Medical Technology — A Different View of the Contentious Debate over Costs
- 27 December 1979
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 301 (26) , 1413-1419
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197912273012603
Abstract
There is a growing conviction that medical technologies are major contributors to escalating costs, and regulating them is generally viewed as the least contentious way to control expenses in the 1980's. Five forms of technology control are being discussed or developed. All aim to reduce costs by controlling big, expensive technologies in the class of computed tomographic (CT) scanning.Keywords
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