TY - JOUR
T1 - Ethical issues in technology assessment
T2 - Conceptual categories and procedural considerations
AU - Heitman, Elizabeth
N1 - Funding Information:
An earlier version of this paper was prepared as a working document for the 1995 conference, "Technology Assessment: A Tool for Technology Management and Improved Patient Outcomes," sponsored jointly by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Research and Development, Health Services Research and Development Service, Management Decision and Research Center, and the Association for Health Services Research. The views expressed here are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Veterans Affairs or the Association for Health Services Research. The editorial comments of Clifford Goodman, PhD, and H. David Banta, MD, MPH, are gratefully acknowledged.
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - The practice of health care technology assessment involves ethical considerations in all of its varied functions and techniques. Ethical issues in technology assessment can be grouped into the broad categories of normative concepts, diagnosis, prevention and therapy, research and the advancement of knowledge, and allocation of resources. Moreover, the ethics of the assessment process itself must be evaluated in terms of the integrity of the project's goals, procedures, and effects, and evaluators' open and self-critical acknowledgment of their purposes. As a relatively new field, technology assessment can benefit from using a variety of analytic approaches as it works to develop its own methods for evaluating ethical issues related to technology.
AB - The practice of health care technology assessment involves ethical considerations in all of its varied functions and techniques. Ethical issues in technology assessment can be grouped into the broad categories of normative concepts, diagnosis, prevention and therapy, research and the advancement of knowledge, and allocation of resources. Moreover, the ethics of the assessment process itself must be evaluated in terms of the integrity of the project's goals, procedures, and effects, and evaluators' open and self-critical acknowledgment of their purposes. As a relatively new field, technology assessment can benefit from using a variety of analytic approaches as it works to develop its own methods for evaluating ethical issues related to technology.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0266462300011521
DO - 10.1017/S0266462300011521
M3 - Article
C2 - 9780541
AN - SCOPUS:0031662352
SN - 0266-4623
VL - 14
SP - 544
EP - 566
JO - International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care
JF - International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care
IS - 3
ER -