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The Preliminary Economic Evaluation of Health Technologies for the Prioritization of Health Technology Assessments: A Discussion

Gareth Harper, Joy L. Townsend, Martin J Buxton • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (1998)

This paper critically evaluates methods for the preliminary economic evaluation of health technologies and the prioritization of health technology assessment projects. It reports on the literature, and considers methods currently employed a...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s026646230001196x

Digital biomarkers: Convergence of digital health technologies and biomarkers

Srikanth Vasudevan, Anindita Saha, Michelle E. Tarver, Bakul Patel • npj Digital Medicine (2022)

Over the last decade, increasing digitization across the healthcare continuum has revolutionized medical research, diagnostics, and therapeutics. This digitization has led to rapid advancements in the development and adoption of digital hea...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-022-00583-z PMC: 8956713

Health technology assessment in Switzerland

Pedro Koch, Julian Schilling, Marlène Laeubli Loud, Florian Mitscherlich et al. • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2009)

OBJECTIVES AND METHODS: To review Switzerland's mixed public and private healthcare system with regard to health technology assessment (HTA). RESULTS: In the past, remarkable work in HTA was done. Accomplishments include the following: (i) ...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462309090606

Health technology assessment in Finland

Marjukka Mākelä, Risto Paavo Roine • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2009)

Since the 1990s, health policy makers in Finland have been supportive of evidence-based medicine and approaches to implement its results. The Finnish Office for Health Technology Assessment (Finohta) has grown from a small start in 1995 to ...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462309090497

Analysing criteria for price and reimbursement of orphan drugs in Spain

Xavier Badia, Alicia Gil, José Luis Poveda-Andrés, John Shepherd et al. • Farmacia Hospitalaria (2019)

Objective: There are differences between countries regarding data requirements for orphan drug evaluation and it is also unknown which criteria might determine the price and reimbursement decision. This study aimed to identify the key c...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.7399/fh.11147

The Protective Effect of Sulforaphane against Oxidative Stress through Activation of NRF2/ARE Pathway in Human Granulosa Cells

Sahar Esfandyari, Ashraf Aleyasin, Zahra Noroozi, Maryam Taheri et al. • Cell Journal (2021)

Objective: Sulforaphane (SFN) is a natural free radical scavenger that can reduce oxidative stress (OS) through mediating nuclear factor (erythroid-derived 2)-like 2 (NF-E2-related factor 2 or NRF2)/antioxidant response element (ARE) signal...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.22074/cellj.2021.7393

Pan bread quality as affected by some nano and fermented-nano food industries by-products

El-Sayed I. Yousif, Attia A. Yaseen, Abdel-Fatah A. Abdel-Fatah, Abdel-Hafeez A. Shouk et al. • Bulletin of the National Research Centre (2020)

Abstract Background Rapid development of nanotechnology is expected to transform many areas of food technology with increasing investment and market share. Also, phytochemical-rich foods have attracted consumer’s attention due to their abil...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s42269-020-00315-x

International practices in health technology assessment and public financing of digital health technologies: recommendations for Hungary

Fruzsina Mezei, Krisztián Horváth, M. Pálfi, Kornélia Lovas et al. • Frontiers in Public Health (2023)

Background: Evaluating and integrating digital health technologies is a critical component of a national healthcare ecosystem in the 2020s and is expected to even increase in significance. Design: The paper gives an overview of internationa...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1197949 PMC: 10501404

HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN CANADA

Devidas Menon, Leigh-Ann Topfer • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2000)

OBJECTIVES: Since 1988, four government-funded health technology assessment (HTA) agencies have been established in Canada. This paper is a descriptive review of reports issued by these organizations during the period from 1988 to 1998. MET...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462300102168

Evaluation of Blood-Based Antibody Rapid Testing for HIV Early Therapy: A Meta-Analysis of the Evidence

Xiaojie Huang, Xinchao Liu, Jieqing Chen, Yugang Bao et al. • Frontiers in Immunology (2018)

BackgroundWestern blot (WB) assay is considered the gold standard test for HIV infection confirmation. However, it requires technical expertise and is quite time-consuming. WHO recommends blood-based rapid diagnosis to achieve same-day test...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.01458

Predictive Value of Serum Cytokeratin 19 Level for the Feasibility of Conserving Ovaries in Endometrial Cancer

Jie Xu, Jie Xu, Can Chen, Can Chen et al. • Frontiers in Medicine (2021)

Objective: To determine the predictive value of cytokeratin 19 (CK19) for evaluating the safety of ovarian preservation in patients with endometrial cancer (EC).Methods: Five hundred and seventeen EC patients hospitalized from November 2010...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2021.670109

HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN EUROPE

Richard Cookson, Alan Maynard • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2000)

This paper discusses the challenges facing health technology assessment (HTA) in Europe, based on an explicit analysis of the characteristics of an "optimal" HTA system. It has three objectives: a) to elaborate an explicit system of policy ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462300101199

Design and Optimization of Trastuzumab-Functionalized Nanolipid Carriers for Targeted Capecitabine Delivery: Anti-Cancer Effectiveness Evaluation in MCF-7 and SKBR3 Cells

Das S, Satapathy BS, Pattnaik G, Pattanaik S et al. • International Journal of Nanomedicine (2025)

Shubhashree Das,1 Bhabani Sankar Satapathy,2 Gurudutta Pattnaik,1 Sovan Pattanaik,3 Yahya Alhamhoom,4 Mohamed Rahamathulla,4 Mohammed Muqtader Ahmed,5 Ismail Pasha6 1Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Centuri...

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Cross-national validation of the MHQoL: psychometric evaluation and open-source tools for assessing mental health quality of life

Beatriz Olaya, Christina Maria van der Feltz-Cornelis, Leona Hakkaart-van Roijen, Frederick W Thielen et al. • BMJ Open (2026)

Objectives To validate the cross-national psychometric properties of the Mental Health Quality of Life questionnaire (MHQoL) and to develop an open-source toolbox for its scoring, transformation and presentation.Design Secondary analysis of...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-108598

The Role of Health Technology and Informatics in a Global Public Health Emergency: Practices and Implications From the COVID-19 Pandemic

Jiancheng Ye • JMIR Medical Informatics (2020)

At present, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is spreading around the world. It is a critical and important task to take thorough efforts to prevent and control the pandemic. Compared with severe acute respiratory syndrome and Middle East ...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/19866 PMC: 7388036

HEALTH TECHNOLOGY

Halfdan Mahler, Student • PEDIATRICS (1977)

Essential health care requires essential health technology, a technology which people can understand and which the non-expert can apply. The identification or generation of such technology forms part of the revolution in community health an...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.60.6.883

Instruments measuring the quality of life among people living with type 2 diabetes mellitus in India: a systematic review protocol

Chetna Demla, Anns Thomas, Jomol Jose, Angela L Joshy et al. • BMJ Open (2021)

Introduction Type 2 diabetes mellitus affects an individual’s quality of life (QoL); and there are multiple instruments that can be used to measure QoL. The purpose of this systematic review is to identify the existing instruments that have...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043831

Mapping the acute trajectory of sport-related concussion outcomes across symptoms, cognition, and blood biomarkers

SoYoung Ahn, Michael Prock, Ji-won Seo, Sanghyuk Han et al. • Sports Medicine and Health Science (2026)

Sport-related concussion (SRC) and its potential neurological sequela represent an emerging global health concern, requiring improved recovery management and strategies for return-to-play (RTP) to enhance brain health in athletes. Given the...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.smhs.2025.07.003

HEALTH TECHNOLOGY REASSESSMENT: THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE

Gail MacKean, Tom Noseworthy, Adam G. Elshaug, Laura E. Leggett et al. • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2013)

BACKGROUND: Health technology reassessment (HTR) is "a structured, evidence-based assessment of the clinical, social, ethical, and economic effects of a technology currently used in the healthcare system, to inform optimal use of that techn...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc-sa DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462313000494 PMC: 3846380