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Deciding to Buy Expensive Technology: The Case of Biliary Lithotripsy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Saul N. Weingart
Saul N. Weingart
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Beth Israel Hospital, Boston
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Acquiring expensive, new medical technology requires an evaluation of the efficacy and effectiveness, safety, profitability, feasibility, and risk of a project in the context of the hospital's social responsibility and institutional strategy. A case study of the decision to bring biliary lithotripsy to Strong Memorial Hospital illustrates how these criteria offer managers a coherent approach to difficult and consequential decisions about acquiring medical technology.

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International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , Spring 1995 , pp. 301 - 315
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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