title: Making better technology purchasing decisions.
abstract: Many health care technologies are being used without a clear idea of their worth, a problem that Congress has addressed through the legislative process. This article describes an approach hospital trustees can use to make more cost-effective decisions about whether to acquire a given technology and when to use it.
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000191:economics*; D011682:Purchasing, Hospital; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical; D014481:United States