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ATTITUDES AND BARRIERS TOWARD MINI-HTA IN THE DANISH MUNICIPALITIES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 September 2012

Lars Ehlers  and
Morten Berg Jensen
Lars Ehlers
Affiliation:
Aalborg University email: lehlers@business.aau.dk
Morten Berg Jensen
Affiliation:
Aarhus University
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Abstract

Background: In 2008 the Danish National Board of Health launched an information campaign aimed at introducing mini-HTA as a management and decision support tool for the municipalities. Today (January 2012), mini-HTA is still not used regularly in the municipalities.

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the latent attitudes toward mini-HTA among ninety-three participants in five voluntary workshops on mini-HTA held in the period of May 2008 to February 2009.

Methods: In a questionnaire including three open questions respondents were asked to state their perception of what mini-HTA could be used for in the municipality, the main barriers for using mini-HTA, and what could make it easier to implement mini-HTA. Answers were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively using binary coding and statistical examination of patterns in form of R-factor analysis.

Results: The four significant latent attitudes were a general acceptance of HTA-principles, a derived need for a political/managerial decision to use mini-HTA in the municipality, worries about barriers in the medium run, and worries about barriers in the short run.

Conclusions: A national information campaign to support the uptake of mini-HTA in local health-care institutions was insufficient in the Danish municipalities and should have been supplemented with a strategy to secure local political/managerial willingness to use mini-HTA and the removal of short- and medium-term barriers. The implementation of local HTA should not just be seen as a question of how to increase the use of evidence in decision-making, but as a matter of reforming local decision processes.

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International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , July 2012 , pp. 271 - 277
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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