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Health Technology Assessment and Biomedical Engineering: Global trends, gaps and opportunities [PDF]

Medical Engineering & Physics, 2019
The diffusion of medical devices is expanding at an astonishing rate. The increasing number of novel patents per year suggests this growth will continue. In contrast to drugs, medical devices are intrinsically dependent on the environment in which they are used and how they are maintained.
L. Pecchia, N. Pallikarakis, R. Magjarevic, E. Iadanza   +3 more
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Expert participation in the health technology assessment process: a scoping review [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
Objectives: to map evidence on specialist participation in the health technology assessment process. Methods: a scoping review was conducted using the JBI method, searching the MEDLINE/PubMed, Scopus, EMBASE/Elsevier, WoS/Clarivate, CINAHL, ASP/EBSCO ...
Sandra Maria dos Santos Figueiredo, Fernanda de Nazaré Almeida Costa, Marcia Helena Machado Nascimento, Cristiane Cardoso de Paula, Liane Bahú Machado, Eliana Rosa da Fonseca, Elizabeth Teixeira   +6 more
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BioMedical Technology Assessment: modulare Folgenerfassung und perspektivensensitive Bewertung biomedizinischer Innovationen

Technikfolgenabschätzung – Theorie und Praxis, 2004
R. Kollek
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Research gaps identified in Iran’s health technology assessment reports

Health Research Policy and Systems, 2023
Introduction Identifying gaps in the evidence is a useful byproduct of conducting a health technology assessment (HTA). This study aims to identify research gaps in Iran’s HTA reports.
Farideh Mohtasham, Bahareh Yazdizadeh, Mohammadreza Mobinizadeh   +2 more
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Lamotrigine versus levetiracetam or zonisamide for focal epilepsy and valproate versus levetiracetam for generalised and unclassified epilepsy: two SANAD II non-inferiority RCTs

Health Technology Assessment, 2021
Background: Levetiracetam (Keppra®, UCB Pharma Ltd, Slough, UK) and zonisamide (Zonegran®, Eisai Co. Ltd, Tokyo, Japan) are licensed as monotherapy for focal epilepsy, and levetiracetam is increasingly used as a first-line treatment for generalised ...
Anthony G Marson, Girvan Burnside, Richard Appleton, Dave Smith, John Paul Leach, Graeme Sills, Catrin Tudur-Smith, Catrin O Plumpton, Dyfrig A Hughes, Paula R Williamson, Gus Baker, Silviya Balabanova, Claire Taylor, Richard Brown, Dan Hindley, Stephen Howell, Melissa Maguire, Rajiv Mohanraj, Philip EM Smith   +18 more
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COST ESTIMATE FOR THE MONTHLY SET UP AND OPERATION OF A TELECONSULTATION ROOM

Cogitare Enfermagem, 2023
Objective: to estimate the cost of setting up and monthly operation of a teleconsultation room. Method: descriptive study, carried out by means of a survey of direct and indirect costs for setting up and monthly operation of a teleconsultation room in ...
Tallita Mello Delphino, Rosimere Ferreira Santana, Julianna Nogueira Rodrigues, Keila Mara Cassiano   +3 more
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Riesgo de sesgo de publicación en intervenciones terapéuticas para la COVID-19

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2021
This article describes publication bias, its most frequent causes, its characteristics, the regulatory tools to avoid it, and some statistical techniques to analyze it. These techniques are explained and applied to three therapeutic interventions related
Santiago Hasdeu, Fernando Tortosa
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Occupational therapy for persons with cognitive impairments

GMS German Medical Science, 2023
Background: Damage to the central nervous system can occur in adulthood, for example, due to stroke, trauma, tumours, or chronic diseases. After damage to the central nervous system, cognitive impairments occur in addition to physical limitations ...
Schnell-Inderst, Petra, Conrads-Frank, Annette, Stojkov, Igor, Krenn, Cornelia, Kofler, Lisa-Maria, Siebert, Uwe   +5 more
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Population-based screening – the difficulty of how to do more good than harm and how to achieve it

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2010
Screening people without symptoms of disease is an attractive idea. Screening allows early detection of disease or elevated risk of disease, and has the potential for improved treatment and reduction of mortality.
M Zwahlen, N Low, B Borisch, Egger, R Obrist, F Paccaud, NM Probst-Hensch   +6 more
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A hybrid linear discriminant analysis and genetic algorithm to create a linear model of aging when performing motor tasks through inertial sensors positioned on the hand and forearm

BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 2023
Background During the aging process, cognitive functions and performance of the muscular and neural system show signs of decline, thus making the elderly more susceptible to disease and death.
Veronica de Lima Gonçalves, Caio Tonus Ribeiro, Guilherme Lopes Cavalheiro, Maria José Ferreira Zaruz, Daniel Hilário da Silva, Selma Terezinha Milagre, Adriano de Oliveira Andrade, Adriano Alves Pereira   +7 more
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