National priorities for the assessment of clinical conditions and medical technologies : report of a pilot study

National Priorities for the Assessment of Clinical Conditions and Medical Technologies
 Copyright
 Acknowledgments
 Foreword
 Contents
 Summary
 ASSESSING MEDICAL PRACTICE
 A NATIONAL APPROACH
 PRIORITY-SETTING CRITERIA
 TWENTY ASSESSMENT PRIORITIES
 USING THE PRIORITIES
 ACCOMMODATING CLINICAL CONDITIONS AND TECHNOLOGIES
 NEXT STEPS
 1 Introduction
 2 A Pilot Process for Setting National Assessment Priorities
 ELEMENTS OF A NATIONAL APPROACH
 NATIONALLY APPLICABLE PRIORITY-SETTING CRITERIA
 Primary Criteria
 Potential (for an Assessment) to Improve Individual Patient Outcome. Potential to Affect a Large Patient PopulationPotential to Reduce Unit or Aggregate Cost
 Potential to Reduce Unexplained Variations in Medical Practice
 Secondary Criteria
 Potential to Address Social and Ethical Implications
 Potential to Advance Medical Knowledge
 Potential to Affect Policy Decisions
 Potential to Enhance the National Capacity for Assessment
 Potential to Be Readily Conducted
 A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR PRIORITIES
 The Clinical Condition Approach
 The Technology Approach
 Integrating the Clinical Condition and Technology Approaches
 METHOD OF THIS PILOT STUDY
 Overview. Round I of the Modified Delphi ProcessRound II of the Modified Delphi Process
 The Priority-Setting Group\'s Meeting
 Activities Following the Priority-Setting Meeting
 3 Twenty Priority Assessment Areas
 CLINICAL CONDITIONS
 Breast Cancer
 Improve Individual Patient Outcome
 Affect a Large Patient Population
 Reduce Unit or Aggregate Cost
 Reduce Unexplained Variations in Medical Practice
 Advance Medical Knowledge
 Affect Policy Decisions
 Cataracts
 Improve Individual Patient Outcome
 Affect a Large Patient Population
 Reduce Unit or Aggregate Cost. Reduce Unexplained Variations in Medical PracticeAffect Policy Decisions
 Enhance the national capacity for technology assessment
 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
 Improve Individual Patient Outcome
 Affect a Large Patient Population
 Reduce Unit or Aggregate Cost
 Reduce Unexplained Variations in Medical Practice
 Address Social and Ethical Implications
 Enhance the National Capacity for Technology Assessment
 Coronary Artery Disease
 Improve Individual Patient Outcome
 Affect a Large Patient Population
 Reduce Unit or Aggregate Cost
 Reduce Unexplained Variations in Medical Practice. Advance Medical KnowledgeGallbladder Disease
 Improve Individual Patient Outcome
 Affect a Large Patient Population
 Reduce Unit or Aggregate Cost
 Reduce Unexplained Variations in Medical Practice
 Advance Medical Knowledge
 Gastrointestinal Bleeding
 Improve Individual Patient Outcome
 Affect a Large Patient Population
 Reduce Unit or Aggregate Cost
 Reduce Unexplained Variations in Medical Practice
 Affect Policy Decisions
 Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
 Improve Individual Patient Outcome
 Affect a Large Patient Population
 Reduce Unit or Aggregate Cost.