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The `effectiveness revolution' both in research and clinical practice, has tested available methods for health services research to the extreme. How far can observational methods, routine data and qualitative methods be used in health care evaluation? What cost and outcome measures are appropriate, and how should data be gathered? With the support of over two million pounds from the British Health Technology Assessment Research Programme, the research project for this Handbook has led to both a synthesis of all of the existing knowledge in these areas and an agenda for future debate and research. The chapters and their authors have been selected through a careful process of peer review and provide a coher
Identifying New Healthcare Technologies
Identifying New Healthcare Technologies
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This chapter explores the most useful sources for identifying new healthcare technologies, and makes recommendations to assist the establishment and operation of an early warning system (EWS) for healthcare innovations.
The introduction of new healthcare technologies can have enormous consequences, both desirable and undesirable, for health services and patients. Early identification of technologies prior to their widespread adoption can enable timely cost-effectiveness evaluations to be undertaken, as well as fulfilling a number of other objectives.
The methods we used comprise: a review of the literature on the methodology of predicting the future of healthcare, a semi-structured telephone enquiry of EWS coordinators from around the world, an international Delphi study about preferred sources for identifying new healthcare technologies, and retrospective case-studies ...
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