Considers medical technology consensus development programs in Canada, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, England and the United States.

This report addresses the concepts and controversy surrounding health technology assessment in Europe, with a particular focus on selected Member States including Sweden, the Netherlands, Finland, France, Germany and the United Kingdom.

This book reviews the relationship between health technology assessment and policy-making, and examines how to increase the contribution such research makes to policy- and decision-making processes.

Poulsen (health economics, U. of Southern Denmark), after discussing the international theoretical and historical development of the form of policy research that examine the short-and long-term social consequences of the application of ...

This book analyses the factors that influence the development and implementation of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) from multiple perspectives.

This book serves to bring this information together to inform those who are currently working in the field of HTA at the hospital, regional, national or global level.

This book analyses the barriers to, and facilitators of, evidence-based decision making in OECD health-care systems.

For the first time, a single reference identifies medical technology assessment programs. A valuable guide to the field, this directory contains more than 60 profiles of programs that conduct and report on medical technology assessments.

Recoge: 1. Introduction - 2. Health Technology Assessment in Europe - 3. Conclusions - 4. Appendix.