Integrating technology assessment into the capital budgeting process.
Technology assessment can help hospitals rank the importance of capital requests by providing crucial information both about existing equipment and about new equipment that has been requested. Integrating technology assessment into the capital budgeting process is the best way for hospitals to determine what equipment should be purchased each year.
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Hamilton Civic Hospitals, Ontario, Canada.
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Louie
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D002017:Budgets; D002201:Capital Expenditures; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D004865:Equipment and Supplies, Hospital / Q000191:economics; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006752:Hospital Planning / Q000191:economics; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D009864:Ontario; D010934:Planning Techniques; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical / Q000191:economics*