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Objectives: Methodological challenges in the evaluation of medical devices (MDs) may be different for early and late technology adopter countries, as well potential health assessment (HTA) solutions to tackle them. This study aims provide guidance Central Eastern European (CEE) countries on how address key HTA MDs with special focus transferability scientific evidence. Methods: As part COMED Ho...

Introduction Health technology assessment (HTA) has become a critical support to health policy decision-making. The HTA evaluation process requires transparency, formalized processes, clear timelines, and standardization according international best practice. Tunisia is establishing an HTA-based decision-making system through the National Authority for Accreditation Assessment in Healthcare (IN...

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...

OBJECTIVES Although there is increased awareness of patient and public involvement (PPI) among health technology assessment (HTA) organizations, evaluations of PPI initiatives are relatively scarce. Our objective as members of Health Technology Assessment International's (HTAi's) Patient and Citizen Involvement Group (PCIG) was to advance understanding of the range of evaluation strategies adop...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to describe the history of health technology assessment (HTA) in France. METHODS The approach was a descriptive review done by people who have been very much involved in this history. RESULTS The interest in HTA and evaluation as a tool for health decision making goes back to the 1970s in France. During the 1980s, there were several attempts to develop a...

Canada's health system is a unique combination of public financing and private provision. With the significant government role in financing health services, health technology assessment (HTA) has found a ready audience as a form of policy research. In addition, Canada has been a leader in HTA and is entering a phase of deepening and maturation of HTA activities. The relative absence of dramatic...

BACKGROUND Finding measures to enhance the dissemination and implementation of their recommendations has become part of most health technology assessment (HTA) bodies' preoccupations. The Quebec government HTA organization in Canada observed that some of its projects relied on innovative practices in knowledge production and dissemination. A research was commissioned in order to identify what c...