OBJECTIVES The aims of the present study were to investigate the awareness among dentists and dental hygienists of evidence-based reports and guidelines on tobacco cessation activities and the impact these publications had on clinical practice. METHODS A questionnaire was mailed to dental hygienists and dentists in Stockholm County, Sweden, and the results were compared with a previous invest...

OBJECTIVES To summarize current excellent research in the field of health technology assessment. METHODS Synopsis of the articles selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2006. RESULTS Five excellent articles representing the research in four different nations were selected for the IMIA Yearbook 2006 from three international peer reviewed journals. CONCLUSIONS The best paper selection for the Yearb...

Health technology includes drugs, procedures, techniques, and equipment used by health professionals to provide health care, and the organizational and supporting systems within which the care is delivered. Such new technology may comprehend new drugs, new medical devices and appliances, new medical activities and surgical procedures, health promotion and disease prevention activities, and orga...

When thinking about priority setting in access to healthcare resources, decision-making requires that cost-effectiveness is balanced against medical ethics. The burden of disease has emerged as an important approach to the assessment of health needs for political decision-making. However, the disability adjusted life years approach hides conceptual and methodological issues regarding the claims...

Successful implementation of treatment in cancer care partially depends on how patients' perspectives are taken into account, as preferences of health care professionals and patients may differ. Objectives of this exploratory research were (I) to identify patient preferences and values (PPVs) in cancer care as indicated by patient organizations (POs), (II) to determine how these PPVs are captur...

Health economic evaluation aims at providing information on the efficiency of interventions. Since the 1980s, there have been major developments in the field, especially in terms of methodologies. As the field has expanded and developed, methodologies have become increasingly sophisticated. In parallel, over the past decade, the conduct of economic evaluations has become more and more instituti...

Leading health commentators have called for health equity to be made a measureable endpoint of health technology assessment (HTA) (Daniels et al., 2016; Horton, 2013). Nowhere is this more important than in low income countries on the path to universal health coverage, where reducing inequalities in health care, health outcomes and protection from the financial risks of ill-health are central p...