Abstract
A trend or a useful tool? HTA (Health Technology Assessment) was born
in the 70s as a tool to support decision makers in the health sector
and has been quickly developing since, also with the creation of
specialized international agencies (e.g. #Health Technology Assessment
International – HTAi;
International Network of Assessment Agencies of health technologies -
INAHTA). What is HTA? It is the “systematic #evaluation of the properties
and effects of a health technology, which addresses the direct and
expected effects of this technology, as well as its indirect and
unintended consequences, and aims primarily to inform decision-makers on
health technologies” [1].The approach is interdisciplinary, because HTA summarizes information on #medical, social, economic and ethical issues, and methods of evaluation
can be different [2]. Since of its born, ethics has been considered a
key element in HTA, even if there is still not an agreement on “why” and
“how” ethics should be integrated in HTA. This difficulty is not new
and it mainly due to the narrowing of HTA to #economic analysis. In 2004,
ten Have has listed some #potential reasons of this situation.
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