The Health Technology Assessment-Disease Management instrument reliably measured methodologic quality of health technology assessments of disease management

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 881-888

  Steuten, L M G ^a   Vrijhoef, H J M ^a,b   Van Merode, G G ^a   Severens, J L ^a   Spreeuwenberg, C ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Assessment instruments; Disease management; Health technology assessment; Methods; Outcome assessment; Process; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INVENTORY CONTROL; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; TECHNIQUE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL;

EID: 7044253036     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2004.01.017     Document Type: Article

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