For the first time, a single reference identifies medical technology assessment programs. A valuable guide to the field, this directory contains more than 60 profiles of programs that conduct and report on medical technology assessments. Each profile includes a listing of report citations for that program, and all the reports are indexed under major subject headings. Also included is a cross-listing of technology assessment report citations arranged by type of technology headings, brief descriptions of approximately 70 information sources of potential interest to technology assessors, and addresses and descriptions of 70 organizations with memberships, activities, publications, and other functions relevant to the medical technology assessment community.

Contents

• INFORMATION PANEL OF THE COUNCIL ON HEALTH CARE TECHNOLOGY
• COUNCIL ON HEALTH CARE TECHNOLOGY
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• FOREWORD
• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION
• GUIDE TO DIRECTORY'S CONTENTS
• WAYS TO USE THE DIRECTORY
• GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS
• PART 1. ASSESSMENT PROGRAM PROFILES AND REPORT CITATIONS
  • American Academy of Neurology Practice Committee
    • Completed Reports
  • American Academy of Ophthalmology Ophthalmic Procedures Assessment Program
    • Completed Reports
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
    • Completed Reports
  • American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Assessment of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Cardiovascular Procedures
    • Completed Reports
    • Ongoing Assessments
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Committee Opinions
    • Completed Reports
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Committee on Technical Bulletins
    • Completed Reports
  • American College of Physicians Clinical Efficacy Assessment Project
    • Completed Reports
  • American College of Radiology Task Force on Breast Cancer
    • Completed Reports
  • American Dental Association Council on Dental Materials, Instruments, and Equipment
    • Completed Reports
  • American Dental Association Council on Dental Therapeutics
    • Completed Reports
  • American Diabetes Association
    • Completed Reports
  • American Gastroenterological Association Patient Care Committee
    • Completed Reports
    • Ongoing Assessments
  • American Hospital Association Hospital Technology Series Program
    • Completed Reports
  • American Medical Association Council on Scientific Affairs
    • Completed Reports
  • American Medical Association Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technology Assessment
    • Completed Reports
  • American Medical Association Drug Evaluations
    • Completed Reports
  • American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Committee On Technology Assessment
    • Completed Reports
  • Battelle Memorial Institute
    • Completed Reports
    • Ongoing Assessments
  • Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association Medical Necessity Program
    • Completed Reports
  • Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association Technology Evaluation and Coverage Program
    • Completed Reports
  • Brandeis University Health Policy Center Organ Procurement Project
    • Completed Reports
  • California Medical Association Medical Practice Opinion Program
    • Completed Reports
  • CBO (Centraal Begeleidingsorgaan voor de Intercollegiale Toetsing) National Organization For Quality Assurance in Hospitals Consensus Development Program
    • Completed Reports
  • College of American Pathologists Surveys Program
    • Completed Reports
  • Congress of the United States Office of Technology Assessment Health Program
    • Completed Reports
  • Duke University Center for Health Policy Research and Education
    • Completed Reports
  • ECRI Health Devices Program
    • Completed Reports
  • ECRI Technology Assessment Program
    • Completed Reports
  • Food and Drug Administration
  • Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiological Health
    • Completed Reports
  • Food and Drug Administration Center for Drugs and Biologics
    • Completed Reports
  • Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
  • Georgetown University Medical Center Institute for Health Policy Analysis
    • Completed Reports
    • Ongoing Assessments
    • Planned Assessments
  • Harvard School of Public Health Institute for Health Research
    • Completed Reports
  • Hastings Center
    • Completed Reports
  • Health Care Financing Administration Bureau of Eligibility, Reimbursement, and Coverage
    • Completed Reports:
  • Health Care Financing Administration Office of Research and Demonstrations
    • Completed Reports
  • Health Council of the Netherlands
    • Completed Reports
    • Ongoing Assessments
    • Planned Assessments
  • Health and Welfare Canada Health Services and Promotion Branch
    • Completed Reports
  • Johns Hopkins Program for Medical Technology and Practice Assessment
    • Ongoing Assessments
    • Planned Assessments
  • Kings Fund Centre for Service Development Kings Fund Forum Consensus and Controversies in Medicine
    • Completed Reports
  • Lewin and Associates, Inc. Medical Technology Group
    • Completed Reports
  • LinköPing University Center For Medical Technology Assessment
    • Completed Reports
    • Ongoing Assessments
    • Planned Assessments
  • McGill University Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
    • Completed Reports
  • McMaster University Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
    • Completed Reports
  • Medical Research Council National Health and Welfare Canada
    • Completed Reports
  • Medical Technology and Practice Patterns Institute
    • Completed Reports
  • National Center For Health Services Research and Health Care Technology Assessment
  • National Center For Health Services Research and Health Care Technology Assessment Division of Extramural Research
    • Completed Reports
  • National Center For Health Services Research and Health Care Technology Assessment Office of Health Technology Assessment
    • Completed Reports
    • Ongoing Assessments
  • National Health Research and Development Program
    • Completed Reports
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
    • Completed Reports
  • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
    • Completed Reports
    • Ongoing Assessments
    • Planned Assessments
  • National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Program
    • Completed Reports
  • National Library of Medicine
    • Completed Reports
    • Ongoing Assessments
  • Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research Medical Technology Unit (Tno)
    • Completed Reports
    • Ongoing Assessments
  • Policy Analysis, Inc.
    • Completed Reports
  • Project Hope Center for Health Affairs
    • Completed Reports
    • Ongoing Assessments
  • Prospective Payment Assessment Commission
    • Completed Reports
  • Steering Committee on Future Health Scenarios Commission on Future Health Care Technology
    • Completed Reports
  • Swedish Planning and Rationalization Institute of the Health Services
    • Completed Reports
    • Ongoing Assessments
  • United Kingdom Department of Health and Social Security Supplies Technology Division
    • Completed Reports
  • U.S. Administrators Inc.
    • Completed Reports
    • Ongoing Assessments
  • University of California, San Francisco Institute for Health Policy Studies
    • Completed Reports
  • University of Lausanne Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine
    • Completed Reports
    • Ongoing Assessments
  • University of Pennsylvania Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
    • Completed Reports
    • Ongoing Assessments
    • Planned Assessments
  • Veterans Administration Cooperative Studies Program (151 I)
    • Completed Reports
    • Ongoing Assessments
  • Veterans Administration Health Services Research and Development Service (152)
    • Completed Reports
  • Assessment Report Code Prefixes
• PART 2. TECHNOLOGY THESAURUS AND ASSESSMENT REPORT CITATIONS
  • Technology Thesaurus
  • Assessment Report Citations By Technology
    • A
    • B
    • C
    • D
    • E
    • F
    • G
    • H
    • I
    • J
    • K
    • L
    • M
    • N
    • O
    • P
    • Q
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    • V
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• PART 3. INFORMATION AND DATA RESOURCES
  • Categories of Information and Data Resources
  • Abstracts of Health Care Machine-Readable Data Files
  • Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration Publications and Data
  • Ama/Net
  • Baseline Reports
  • Bioethicsline
  • Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Reports
  • Bmedss (Biomedical Engineering Decision Support Services)
  • Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program
  • BRS/Search
  • Cancerlit
  • Cassis (Classification and Search Support Information System)
  • CCC (Copenhagen Collaborating Center) Bibliography on Regional Variations in Health Care
  • Center for Health Promotion and Education
  • Clinprot
  • Colleague
  • COMPASS (Computerized On-Line Medicaid Pharmaceutical Analysis and Surveillance System), DURbase (Drug Utilization Review base)
  • Compendium of HHS Evaluations and Relevant Other Studies
  • CPHA (Commission on Professional and Hospital Activities) Files
  • CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects)
  • Current Assessments, New Technology Abstracts
  • Device Experience Network (DEN)
  • Dialog
  • Directory of Health Services Research Organizations
  • DIRLINE (Directory of Information Resources Online)
  • Drug Product Problem Reporting Program (DPPR)
  • Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center Database
  • Environmental Hazards and Health Effects Reports
  • Environmental Health Laboratory Sciences Reports
  • FDA Bulletin Board
  • F-D-C Reports
  • Futures Program
  • HEALTH (Health Planning and Administration)
  • Health Devices Alerts
  • Health Devices Sourcebook
  • Health Information Resources in the Federal Government
  • Healthlawyer
  • HECLINET (Health Care Literature Information Network)
  • HIAA (Health Insurance Association of America) Medical Appropriateness Compilation
  • High Blood Pressure Information Center
  • IMPAC (Information for Management Planning Analysis and Coordination)
  • IMS Audits
  • International Market Research Studies
  • Internist-1/Quick Medical Reference (QMR)
  • Market Research Reports
  • Market/Technology Reports
  • Medical Device and Laboratory Product Problem Reporting Program (PRP)
  • Medical Device Register
  • Medical Device Reporting (MDR)
  • MEDIS
  • MEDLINE
  • MEDLINK (Massachusetts Medical Information Link)
  • Multi-Client Reports
  • NAHDO Resource Manual
  • National Center For Health Statistics Publications and Data
  • National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP)/NHLBI Smoking Education Program (NSEP) Information Center
  • National Reference File
  • National Technical Information Service Publications and Data
  • Nexis
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Publications
  • Oxford Database of Perinatal Trials
  • PDQ (Physician Data Query)
  • Pharmaprojects
  • POPLINE (Population Information Online)
  • Product Development Directory, Product SOS
  • Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials Report Collection
  • Report on Cost-Effective Products and Technologies
  • Scrip
  • SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program)
  • SPRILINE
  • Technical Data Center
  • U.S. Industrial Outlook
  • WHO/LINFO Database on Health Technology Assessment
  • World Health Organization Publications
• PART 4. ORGANIZATIONAL RESOURCES
  • Alliance For Engineering in Medicine and Biology
  • American Academy of Dermatology
  • American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
  • American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
  • American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • American Association of Blood Banks
  • American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics
  • American Association of Tissue Banks
  • American College of Emergency Physicians
  • American College of Gastroenterology
  • American College of Nuclear Physicians
  • American College of Preventive Medicine
  • American Council on Transplantation
  • American Geriatrics Society
  • American Healthcare Institute
  • American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
  • American Medical Care and Review Association
  • American Medical Peer Review Association
  • American Medical Review Research Center
  • American National Standards Institute
  • American Psychiatric Association
  • American Public Health Association
  • American Rheumatism Association
  • American Society of Anesthesiologists
  • American Society of Clinical Pathologists
  • American Society of Internal Medicine
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
  • American Society for Testing and Materials
  • American Society of Transplant Physicians
  • American Society of Transplant Surgeons
  • American Urological Association
  • Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
  • Association of Biotechnology Companies
  • Association for Health Services Research
  • Canadian Association of Manufacturers of Medical Devices
  • Center for the Study of Drug Development
  • Council of Medical Specialty Societies
  • Employee Benefit Research Institute
  • Federation of American Health Systems
  • Finnish Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care
  • Generic Pharmaceutical Industry Association
  • George Washington University Medical Center
  • Group Health Association of America
  • Health Industry Manufacturers Association
  • Health Insurance Association of America
  • Institute for Alternative Futures
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • Institute for the Future
  • International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering
  • International Federation of Voluntary Health Service Funds
  • International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care
  • Maryland Hospital Association
  • National Advisory Council on Health Care Technology Assessment
  • National Association of Health Data Organizations
  • National Association of Manufacturers
  • National Electrical Manufacturers Association
  • National Health Council
  • Oley Foundation for Home Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
  • Pan American Health Organization
  • Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association
  • Physician Payment Review Commission
  • Renal Physicians Association
  • RESNA—Association for the Advancement of Rehabilitation Technology
  • Society for Medical Decision Making
  • Society of Non-Invasive Vascular Technology
  • Society of Nuclear Medicine
  • Swedish National Center for Technology Assessment in Health Care
  • Technology Assessment and Forecast Program
  • United States Pharmacopeial Convention
  • United Network for Organ Sharing
  • University Hospital Consortium
• PART 5. INDEX TO ORGANIZATIONS
  • Organization Addresses and Telephone Numbers
• APPENDICES
  • Appendix A About the Council on Health Care Technology Rosters of Council and Panels
  • Appendix B Funding Sources for the Council on Health Care Technology
  • Appendix C Survey of Organizations with an Ongoing Medical Technology Assessment Program

Activities of the council are supported by private sector contributions and grants (see Appendix B for a list of contributors) and federal matching grants provided by grant number HS 05526 from the National Center for Health Services Research and Health Care Technology Assessment. Program representatives who consider their program, or others, to be appropriate for future revisions of the Directory should contact the Council on Health Care Technology, Institute of Medicine, 2101 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20418. Subscription to the council's quarterly newsletter, CHCT ASSESSMENT, may be obtained for $20 per year from the same address.

NOTICE: This Directory, a project of the Council on Health Care Technology of the Institute of Medicine, fulfills in part the provision in Section 309 of Public Law 98-551 that the council serve as a clearinghouse for information on health care technologies and assessments.

The Institute of Medicine was chartered in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to enlist distinguished members of the appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public. In this, the Institute acts under both the Academy's 1863 congressional charter responsibility to be an advisor to the federal government and its own initiative in identifying issues of medical care, research, and education.