title: Kaiser Permanente's New Technologies Committee: an approach to assessing technology.
abstract: Kaiser Permanente's New Technologies Committee reviews emerging technologies, evaluates their status as experimental or nonexperimental, and recommends coverage under specified circumstances. Kaiser Permanente developed a model for consensus and policy formation in its handling of the case of chorionic villus sampling, a now preferred alternative to amniocentesis for the detection of fetal defects.
authors.affiliation: Permanente Physician Liaison, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: McGuire
mesh_terms: D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011367:Professional Staff Committees / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States