Eliciting ethical and social values in health technology assessment: A participatory approach.

摘要: Abstract Despite a growing consensus that ethical and social values should be addressed in health technology assessment (HTA) processes, there exist variety of methods for doing so. There is interest involving citizens policy development to ensure decisions are legitimate, reflect the broad public. We sought bring these issues together by employing participatory approach elicit HTA. Our primary objective was set from could used guide Ontario’s HTA evidentiary review appraisal process. A secondary explore feasibility using approaches values. 14-person Citizens’ Reference Panel on Health Technologies established provide input Ontario Technology Advisory Committee developing its recommendations. mixed where informed, deliberative discussions were combined with pre- post-questionnaires, which assessed relative importance various as well their stability over time. Over course five meetings, panel members progressed toward identification core – universal access , choice quality care . These consistently prioritized considered evaluation technologies ensuing Sustained methods, like citizens’ panel, offer promising eliciting into