Tallon R
Nurs Manage. 1996 Feb;27(2):58, 60, 62.
Technology assessment performed on the wide range of clinical support systems available highlights the potential difficulties encountered when already utilized clinical therapies become subject to careful scientific scrutiny. The technology assessment committee must look beyond tacitly accepted indications for technology use and instead focus their evaluations on current, published clinical outcomes research. Where this latter clinical research is lacking, the technology assessment committee's goal is to balance the best available evidence of clinical safety and efficacy of a technology against the relative costs of that therapy.
对现有的各种临床支持系统进行技术评估，凸显了已应用的临床治疗方法接受严谨科学审查时可能遇到的潜在困难。技术评估委员会不能仅关注技术使用中默认被接受的适应症，而应将评估重点放在当前已发表的临床疗效研究上。在缺乏后者这类临床研究的情况下，技术评估委员会的目标是在一项技术临床安全性和有效性的最佳现有证据与该治疗方法的相对成本之间取得平衡。
