Living Health Technology Assessment: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities
Abstrak
Health technology assessments (HTAs) are typically performed as one-off evaluations and can potentially become out-of-date due to the availability of new data, new comparators, or other factors. Recently, living approaches have been applied to systematic reviews and network meta-analyses to enable evidence syntheses to be updated more easily. In this paper, we provide a definition for ‘Living HTA’ where such a living approach could be applied to the entire HTA process. Living HTA could involve performing regular or scheduled updates using a traditional manual approach, or indeed in a semi-automated manner leveraging recent technological innovations that automate parts of the HTA process. The practical implementation of living HTA using both approaches (i.e., manual approach and using semi-automation) is described along with the likely issues and challenges with planning and implementing a living HTA process. The time, resources and additional considerations outlined may prohibit living HTA from becoming the norm for every evaluation; however, scenarios where living HTA would be particularly beneficial are discussed.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (8)
P. Thokala
T. Srivastava
Robert A. Smith
Shijie Ren
M. Whittington
Jamie Elvidge
Ruth Wong
L. Uttley
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2023
- Bahasa
- en
- Total Sitasi
- 23×
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.1007/s40273-022-01229-4
- Akses
- Open Access ✓