From Health Technology Assessment to Health Technology Sustainability

Health technology assessment: Off-site sterilization

Background: Every year millions of dollars are expended to equip and maintain the hospital sterilization centers, and our country is not an exception of this matter. According to this, it is important to use more effective technologies and methods in health system in order to reach more effectiveness and saving in costs. This study was conducted with the aim of evaluating the technology of regi...

Health Technology Assessment - HTA

Health technology assessment: a perspective from Germany.

Health technology assessment (HTA) has been discussed in Germany since the late 1990s, closely related to the advent of evidence-based medicine. The idea of technology assessment was initially discussed in Germany by the “technology assessment office of the parliament.” This was further supported by a scientific project to evaluate the use and benefit of HTA in the German health-care setting at...

Health Technology Assessment of CAD/CAM in Dentistry

Introduction: Computer-Aided Design and Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) are the latest achievements of Prosthodontics and Restorative Dentistry. The aim of this research is to help make appropriate decision whether to use this technology in Iran. Methods: Studies were included in this review that compared Dental CAD/CAM with conventional restorativ...

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