Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Aug 2019
Proposal to enhance the transparency of CADTH’s review reports and recommendations
31 July 2019 - CADTH is committed to increasing the transparency of its health technology assessment processes.
CADTH would like to invite stakeholder comments on a proposal to further strengthen transparency by requiring that clinical, economic, and other information submitted to the CADTH review processes be made disclosable at the time of publishing its reports and recommendations on its website.
CADTH has formal procedures and guidelines in place to handle information submitted to the CADTH review processes, including non-disclosable information. As a result, CADTH currently spends a substantial amount of time and effort negotiating with the submitter and redacting information deemed to be non-disclosable by the submitter. Redacting means editing a document to delete or mask information that has been deemed as non-disclosable by the submitter. Information that is deemed to be non-disclosable by a submitter is a barrier to transparency. It results in documents being published that contain sometimes significant amounts of relevant information redacted at the request of the submitter. This, in turn, could hamper understanding of the issues outlined in the reports and the rationale for the recommendation.
