title: Clinical trials and technology assessment.
abstract: This article focuses on clinical trials in technology assessment. The relation between technology assessment... and quality assessment... is very close in this area, because the health benefits and safety of new interventions are tested in direct patient care.
mesh_terms: D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D003257:Consumer Product Safety; D004869:Equipment Safety; D006801:Humans; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement; D011050:Policy Making; D011897:Random Allocation; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States