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THE ADDED VALUE OF INTEGRATE-HTA GUIDANCE IN THE WORK PROCESSES OF HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT AGENCIES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2017

Gert Jan van der Wilt
Affiliation:
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviourgertjan.vanderwilt@radboudumc.nl
Wietske Kievit
Affiliation:
Radboud Institute for Health Sciences
Wija Oortwijn
Affiliation:
EcorysNetherlands

Extract

A central idea underlying the INTEGRATE-HTA project is that many of the interventions that are being used in health care are quite complex. By this, we mean that the relation between the delivery of the intervention on the one hand, and the onset of (desired and undesired) changes may be less straightforward than hoped for. There may be all sorts of reasons for this, varying from a lack of resources, lack of skills, perverse incentives, organizational problems, etc. Not identifying such factors and their potential impact may seriously compromise the policy relevance of a health technology assessment (HTA) (1). However, current approaches and methods in HTA do not seem to be adequately geared to deal with this complexity.

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