The benefits and risks of episiotomy in labor and delivery as recorded in the English language
literature in over 350 books and articles published since 1860 are reviewed and analyzed…

The objective of health technology assessment (HTA) is to support decision making in health
care. HTA does not claim to provide a definite solution to a health care problem, but to …

Health technology assessment (HTA) is primarily concerned with the consequences (benefits
and costs) of health care and health policy decisions. Because decision making is complex …

This book presents an international perspective on health care technology and its development
providing fully up-to-date coverage of this most rapidly developing area. This is the only …

Electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) is an obstetric technology that is now available in virtually
every delivery room in this country (39, l 18, 126), but it has become a controversial medical …

Assessment of health care technologies should be an iterative process, not a single event. In
the United States there are an increasing number of organized attempts at reassessment of …

Health technology assessment (HTA) consists of thesystematic study of the consequences
of theintroduction or continued use of the technology in aparticular context, with the explicit …

Electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) was introduced in the late 1950s as an alternative to traditional
auscultation by stethoscope or fetoscope in the management of labor and delivery. The …

This article considers technology assessment (TA) to be a comprehensive form of policy
research. Technology assessment must then have a relation to policy-making; in the area of …

HE TERM" TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT" IS NOW part of the language of health policy.
Analysts and policy makers advocate it, urge caution in its use, struggle to define its role, or, as …