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Evaluation of effects of the quality of care of selected alternatives for paying physicians under the Medicare program (open access)

Evaluation of effects of the quality of care of selected alternatives for paying physicians under the Medicare program

This report tries to anticipate the kinds of effects on the quality of personal health care services that would result from each of several alternative ways of paying for physician's services to Medicare patients.
Date: September 1985
Creator: Hammons, Glenn T.; Brook, Robert H. & Newhouse, Joseph P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reform of Medicare physician payment policies: impact on magnetic resonance imaging technology (open access)

Reform of Medicare physician payment policies: impact on magnetic resonance imaging technology

This report provides a brief description of the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), current research, safety and patient acceptance of the imaging technology. It discusses the current use of MRI, the medical evidence, current clinical applications and diffusion of MRI.
Date: September 1985
Creator: Iezzoni, Lisa I.; Grad, Oren & Moskowitz, Mark A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Physicians' payment and their prescription of laboratory tests: the effects on clinical laboratory services of selected alternatives for paying physicians under the Medicare program (open access)

Physicians' payment and their prescription of laboratory tests: the effects on clinical laboratory services of selected alternatives for paying physicians under the Medicare program

This report discusses laboratory testing in light of physician payment methods under Medicare. The report focuses primarily on laboratory testing in the outpatient setting, assuming the impatient laboratory testing is covered by the DRG-based Prospective Payment System rates of Medicare.
Date: September 1985
Creator: Myers, Lois P.; Eisenberg, John M. & Pauly, Mark V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Office of Technology Assessment List of Publications, September 1985 (open access)

Office of Technology Assessment List of Publications, September 1985

A catalog of Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) documents published through 1985.
Date: September 1985
Creator: Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anti-Satellite Weapons, Countermeasures, and Arms Control (open access)

Anti-Satellite Weapons, Countermeasures, and Arms Control

An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of the "opportunities and risks involved in an accelerated program of research on new ballistic missile defense technologies, including those that might lead to deployment of weapons in space" (p. iii).
Date: September 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies (open access)

Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies

An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of the "opportunities and risks involved in an accelerated program of research on new ballistic missile defense technologies, including those that might lead to deployment of weapons in space" (Foreward).
Date: September 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy Technology Transfer to China (open access)

Energy Technology Transfer to China

A technical memorandum by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "examines the opportunities for the transfer of various energy technologies to China" and also "reviews the motivations for U.S. companies and other institutions for transferring technology and the vehicles for doing so" (p. iii).
Date: September 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Technology Case Study 35: The Effectiveness and Costs of Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) (open access)

Health Technology Case Study 35: The Effectiveness and Costs of Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD)

A case study by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) over continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) as a treatment for end-stage renal disease (p. 3).
Date: September 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Status of Biomedical Research and Related Technology for Tropical Diseases (open access)

Status of Biomedical Research and Related Technology for Tropical Diseases

A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) examining the "status of biomedical research and technologies for controlling tropical diseases" (p. iii).
Date: September 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library