Background Although health technology assessment (HTA) systems base their decision
making process either on economic evaluations or comparative clinical benefit assessment�…

Treatment of psychiatric disorders with psychedelic substances represents one of the most
promising current treatment approaches in psychiatry. Since its inception in the 1950s�…

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A broad-ranging introduction to the provision, funding and governance of health care across
a variety of systems. This revised fifth edition incorporates additional material on low/middle�…

Objectives To describe the development, validation and inter-rater reliability of an instrument
to measure the quality of patient decision support technologies (decision aids). Design�…

Background Understanding how new clinical techniques, technologies and other complex
interventions become normalized in practice is important to researchers, clinicians, health�…

Technology is generally defined as “science or knowledge applied to a definite purpose.”
Technology assessment has been defined as a form of policy research that examines short�…

Technologic innovation, in combination with weak cost-containment measures, is a major
factor in high and rising health care costs. Evidence suggests that improved health care�…

Health technology assessment (HTA) systems across countries vary in the way they are set
up, according to their role and based on how funding decisions are reached. Our objective�…

Background The concept of the “efficacy-effectiveness gap”(EEG) has started to challenge
confidence in decisions made for drugs when based on randomized controlled trials alone�…