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Volume 6 - October 1990

Contents

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Front matter

  • THC volume 6 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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    10 March 2009, pp. f1-f6
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General Essays

  • Ernest Amory Codman, M.D., and End Results of Medical Care

  • Duncan Neuhauser
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    10 March 2009, pp. 307-325

  • Ernest Amory Codman, M.D., was one of the most important figures in the history of outcomes research in medicine. While his contemporaries scorned his efforts to create systematic procedures to evaluate the end results of medical care, his work foreshadowed many of today's most pressing issues in technology assessment. This arti traces Codman's career as an innovator and political gadfly at the Massachusetts General Hospital during the first three decades of this century, and examines the development and demise of his end-result system.

Meetings and Announcements

  • The International Society for Technology Assessment in Health Care Seventh Annual Metting Helsinki, Finland

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    10 March 2009, pp. 501-502
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  • Does It Work? The Outcomes of Medical Interventions

  • Bernard S. Bloom
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    10 March 2009, pp. 326-332

  • The focus of this article is on contemporary roots of medical care quality measurement, while it also examines some of the most important historical precedents. Specifically, it singles out Dr. Ernest Avery Codman and his early 20th-century work emphasizing the assessment of outcome as the paramount indicator of medical care quality. The standard that he set for himself and others is the one that late 20th-century researchers must uphold, and to which we must answer.

Back matter

  • THC volume 6 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

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    10 March 2009, pp. b1-b4
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Contributors

Front matter

  • THC volume 6 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

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    10 March 2009, pp. f1-f6
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  • Assessment of Medical Outcomes: New Opportunities for Achieving a Long Sought-After Objective

  • J. Sanford Schwart, Nicole Lurie
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    10 March 2009, pp. 333-339

  • Health outcome assessment may be used for a variety of purposes: to evaluate the effectiveness of medical practices: to assess the quality of services provided; to educate providers, purchasers, and users of health services about the sequelae of treated and untreated disease; to guide reimbursement and regulatory policy; and to characterize the health status of a population. This article focuses on the use of health outcomes to evaluate the effectiveness of medical practices and to assess the quality of services provided.

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Back matter

  • THC volume 6 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

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    10 March 2009, pp. b1-b3
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Volume 6 (1990) Index

Technnology Assessment Reports

Front matter

  • THC volume 6 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

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Sorcerer's Apprentice

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Back matter

  • THC volume 6 issue 4 Cover and Back matter

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    10 March 2009, pp. b1-b3
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Meetings and Announcements

  • Meetings and Announcements

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    10 March 2009, p. 350
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