OP305 A Systematic Approach To Include Ethical Aspects In Health Technology Assessments – Experiences And Evaluation

Introduction The Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and of Social Services (SBU) is commissioned to assess ethical aspects in their health technology assessment (HTA) reports, addition effects economic the examined interventions. For this purpose, a framework systematic evaluation healthcare technologies has been developed used at SBU since 2014. With seven years practice, we decided it was time evaluate experiences from using consider possible adjustments improve future use. Methods reports period 2014–2020 were systematically screened content. Focus group meetings with users (mainly HTA project managers) held where opinions regarding usability obstacles collected. A revised version document sent consultation relevant stakeholders (possible users, reviewers recipients) order collect additional views. Results Of fifty-eight produced frame, evaluated fifty-five (ninety-five percent), most cases, had as support. In twenty-one cases (thirty-six professional ethicist engaged work. twelve (twenty-one presented main conclusions report. Opinions revealed that generally regarded helpful tool, but problems interpretation specific questions highlighted subjected revision. Conclusions valuable tool transparent identification discussion context, well implemented SBU. approach can facilitate communication dissemination principal results project.