Information on ethical issues in health technology assessment: How and where to find them

International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 441-449

  Droste, Sigrid ^a   Dintsios, Charalabos Markos ^a   Gerber, Andreas ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY IN HEALTH CARE IQWIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomedical; Ethics; Information storage and retrieval; Stem cell transplantation; Technology assessment

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL; ETHICS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT;

HEALTH; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; MANAGEMENT; RATING; STEM CELLS;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; DATA BASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PUBLICATION;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL;

EID: 78649970176     PISSN: 02664623     EISSN: 14716348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266462310000954     Document Type: Article

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