Factors influencing coverage decisions on medical devices: A retrospective analysis of 78 medical device appraisals for the Austrian hospital benefit catalogue 2008–2015

Agnes Kisser, Heinz Tüchler, Judit Erdös and Claudia Wild

Health Policy, 2016, vol. 120, issue 8, 903-912

Abstract: Health technology assessments of medical devices (MD) present a well-recognized challenge to evaluators: the evidence on safety and clinical effectiveness is often of lower quality than for pharmaceuticals making a reliable assessment of the risk-benefit ratio difficult. Thus other factors might gain importance in decision making.

Keywords: Health technology assessment; Decision making; Medical devices; Austria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2016.06.007

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