HEDS is part of the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield. We undertake research, teaching, training and consultancy on all aspects of health related decision science, with a particular emphasis on health economics, HTA and evidence synthesis.

Monday 27 February 2012

Ethics in HTA

HTAi has put together a set of resources on identifying and tackling ethical issues in health technology assessment.  It consists of links to three key articles within the International Journal of Technology Asssessment in Health Care and copies of all presentations given at the Ethics ISG Workshop at HTAi 2010.

The references to the articles are listed below.  For links to the articles themselves and the workshop material, please visit HTAi here.

Saarnl S, Braunack-Mayer A, Hofmann B, van der Wilt G. "Different methods for ethical analysis in health technology assessment: An empirical study."  International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 27:4 (2011), 305-312.

Burls A, Caron L, de Langavant G, Dondrop W, Harstall C, Pathak-Sen E, Hofmann B. "Tackling ethical issues in health technology assessment: a proposed framework."  International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 27:3 (2011), 230-237. 

Droste S,  Dintsios C, Gerber A. "Information on ethical issues in health technology assessment: how and where to find them."  International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 26:4 (2010), 441-449.