Health Technology Assessment and Ethics Health

Improving ethics analysis in health technology assessment.

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to critically examine the current guidance for conducting ethics analysis in health technology assessment (HTA) and to offer recommendations for how to improve this practice. METHODS MEDLINE, Philosopher's Index, and Google Scholar were searched for articles and reports using the keywords "ethics" and "health technology assessment" and related terms. Bibli...

Ethics and health technology assessment: handmaiden and/or critic?

OBJECTIVES This study examines the content and role of ethical analysis in health technology assessment (HTA) and horizon scanning publications. It proposes that ethical analysis in HTA is of at least two different types: an ethics of HTA and an ethics in HTA. METHODS I examine the critical differences between these approaches through the examples of the analysis of genetic screening for brea...

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 assessments, evidence-based healthcare and health ethics.

Biometrics Applications: Technology, Ethics, and Health Hazards