Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and its ethical issues

Health Technology Assessment - HTA

Agency for Health Technology Assessment Guidelines for conducting Health Technology Assessment (HTA)

Ethical perspectives on health technology assessment.

This study analyses why ethical aspects play a minor role in health technology assessment (HTA) studies, even when comprehensive approaches of technology assessment are advocated. Technology is often regarded as a value-neutral tool. At the same time, bioethics is dominated by an engineering model. Ethical contributions to evaluation of medical technology should go beyond issues of application ...

Information on ethical issues in health technology assessment: how and where to find them.

BACKGROUND Comprehensive health technology assessments (HTAs) include thorough reflections on ethical issues associated with health technologies, their use, and value-based decisions in the assessment process. As methods of information retrieval for effectiveness assessments are not applicable to information retrieval on ethical issues, a specific methodological approach is necessary. OBJECTI...

Addressing Ethical and Moral Issues in Health Technology Assessment: Development of a Practical Framework

In response to the increasing demand for expansion of health technology assessment (HTA) methodology to include ethical issues more systematically, this document reports on a multi-stage study that aimed at construction of a new practical framework for integration of ethical issues in HTA. The document is divided into three major parts. The first part provides the results of a systematic review...