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Designing and implementing deliberative processes for health technology assessment: a good practices report of a joint HTAi/ISPOR Task Force

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Objectives
Deliberative processes for health technology assessment (HTA) are intended to facilitate participatory decision making, using discussion and open dialogue between stakeholders. Increasing attention is being given to deliberative processes, but guidance is lacking for those who wish to design or use them. Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) and ISPOR—The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research initiated a joint Task Force to address this gap.
Methods
The joint Task Force consisted of fifteen members with different backgrounds, perspectives, and expertise relevant to the field. It developed guidance and a checklist for deliberative processes for HTA. The guidance builds upon the few, existing initiatives in the field, as well as input from the HTA community following an established consultation plan. In addition, the guidance was subject to two rounds of peer review.
Results
A deliberative process for HTA consists of procedures, activities, and events that support the informed and critical examination of an issue and the weighing of arguments and evidence to guide a subsequent decision. Guidance and an accompanying checklist are provided for (i) developing the governance and structure of an HTA program and (ii) informing how the various stages of an HTA process might be managed using deliberation.
Conclusions
The guidance and the checklist contain a series of questions, grouped by six phases of a model deliberative process. They are offered as practical tools for those wishing to establish or improve deliberative processes for HTA that are fit for local contexts. The tools can also be used for independent scrutiny of deliberative processes.
Publication status:
Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1017/s0266462322000198

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0000-0003-4499-8602
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0000-0002-4416-6876
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
NDM
Sub department:
Tropical Medicine
Oxford college:
Keble College
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0000-0002-0042-8547


Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Journal:
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care More from this journal
Volume:
38
Issue:
1
Article number:
e37
Publication date:
2022-06-03
Acceptance date:
2022-03-05
DOI:
EISSN:
1471-6348
ISSN:
0266-4623
Pmid:
35656641


Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1263959
Local pid:
pubs:1263959
Deposit date:
2022-07-20

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