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What Health Technology Assessment System Do we Really Need? A Critical Review of the Current Situation of Health Technology Assessment in Five European Countries

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Health Technology Assessment and Health Policy Today: A Multifaceted View of their Unstable Crossroads

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What is health technology assessment (HTA) and why is it important? The original intention of the introduction of HTA in the developed countries was to react to three emerging problems: the strong increase of medical costs, an unexplained variability in clinical practice and the incalculable outcome and long-term effects of many health technologies.

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    Juan E. del Llano-Señarís

  2. Spanish Association for Healthcare Technology Evaluation (AEETS), Madrid, Spain

    Juan E. del Llano-Señarís

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  2. Health Services and Policy Research, Balearic Health Service, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

    Carlos Campillo-Artero

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del Llano-Señarís, J.E. (2015). What Health Technology Assessment System Do we Really Need? A Critical Review of the Current Situation of Health Technology Assessment in Five European Countries. In: del Llano-Señarís, J., Campillo-Artero, C. (eds) Health Technology Assessment and Health Policy Today: A Multifaceted View of their Unstable Crossroads. Adis, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15004-8_7

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