The assessment of technology and quality. A comparative study of certainties and ambiguities.
Though technology assessment and quality assessment have much in common, they differ significantly in emphasis. Technology assessment judges technology itself; quality assessment examines the extent to which a technology is used well in its various settings. This article explores the nature of quality assessment--including the performance of individual practitioners as they care for individual patients and the care received by communities--and examines its interrelationship with technology assessment.
D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical