by Patient Voice Initiative | Sep 3, 2019 | Glossary, H
see Healthy-year equivalent. by Patient Voice Initiative | Sep 3, 2019 | Glossary, H
see Health Technology Assessment international. by Patient Voice Initiative | Sep 3, 2019 | Glossary, H
The committee – made up of the consumer representatives from PBAC, MSAC, PLAC and their subcommittees – helps the Department of Health work more closely with consumers and communities in HTA decision making; brings consumer and community evidence and views into HTA... by Patient Voice Initiative | Sep 3, 2019 | Glossary, H
see Health technology assessment. by Patient Voice Initiative | Sep 3, 2019 | Glossary, H
see Highly specialised drug. by Patient Voice Initiative | Sep 3, 2019 | Glossary, H
see Health-related quality of life. by Patient Voice Initiative | Sep 3, 2019 | Glossary, H
A medicine that is listed in the PBS to treat chronic conditions but to which only public and private hospitals with appropriate specialist facilities are allowed access because of its clinical use or other specialised features. Funding is provided under the HSD... by Patient Voice Initiative | Sep 3, 2019 | Glossary, H
The number of years spent in good health that a patient would see as equal to the actual number of years they spend in ill health. For example, if someone spent 10 years ill, they may see it as equal to five years spent healthy. HTAI by Patient Voice Initiative | Sep 3, 2019 | Glossary, H
A measure of the effects of an illness to see how that illness affects a person’s day‐to‐day life. HTAI by Patient Voice Initiative | Sep 3, 2019 | Glossary, H
the global, non-profit, scientific and professional society for all those who produce, use or encounter. 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...