10 April 2018 - The UK's NICE is an established health technology assessment agency. de Folter et al. present a novel application of text analysis that characterises NICE's Technology Appraisals in the context of the newer assessment frameworks and present the results in a visual way.

They identified 125 decision factors, and hierarchically grouped these into eight domains: Clinical Effectiveness, Cost Effectiveness, Condition, Current Practice, Clinical Need, New Treatment, Studies, and Other Factors. Textual analysis showed all domains appeared consistently in the guidance documents. Many factors were commonly associated with terms relating to uncertainty.

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