Health technology reassessment in the Brazilian public health system: Analysis of the current status.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The reassessment of technologies and services offered by healthcare systems is recent initiative and still without a widely adopted and evaluated method. To a better understanding of this process in Brazil, we have described the health technology reassessment (HTR) performed by the National Committee for Health Technology Incorporation (Conitec) into Brazilian public health system (SUS).

Methods

A documental, exploratory, descriptive, retrospective study with qualitative-quantitative approach regarding the HTR performed by Conitec from January 2012 to November 2017.

Results

After applying the criteria of inclusion and exclusion, we selected 47 technologies for this study. The vast majority of the demands (41 demands) came from the public sector, and only si

SUBMITTER: Pereira VC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6663063 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature