title: Health care technology assessment: implications for modern medical practice. Part II. Decision making on technology adoption.
abstract: Health care technology assessment, the multidisciplinary evaluation of clinical and economic aspects of technology, has come to have an increasingly important role in health policy and clinical decision-making. In Part I--Understanding Technology Adoption and Analyses--this review addressed the difficult challenges posed by assessment and provided a guide to the methodologies used. Part II presents the factors that drive the technology choices made by patients, by individual physicians, by provider groups, and by hospital administrators.
authors.affiliation: Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Read G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Pierce
authors.forename: Kevin J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Bozic
authors.forename: Bruce Lee
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Hall
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Breivis
mesh_terms: D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000191:economics; D003256:Community Participation; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000191:economics; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical / Q000191:economics; D018581:Technology Transfer; D014481:United States