Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA), a decision-making tool, has received increasing attention in recent years, notably in the healthcare field. For Canada, it is unclear whether and how MCDA should be incorporated into the existing health technology assessment...
International survey of methods used in health technology assessment (HTA): does practice meet the principles proposed for good research?
Objective: To describe research methods used internationally in health technology assessment (HTA) and health-care reimbursement policies; compare the survey findings on research methods and processes to published HTA principles; and discuss important issues/trends...
Colombian Health System on its Way to Improve Allocation Efficiency—Transition from a Health Sector Reform to the Settlement of an HTA Agency
Over the past 20 years, Colombia has invested major efforts in ensuring universal health care access to its citizens while facing epidemiological transition and demographic changes. The country, as any other region in the world, is challenged by financial constraints...
Opportunities to Promote Efficiency in Hospital Decision-Making through the Use of Health Technology Assessment
KEY MESSAGES Health technology assessment (HTA) is a multidisciplinary area of applied research that produces high quality information about health technologies—drugs, medical technologies and health interventions. The HTA produces recommendations on whether a health...
Integrating patients’ views into health technology assessment: Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) as a method to elicit patient preferences
Abstract BACKGROUND: Patient involvement is widely acknowledged to be a valuable component in health technology assessment (HTA) and healthcare decision making. However, quantitative approaches to ascertain patients' preferences for treatment endpoints are not yet...
Integrating local data into hospital-based healthcare technology assessment: Two case studies
Health technology assessment (HTA) programs influence practice on a broad scale through reimbursement decisions or national guidelines. Hospital-based HTA programs inform clinical decisions at the local level. Typically, they do this by adapting general HTA to their...
Practical tools and methods for health technology assessment in Europe: Structures, methodologies, and tools developed by the European network for Health Technology Assessment, EUnetHTA
This article presents an overview of the practical methods and tools to support transnational Health Technology Assessment (HTA) that were developed and pilot tested by the European network for HTA (EUnetHTA), which involved a total of sixty-four Partner...
Health technology assessment: An introduction to objectives, role of evidence, and structure in Europe
Health systems have developed at different speeds, and with differing degrees of complexity throughout the twentieth century, reflecting the diverse political and social conditions in each country. Notwithstanding their diversity, all systems, however, share a common...
Commission communication in the framework of the implementation of the Council Directive 93/ 42/EEC concerning medical devices
Publication of titles and references of harmonised standards under Union harmonisation legislation
Basic Principles of Health Technology Assessment, Economic Evaluation, and Costing of Healthcare Programs
Finding the equilibrium between raising demand for healthcare services and increasing cost containment pressures needed to guarantee the sustainability is the main challenge of healthcare systems around the world. In this context, health economic studies provide...
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