Scientific? democratic? effective? Towards an evaluation of Norway's first medical consensus conference

Ann Rudinow Saetnan

Science and Public Policy, 2002, vol. 29, issue 3, 201-220

Abstract: From 1986 to 1992, Norway organized a series of medical consensus conferences as a test of how that format would function in a Norwegian health policy context: the first was on the use of ultrasound in pregnancy. In 1995, Norway organized its first consensus conference since the test series. Again the subject was ultrasound in pregnancy. This paper evaluates several aspects of the first conference, in light of the need for a second on the same technological practices so soon after. It focuses on how the first consensus statement has been understood by its targeted professional populations and how the first conference balanced the potentially conflicting goals of achieving science-based and/or broad-based medical technology policies. The analysis combines previously published evaluation results with new observational, archival, interview, and survey data. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Date: 2002
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