Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Health Technology Assessment: Choosing Which Treatments Get Funded
The University of Sheffield
This course explored the key processes that go into creating a Health Technology Assessment including clinical trials, systematic reviews and economic modelling. Learners discovered how the final report fits within the wider range of information used to make decisions about which treatments to fund.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Claire Beecroft
Information Specialist and University Teacher in Health Economics and Decision Science
The University of Sheffield
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore the assessment process for a new health technology and how this applies to a potential decision outcome.
- Explain the process behind decisions about which healthcare treatments are funded to a patient or member of the public.
- Investigate a health technology assessment (HTA) and understand the evidence presented.
- Contribute to an informed discussion about whether or not a new health technology is adopted and funded by the NHS, or other national healthcare system.
Syllabus
We’ll look at some of the key processes of HTA in order to answer some key questions about a new treatment, such as:
- How do we know if the treatment is of benefit?
- How can we make sense of all the evidence?
- How is evidence of the cost of drugs used in HTA?
We’ll also explore how the final HTA report fits within the wider range of information used to make decisions about which treatments to fund.
Issued on 13th October 2019
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