Health Technology Assessments
ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENTS - A Study of Methodologies
... the health care sector, the economic component of HTAs has received additional attention, as documented earlier in an international comparison of HTAs (Poulsen & Hørder, ...a health technology ...
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A comparison of two methods for expert elicitation in health technology assessments
... provide the information required to reduce decision uncertainty, negating the usefulness of a weighting step. Counterintuitive results of opinion weighting have also been encountered by other authors; for instance, in ...
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Health technology assessments as a mechanism for increased value for money: recommendations to the Global Fund
... how health technology assessments (HTAs) can be used to provide guidance on the relative priority of health interventions currently subsidized by the Global ...
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Reviewing the evidence to inform the population of cost-effectiveness models within health technology assessments.
... The issues raised in this research are important in the field of health technology assessment. There is potential for these issues to have a big impact on the development of the cost effectiveness model and ...
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Mapping of Methods used for the Adoption and Adaptation of Health Technology Assessments (HTA): A scoping review
... Background: Health Technology Assessments (HTA) use a multidisciplinary process to determine the added value of health technologies and can aid the optimal use of scarce ...
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An equity checklist : a framework for health technology assessments
... There is little guidance concerning what, justly, ought to constitute either the characteristics in question or the size of the weights. Some gather evidence regarding the public’s preferences , stakeholders’ ...
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Taking patient heterogeneity and preferences into account in health technology assessments
... analyses, health states are valued from the perspective of the general ...of health policy, increase transparency and legitimacy by involving stakeholders, and is therefore essential to good HTA practice ...
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The Role of decision-analytic modelling in German health technology assessments
... Therefore, we reviewed all HTAs published from DIMDI that included economic assessments and classified them according to the quality level of the information provided for decision making. The results of this study ...
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Bayesian methods for evidence synthesis and decision making in Health Technology Assessments
... HTAs aim to aid informed decision making by assessing different aspects of health tech nologies. Clinical aspects, economic aspects, ethical aspects as well as the quality of ev idence[r] ...
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Doing mini health technology assessments in hospitals: A new concept of decision support in health care?
... Local Participation in Making an Analysis Can Also Enhance the Probability That the Analysis Is Actually Brought to Use Evaluation research shows that different situational factors are important for the direct ...
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The use of rapid review methods in health technology assessments: 3 case studies.
... They were also deemed to be of relatively high qual- ity using the AMSTAR checklist with scores of 10/11, 9/11 and 9/11. Methods chosen for the rapid review of evidence must be both feasible and appropriate taking into ...
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Key principles for the improved conduct of health technology assessments for resource allocation decisions
... NICE technology appraisal process involves extensive interaction between the sponsor (that for new technologies often has all the data, but a specific interest) and agency staff (who are try- ing to understand the ...
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Do health technology assessments comply with QUOROM diagram guidance? An empirical study
... but, the number of studies is most important in the final analysis. For this reason, we recommend that at the earli- est stage possible within the study selection diagram, researchers inform the reader how many citations ...
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Best practice in undertaking and reporting health technology assessments : Working Group 4 report
... a health technology refers to its perfor- mance under ideal circumstances, such as study ...the technology works in day-to-day practice (Table ...of health care, however, have not been and ...
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Health Technology Assessments of human papillomavirus vaccinations in Europe: a survey from VENICE network
... This report has been prepared by the Health Information and Quality Authority and the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics (NCPE). Epidemiological context / impact. In Ireland, cervical cancer is the 8th most ...
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hta Using Canadian Administrative Databases to Derive Economic Data for Health Technology Assessments
... for Health Policy (MCHP) developed its first CMG-based average cost per weighted case in 1999 using 1995 to 1996 MIS and discharge abstract ...for health services, 27 and a yet-to-be released assessment of ...
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Transferability of health technology assessments and economic evaluations: a systematic review of approaches for assessment and application
... In the specific index there are four critical criteria and eight noncritical criteria. The formula for the specific index (IT 2 ) is shown in the second panel of Figure 4. The overall global transferability index (third ...
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GUIDELINE. Process of information retrieval for systematic reviews and health technology assessments on clinical effectiveness.
... Copyright © EUnetHTA 2015. All Rights Reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced without an explicit acknowledgement of 17.10.2014]. Available from: http://abstracts.cochrane.org/2011-madrid/developing- ...
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A guide to synthesising qualitative research for researchers undertaking health technology assessments and systematic reviews
... There are several reasons for this. One reason is that qualitative research is increasingly being used to better understand clinical issues either through interpretation of, or integration with, quantitative research. In ...
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Q-SEA – a tool for quality assessment of ethics analyses conducted as part of health technology assessments
... Systematic reviews of ethics issues pose a challenge with respect to completeness – how to know when all relevant arguments and issues have been identified. To ensure completeness of ethics analyses, some authors have ...
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