VOLUME 8 (1992) INDEX AL-Hashimi, Mukhtar S.A., and T. Allan Pryor. The Potential for Medical Informatics in the Eastern Med- iterranean Region, 198 Anderson, Judith, Suzann K. Campbell, and H. Garry Gardner. Correlates of Physician Utilization of Physical Therapy, 10 Aron, David C. See Landefeld Asbury, Carolyn H. Evolution and Current Status of the Orphan Drug Act, 573 Atkinson, Helen. See Harrison Aucott, John. See Landefeld Axelli, Tomas. See Torrestad Banta, David. See Coe Banta, H. David, Gerald L. Engel, and Tore Scherstén. Volume and Outcome of Organ Transplantation, 490 Barnett, G. Octo. See Schoenbaum Barnsley, Janet M. See McKinney Bautz, James B., Joel M. Schectman, Elaine G. Elinsky, and L. Gregory Pawlson. Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Diffusion of Technology in an Ambulatory Setting, 301 Beech, Roger, Roberto J. Rona, Anthony V. Swan, Oonagh M. Wilson, and Sundhiya Mandalia. A Meth- odology for Simulating the Impact of DNA-probe Services on the Outcomes of Pregnancies, 539 Bentkover, Judith D., Ruth H. Sheshinski, John Hedley-Whyte, Carol A. Warfield, and Frederick Mosteller. Lower Back Pain: Laminectomies, Spinal Fusions, Demographics, and Socioeconomics, 309 Bitker, Caterine. See Fendrick Bloom, Bernard S., See Drummond Blom, Bernard S., and Dag Lundberg. Introduction, 379 Blum-Boisgard, Claudine. See Durand-Zaleski Borgman, Robert J. Development of an Orphan Drug by a Start-up Company: MetroGel® for Rosacea, 566 Briner, William H. See Coleman Campbell, Suzann K. See Anderson Carrin, Guy. See Drummond Chiang, Yen Pin. See Fendrick Clarke, Ann E. See Goldman Coe, Gloria A., and David Banta. Health Care Technology Transfer in Latin America and the Carribbean, 255 Coleman, R. Edward, William H. Briner, and Barry A. Siegel. Clinical PET Scanning: A “Short-lived” Orphan, 610 Coster, John M. Recombinant Erythropoietin: Orphan Product with a Silver Spoon, 635 Deber, Raisa B. Translating Technology Assessment into Policy: Conceptual Issues and Tough Choices, 131 de Pouvourville, Gerard. See Drummond de Pouvourville, Gérard. See Fendrick Deusinger, Susan S. Analyzing Errors in Practice: A Vehicle for Assessing and Enhancing the Quality of Care, 62 De Weerdt, Willy. See Harrison Dragsted, Lis, and Jesper Qvist. Epidemiology of Intensive Care, 395 Drummond, Michael F., Bernard S. Bloom, Guy Carrin, Alan L. Hillman, H. Christina Hutchings, Robin P. Knill-Jones, Gerard de Pouvourville, and Koen Torfs. Issues in the Cross-national Assessment of Health Technology, 671 Durand-Zaleski, Isabelle, Jean-Marie Saudeubray, Pierre-Prosper Kamoun, and Claudine Blum-Boisgard. Inborn Errors of Amino Acid Metabolism: The Best Strategy for Their Diagnosis, 471 Ebeling, K., and P. Nischan. Nonexperimental Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Screening Program for Lung Cancer, 245 Elinsky, Elaine G. See Bautz Engel, Gerard L. See Banta Epstein, Robert S. See Glick Eriksson, Hakan. Quality Assessment of Medical Research and Education, 479 Fendrick, A. Mark, Caterine Bitker, Gérard de Pouvourville, and Gilles Pelletier. Treatment of Symptom- atic Cholelithiasis in France: A Decision Analysis Comparing Cholecystectomy and Biliary Lithotripsy, 166 Fendrick, A. Mark, Jonathan C. Javitt, and Yen Pin Chiang. Cost-Effectiveness of the Screening and Treat- ment of Diabetic Retinopathy: What Are the Costs of Underutilization?, 694 Ferguson, John H. See Sherman Forrest, Jaqueline Darroch. See Kaeser Free, Michael J. Health Technologies for the Developing World: Addressing the Unmet Needs, 623 INTL. J. OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN HEALTH CARE 8:4, 1992 753 Index Garber, Alan M. See Goldman Gardner, H. Garry. See Anderson Glandon, Gerald L. See Oleske Glick, Henry, Joseph F. Heyse, David Thompson, Robert S. Epstein, M. Eugene Smith, and Gerry Oster. A Model for Evaluating the Cost-effectiveness of Cholesterol-lowering Treatment, 719 Goldie, Ian. See Moller Goldman, Dana P., Ann E. Clarke, and Alan M. Garber. Creating the Costliest Orphan: The Orphan Drug Act in the Development of Ceredase™, 583 Goodman, Clifford. It’s Time to Rethink Health Care Technology Assessment, 335 Green, Robert. See Hartz Haffner, Marlene E., and John V. Kelsey. Evaluation of Orphan Products by the U.S. Food and Drug Ad- ministration, 647 Haglund, Ulf. See Jonsson Hakanson, Margareta. See Torrestad Hansen, Ebba Holme. Technology Assessment in a User Perspective— Experiences with Drug Technology, 150 Harrison, Marilyn A., Helen Atkinson, and Willy De Weerdt. Benesh Movement Notation: A Tool to Record Observational Assessment, 44 Hartz, Arthur J., Evelyn M. Kuhn, Robert Green, Alfred A. Rimm. The Use of Risk-adjusted Complica- tion Rates to Compare Hospitals Performing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery or Angioplasty, 524 Hedley-Whyte, John. See Bentkover Heyse, Joseph F. See Glick Hillman, Alan L. See Drummond Hisashige, Akinori. Technology Assessment of Periodic Health Examinations for School Children in Japan, 219 Holma, Tuula. See Paatero Hout, Wahoub. See Landefeld Hutchings, H. Christina. See Drummond Inman, Kevin J. See Sibbald Jacoby, Itzhak. See Scott Javitt, Jonathan C. See Fendrick Johannesson, Magnus. On the Discounting of Gained Life-Years in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, 359 Johannesson, Magnus. Economic Evaluation of Hypertension Treatment, 506 J6nsson, Bengt, and Ulf Haglund. Cost-effectiveness of Misoprostol in Sweden, 234 Jonsson, Egon. See Moller Kaeser, Lisa, Jaqueline Darroch Forrest, and Allan Rosenfield. Contraceptives: On Their Own, 658 Kaluzny, Arnold D. See McKinney Kamoun, Pierre-Prosper. See Durand-Zaleski Kesley, John V. See Haffner Klinteberg, Margareta af. See Watts Klinteberg, Margareta af. Editorial (Part I): The History and Present Scope of Physical Therapy, 4 Knill-Jones, Robin P. See Drummond Kuhn, Evelyn M. See Hartz Landefeld, C. Seth, Gary E. Rosenthal, John Aucott, Christopher C. Whalen, Jackson T. Wright, Wahoub Hout, Andre Midgette, Jonathan I. Ravdin, and David C. Aron. The Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center Firm System, 325 Leisti, Seppo. See Paatero LETTER TO THE EDITORS, 747 Lundberg, Dag. See Bloom Mandalia, Sundhiya. See Beech Marsden, Celine. An Ethical Assessment of Intensive Care, 408 McKinney, Martha M., Janet M. Barnsley, and Arnold D. Kaluzny. Organizing for Cancer Control: The Diffusion of a Dynamic Innovation in a Community Cancer Network, 268 MEETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS, 556, 756 Michel, Theresa Hoskins. Outcome Assessment in Cardiac Rehabilitation, 76 Midgette, Andre. See Landefeld Miles-Tapping, Carole, and G. A. (Sandy) Rennie. The Canadian Physiotherapy Quality of Care Project: Analysis of a Derailed Project, 35 Miranda, Dinis Reis. Critically Examining Intensive Care, 444 754 = INTL. J. OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN HEALTH CARE 8:4, 1992 Index Moller, Gudrun, Ian Goldie, and Egon Jonsson. Hospital Care Versus Home Care for Rehabilitation after Hip Replacement, 93 Mosteller, Frederick. See Bentkover Nassirpour, Mehdi. See Oleske Neuhauser, Duncan. Progress on Firms Research, 321 Nischan, P. See Ebeling Noak, John R. See Oleske Oleske, Denise M., Gerald L. Glandon, Daniel J. Tancredi, Mehdi Nassirpour, and John R. Noak. Infor- mation Dissemination and the Cesarean Birth Rate: The Illinois Experience, 708 Oster, Gerry. See Glick Paatero, Heidi, Tuula Holma, and Seppo Leisti. Crucial Questions for Physiotherapy in Finland, 20 Partridge, Cecily J. Describing Patterns of Recovery as a Basis for Evaluating Progress, 55 Pawlson, L. Gregory. See Bautz Peabody, John W., and Joseph M. Schmitt. Medical Equipment in the People’s Republic of China: A Survey of Medical Equipment Procurement, Utilization, and Maintenance in University-Affiliated Hospitals be- tween 1976 and 1987, 138 Pelletier, Gilles. See Fendrick Perry, Seymour, and Susann L. Wilkinson. The Technology Assessment and Practice Guidelines Forum: A Modified Group Judgment Method, 289 Potosky, Arnold L. See Sherman Pryor, T. Allan. See AL-Hashimi Purtilo, Ruth B. Whom to Treat First, and How Much Is Enough? Ethical Dilemmas that Physical Ther- apists Confront as They Compare Individual Patients’ Needs for Treatment, 26 Qvist, Jesper. See Dragsted Ravdin, Jonathan I. See Landefeld Reiser, Stanley Joel. The Intensive Care Unit: The Unfolding and Ambiguities of Survival Therapy, 382 Rennie, G.A. (Sandy). See Miles-Tapping REVIEWS, 213, 374, 554 Rimm, Alfred A. See Hartz Rona, Roberto J. See Beech Ronan, Larry, and John D. Stoeckle. An Experimental Ward: Improving Care and Learning, 318 Rosenfield, Allan. See Kaeser Rosenthal, Gary E. See Landefeld Saudeubray, Jean-Marie. See Durand-Zaleski Schectman, Joel M. See Bautz Sherman, Charles R., Arnold L. Potosky, Kathleen A. Weis, and John H. Ferguson. The Consensus Devel- opment Program: Detecting Changes in Medical Practice Following a Consensus Conference on the Treat- ment of Prostate Cancer, 683 Scherstén, Tore. See Banta Schmitt, Joseph M. See Peabody Schoenbaum, Stephen C., and G. Octo Barnett. Automated Ambulatory Medical Records Systems: An Orphan Technology, 598 Scott, Thomas E., and Itzhak Jacoby. Clinical Decision Analysis as a Means of Technology Assessment: The Effectiveness of Intraoperative Cholangiography, 185 Sheshinski, Ruth H. See Bentkover Sibbald, William J., and Kevin J. Inman. Problems in Assessing the Technology of Critical Care Medicine, 419 Siegel, Barry A. See Coleman Smith, M. Eugene. See Glick Stoeckle, John D. See Ronan Svenningsen, Nils W. Neonatal Intensive Care: When and Where is it Justified?, 457 Swan, Anthony V. See Beech Tancredi, Daniel J. See Oleske TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT REPORTS, 210, 211, 212, 365, 366, 367, 368, 371, 372, 546, 547, 548, 551, 553, 735, 737, 745 Thompson, David. See Glick Torfs, Koen. See Drummond INTL. J. OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN HEALTH CARE 8:4, 1992 755 Index Torrestad, Agneta, Margareta Hakanson, and Tomas Axelli. Development of a Program for the Treatment of Chronic Pain and Anxiety: A Learning Process Leading from Unsound to Sound Assessment, 85 Wagner, Judith. Introduction, 561 Warfield, Carol A. See Bentkover Watts, Nancy T., and Margareta af Klinteberg. Introduction, 1 Watts, Nancy T. Editorial (Part II): Assessing the Technology of Developing Health Occupations: Obstacles, Risks, and Strategies for Future Work, 118 Weis, Kathleen A. See Sherman Whalen, Christopher C. See Landefeld Wilkinson, Susann L. See Perry Wilson, Oonagh M. See Beech Wolf, Steven L. The Relationship of Technology Assessment and Utilization: Electromyographic Feedback Instrumentation as a Model, 102 Wright, Jackson T. See Landefeld Zimny, Nancy J. Making Information Accessible and Useful to Practicing Clinicians: Problem-Knowledge Coupling, 109 AB STRACTS International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care NINTH ANNUAL MEETING May 23-26, 1993 Sorrento (Naples), Italy Deadline for Abstract Submission: October 31, 1992 For further information please contact: Organizing Secretariat CSR Congressi P.O. Box 1769-1-40100 Bologna BO, ITALY Fax: 39 51 766060; Tel: 39 S51 765357. 756 INTL. J. OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN HEALTH CARE 8:4, 1992