Integrated assessment of home based palliative care with and without reinforced caregiver support: ‘A demonstration of INTEGRATE-HTA methodological guidances’ : executive summary [Online] : Format: PDF; 8
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Brereton, Louise | ||
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2016-02-15 |
This project and the research leading to these results has received funding is co-funded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme ([FP7/2007-2013] [FP7/2007-2011]) under Grant Agreement No. 306141. Date: Version of 01/02/2016 PROJECT: Integrated Health Technology Assessment for Evaluating Complex Technologies (INTEGRATE-HTA).
Bibliogr.: p. 27-28
Priedai: p. 29-30.
About this Executive Summary This comprehensive executive summary reports on a case study designed to demonstrate the application of a number of the key concepts and methods developed in the INTEGRATE-HTA project to the assessment of complex technologies. The case study focuses on models of home based palliative care with and without an additional element of caregiver support, known as reinforced and non-reinforced home based palliative care respectively. What is already known about the topic With changing disease patterns in Europe, increasingly complex health care technologies, such as palliative care, have gained importance. Current HTA methods rarely take account of wider legal, ethical and socio-cultural issues or context and implementation and are not adequately equipped to assess highly complex technologies, despite considerable progress in recent years. As a result, HTA is rarely applied to highly complex health technologies. What this case study report adds The INTEGRATE-HTA project developed concepts and methods for the assessment of complex technologies, taking into account legal, ethical and socio-cultural issues as well as context and implementation. This case study is designed to demonstrate the application of a number of the key concepts and methods developed in the INTEGRATE-HTA project to home based palliative care, with and without an additional element of caregiver support, as an example of a complex technology; known as “reinforced” and “non-reinforced” home based palliative care respectively. The INTEGRATE-HTA model, developed to enable integration of relevant assessment aspects, is used to structure this report. The case study reports on the application of some of the concepts and methods developed within the INTEGRATE- HTA project to the assessment of effectiveness as well as economic, sociocultural, ethical, and legal aspects; patient preferences and patient-specific moderators of tre[...].