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RSS FeedPosted by Michael Wonder on 18 Mar 2024
Co-design of an enhanced consumer engagement process
18 March 2024 - A consumer-led Co-design Working Group has developed proposed recommendations for enhancing consumer engagement processes to enable ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Oct 2023
Ethical and legal considerations in social media research for health technology assessment: conclusions from a scoping review
20 October 2023 - The objective was to identify and describe the published guidance and current academic discourse of ethical issues ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Aug 2023
Patient and citizen participation at the organisational level in health technology assessment: an exploratory study in five jurisdictions
8 August 2023 - While patient participation in individual health technology assessments has been frequently described in the literature, patient and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Nov 2022
PHARMAC welcomes Myeloma NZ as first patient advocacy group to present to PTAC
21 November 2022 - Myeloma New Zealand presented directly to PHARMAC’s Pharmacology and Therapeutics Advisory Committee (PTAC) on Thursday, making ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Aug 2022
The patient voice – the value of patient-reported outcomes in HTA
4 August 2022 - The patient’s voice is increasingly important in securing access for therapies in markets and demonstrating how ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Feb 2022
Mentoring as a potential means to assist consumer representatives contribute effectively to the assessment of health technologies in Australia: a pragmatic review
7 February 2022 - This project was implemented on behalf of the Health Technology Assessment Consumer Consultative Committee to explore training ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Feb 2022
Analysis of consumer comments into PBAC decision-making (2014–9)
4 February 2022 - Our objective was to analyse and review consumer comments in the PBAC's decision-making process. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Oct 2021
Bringing a consumer perspective to clinical advice
19 October 2021 - PHARMAC is making changes to the way its advisory committees work to strengthen the input of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Sep 2021
Consumers to have more say on medicine access issues
7 September 2021 - Consumer involvement in Australia’s medicines choices has been further strengthened under a new strategic agreement Medicines ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Aug 2021
How to balance the patient voice atop the shifting plates of HTA
3 August 2021 - The tectonic plates of healthcare technology assessment have shifted – but where does the patient voice ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jul 2021
How to integrate evidence from patient preference studies into health technology assessment: a critical review and recommendations
15 July 2021 - Health technology assessment agencies vary in their use of quantitative patient preference data and the extent to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Jun 2021
Moving patient stories highlight opportunities to strengthen our health care systems for all Australians
24 June 2021 - It was an emotional evening among the nearly 200 in-person and online attendees at Parliament House last ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jun 2021
How the patient voice is becoming vital for drug approval
14 June 2021 - Rebecca Sanders from Lipodystrophy UK tells us how the patient voice helped convince NICE to approve a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Apr 2021
Development of an international template to support patient submissions in health technology assessments
1 April 2021 - The objective was to develop an international template to support patient submissions in health technology assessments. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Mar 2021
The contribution of French patient and consumer groups to health technology assessments over a 2 year period: an observational retrospective study
22 March 2021 - In 2017, The French National Authority for Health created an open, online, systematic contribution process to enable ...