Matching patients and technology

More to the point, physicians - like everyone else - are susceptible to the natural human tendency to want the "latest and greatest" technology. This is especially true in orthopedics, since the actual procedures for installing competing technologies - be it a "next-generation" d...

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Published inHealthcare Purchasing News Vol. 31; no. 8; p. 66
Main Author Sears, Nick
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Nashville Endeavor Business Media 01.08.2007
Subjects
Appropriate technology
Cooperation
Cost control
Costs
Hospitals
Line managers
Materials management
Orthopedics
Physicians
Reimbursement
Surgeons
Transplants & implants
United States > US
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Summary:More to the point, physicians - like everyone else - are susceptible to the natural human tendency to want the "latest and greatest" technology. This is especially true in orthopedics, since the actual procedures for installing competing technologies - be it a "next-generation" device or something less - are virtually the same.
ISSN:1098-3716