Dos and Do nots in Health Technology Assessments 2015 is a course that provides knowledge on what HTA (Health Technology Assessment)means, the different types of HTAs across EU and what can be expected from it.
Dos and Do nots in Health Technology Assessments 2015 covers topics such as:
- Thresholds Used by HTA Bodies in ICER-based Decision Making
- The variety of thresholds used across HTA bodies and how they influence decision making
- Recap of basic health economic principles (e.g. QALY, ICER...)
- What is HTA - What it is Not
- Different types of HTA and the wide variety across countries
- Definitions
- 15 Key Principles
- Issues & Solutions for Optimising the Quality of the Evidence
- Reconciling the need for RRR vs. ARR data
- `EMA` trials versus `HTA` trials
- Compliance and Persistence are not synonyms!
- When to do ITT vs. when Per Protocol
- Dealing with indirect effects
- Extrapolating short term clinical data and surrogate endpoints
- Selecting from the Wide Range of Criteria
- Using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) to determine weights and influence decision making
- Exploring the assessment criteria in HTA and their relative weight
- Trading off between criteria
- Effectively Working with HTA Processes Across the EU
- The benefits and risks of international cooperation
- The optimal HTA process: does it exist? - Learn from differences between countries
- `Adaptive` HTA and contracts based on outcomes guarantees
