Published in:
01-04-2004 | Editorial
Health technology and credibility
Authors:
Martin Chapman, David Gattas, Ganesh Suntharalingam
Published in:
Critical Care
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Issue 2/2003
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Excerpt
A new health technology assessment section is to start in
Critical Care. The use of new technology is germane to critical care medicine [
1]. Consequently, intensivists are obliged to critically appraise the technology in use. There are already publicly funded bodies performing the task of sifting through development data on these innovations, so what could be new about technology assessment? Our purpose is to perform the assessment with a different emphasis – to compare the experience of developer and clinician and to inform the working intensivist regarding the usefulness of a new technology. …
