystectomy laparoscopic surgery limited Magnetic Resonance Imaging mammography mandatory sickness funds medical devices medical technology Medicare ment million Minister Ministry of Health neonatal intensive Netherlands NHTAP NICU organizations patients payment percent pharmaceuticals physicians population procedures provincial PTCA Public Health Quebec regional regulation reimbursement renal role sector sessment social studies Sweden Swedish technolo tion tive transplantation treatment U.S. Congress U.S. Department United Kingdom women
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Page iv - NOTE: OTA appreciates and is grateful for the valuable assistance and thoughtful critiques provided by the advisory panel members. The panel does not, however, necessarily approve, disapprove, or endorse this report. OTA assumes full responsibility for the report and the accuracy of its contents.
Page 318 - By 1976 the Committee on Perinatal Health— a joint effort of the American Medical Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American Academy of Pediatrics — had outlined a three-tiered system of regionalized maternal and perinatal health services.
Page 17 - What is the optimum interval between mammographic screening examinations? An analysis based on the latest results of the Swedish two-county breast cancer screening trial.
Page 299 - USPSTF is a committee impaneled by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (in the Department of Health and Human Services) that produced a set of 169 recommended preventive services, collected and published as a book in 1989 (154).
Page 242 - Three targets were selected for mental health: • to improve significantly the health and social functioning of mentally ill people • to reduce the overall suicide rate by at least 15% by the year 2000...
Page 19 - Parliament consisting of the Queen, a Senate, and a House of Representatives.
Page 215 - The Swedish Planning and Rationalization Institute of the Health and Social Services...
Page 18 - Effect of coronary artery bypass graft surgery on survival: overview of 10-year results from randomised trials by the Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
Page 270 - To reduce the death rate for breast cancer in the population invited for screening by at least 25% by the year 2000...
Page 60 - Worldwide Differences in Asthma Prevalence and Mortality. Why is Asthma Mortality So Low in the USA?