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HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT AND CLINICAL DECISION MAKING:
Which Is the Best Evidence?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 1999
Abstract
This paper examines the rationality of the concepts underlying evidence—based medicineand health technology assessment (HTA), which are part of a new current aimed at promoting the use of the results of scientific studies for decision making in health care. It describes the different approaches and purposes of this worldwide movement, in relation to clinical decision making, through a summarized set of specific HTA case studies from Catalonia, Spain. The examples illustrate how the systematic process of HTA can help in several types of uncertainties related to clinical decision making.
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- Research Article
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- International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , July 1999 , pp. 585 - 592
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- © 1999 Cambridge University Press