Abstract OBJECTIVES: Ethical analysis can highlight important ethical issues related to implementing a technology, values inherent in the technology itself, and value-decisions underlying the health technology assessment (HTA) process. Ethical analysis is a...

Consistent healthcare decision making requires systematic consideration of decision criteria and evidence available to inform them. This can be tackled by combining multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) and Health Technology Assessment (HTA). The objective of this...

Abstract Aim This report considers the introduction of new technology and the implications for patient safety. Methods and discussion A distinction is made between ‘conceptually’ new and ‘contextually’ new technology. The life cycle of technology from development to...

Comprehensive health technology assessments (HTAs) include thorough reflections on ethical issues associated with health technologies, their use, and value-based decisions in the assessment process. As methods of information retrieval for effectiveness assessments are...

Objectives To test and further develop a healthcare policy and clinical decision support framework using growth hormone (GH) for Turner syndrome (TS) as a complex case study. Methods The EVIDEM framework was further developed to complement the multicriteria decision...

Technology is generally defined as "science or knowledge applied to a definite purpose." Technology assessment has been defined as a form of policy research that examines short- and long-term consequences (for example, societal, economic, ethical, legal) of the...

The collective experience of health technology assessment (HTA) in different countries delineates a pattern of development, a "natural history," of HTA in three phases: emergence, consolidation, and expansion. This study examines the rationale for HTA, definitions of...

The aim of this study was to describe the developing health technology assessment (HTA) activities in Brazil, both historically and in the present day. This report is a descriptive analysis based on personal experiences of the authors and on selected literature....

Key Messages The HTA Review recommends that Commonwealth HTA processes should: all follow a set of shared objectives and principles; be part of an open, transparent, integrated system; make information easily available from a central website, including more...

Overview Few recent issues in drug development and health systems management have generated more commentary, and more controversy, than health technology assessment (HTA). The keen interest in HTA stems from the high stakes involved. For...