Methods for the health technology assessment of complex interventions: a protocol for a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In healthcare policy and economic literature, research on the health technology assessment (HTA) of complex interventions (CIs) is becoming increasingly important. In many developed countries, HTA guides decision-making to help achieve greater value for money when funding health care. However, research has yet to identify the forms of evidence and evaluation criteria that should be used in the HTA of CIs. Previous research has established that the HTA of CIs requires multiple factors to be evaluated but there is no agreement on which factors ought always to be considered. There is equally little agreement on which forms of evidence ought to be collected or synthesised and how. We plan to perform a systematic scoping review in order to identify the range of evaluation c

SUBMITTER: Baghbanian A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7705549 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature