Quality of Life and Technology Assessment: Monograph of the Council on Health Care Technology

by National Research Council

The field of health care technology assessment focuses on the use of medical technologies--their impacts on safety, efficacy, and effectiveness; cost-effectiveness and cost benefit; quality; and their social, legal, and ethical implications. This wide-ranging monograph addresses some of the gaps in understanding health status and quality of life, such as the use of quality-of-life measures in technology assessment, organ transplantation, and pharmaceutical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309040981
• ISBN13: 9780309040983
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"