<it>"We noticed that suddenly the country has become full of MRI"</it>. Policy makers' views on diffusion and use of health technologies in Iran

• Main Authors: Tishelman Carol (Author), Palesh Mohammad (Author), Fredrikson Sten (Author), Jamshidi Hamidreza (Author), Tomson Göran (Author), Emami Azita (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2010-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Objective</p> <p>Uncontrolled proliferation of health technologies (HT) is one contributor to the increasing pressure on health systems to adopt new technologies. With limited resources, policy-makers encounter difficulties in fulfilling their respons...