Health economics and technology assessment
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This branch covers the concepts, methods and decision context of health economic evaluation and health technology assessment. It is organised by aspect of assessment: definitions, economic analysis, publication outputs, uncertainty, national frameworks, changes in practice and ethical questions. Value and reimbursement documents, collaboration with health economists and the writer’s professional ethics belong to neighbouring topics.
- What health technology assessment is and where it came from — its scope, related evidence activities and historical development
- Health economic evaluation — costs, outcomes, utilities, incremental ratios, perspectives, models and their data inputs
- What each step of an assessment produces for publication — the assessment sequence, its publication outputs and their readers
- Communicating an assessment’s uncertainty — clinical, economic and applicability limitations, transparent summaries and a reporting checklist
- How assessment differs between countries and is coordinated across them — national methods and payment policies, international networks, European cooperation and joint assessment
- How health technology assessment is changing — evidence use, real-world evidence, adaptive synthesis and stakeholder participation
- Ethics in health technology assessment — ethical principles, individual needs, collective resources and reimbursement under uncertainty