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Evidence Based Practice and Health Tecnology Assessment
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[ms_accordion_item title=”Coordination” color=”” background_color=”” close_icon=”” open_icon=”” status=”open”]João Fonseca 
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Explain the concept and frameqork of health technologies assessment (HTA)
Describe different methods for health technologies assessment.
Assess technologies for treatment, prevention and diagnosis of diseases
Recognize the role of randomized controlled trials, comparative efectiveness research and reviews and meta-analysis in HTA
Know the fundamentals of economical assessment of health technologies
Take decisions on technology assessment, taking into account social and ethical issues
Analyse the role of health technologies assessment in technologies dissemination, application to clinical practice, costs evaluation and prioritizing and biomedical research and also to healthcare access
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• General definitions and framework of health technology assessment.
• Methods in Health Technologies Assessment.
• Assessment of Technologies for treatment, prevention and diagnosis.
• Randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental intervention studies
• Comparative efectiveness research
• Concepts of evidence synthesis for HTA.
• Methods for economical evaluation of technologies: cost analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-utility analysis and cost-benefit analysis.
• Valuing health outcomes and health states in HTA.
• The role of health technologies assessment in technologies dissemination, application to clinical practice, healthcare access, costs evaluation and prioritizing and biomedical research.
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The syllabus includes all necessary and sufficient concepts and basic skills needed to plan, understand the concepts and framework, critically appraise, and apply health technology assessments, informing health policy and decision making processes and contemplating all assessment areas relevant to its aims.
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Teaching methods:
Theoretical analysis of each topic described for the course;
Literature review
Discussion of scientific topics and papers
Individual exercises
Using an optimized platform for e-learning for teaching the topics taught in the course.
Evaluation methods:
Distributed evaluation with final exam. The evaluation will be conducted using written work (50%) and a final exam (50%).
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The theoretical exposition of concepts and literature review will allow students to know and understand the concept, framework and methodologies for the evaluation of health technologies and develop skills for interpreting, designing and conducting controlled trials and comparative effectiveness. The discussion of scientific articles favors the development of analytical skills of the different methodologies and implications thereof. Through practical exercises students develop skills to analyze and design studies and evaluate health technologies, as well as critically analyze the different technologies to make decisions on their use.
The e-learning platform improves communication among students and between them and the teachers, and the provision of teaching materials.
The final exam evaluates the acquisition of theoretical concepts. The assessment through practical exercises allows us to evaluate the skills to apply theoretical concepts to practical situations.
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Hopkins, R.B., & Goeree ,R. (2015). Health Technology Assessment: Using Biostatistics to Break the Barriers of Adopting New Medicines. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
Goodman, C.S. (2014) HTA 101: Introduction to Health Technology Assessment. Bethesda: National Library of Medicine International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH) Guideline, http://www.ich.org
Clinical Trials: A Practical Approach, 1996, Stuart J. Pocock, John Wiley & Sons
Higgins, J. , & Green, S., (Eds) (2008). Cochrane handbook for systematic reviews of interventions. West Sussex, England: John Willey & Sons Ltd.
Drummond, M.F., Sculpher, M.J., Claxton, K., Stoddart, G.L., & Torrance, G.W. (2015). Methods for the economic evaluation of health care programmes (4rd edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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