MAPPING THE INTRODUCTION OF HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN ROMANIA
Abstract:
Background: Health technology assessment (HTA) is the multidisciplinary evaluation of
“value for money” of health care interventions. Although the need to develop HTA through evidence
based decision making in Romania was identified as early as 1992, an HTA unit was establish only in
2012. Objective: map the introduction HTA in Romania. Methods: This study represents a policy
review based on 3 different stages. Results: We have arrange in chronological order the main HTA
related events, fill in these gaps via in-depth, semi-structured interviews and aligned all the findings
and map the process of HTA implementation in Romania. Conclusions: We can identify more than five
different attempts of introducing a fully functional system that will meet the standards of international
guidelines. Political decision proves to be the key element in failure of numerous implementation
attempts and also the determinant factor of the current HTA status in Romania.
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