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Ernest Amory Codman, M.D., and End Results of Medical Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Duncan Neuhauser
Duncan Neuhauser
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Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
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Abstract

Ernest Amory Codman, M.D., was one of the most important figures in the history of outcomes research in medicine. While his contemporaries scorned his efforts to create systematic procedures to evaluate the end results of medical care, his work foreshadowed many of today's most pressing issues in technology assessment. This arti traces Codman's career as an innovator and political gadfly at the Massachusetts General Hospital during the first three decades of this century, and examines the development and demise of his end-result system.

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General Essays
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International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , January 1990 , pp. 307 - 325
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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