A tremendous selection of choices, both for goods and services, is available in the health
care industry. Unfortunately, even marginal increases in expenses are hard to rationalize in …

Critical care services have grown to consume a substantial role in health care with little
emphasis on the evaluation of the technologies they routinely employ. Although the …

Technology utilization in acute and critical care holds great promise for improving the
management and outcome of patients. However, before this promise can be realized …

Technology assessment is becoming increasingly important in the area of critical care due
both to the explosion of technology associated with this discipline and to the realization that …

Technology is only as effective as the clinicians who employ the technology and the system
in which they function. For any technology to change patient outcome, or be cost effective …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the current status of technology in critical care medicine and to
present guidelines for technologies commonly used in Ontario critical care units. Data …

Perhaps no specialty faces more acutely the problem of safely and effectively using new
techniques and technologies, and the need to objectively and critically evaluate their …

The explosive growth in medical technology in the past two decades has created a tension
for both clinicians and policy makers. On the one hand, advances in technology are credited …

This is the inaugural column of “Technology Today,” a regular column of this journal that will
feature topics related to technology and how technology influences practice in acute and …