Devices for Endometrial Ablation Therapy in the Outpatient Setting: Clinical- and Cost-Effectiveness
RESEARCH QUESTIONS: What is the clinical-effectiveness of devices for endometrial ablation therapy used in the outpatient setting? What is the cost-effectiveness of devices for endometrial ablation therapy used in the outpatient setting? SUMMARY OF FINDINGS: There...
Appropriate Use of Hand-Held Wireless Devices in Health Care Settings: Guidelines
RESEARCH QUESTION What are the evidence-based guidelines associated with the appropriate use of hand-held wireless devices for the delivery of patient care in a variety of health care settings? KEY MESSAGE Four systematic reviews were...
Transoral Robotic Surgery: A Review of Clinical and Cost-Effectiveness
RESEARCH QUESTIONS 1. What is the clinical effectiveness of TORS for patients with early stage oral or oropharyngeal cancer? 2. What is the clinical effectiveness of TORS for patients with OSA? 3. What is the cost-effectiveness of TORS for patients...
Identifying the Need for Good Practices in HTA
The systematic use of evidence to inform healthcare decisions, particularly health technology assessment (HTA), has gained increased recognition. HTA has become a standard policy tool for informing decision makers who must manage the entry and use of pharmaceuticals,...
HTA methods guidelines for Medical Devices
Objectives: Current health technology assessment (HTA) methods guidelines for medical devices may benefit from contributions by biomedical and clinical engineers. Our study aims to: (i) review and identify gaps in the current HTA guidelines on medical devices,...
Health Technology Assessment and Ethics Health
Abstract A trend or a useful tool? HTA (Health Technology Assessment) was born in the 70s as a tool to support decision makers in the health sector and has been quickly developing since, also with the creation of specialized international agencies (e.g. Health...
Health economics and health technology assessment
Health technology assessment (HTA) is a set of techniques for helping decision-makers make better decisions in terms of the impact on a nation’s health. This article outlines the principal features of HTA; it emphasizes the basic economic analysis that lies behind it,...
From Health Technology Assessment to Health Technology Sustainability
Abstract: This paper aims to propose a methodological lens to the assessment of technological innovations in healthcare based on the principles of social, economic, and political sustainability. Starting from the consideration of a lack of a unified interpretative...
Clinical and economic assessment of medical devices
Summary Resources for health care are inevitably limited; thus, it is neces-sary to make decisions on a regular basis, what health care will be reimbursed from the public health insurance, and what care will be behind the limits of possibilities of the particular...
Cardiovascular health technology assessment: recommendations to improve the quality of evidence
The aim of this article is to review the role of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) organisations in appraising and recommending innovative cardiovascular technologies. We consider how bias impairs the quality of evidence from clinical trials involving...
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