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SHARING AND COLLECTING HOSPITAL-BASED HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT REPORTS INTERNATIONALLY: IS AN EXTENSIVE PARTICIPATION OF STAKEHOLDERS REALISTIC?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2018

Joost Verbeek ,
Mickaël Hiligsmann ,
Americo Cicchetti  and
Marco Marchetti
Joost Verbeek
Affiliation:
Maastricht University Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciencesj.verbeek@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Mickaël Hiligsmann
Affiliation:
Maastricht University Department of Health Services Research
Americo Cicchetti
Affiliation:
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Alta Scuola di Economia e Management dei Sistemi Sanitari
Marco Marchetti
Affiliation:
Italian National Institute for Health National Center for Health Technology Assessment
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Abstract

Objectives:

The emergence of new medical technologies and budget restrictions has led to a substantial increase in the use of hospital-based health technology assessment (HB-HTA). This qualitative study explores whether there is a possibility and interest to realize the collection and dissemination of HB-HTA reports on an international scale by exploring the opinions from HB-HTA experts.

Methods:

A survey was designed and sent to an international group of experts knowledgeable in HB-HTA from eighteen different countries. The survey contained questions about their opinions on the collection and distribution of HB-HTA information, and about the meaningful dimensions, barriers and values about a database. The data obtained were analyzed through the method of content analysis.

Results:

A total of thirty-six experts (response rate of 18.3 percent) responded to the survey. The obtained data shows that all respondents agree that the collection of HB-HTA reports is useful. Moreover, 41.7 percent of respondents that are in the position of sharing HB-HTA reports (n = 24) mentioned that full HB-HTA reports can be shared. Many other respondents reported that confidentiality (45.7 percent) and investment into a database (40.0 percent) are important barriers for the dissemination of HB-HTA reports.

Conclusions:

There seem to be enough demand and willingness to share all or most reports by a large community of HB-HTA producers. Therefore, there is a need for a well-designed database with regular maintenance and complete, comparable, and qualitative HB-HTA reports. The database of the AdHopHTA project could potentially facilitate this process.

Keywords

Hospital-based health technology assessmentResearch reportsInformation disseminationDatabase
Type
Policy
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 34 , Issue 5 , 2018 , pp. 527 - 534
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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Footnotes

Study results were presented at the HTAi conference in Rome (2017). We want to give special recognition to Milena Pavlova, Irene Urbina, Laura Sampietro-Colom, Wim Groot, and Marco Oradei for their valuable insights and input regarding the making of this article and questionnaire. Any errors made in the making of this study are the responsibility of the authors. There was no funding for the making of this article and the authors declare they have no competing interests.

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