Del Llano J, Asua J; International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care. Meeting.

Annu Meet Int Soc Technol Assess Health Care Int Soc Technol Assess Health Care Meet. 2002; 18: abstract no. 80.

Gaspar Casal Foundation, Madrid, Spain, fgcasal@terra.es

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: The purpose of AEETS is professional organisation, not for profit and independent. Its members come from a huge variety of backgrounds and disciplines: physicians, economists, lawyers, bioethicists, epidemiologists, statisticians. Working in different professional fields: university, public administration (basically, HTA agencies), industry, research centres, hospitals, and primary healthcare. The degree of interest is related with their involvement in the process of HTA. A bit of history: AEETS core appeared during a summer seminar on HTA carried out in 1992. A few months later, the Spanish Health Ministry and the Board of ISTHAC organised a seminar on HTA. In March 1993, AEETS was set up. The reasons were: increasing governmental development of HTA agencies, INAHTA creation, the need of rationing healthcare resources, the high expectations over the application of new information and telecommunication technologies, and the Evidence Based Medicine movement, as well as the implementation of several health services research units. RESULTS: Four scientific congresses (1994: Evaluation of health services: science or policy?; 1996: Evidence based medicine: HTA and clinical practice; 1998: Evaluation of health interventions impact (Outcomes) and 2000: Evaluation of health care organisations: a pending subject?). Four books on: EBM, Outcomes, Meta-analysis, Evaluation of health care organisations; two workshops (1997: Priorities in HTA and 2001: Evaluation of Clinical Practice Guidelines); web page: www.aeets.org. DISCUSSION: AEETS is ready to be an analytical talent reservoir on HTA with an interdisciplinary networking of members involved in producing reports for different clients such as government, pharmaceuticals and electromedicine industry, research funds and so on. A form to share experiences about assessing healthcare technologies, clinical practices and evidence based policies. We remain optimistic if we look at the figures of attendees at our congresses: a steadily increasing trend, from 75 in 1994, until 176 in 2000. In Spain there is a critical body of professionals involved in HTA and the tendency is growing. Nowadays, there are five established HTA agencies.

Publication Types:

• Meeting Abstracts

Keywords:

• Biomedical Technology
• Delivery of Health Care
• Evaluation Studies
• Evidence-Based Medicine
• Forecasting
• Government Agencies
• Health Services Research
• Humans
• Research
• Spain
• Technology Assessment, Biomedical
• methods
• hsrmtgs

Other ID:

• GWHSR0003017

UI: 102274696

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