RT Journal
A1 Jones RJ
T1 REport on aortocoronary bypass graft surgery
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 1979
FD December 14
VO 242
IS 24
SP 2701
OP 2701
DO 10.1001/jama.1979.03300240041025
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1979.03300240041025
AB The American Medical Association's newest Council on Scientific Affairs (CSA) has come to age after three years of activity. After much discussion within the CSA and the AMA Board of Trustees, this Council has decided to enter the arena of health care technology assessment to deal with selected controversial procedures. In an effort to provide a voice that can speak with authority from the private sector on recent advances in medical procedures, the CSA has accepted the mandate to coordinate a program that will look, from time to time, at controversial medical procedures that have a broad impact on medicine. It plans to do this, henceforth, with the official help and advice of the various medical specialty organizations that may have an interest as determined through the agency of the AMA Interspecialty Advisory Board. A good example of the statements it plans to make is the report that appears in