C. A. MacDonald & Associates: Health Technology Assessment

Office of Technology Assessment - although this office no

longer exists, this site contains a complete set of all publications over a 20 year period. Many health related material are downloadable, including the following:

Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Medical

Technologies - downloadable report from the Office of Technology Assessment

Health Care Technology and Its Assessment in Eight

Countries(February 1995) - downloadable report from the Office of Technology Assessment

Identifying Health Technologies That Work: Searching for

Evidence - downloadable report from the Office of Technology Assessment

Tools for Evaluating Health Technologies: Five

BackgroundPapers (September 1994) - downloadable report from the Office of Technology Assessment

National Coordinating Centre for Health Technology

Assessment. Information regarding the NHS R&D Health Technology Assessment Programme including details of prioritised topics, commissioned research and full-text Executive Summaries of completed HTA Programme research projects.

British Columbia Office of Health Technology Assessment -

BCOHTA conducts research and provides consultative expertise health care decision-makers at all levels regarding questions on health technology utilization and implementation. Information on research activites and publications is provided.

Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology

Assessment. Information about CCOHTA including ongoing internal and commissioned projects and a forum for sharing HTA research news. Includes some full-text publications.

Health Care in Transition: Technology Assessment in the Private

Sector. The full text of this report in the Microsoft Word® format is available via anonymous FTP at ftp://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/ohp as a self-extracting (.exe) compressed file (151 K).