Call for Papers – IJTAHC
Themed Issue – Patient and Public Involvement in HTA
Patient and citizen involvement have become an important part of health technology assessment. Patients and citizens have developed active partnership roles helping to ensure the relevance, acceptability and appropriateness of HTA.
The International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care invites the submission of papers (original research, reviews and commentaries) on the role of patients and citizens in HTA for a themed issue of the journal to be published in early 2021, guest edited by Sophie Werkö (SBU) & Sophie Staniszewska (University of Warwick Medical School).
We encourage papers that generate new knowledge or thinking about how to engage patients and citizens in HTA. Papers can be methodological or applied. We also encourage submissions from all countries particularly where there has been less written about PPI in HTA.
We are interested in the following topics:
- Capturing and/or measuring impact of patients and/or citizens in HTA
- Development and evaluation of processes or structures that support patient and citizen involvement in HTA
- The roles of patients and/or citizens on HTA committees
- The use of Patient-Based Evidence in HTA
- Any form of co-production between patients & citizens and other actors in HTA
- The role of social media and virtual methods in patient and citizen involvement in HTA
- The ethics of involving or not involving patients and citizens
- Patient and citizen involvement in advancing methods and methodologies in HTA
- The role of patient organisations in HTA
- Cross-country comparisons of patient and citizen involvement in HTA
We are not interested in papers reporting patients participating as subjects in a study as part of a sample or as active collaborators in primary research.
Please submit an abstract describing your proposed paper by 30th November 2019 to both sophie.werko@sbu.se and to sophie.staniszewska@warwick.ac.uk. We will invite full papers following an assessment by 20th of December 2019 and manuscripts will be due 30th April 2020.