Technology Assessment

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It is now a decade since Congress asked the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) to examine "federal policies and existing medical practices to determine whether a reasonable amount of justification should be provided before costly new medical technologies and procedures are put into general use." The report by the OTA, issued in 1976,1 made a strong case for establishing formal mechanisms for assessing medical technologies. The document also played a part in the creation of the consensus-development program of the National Institutes of Health in 19772 and helped to persuade Congress to pass legislation the following year establishing the National . . .

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