To the Editor: Once upon a time in the 1990s, if you wanted to do HTA in the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEs), you got yourself invited by Egon Jonsson and travelled to Stockholm to learn how to do HTA. There you met him and Prof. Banta and other HTA professionals from all over the world—very importantly, motivated healthcare professionals from all CEEs who were eager to learn HTA....

Objective Previous work has shown that 98% of NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme projects publish in Health Technology Assessment (the peer reviewed journal for the NIHR HTA Programme). 68% of clinical trials funded by the US NIH publish, with 46% publishing within 30 months of trial completion. This study aimed to assess the time-to-publication of HTA Programme primary research ...

in the editorial published in this journal, daniels and colleagues argue that his and sabin’s accountability for reasonableness (a4r) framework should be used to handle ethical issues in the health technology assessment (hta)-process, especially concerning fairness. in contrast to this suggestion, it is argued that such an approach risks suffering from the irrrelevance or insufficiency they war...

Background Evidence-informed deliberative processes (EDPs) were recently introduced to guide health technology assessment (HTA) agencies to improve their processes towards more legitimate decision-making. The EDP framework provides guidance that covers the HTA process, ie, contextual factors, installation of an appraisal committee, selecting health technologies and criteria, assessment, a...

Background: Health technology assessment (HTA) is a tool utilized for efficient dissemination of technology. For the purpose of encouraging decision-makers to utilize this tool, at first, we need to identify the obstacles in the processes of preparation, utilization, and implementation of HTAs. This study aims to define these barriers and offer solutions for effective utilization of HTA reports...

OBJECTIVES To describe the development of the International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment (INAHTA) and its activities. METHODS Review of literature material and other documents produced by or relating to INAHTA. RESULTS INAHTA includes organizations that provide health technology assessment (HTA) advice to governments and receive most of their funding from public sour...

all societies face the need to make judgments about what interventions (both public health and personal medical) to provide to their populations under reasonable resource constraints. their decisions should be informed by good evidence and arguments from health technology assessment (hta). but if hta restricts itself to evaluations of safety, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness, it risks being vie...

Health technology assessment (HTA) is an evaluative process used to inform technology-related policymaking in healthcare. Interest in involving patients in the HTA process is increasing. Patients can provide additional perspectives to those of other groups that are concerned with health technology. Information on patients’ perspectives is preferably obtained through reviews of published studies...

Few recent issues in drug development and health systems management have generated more commentary, and more controversy, than health technology assessment (HTA). The keen interest in HTA stems from the high stakes involved. For regardless of differences in definition and application, it is clear that HTA brings together public and private interests in a process in which there are potentially w...