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Healthcare Technology Assessment of Medical Imaging Technology

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Quality and Safety in Imaging

Part of the book series: Medical Radiology ((Med Radiol Diagn Imaging))

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This chapter provides a view of how due to the health systems and technologies development in the last century a series of functions have been developed to achieve an optimal health for the entire population with available resources. Considering the particularities of the imaging technology area, the authors describe in what manner the value of these technologies should be defined, what are the approaches proposed for assessing this value, both by academia and by several institutions and finally by looking specifically at the SPARTACUS case an approach to compare two diagnostic modalities in terms of their impact on patient outcome is described. The author’s description of the SPARTACUS project is particularly informative. The results of this project made the authors concluding that, although RCT are not commonly used in the context of evaluating diagnostic tests, its use allows for the assessment of a wider scope of outcomes that are arguably relevant from an HTA perspective.

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  1. Department for Health Evidence, Health Technology Assessment Group, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Jaap Deinum M.D., Peter Makai Ph.D. & Gert Jan van der Wilt Ph.D.

  2. Health Technology Assessment Unit, Research and Innovation Directorate, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Gabriela Restovic M.Sc. & Laura Sampietro Colom M.D., Ph.D.

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Correspondence to Laura Sampietro Colom M.D., Ph.D. .

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  1. Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Lluís Donoso-Bach

  2. Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Giles W. L. Boland

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Deinum, J., Restovic, G., Makai, P., van der Wilt, G.J., Colom, L.S. (2017). Healthcare Technology Assessment of Medical Imaging Technology. In: Donoso-Bach, L., Boland, G. (eds) Quality and Safety in Imaging. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2017_86

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