26 April 2021 - The objective was to describe the type and level of ethical integration in published health technology assessment reports and systematically identify the ethical approaches utilised.

A literature search was conducted with the Google™ search engine using the keyword “ethic” between 1 January 2015 and 20 August 2019. 

Only health technology assessment reports with a section on ethics were retained and classified according to their level of ethical integration: no ethical analysis, ethical issues highlighted, assessments according to legal or social norms, and assessments from a moral or axiological perspective—using a qualitative methodology to distinguish such integration.

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