Dr. Mark Brinker, Houston Orthopedic Surgeon Article RSS http://drbrinker.com Dr. Mark Brinker, Houston Orthopedic Surgeon Article RSS feed. . Dr. Mark Brinker, Houston Orthopedic Surgeon http://drbrinker.com/tresources/en/images/icons/tendenci34x15.gif http://drbrinker.com no Copyright 2005, Dr. Mark Brinker, Houston Orthopedic Surgeon Tendenci Membership Management Software by Schipul - The Web Marketing Company en-us noemail@drbrinker.com Tue, 07 Apr 2015 22:29:46 GMT Articles http://drbrinker.com/en/art/52/ <br> <h2>International Journal of Technology Assesment in Health Care 15:1, 1999<br> </h2> <h3>Author: Osama Mikhail, JMichael Swint, Mark R. Brinker, Lemuel A. Moye, Melissa Sabino<br> </h3> <p>Click here to read the entire <a target="_blank" href="/attachments/articles/52/Technology evolution IntJTechAssessHealthc 1999.pdf"> published article by Dr Brinker </a><br> </p> <hr /> <div> The evolution of clinical technologies presents potential adopters with considerations in planning for clinical program development that include the stage and the rate of a technology's evolution. This paper presents a conceptual framework for these considerations and applies the framework to orthopedic technologies. Eight orthopedic surgeons were asked to assess 14 orthopedic technologies and position each of them along a spectrum of research, clinical, and adopted technologies. </div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The distribution of responses for each technology-year combination is presented, and estimates of central tendency, dispersion, and variances provide measures of the change in the distribution of responses over time for each technology and the change in the degree of rater consensus over time for each technology. While orthopedic trauma was chosen to illustrate the technology spectrum model, the model and assessment methodology is applicable to other medical specialties as well. Adoption of this framework in a hospital setting should enable more systematic and effective clinical program development.</div> <br><br>1-Jan-99 0:00 AM The Technology Spectrum and Its Application to Orthopedic Technologies International Journal of Technology Assesment in Health Care 15:1, 1999 Author: Osama Mikhail, JMichael Swint, Mark R. Brinker, Lemuel A. Moye, Melissa Sabino Click here to read the entire published article by Dr Brinker The evolution of clinical technologies presents potential adopters with considerations in planning for clinical program development that include the stage and the rate of a technology's evolution. This paper presents a conceptual framework for these considerations and applies the framework to orthopedic technologies. Eight orthopedic surgeons were asked to assess 14 orthopedic technologies and position each of them along a spectrum of research, clinical, and adopted technologies. The distribution of responses for each technology-year combination is presented, and estimates of central tendency, dispersion, and variances provide measures of the change in the distribution of responses over time for each technology and the change in the degree of rater consensus over time for each technology. While orthopedic trauma was chosen to illustrate the technology spectrum model, the model and assessment methodology is applicable to other medical specialties as well. Adoption of this framework in a hospital setting should enable more systematic and effective clinical program development. no http://drbrinker.com/en/art/52/ Fri, 01 Jan 1999 06:00:00 GMT