<b><i>Introduction:</i></b> Health technology assessment (HTA) aims to provide decision makers with relevant data make informed choices. Recent changes in the Portuguese HTA framework have altered substantially methodology regard economic evaluation, potential impacts on access and process efficiency. The Reshaping Project had as its main objective informing debate Portu...

BACKGROUND Dealing with ethical considerations is a major component of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) definitions. OBJECTIVES Present study aimed to explore and describe the manner of ethical analyses in HTA reports and the effects it had on HTA-related decision making around the world. METHODS By considering the contextual milieu of reports and searching for ethical themes and subjects...

Cad. Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, 29 Sup:S4-S6, 2013 Health technology assessment (HTA) focuses on understanding the clinical, economic, environmental, social, political, and legal implications of new technologies, or changes in established ones. This multidisciplinary field can provide various decision-makers with hierarchical analyses of the available options for health policy implementatio...

For over 40 years, Canada has had a publicly funded, national health-care system designed to ensure residents receive “reasonable access” to “medically necessary” health-care services, regardless of their ability to pay [1]. However, unlike many of its European counterparts, Canada’s system is a decentralized one, comprised of 13 separate provincial and territorial health insurance plans. Guide...

Many articles have been written about applying decision support systems to clinical tasks, but little has been published about the complex problem of capital equipment decision making in healthcare. This problem has become the domain of health technology assessment experts, but there are few decision support systems reported in the literature. Technology assessment practitioners generally evalu...

The objective of this Health Technology Assessment (HTA) methods report was to examine and to assess decision analysis (DA) as a method to transfer and adapt international scientific evidence in HTA to the German health care context. Furthermore, we sought to develop a systematic framework to facilitate the selection, transfer, adaptation, and synthesis of these data in German HTA projects.In t...

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OBJECTIVES The aim of this article is to describe and analyze the stages toward recognition and implementation of health technology assessment (HTA). METHODS System analysis of structures and institutions and their use of HTA. RESULTS Austria is a latecomer in implementing evaluations/HTA as decision support. It can to a certain degree absorb the increasing international knowledge. Austria ...

OBJECTIVES Mini-HTA (health technology assessment) is increasingly being applied in Denmark as an input for decisions on the use of health technologies. Mini-HTA is a form or check list with questions concerning the prerequisites for and consequences of health technologies. At the national level, the National Board of Health uses mini-HTA when hospitals apply for permission to introduce new tre...