title: Assessing the technology of developing health occupations: obstacles, risks, and strategies for future work.
abstract: Efforts to expand technology assessment in developing fields, such as physical therapy, face major obstacles. These impediments include scarcity of assessment tools, weak organizational structure for research, and clinicians' reluctance to assess economic factors. Risks that could accompany future work and strategies for reducing problems are discussed.
authors.forename: N T
authors.initials: NT
authors.lastname: Watts
mesh_terms: D016390:Allied Health Occupations / Q000191:economics; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006801:Humans; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D012306:Risk; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*