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Health technology assessment: a framework

Manuela A. Joore, Sabine Elisabeth Grimm, Annelies E. R. C. H. Boonen, Maarten P. T. de Wit et al. • RMD Open (2020)

In a time where there is growing pressure on healthcare budgets, there is increased scrutiny of new health technologies, their effectiveness, safety and costs.1 It is in this context that Health Technology Assessment (HTA) has become increa...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/rmdopen-2020-001289 PMC: 7856136

Health technology innovations

R. F. L. Azevedo • Gerontechnology (2022)

The global pandemic has drastically impacted older adults in numerous ways (e.g., loneliness; age discrimination; mental and physical health; limited access to traditional health care).On the other hand, it may have accelerated the general ...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2022.21.s.593.sp3

Health technology assessment in England and Wales

Andrew J Stevens, Ruairidh Milne • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2004)

In this study, we describe the current state of the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) system in England and Wales. This system rests on a distinction between assessment and appraisal and has three main strands: researcher-led HTA, the rese...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462304000741

A Prospective, Randomized Trial Comparing Hydromorphone and Nalbuphine for Postcesarean Patient-Controlled Analgesia and Developing a Risk Prediction Model for Inadequate Analgesia

Zhang K, Sun J, Zhang C, Jiao B et al. • Drug Design, Development and Therapy (2025)

Kaiwen Zhang,1,* Jiaoli Sun,1,* Caixia Zhang,2 Bo Jiao,1 Wencui Zhang,1 Shangchen Yu,1 Xueqin Cao,1 Zhiqiang Zhou,1 Guanglei Zhang,1 Xianwei Zhang1 1Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine,Hubei Key Laboratory of Geri...

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[Health technology in Mexico].

C Cruz, Gladys Faba, Jaime Martuscelli • PubMed (1992)

The features of the health technology cycle are presented, and the effects of the demographic, epidemiologic and economic transition on the health technology demand in Mexico are discussed. The main problems of science and technology in the...

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Real World Data in Health Technology Assessment of Complex Health Technologies

Milou Milou, Johan Pontén, Rick A. Vreman, Aukje K. Mantel-Teeuwisse et al. • Frontiers in Pharmacology (2022)

The available evidence on relative effectiveness and risks of new health technologies is often limited at the time of health technology assessment (HTA). Additionally, a wide variety in real-world data (RWD) policies exist among HTA organiz...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2022.837302 PMC: 8866967

Health technology assessment in mental health services

Narendra Javadekar, Archana Javadekar, Deepa Thakur • Industrial Psychiatry Journal (2024)

Mental illnesses have a significant impact on the lives of people not only because of their morbidity but also because of their noticeable impact on economic wellbeing. Out-of-pocket expenditure for mental healthcare services is significant...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4103/ipj.ipj_155_24

Physical, psychological and behavioural responses of aircraft occupants to volcanic emissions

C. J. Horwell, S. Ravenhall, R. Clarkson, M. Edmonds et al. • Journal of Applied Volcanology (2025)

Abstract Volcanic eruptions produce plumes of ash, gas and aerosols that present a risk to aviation at all standard flight levels. Here, we investigate atmospheric dispersal of volcanic emissions, whether and how they infiltrate aircraft, a...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13617-025-00153-4

A qualitative study exploring community pharmacists’ perspectives of child and adolescent mental healthcare

Irene A. Kretchy, Edem K. Blewuada, Akosua B. Debrah • Scientific African (2021)

Community pharmacists are involved in the health delivery sector through the provision of services that result in improved patient outcomes and optimization of pharmaceutical care. With growing concern about increasing prevalence of mental ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.sciaf.2021.e00969

Statistical assessment of the learning curves of health technologies

Craig Robert Ramsay, Adrian Grant, Sheila A. Wallace, Paul H. Garthwaite et al. • Health Technology Assessment (2001)

OBJECTIVES: (1) To describe systematically studies that directly assessed the learning curve effect of health technologies. (2) Systematically to identify 'novel' statistical techniques applied to learning curve data in other fields, such a...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.3310/hta5120

The Colorectal Cancer Screening Programme in the Basque Country: obtaining a good performance by means of professional collaboration

Isabel Portillo, Isabel Idigoras, Isabel Bilbao, Jose Luis Hurtado et al. • International Journal of Integrated Care (2019)

Introduction: The Basque Health Service approved the Colorectal Cancer (CRC) screening programme in 2008; targeted at residents (50 to 69 years old) estimated 598,201 by biennial faecal immunochemical test (FIT) and colonoscopy in positive ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5334/ijic.s3166

Effect of Interactive eHealth Interventions on Improving Medication Adherence in Adults With Long-Term Medication: Systematic Review

Pouls, Bart P H, Vriezekolk, Johanna E, Bekker, Charlotte L, Linn, Annemiek J et al. • Journal of Medical Internet Research (2021)

BackgroundMedication nonadherence leads to suboptimal treatment outcomes, making it a major priority in health care. eHealth provides an opportunity to offer medication adherence interventions with minimal effort from health care providers ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/18901

Full-thickness skin graft versus split-thickness skin graft for radial forearm free flap donor site closure: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

Jasper J.E. Moors, Zhibin Xu, Kunpeng Xie, Ashkan Rashad et al. • Systematic Reviews (2024)

Abstract Background The radial forearm free flap (RFFF) serves as a workhorse for a variety of reconstructions. Although there are a variety of surgical techniques for donor site closure after RFFF raising, the most common techniques are cl...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13643-024-02471-x

Key Variables for Effective eHealth Designs for Individuals With and Without Mental Health Disorders: 2^12-4 Fractional Factorial Experiment

Rotondi, Armando J, Grady, Jonathan, Hanusa, Barbara H, Haas, Gretchen L et al. • Journal of Medical Internet Research (2021)

BackgroundeHealth applications not only offer the potential to increase service convenience and responsiveness but also expand the ability to tailor services to improve relevance, engagement, and use. To achieve these goals, it is critical ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/23137

Reducing Alert Fatigue by Sharing Low-Level Alerts With Patients and Enhancing Collaborative Decision Making Using Blockchain Technology: Scoping Review and Proposed Framework (MedAlert)

Wan, Paul Kengfai, Satybaldy, Abylay, Huang, Lizhen, Holtskog, Halvor et al. • Journal of Medical Internet Research (2020)

BackgroundClinical decision support (CDS) is a tool that helps clinicians in decision making by generating clinical alerts to supplement their previous knowledge and experience. However, CDS generates a high volume of irrelevant alerts, res...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/22013

Web-based versus simulation-based refresher training in newborn life support

Kathleen Parthey, Anne Goldhahn, Anselm Linke, Katja Raberger et al. • Resuscitation Plus (2026)

Background: Regular training for healthcare professionals in newborn life support is life-saving. Web-based refresher has the potential to be non-inferior to simulation-based refresher training. Methods: The multicenter non-inferiority rand...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.resplu.2026.101382

A Virtual Reading Center Model Using Crowdsourcing to Grade Photographs for Trachoma: Validation Study

Christopher J Brady, R Chase Cockrell, Lindsay R Aldrich, Meraf A Wolle et al. • Journal of Medical Internet Research (2023)

BackgroundAs trachoma is eliminated, skilled field graders become less adept at correctly identifying active disease (trachomatous inflammation—follicular [TF]). Deciding if trachoma has been eliminated from a district or if treatment strat...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/41233

Deep learning-based multimodal data fusion in bone tumor management: Advances in clinical decision support

Tongtong Huo, Wei Wu, Xiaoliang Chen, Mingdi Xue et al. • Intelligent Oncology (2025)

Bone tumors (BTs)—including osteosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma, and chondrosarcoma—are rare but biologically complex malignancies characterized by pronounced heterogeneity in anatomical location, histological subtype, and molecular alterations. Re...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.intonc.2025.06.005