Resource Type
Collection
Serial/Series Title
Background paper
80
Technical Memoranda
34
OTA background papers
25
The Implications of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Medical Technology
20
An Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit
11
Staff paper
9
HIV-related issues. Background paper
5
Preventive Health Services Under Medicare
5
Adolescent Health
4
Case Study Series
4
28 More
Country
Month
918 Matching Results
Results open in a new window/tab.
Technology assessment on future developments in life sustaining technologies for elderly
This report discuses ways to sustain or provide and improved quality of life for the elderly, various types of artificial organ technologies that are available and being successfully applies.
Date:
1989
Creator:
Cleveland Clinic Foundation: International Center for Artificial Organs and Transplantation
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Changes in sexual behavior of homosexual and bisexual men since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic
This report discusses Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and the ways to prevent those not infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) from becoming infected with it.
Date:
March 1988
Creator:
Coates, Thomas J.; Stall, Ron D. & Hoff, Coleen C.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Payments to physicians in the Permanente Medical Group
This report describes the function of The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG) to provide medical care to Health Plan members within the Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and their associated medical offices.
Date:
August 1985
Creator:
Collen, Morris F.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The federal regulatory response to the problem of neurotoxicity: a report
This report discusses federal laws applicable to the regulation of potentially neuron-toxic substances that can be divided into three basic categories.
Date:
December 1988
Creator:
Courteau, Jacqueline B. & Young, John S.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The epidemiology of dementing disorders
This report discusses causes of the dementia, precipitating or aggravating factors, present and projected needs for people and programs to provide services to victims and their families, groups at high risk for these disorders, frequency of unrecognized or inadequately treated cases, and the costs of the disorders, public and private, economic and non-economic.
Date:
January 1986
Creator:
Cross, Peter S. & Gurland, Barry J.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Japan's science and engineering pipeline: structure, policies, and trends
This report discusses the Japanese higher education graduates in science and engineering. It discusses the work force in these fields and the major structural reforms in the education system.
Date:
October 23, 1987
Creator:
Cummings, William K.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Financing care for patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders
This report discusses the financing for patients with Alzheimer's disease,and policy options.
Date:
August 11, 1986
Creator:
Davis, Karen & Neuman, Patricia
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The evolution of distance learning: technology-mediated interactive learning: a report for the study, "Technologies for learning at a distance", Science, Education, and Transportation Program
This report has two primary goals. One objective is to provide provocative ideas on how emerging forces external to education may shape the future of distance learning. The second purpose is to depict a potential new field, technology-mediated interactive learning, that may result from synthesis of distance learning, cooperative learning, and computer-supported cooperative work.
Date:
July 1989
Creator:
Dede, Christopher
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The effectiveness of AIDS educational programs for intravenous drugs users
The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential effectiveness of “educational” programs for preventing the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS among IV drug users.
Date:
March 1988
Creator:
Des Jarlais, Don C.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The context for exploring workplace monitoring
This report describes the history of monitoring work and the legal framework which applies to employee privacy rights and associate4d issues of worker protection.
Date:
September 26, 1986
Creator:
Deutsch, Steven
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The international context of labor-management relations: implications for workplace monitoring
This report explores some of the international developments and notes contrasts with the United States, and some potential lessons with regard to managing the new technology systems of Labor relations and issues relevant to workplace monitoring.
Date:
September 26, 1986
Creator:
Deutsch, Steven
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Psychophysiological monitoring: possibilities and prospects
This report describes the present, near, and long term the evolving capabilities for monitoring and interpreting psychophysiological signals and in particular the Event Related Brain Potential (ERP) with particular emphasis on such ERP components as the P300.
Date:
September 1987
Creator:
Donchin, Emanuel
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The effectiveness of educational programs to help prevent school-age youth from contracting HIV: a review of relevant research
This report reviews the research on AIDS and sex education programs. It examines the more significant studies that have evaluated the actual impact of those programs upon various outcomes, including knowledge, attitudes, skills and sexual behaviors.
Date:
March 1988
Creator:
Douglas, Kirby
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Computer networks in elementary and secondary education
This report discusses the power of new tools for teaching and learning
Date:
October 16, 1987
Creator:
Dowdy, Earl
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Child maltreatment in the United States: etiology, impact, and prevention
This report starts out with definitions of child abuse and neglect, then it discusses the manifestation, effect and costs of child abuse and neglect, short term and long term.
Date:
May 1987
Creator:
Dubowitz, Howard
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Life-sustaining technologies and the elderly: legal issues: Canada
This report discusses the government financing of health care and life-sustaining technologies in Canada.
Date:
1989
Creator:
Dugan, Holly
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Senior Respite Care Program
This report discusses a community survey of 112 caregivers, may of them Alzheimer's Disease families, that had indicated that their primary need was the ability to get away from their caregiving responsibilities for "a few hours now and then."
Date:
April 1986
Creator:
Dunn, Louise
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Philosophical issues concerning the rights of patients suffering serious permanent dementia
This report discusses the rights of seriously and permanently demented people. Do they have the same right to autonomy, to the beneficence of their custodians, to dignity, and to a minimum level of resources as sick people of normal mental competence have? The emphasis is on extended analysis of various philosophical issues.
Date:
1986
Creator:
Dworkin, Ronald
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Assessing human risks posed by neurotoxic substances: final draft
This report discusses risk assessment as a analytic process by which the nature and magnitude of risk is identified.
Date:
December 16, 1988
Creator:
ENVIRON Corporation
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Aids and Health Insurance: An OTA Survey
This survey was conducted as part of an Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) assessment on medical testing and health insurance that will be published at a later date. OTA is also monitoring AIDS-related developments for the U.S. Congress, and the survey results are being published by OTA as the second in a series of Staff Papers on AIDS-related issues.
Date:
February 1988
Creator:
Eden, Jill; Mount, Laurie & Miike, Lawrence
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Employee perceptions and supervisory behaviors in clerical VDT work performed on systems that allow electronic monitoring
The purpose of this report is to obtain empirical data about how the potential monitoring capabilities of new office systems technology are, in fact, being taken up by management and reacted to by employees.
Date:
April 1986
Creator:
Eisenman, Elaine J.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Electric power wheeling and dealing: technological considerations for increasing competition: volume II--contractor documents, part C.
This report is to provide the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) with an overview of some of the investment issues affecting the future of the electric power industry in support of OTA's ongoing study on competition in the industry. The paper is organized in three chapters.
Date:
January 1988
Creator:
Fenn, Scott
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Transplantation of adrenal tissue into the nervous system
This report the transplantation of adrenal medullary tissue to the nervous system.
Date:
July 30, 1989
Creator:
Fine, Alan
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Politics, policy, and China's future course
This report starts out with an overview of China's politics, the post-Mao era. The report continues with China's policy evaluation.
Date:
May 1986
Creator:
Fingar, Thomas
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library