Disinvestment in healthcare: an overview of HTA agencies and organizations activities at European level.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In an era of a growing economic pressure for all health systems, the interest for "disinvestment" in healthcare increased. In this context, evidence based approaches such as Health Technology Assessment (HTA) are needed both to invest and to disinvest in health technologies. In order to investigate the extent of application of HTA in this field, methodological projects/frameworks, case studies, dissemination initiatives on disinvestment released by HTA agencies and organizations located in Europe were searched.

Methods

In July 2015, the websites of HTA agencies and organizations belonging to the European network for HTA (EUnetHTA) and the International Network of Agencies for HTA (INAHTA) were accessed and searched through the use of the term "disinvestment". Retr

SUBMITTER: Calabro GE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5831213 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature