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245 00 $aMedicine worth paying for :$bassessing medical innovations /$cedited by Howard S. Frazier and Frederick Mosteller.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $axiv, 305 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Nature of the Inquiry /$rHoward S. Frazier and Frederick Mosteller --$g2.$tEvaluating Medical Technologies /$rFrederick Mosteller and Howard S. Frazier --$g3.$tLaparoscopic Cholecystectomy for Gallstones /$rLeon D. Goldman --$g4.$tPreserving Vision in Diabetic Retinopathy: The Impact of Laser Treatment /$rMichael R. Albert and Daniel M. Albert --$g5.$tThe Treatment of Unipolar Depression /$rHoward S. Frazier --$g6.$tKidney Transplantation /$rMiriam E. Adams --$g7.$tEpoetin Therapy for Renal Anemia: Health Policy and Quality-of-Life Perspectives /$rJennifer F. Taylor --$g8.$tThe Control of Postoperative Pain /$rJane C. Ballantyne, Daniel B. Carr, Janice Ulmer, Ada Jacox and Donna Mahrenholz --$g9.$tImmunization against Measles /$rDonald N. Medearis, Jr. --$g10.$tTreatment of Hypertension /$rSidney Klawansky --$g11.$tThe Contributions of Lenses to Visual Health /$rGeorgianna Marks, Frederick Mosteller, Marie-A McPherson and Grace Wyshak --
505 80 $g12.$tDentistry /$rAlexia Antczak-Bouckoms and J. F. C. Tulloch --$g13.$tTotal Joint Replacement for the Treatment of Osteoarthritis /$rJennifer F. Taylor and Elisabeth Burdick --$g14.$tPeptic Ulcer /$rThomas C. Chalmers --$g15.$tOral Contraceptives: Post-Marketing Surveillance and Rare, Late Complications of Drugs /$rHoward S. Frazier and Graham A. Colditz --$g16.$tSurgery and Anesthesiology /$rDebra R. Milamed and John Hedley-Whyte --$g17.$tImproving the Health Care System /$rFrederick Mosteller and Howard S. Frazier --$g18.$tInnovation-Specific Improvements /$rFrederick Mosteller and Howard S. Frazier --$g19.$tRecommendations for Change /$rHoward S. Frazier and Frederick Mosteller.
520 $aHow is medicine doing at the end of the twentieth century? While there has been no end of studies of our health care system and proposals for changing it, there have been few credible studies of the risks and benefits of widely used medical treatments. We simply do not always know whether one treatment is better than another or whether a particular drug is worth the price.
520 8 $aMedical technology assessment is the discipline that studies what does and does not work in medicine. Howard Frazier and Frederick Mosteller are leading figures in this field. In Medicine Worth Paying For they attempt something completely new: to distill the methods and knowledge base of their highly specialized discipline into a text that is accessible - and therefore of great value - to a nontechnical audience.
520 8 $aThis book calls attention to the importance of technology assessment in medicine - the rigorous evaluation of the effects of medical treatments - with particular reference to medical innovations. Also, making use of a series of carefully selected cases, the authors identify important policy implications that can be drawn from the study of successful medical innovations.
520 8 $aThese case studies of medical successes are a rich source of examples of the effects, good and bad, of the application of technology to health care and of attempts to influence the diffusion of technologies in health care.
650 0 $aMedical innovations$xEvaluation.
650 0 $aMedical innovations$vCase studies.
650 0 $aMedical innovations$xEconomic aspects.
650 2 $aEconomics, Medical.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004470
655 7 $aCase Reports.$2mesh$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002363
700 1 $aFrazier, Howard S.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94123512
700 1 $aMosteller, Frederick,$d1916-2006.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50006648
852 00 $boff,hsl$hRA418.5.M4$iM425 1995