Introduction Patients have knowledge, perspectives and experiences that are unique can make an essential contribution to Health Technology Assessment (HTA). However, in order for their participation be effective, they need able understand how HTA reports generated the decision-making processes inform. The aim is describe development virtualization of training materials patients, as well impleme...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to assess the potential impact of the implementation of multiple-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) on the Polish pricing and reimbursement (P&R) process with regard to orphan drugs. METHODS A four step approach was designed. Firstly, a systematic literature review was conducted to select the MCDA criteria. Secondly, a database of orphan drugs was est...

Introduction Patients are increasingly involved in the decision-making process for health technology assessment (HTA), but question of at what stage they can be is still controversial. In Kazakhstan, HTA began 2010. Over past 2 years, implementation a project to develop priority-setting tool based on evidence-informed deliberative processes has made it possible discuss participation patients HT...

to provide an overview of the development of health technology assessment (hta) in iran since 2007, and to facilitate further development of hta and its integration into policy making.data of this study were collected through key documents (e.g. literature, laws, and other official documentation) and analyzed by experts of opinion in form of qualitative methods.health technology assessment ente...

Solving linear systems is an important problem for scientific computing. Exploiting parallelism is essential for solving complex systems, and this traditionally involves writing parallel algorithms on top of a library such as MPI. The SPIKE family of algorithms is one well-known example of a parallel solver for linear systems. The Hierarchically Tiled Array data type extends traditional data-pa...

OBJECTIVES The current and past situation of health technology assessment (HTA) in Catalonia is presented in this study. METHODS The approach used here is a historical review of facts and landmarks. RESULTS Spain has undergone radical change in many aspects, but the changes in healthcare provision have been major indeed. Catalonia has had the ability to benefit from these changes and has be...

High-temperature annealing (HTA) is one of the most promising techniques to produce high-quality, cost-efficient AlN templates for further epitaxial growth AlGaN devices. Unfortunately, yield this process seems be limited due restricting face-to-face configuration that typically used, in which contaminations template surface can occur easily. A high crucial transfer into industry. Indeed, are a...

OBJECTIVES Mini-HTA (health technology assessment) is increasingly being applied in Denmark as an input for decisions on the use of health technologies. Mini-HTA is a form or check list with questions concerning the prerequisites for and consequences of health technologies. At the national level, the National Board of Health uses mini-HTA when hospitals apply for permission to introduce new tre...

BACKGROUND The preparation of HTA reports requires a great deal of time, effort and resource, and there is a desire to improve efficiency, avoid duplication of effort and facilitate the transfer of knowledge between countries. This is of particular importance for countries with more limited resources which have less capacity to produce their own reports. The aim of this study was to investigate...

OBJECTIVE Although Markov cohort models represent one of the most common forms of decision-analytic models used in health care decision-making, correct implementation of such models requires reliable estimation of transition probabilities. This study sought to identify consensus statements or guidelines that detail how such transition probability matrices should be estimated. METHODS A litera...