Banta H D, Sanes J R
J Community Health. 1978 Spring;3(3):245-58. doi: 10.1007/BF01349387.
The introduction of a new medical technology can have indirect, unintended, or unanticipated effects on individuals or on social systems. Although these impacts result from the widespread use of the technology, many of them can be predicted while the technology is being developed. A method for systematically identifying and evaluating these impacts is technology assessment. Such an assessment, made while a technology is being developed, could provide useful information for decision making about research and development and in planning for the technology's eventual introduction. Because only a few medical technologies have been formally assessed and because the process of medical technology development is porrly understood, one must be cautious in recommending widespread use of technology assessment. Nevertheless, enough is now known to permit the formulation of approaches that could be used in preliminary attempts at medical technology assessment.
新医疗技术的引入可能会对个人或社会系统产生间接、意外或未预料到的影响。尽管这些影响是该技术广泛应用的结果，但其中许多影响在技术研发过程中是可以预测的。系统识别和评估这些影响的方法是技术评估。在技术研发过程中进行这样的评估，可以为有关研发的决策以及该技术最终引入的规划提供有用信息。由于只有少数医疗技术经过了正式评估，而且对医疗技术开发过程了解甚少，因此在建议广泛使用技术评估时必须谨慎。然而，现在已知的信息足以允许制定可用于医疗技术评估初步尝试的方法。
