OBJECTIVE Elderly women who live alone are at increased risk for loss of independence. Hospitalization, in particular, often marks the transition from independent living to institutional care. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of rehabilitation admission to the subsequent function of elderly women and their ability to return to live-alone status. METHOD The women in th...

BACKGROUND Authors from the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) presented an analysis of submissions to the Common Drug Review (CDR) between 2004 and February 3, 2016 for drugs for rare disorders (disorders with a prevalence of <50 per 100,000). OBJECTIVE The aim of this analysis was to examine the same CDR submissions to evaluate whether the negative reimbursement re...

Recommendations already exist on how to write a structured abstract for the INAHTA Database (http://agatha.york.ac.uk/htahp.htm). The abstract must be written in English. In 392 INTL. J. OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN HEALTH CARE 18:2, 2002 Best practice in undertaking and reporting HTA Table 15. Data To Be Included in an English Structured Abstract Title: first title in English, then original tit...

PLAIN LANGUAGE SUMMARY In Canada, the CADTH Common Drug Review helps ensure that scarce health care resources are used to fund the most effective drugs. Clinicians, researchers, payers, and patients all have important, but potentially different, ideas on what should be considered, to determine a drug's value. Since 2010, CADTH has invited patient groups to contribute their perspectives to the C...

Background Since (limited) health care resources have to be invested efficiently, HTA/ health technology assessment is applied ever more often in many health care systems for ‘rational decision-making’. Around 40% to 50% of all drugs with orphan designation are high-priced oncology drugs. Within EUnetHTA (an EU-supported project) a work package deals with the pre-coverage exchange of early asse...

The role of the occupational therapist working in the school system is to facilitate a student's task performance or ability to do purposeful and meaningful activities so that the student benefits from the educational experience. To fulfill this role, occupational therapists need assessments that address functional performance issues in the classroom and provide information for effective progra...

BACKGROUND Public and patient involvement in the different stages of the health technology assessment (HTA) process is increasingly encouraged. The selection of topics for assessment, which includes identifying and prioritizing HTA questions, is a constant challenge for HTA agencies because the number of technologies requiring an assessment exceeds the resources available. Public and patient in...

AS/NZS4360:2004 suggests that the risk assessment process should not be conducted or information gathered in isolation. This insular method of data collection may lead to inaccurate risk assessment, as stakeholders with vested interests may emphasise their own risks or game the risk assessment process. The study demonstrated how a consensual risk assessment approach may result in ...

Health technology assessment (HTA) has received increasing support over the past twenty years in both North America and Europe. The justification for this field of policy-oriented research is that evidence about the efficacy, safety, and cost-effectiveness of technology should contribute to decision and policy making. However, concerns about the ability of HTA producers to increase the use of t...