Modeling the Development and Dissemination of an Emerging Medical Technology (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Modeling the Development and Dissemination of an Emerging Medical Technology The proliferation of new medical technologies in recent years has produced both excitement and concern among health professionals. The excitement reflects the opportunities to improve the length and quality of life. The concern has been focused primarily on the social costs of technologies whose development, dissemination, and utilization ultimately prove inefficient. Much attention has centered on a call for policies that would rationalize the diffusion of "emerging technologies," for which only limited effectiveness data are available. The risks and uncertainties which decision-makers face are double-edged and can be described as analogous to Type I ("false positive") and Type I ("false negative") statistical errors. The Type I error would correspond to a situation in which actions taken to facilitate the rapid dissemination of a technology resulted in its overuse. The anticipation of significant benefits to be gained from a new practice may lead to decisions which lack sufficient restraint. A Type I error may not become apparent for several years, if that is the time required to evaluate a technique´s true efficacy. The Type II error would correspond to a situation in which actions taken to prevent or slow down the dissemination of a technology effectively deny access to a potentially beneficial practice. Overly cautious or pessimistic attitudes may lead to decisions which inhibit the development of a promising technique so that it, in fact, never does become effective. A Type II error may thus be responsible for the very problem of ineffectiveness a decision-maker may have feared. Both Type I and Type II management errors can be detrimental to society and a major objective of government policy-makers relating to medical technology is to minimize these errors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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