[EQ] Health Technology Assessment Handbook

Health Technology Assessment Handbook

 

Danish Centre for Health Technology Assessment, National Board of Health

National Board of Health, Denmark, March 2008 - 2nd edition

 

Available online PDF [189p.] at: http://www.sst.dk/publ/Publ2008/MTV/Metode/HTA_Handbook_net_final.pdf

 

Editors:

Finn Børlum Kristensen, Director, Adjunct Professor

Helga Sigmund, Special adviser

DACEHTA – Danish Centre for Health Technology Assessment, National Board of Health

 

“…The contents of the handbook are designed with a goal of  Highlighting the importance of optimal use of existing studies and data material before any primary data generation – where strictly necessary – is initiated

Presenting up-to-date, research-based methods within not only the development areas of ethics, patient and organisation, but also the more established HTA elements of technology and economy.

- Supporting the HTA process by focusing on current questions such as:

- How are decision-makers’ questions formulated as HTA questions?

- How is literature sought and assessed and how can supplementary studies be designed?

 -How can the material be analysed and synthesised with a goal of formulating conclusions that can answer the questions
  asked and form the basis for concrete guidance?...”

 

Content

1  Introduction

2 Ethical considerations

3 Literature searches

4 Assessment of literature

5 Data generation, analysis and assessment

6 The technology

7 The patient

8 The organisation

9 The economy

10 Synthesis and utilization

11 Quality assurance and presentation

 

 

 

 

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