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6. Symposium Health Technology Assessment

Deutsche Agentur für HTA des DIMDI – DAHTA@DIMDI

03. bis 04.11.2005, Köln

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Sources for evidence-based information

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  • author Jos Kleijnen - Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, York, Great Britain

Deutsche Agentur für Health Technology Assessment des Deutschen Instituts für Medizinische Dokumentation und Information. 6. Symposium Health Technology Assessment. Köln, 03.-04.11.2005. Düsseldorf, Köln: German Medical Science; 2006. Doc05hta04

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Published: February 13, 2006

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This presentation will describe some current settings in the UK, Germany and Austria within which evidence-based information has become important. These settings include processes of decision making by policy makers as well as health care professionals and consumers.

Evidence-based information will be defined and examples given of what evidence based information is and what it is not. The role of health technology assessment agencies and other providers of evidence-based information will be described as well as their paper and electronic publications.

There are a range of resources available for evidence-based information and some of the best will be highlighted. These will include HTA resources, systematic reviews, guidelines and digests of relevant and valid research. Furthermore, the TRIP database search pages will be demonstrated.

The presentation will end with some reflections of the current state of play and some predictions about future developments.

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The complete lecture can be found on the website of DIMDI: http://www.dimdi.de/static/de/hta/symposien/2005/index.htm