...Sandra Tanenbaum U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Hearing Impairment and Elderly People: A Background Paper , OTA-BP-BA-30 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1986), 87 pp., $4.75. Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 192 Journal of Health Politics...

... director in the Health Program of the Office of Technology Assessment. She is responsible for OTA’s oversightAiaison function with the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission and works part-time on OTA’s design of an evaluation plan for Medicare’s prospective payment system. She...

... of an existing technology) can either be identified by HCFA or by one of the Medicare contractors, using general Ruby, Bantu & Burns Medicare Coverage 145 Figure 1. Model of Medicare’s Coverage Process for Individual Medical Tech- nologies (Source: OTA) guidelines distributed...

... the Past Predict the Future? Journal of the American Medical Association 272 : 1453 -1454. Tancredi , L. R. , and J. A. Barondess. 1978 . The Problem of Defensive Medicine. Science 200 : 879 -882. U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). 1991 . Project Proposal, Defensive...

... making. The OTA, the NCHCT, and some Medicaid and Medicare programs or provisions were eliminated, came under threat, or were significantly modified in part because they explicitly considered (or proposed considering) costs and cost-effectiveness in their analyses and recommendations. Doing so...

..., where he was a member of the research staff of OTA’s assessment of defensive medicine and medical malpractice. He also contributed to an OTA study on the role of information technologies in health care, specifically clinical decision support systems and performance measurement. His research interests...

..., Markets, and the Quality of American Health Care. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Kessler , D. , and M. McClellan. 1996 . Two Doctors Practice Defensive Medicine?. Quarterly Journal of Economics 111 : 353 -390. Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). 1994 . Defensive Medicine and Medical...

... units somewhere under its institutional umbrella, including the General Accounting Office (GAO), the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Prospective Pay- ment Assessment Commission (ProPAC), the Physician Payment Review Commission (PPRC), and the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). All had...

... unaffected” by the intro- duction of the amendment These findings are supported in more recent studies. In 1984, the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) also concluded that there is no evidence that the law, as implemented, had raised barriers to entry, reduced innovation, or adversely...

... to the Oregon Energy Facility Siting Council, January. Portland, OR: Oregon Panel. OTA (Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress). 1989 . Biological Effects of Power Frequency Electric and Magnetic Fields. OTA-BP-E-53. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. Overington , M. 1977...

..., or measles in 1985. Our immunization rates for DPT (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus) among chil- dren under age l are half that of Western Europe, including Spain and Italy, and Canada and Israel (OTA 1988: 142-43). What is so ironic, of course, is that we spend a larger proportion of our national...

... U. S . Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Hearing Impairment and El- derly People-A Background Paper, OTA-BP-BA-30 (Washington, DC: Gov- ernment Printing Office, 1986), 87 pp., $4.75. The Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) has prepared Hearing Zmpair- ment and Elderly People...

... [hearing-related technologies] are usually minimal compared to the costs of the major architectural changes needed to accommodate people with mobility impairments” (p. 7). Hearing Impairment does not pursue the un- evenness with which Section 504 has been implemented, although OTA hy...

... of Technology Assessment (OTA). 1992 . Evaluation of the Oregon Medicaid Proposal. Washington, DC: GPO. Oregon Health Plan. The Uninsured in Oregon, 1997. Salem: Office for Oregon Health Plan Research. Rosenbaum , Sara . 1992 . Poor Women, Poor Children, Poor Policy: The Oregon Medicaid Experiment...

... [AMA] 1985; Shapiro et al. 1989; U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment [OTA] 1994; Brennan and Rosenthal 1995). Many surveys have documented physicians’ belief that the malpractice climate strongly influences how they practice (OTA 1994). In one survey, 42 percent of physicians stated...

... Health Care. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Kessler, D., and M. McClellan. 1996. Two Doctors Practice Defensive Medicine? Quarterly Journal of Economics 111:353–390. Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). 1994. Defensive Medicine and Medical Malpractice. Washington, DC: OTA...

... Boards of Nursing). 1991 . Advanced Practice Survey Results. Issues 12 : 1 , 13-14. NCSBN (National Council of State Boards of Nursing). 1992 . Regulation of Advanced Nursing Practice: Update. Issues 13 : 1 , 6. OTA (U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment). 1986 . Nurse...

... interventions and to rate the quality of such evidence (Cochrane Collaboration 2016 ; GRADE Working Group 2015 ; Greene, Jones, and Podolsky 2012 ; Guyatt et al. 2008 ; IOM 2011 ). In 1972, Congress established the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) to advise federal lawmakers on science and technology...

... People with HIV Illness. Edited by Michael Sher- noff. New York: Harrington Park, 1992. 172 pp. $14.95 paper. Home Drug Infuion Therapy under Medicare. U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment. OTA-H-509. Washington. DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992. 214 pp. $10.00 cloth...

... York: W. W. Norton. Summerfield, A. Q., and D. H. Marshall. 1995 . Cochlear Implantation in the U.K., 1990–1994 . Nottingham: MRC Institute of Hearing Research. U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). 1976 . Development of Medical Technology: Opportunities for Assessment...