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Reproductive Health Hazards in the Workplace: Selected Aspects of Reproductive Health Hazards Regulations
A staff paper by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) assessing the workplace reproductive health hazards regulations.
Date:
October 3, 1985
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Medicare's Prospective Payment System: Strategies for Evaluating Cost, Quality, and Medical Technology
A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "arrays the possible effects of PPS (prospective payment system) on the health care system and assesses the extent to which these effects can be measured" (p. iii)
Date:
October 1985
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Displaced Homemakers: Programs and Policy: An Interim Report
A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that focuses on the "problems of and programs for displaced homemakers" (p. iii).
Date:
October 1985
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Electronic Surveillance and Civil Liberties
A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that focuses on "technological developments in the basic communication and information infrastructure of the United States that present new or changed opportunities for and vulnerabilities to electronic surveillance, not on the details of specific surveillance devices" (Foreward).
Date:
October 1985
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Issues in capitation: risk of financial ruin for providers and ways to control this risk
The purpose of this report is to explore issues relating to healthcare expenses. To examine the concept of risk for providers in a capitation payment environment and to estimate the effectiveness of various risk limiting techniques.
Date:
October 1985
Creator:
Vertrees, James G.; Tolley, Dennis & Manton, Kenneth
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Life sustaining technologies and the elderly: prolonged mechanical ventilation
This report aims to identify the tasks assigned by the OTA and their major sections. The issues of concern to the OTA, and those who make contributions to their discussion, are shown.
Date:
October 15, 1985
Creator:
Goldberg, Allen I.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of ethical implications of selected alternatives for paying physicians under the Medicare program
This report discusses the effects of changes in Medicare reimbursement methods, examines the ethical considerations, and classifies the alternative payment methods.
Date:
October 1985
Creator:
Capron, Alexander M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Implications of alternative Medicare payment methods for pneumoccal vaccination
The purpose of this report is to: 1)update the estimated level of use of pneumococcal vaccine in the United States, 2)examine factors that influence its use, and 3) assess how, if at all, selected alternative payment methods might affect the use of this vaccine.
Date:
October 1985
Creator:
Riddiough, Michael A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An ethical analysis of withdrawal from life-sustaining technologies and assisted death: a report for the Office of Technology Assessment
This report is designated to offer an ethical analysis of decisions to withhold and to withdrew life-sustaining technologies form patients in accord with their wishes and interests.
Date:
October 4, 1985
Creator:
Childress, James F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Background paper on cataract surgery and physician payment under the Medicare program
This report both describes current clinical and economic aspects of cataract surgery and analyzes how alternative methods of paying physicians might affect cataract surgery in the future.
Date:
October 1985
Creator:
Garrison Jr., Louis P. & Yamashiro, Sandra M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library