Too many cooks batter technology assessment.
The bustling activity and interest in technology assessment obscures two growing problems. More than 70 groups, sporting a variety of agendas, are involved in assessing new devices, drugs and procedures; variations in the information they seek or the methods they use sometimes produce findings that conflict or can't be compared.
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D006302:Health Services Research / Q000458:organization & administration; D006761:Hospitals; D007221:Industry; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States; D016270:United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality