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Technology Assessment in the Normative Aging Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Alexia Antczak-bouckoms ,
J. F. Camilla Tulloch  and
Sidney Klawansky
Alexia Antczak-bouckoms
Affiliation:
Harvard School of Public Health
J. F. Camilla Tulloch
Affiliation:
School of DentistryUniversity of North Carolina
Sidney Klawansky
Affiliation:
Harvard School of Public Health
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Abstract

This review of publications based on data from the Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study identified four articles that were considered assessments of health care technologies. Three evaluated methods for research on body composition, the fourth studied ventricular size in patients with presenile dementia. Several additional articles are discussed that provided data on baseline values or risk factors for disease that might be useful in generating hypotheses to be tested in later assessments of technologies.

Type
Special Section: The Contribution Of Medical Registries To Technology Assessment
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , Spring 1991 , pp. 143 - 149
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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