gms | German Medical Science

6. Symposium Health Technology Assessment

Deutsche Agentur für HTA des DIMDI – DAHTA@DIMDI

03. bis 04.11.2005, Köln

Article

Send article

Ethics and HTA

Meeting Abstract

Search Medline for

  • author Helena Dahlgren - The Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care (SBU), Stockholm, Sweden

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. Doc05hta09

The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.egms.de/en/meetings/hta2005/05hta09.shtml

Published: February 13, 2006

© 2006 Dahlgren.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/deed.en). You are free: to Share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work, provided the original author and source are credited.

Outline

Abstract

Health technology assessment (HTA) is a way to identify and evaluate different procedures used in health care and it plays an important role in health policy and practice in many countries. A HTA typically includes medical, economic, social and ethical aspects of a health care procedure or problem. A recent survey of different HTA agencies by the international network INAHTA showed that most of the agencies include some ethical aspects in the HTAs, but the methods for the ethical evaluation and analysis need to be more refined and systematic. Some approaches to a more thorough process for integrating ethical considerations into the HTA process will be discussed in the presentation.

Outline

Notes

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