The principles of Health Technology Assessment in laboratory medicine

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 32-37

  Liguori, Giorgio ^a,b   Belfiore, Patrizia ^a   D'Amora, Maurizio ^c   Liguori, Renato ^d,e   Plebani, Mario ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^b Italian Society of Health Horigm Scanning   (Italy)

^c Local Health Agency NA 1 Centro   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^e CEINGE BIOTECNOLOGIE AVANZATE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Health Technology Assessment; innovation; laboratory medicine

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC EQUIPMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LABORATORY; LABORATORY DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY;

HUMANS; MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL;

EID: 84998678927     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2016-0371     Document Type: Review

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