by Patient Voice Initiative | Sep 3, 2019 | Glossary, H
The systematic evaluation of the clinical effectiveness and/or cost effectiveness and/or the social and ethical impact of a health technology on the lives of patients and the health care system. Its main purpose is to inform health care policy makers. The process... by Patient Voice Initiative | Sep 3, 2019 | Glossary, H
Any form of intervention to improve health, such as drugs, devices, medical equipment and procedures relating to health care and its services, including prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a condition. HTAI by Patient Voice Initiative | Sep 3, 2019 | Glossary, H
The level of health of a person or group of people that is measured either by the person or people themselves and/or by scientific means. The level is usually based on the patients’ ability to carry out everyday activities such as dress and feed themselves or freedom... by Patient Voice Initiative | Sep 3, 2019 | G, Glossary
In HTA, a gold standard is a method, procedure or measure that is widely agreed among the medical profession to be the best available to test for or to treat a disease. New tests or treatments are often compared against the gold standard. HTAI by Patient Voice Initiative | Sep 3, 2019 | F, Glossary
see Food and Drug Administration (USA).