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16.04.2020 | Editorial
Should health technology assessment be more patient centric? If so, how?
verfasst von:
Michael Drummond, Aleksandra Torbica, Rosanna Tarricone
Erschienen in:
The European Journal of Health Economics
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Ausgabe 8/2020
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Excerpt
Health technology assessment (HTA) methods and processes have been criticized for not being sufficiently ‘patient centric’. For example, Perfetto [
1] argued that a proposed approach for assessing the value of health care interventions had not sufficiently incorporated a patient perspective and suggested that it represented a ‘missed opportunity’. A similar point was made about the other ‘value assessment frameworks’ developed recently in the United States [
2]. In addition, Slejko et al. [
3] proposed some key elements of a ‘patient informed’ reference case for conducting economic evaluations, which would supplement reference cases outlined by groups such as the second Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine [
4], by including consideration of elements such as convenience in receiving care, effects on the patient’s family, examination of whether quality of life instruments include the most relevant domains and a model structure for the economic evaluation that adequately reflects the patient’s journey through the various treatment options. …