Transparency in health technology assessments

Intelligence and Transparency in Health Technology Assessment.

Current thinking about the methodology of health technology assessment (HTA) seems to be dominated by two fundamental tensions: [1] between maintaining a tight focus on quality-adjusted life-years and broadening its concern out to pay attention to a broader range of factors, and [2] between thinking of the evaluative dimensions that matter as being objectively important factors or as ones that ...

Modeling Treatment Sequences In Health Technology Assessments.

Health technology assessments, evidence-based healthcare and health ethics.

How can the impact of health technology assessments be enhanced?

Supporting the Use of Health Technology Assessments by Decision-Makers.

A perceived gap exists in how well Canadian health technology assessment (HTA) producers are supporting the use of their HTAs by decision-makers. The authors propose that the newly released HTA Database Canadian search interface incorporate structured decision-relevant summaries of HTAs that would be developed by participating Canadian HTA organizations. The registry would serve as a "one-stop ...