Rotterdam , The Netherlands

Evidence-Informed Deliberative Processes – Early Dialogue, Broad Focus and Relevance: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Around the Tables – Contextual Factors in Healthcare Coverage Decisions Across Western Europe

Background Across Western Europe, procedures and formalised criteria for taking decisions on the coverage (inclusion in the benefits basket or equivalent) of healthcare technologies vary substantially. In the decision documents, which display the justification of, the rationale for, these decisions, national healthcare institutes ma...

Fair Processes for Priority Setting: Putting Theory into Practice; Comment on “Expanded HTA: Enhancing Fairness and Legitimacy”

Embedding health technology assessment (HTA) in a fair process has great potential to capture societal values relevant to public reimbursement decisions on health technologies. However, the development of such processes for priority setting has largely been theoretical. In this paper, we provide further practical lead ways on how these processes can be implemented. We first present the misconce...

Thyroid Function and the Risk of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality: The Rotterdam Study

1Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; 2Academic Center for Thyroid Diseases, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; 3Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; 4Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 5Section of Geriatric Medicine, Erasmus...

Financing Long-term Care: The Role of Culture and Social Norms; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan”

Based on the experiences of Japan and Germany, Ikegami argues that middle-income countries should introduce public long-term care insurance (LTCi) at an early stage, before benefits have expanded as a result of ad hoc policy decisions to win popular support. The experience of the Netherlands, however, shows that an early introduction of public LTCi may not prevent, but ...

COPD-5511-beta-blockers and quality of life

1Department of Anesthesiology, erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The netherlands; 2Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia and The James hogg iCAPTURe Center, st. Paul’s hospital, Vancouver, Canada; 3Department of Pulmonology, erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The netherlands; 4Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The netherlands; 5Department of C...