Micro HTA as a tool for clinical governance: the experience of the Breast Unit in "Santa Maria" Terni Hospital

The last decade has witnessed the affirmation of the paradigm Health Technology Assessment (HTA) as a tool for government innovation technology in health care. As is known, this is an approach of evaluation oriented policy making that, in addition to provide for the disclosure of its results, it is...

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Published in:Il Giornale di chirurgia 2013-11, Vol.34 (11-12), p.307-310
Main Authors: Sanguinetti, A, Lucchini, R, Triola, R, Avenia, S, Bistoni, G, Conti, C, Santoprete, S, Avenia, N
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biomedical Technology - methods
Biomedical Technology - standards
Breast Neoplasms - surgery
Clinical Governance
Female
Hospital Units
Hospitals
Humans
Italy
Mastectomy - economics
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Technology Assessment, Biomedical
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Summary:The last decade has witnessed the affirmation of the paradigm Health Technology Assessment (HTA) as a tool for government innovation technology in health care. As is known, this is an approach of evaluation oriented policy making that, in addition to provide for the disclosure of its results, it is proposed to consider simultaneously the clinical, economic, organizational, ethical and social issues arising from the introduction or disposal of a health technology, understood in the broadest sense of the term. In order to reconstruct a realistic picture of its level of implementation we have reproduced a micro HTA which served to assess the Harmonic Focus® device usefulness in breast surgery.
ISSN:0391-9005
1971-145X
DOI:10.11138/gchir/2013.34.11.307