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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Health Technology Assessment"”.
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Rethinking Ethics Assessment in Health Technology Assessment: A Nonlinear Approach
… how ethics can be meaningfully integrated into health technology assessment (HTA). The contribution of this dissertation is two-fold. The first is to provide an honest and critical evaluation of current HTA practices, including those that involve ethics assessments and that do not. This …
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Opening the black box of the health technology assessment process at NICE
… site taken is the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and its Health Technology Assessment (HTA) process. The HTA process represents many diagnostic areas within one centralised, calculable process. The qualities of calculative practice, which mediate such …
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Health technology assessment of online eLearning for post-registration health professionals’ education
… was to undertake and report the findings of a health technology assessment (HTA) on the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and acceptability of online and LAN-based eLearning, and blended learning, among post-registration healthcare professionals. Methods: This HTA comprised three studies. The …
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Developing a Framework for Conducting Health Technology Assessment in a Resource-Constrained Setting
Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is crucial for achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) but remains underdeveloped for medical devices (MDs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), particularly within fragmented public health sectors. Local MD manufacturers face significant barriers …
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Health technology assessment in Sub-Saharan Africa : a cross-national study of Kenya and South Africa
… is concerned with the applications and use of health technology in Sub-Saharan Africa, and particularly in Kenya and South Africa. The focus is on technology planning, deployment, use, management and assessment in the public health sector. The objectives of the study are three-fold: (1) to …
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Health technology assessment in maternal and perinatal medicine: delphi survey of practice, systematic reviews of evidence and meta analyses
Objective To undertake Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in maternal and perinatal medicine for tests and treatment in the areas of pre eclampsia, preterm labour, epilepsy and congenital heart disease (CHD) in newborn. Methods The work undertaken in the thesis is divided into 4 sections: Delphi …
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Health technology assessment for levetiracetam in the treatment of newly diagnosed epilepsy in the South African Public Health Sector
… specifically in the South African public health sector. It compared levetiracetam, lamotrigine, carbamazepine, phenytoin and valproate as first-line treatment in focal seizures (International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 code: G40.2) and generalized tonic-clonic seizures (ICD-10 …
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Accesso ai medicinali innovativi per indicazioni neurologiche in Europa: allineamento delle valutazioni di Health Technology Assessment tra i Paesi Europei
… sul valore terapeutico espresso da organismi di Health Techbnology Assessment (HTA). Obiettivo di questo studio è quello di confrontare le raccomandazioni di HTA espresse dai paesi dell'UE (Francia, Germania e Italia) per nuovi farmaci neurologici dopo l'approvazione di EMA. Nel periodo di …
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Κατευθυντήριες οδηγίες για την αξιοποίηση των RWD/RWE στην αξιολόγηση τεχνολογιών υγείας / Guidelines for RWD/RWE in the health technology assessment
… - RWE) στην Αξιολόγηση Τεχνολογιών Υγείας (Health Technology Assessment - HTA). Μέσα από μια συστηματική βιβλιογραφική ανασκόπηση των κατευθυντήριων οδηγιών που δημοσιεύθηκαν μεταξύ Ιανουαρίου 2024 και Απριλίου 2025 από ρυθμιστικές αρχές (FDA, EMA), φορείς HTA (NICE, CADTH, IQWiG, HAS), …
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"A compelling voice": a qualitative study of the construction and mobilisation of lived experience evidence and expertise in health technology assessment in Scotland
… a resource-limited setting, such as the National Health Service (NHS), is that not every medicine or other health technology that is safe, or even efficacious, can be funded. In Scotland, such funding decisions are made using Health Technology Assessment (HTA), a multidisciplinary process that …
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Prediction and prevention of fetal growth restriction and compromise of fetal wellbeing: systematic reviews and meta-analyses with model based economic evaluation.
… who might have a growth-restricted baby. This health technology assessment thesis used state of the art methods to review 337 studies including 472,544 women. It determined : 1. The accuracy of available tests for predicting small for gestational age infants (SGA) and 2. Compromise of fetal …
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Innovation management in healthcare
Innovation in healthcare is a central way of coping with the changes affecting the healthcare system through the megatrends of demographic change, digitalization as well as the opportunities in the life-sciences sector and the “-omics” subjects. Due to the multiple facets of the topic, research on …
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Modelling the cost-effectiveness of strategies to treat end-stage heart failure using discrete event simulation
The cost of providing healthcare is increasing due to an ageing population and new technologies, hence the assessments of value for money are becoming more important. Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is an approach to estimate the cost-effectiveness of treatment strategies to assist in …
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Pharmaceutical policies used in LMIC countries to enhance pharmaceutical spending efficiency: a review
… spending makes up for a major share of healthcare costs in Low- and-MiddleIncome Countries (LMICs), where access to essential medicines is hindered by high prices, inefficient procurement, and restricted budget. In order to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC), there must be policies …
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Die Versorgung psychisch komorbider chronischer Kranker : eine Analyse der Aussagekraft von HTA am Beispiel des Diabetes mellitus Typ 2
… dem State of the Art von Versorgungs- und Public-Health-Forschung entsprechen, vorbereitet werden können, damit die Selbstverwaltung im Gesundheitswesen dem von verschiedenen Seiten formulierten Anspruch an Transparenz und Nachvollziehbarkeit von Entscheidungen gerecht werden kann. Diese …
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The ray of hope : hidden work and the pursuit of accuracy
… of self-evidence and despite the absence of health technology assessment (the customary way of analysing the use and establishment of technologies into the UK’s National Health Service). Using an ethnographic approach, the hidden work during the introduction of the XVI (e.g. demands made on …
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Health-related quality of life and disease burden of psoriasis in Iran
The concept of health has dynamically been changing by rise of new needs and diversity in human preferences. Also by improvement of life expectancy from the beginning of 20th century, the concept of health for the person and the society has evolved. Advancements in science and technology has made …
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Transferability of Productivity Loss Costs in Non-Communicable Diseases: Local Factors and Regional Adjustments
… of input (Zhang, Bansback, & Anis, 2011). In health sciences, productivity loss (PL) refers to the individual’s forgone output due to a health issue corresponding to the reduced output compared to a healthy individual. Recent years have seen considerable attention towards the adoption of a …
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Understanding the Relationship Between Health Technology Reassessment and Knowledge Translation
… Translation (KT) would be applicable to Health Technology Reassessment (HTR). This thesis reports on three studies to determine how KT approaches are used to translate HTR outputs to achieve the desired outcomes. The first study was a scoping review of full-spectrum (phases of …
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The Surgical Management of Severe Aortic Stenosis In the Era of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has emerged as a treatment option for severe and symptomatic aortic stenosis across the spectrum of surgical risk and has potentially transformed the surgical management of aortic stenosis. The objectives of this dissertation were: (1) To determine if …
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