Opportunities to improve the adoption of health-related quality of life evidence as part of the French Health Technology Assessment process.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Patient's health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is an important outcome measure that is considered by many payers and health technology assessment (HTA) bodies in the evaluation of treatments. We aimed to identify opportunities for HRQoL to be further incorporated into the assessment of the French HTA by comparing three health systems. We put forward recommendations that could bring further innovations to French patients.

Methods

We reviewed methodologies by the French, German and British HTA, and conducted a systematic review of all French (n = 312) and German (n = 175) HTA appraisals from 01 January 2019 to 31 December 2021. We also setup an advisory board of 11 ex-HTA leaders, payers, methodologists, healthcare providers and patient advocates, from France, Bri

SUBMITTER: Larose H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10729510 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature