Goodman C S
Clifford Goodman & Associates, Washington, DC 20008.
Med Biol Eng Comput. 1993 Jan;31(1):HTA3-10. doi: 10.1007/BF02446885.
The goals of biomedical engineering include the improvement of health and life quality of mankind. However, the contribution of biomedical engineering to those worthy ends must be more clearly related. Biomedical engineers should become more active in demonstrating to policymakers and other parties in healthcare the value of the contributions of healthcare technology. Technology assessment (TA) is a form of investigation designed to identify and evaluate the implications of technologies so as to inform policymaking. Among the important trends in TA that should be of special interest to biomedical engineers are the increasingly higher methodological standards for accepting evidence from clinical investigations, and the use of quality-of-life measures for determining how technologies affect people's lives.
生物医学工程的目标包括改善人类的健康和生活质量。然而，生物医学工程对这些有价值目标的贡献必须更加明确地联系起来。生物医学工程师应更加积极地向政策制定者和医疗保健领域的其他各方展示医疗技术贡献的价值。技术评估（TA）是一种旨在识别和评估技术影响以便为政策制定提供信息的调查形式。在技术评估中，生物医学工程师应特别关注的重要趋势包括接受临床研究证据的方法标准越来越高，以及使用生活质量衡量标准来确定技术如何影响人们的生活。
