Links of interest
Below, there are some links of interest to health technology assessment. It is practically impossible to gather all possible links, so we have included those that we find useful in our daily practice.
This document will be amended periodically to maintain the currency of links and the accuracy of the information released. Any contribution of interest that results in the subsequent improvement and the potential usefulness of the user will be well received.
The Spanish Network of Agencies for Health Technology and Benefits Assessment of the National Health System is comprised of agencies or evaluation units of the general administration of the state and the autonomous communities, working in coordination with a common methodology and under the principle of mutual recognition and cooperation.
- Agencies and units of HTA in the National Health System:
- Agencia de Calidad y Evaluación Sanitarias de Cataluña (AQuAS)
http://aquas.gencat.cat/es - Agencia de Evaluación de Tecnologías Sanitarias (AETS) del Instituto de Salud Carlos III
www.isciii.es/ISCIII/es/general/index.shtml - Agencia de Evaluación de Tecnologías Sanitarias de Andalucía (AETSA)
http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/salud/servicios/aetsa/ - Agencia de Evaluación de Tecnologías Sanitarias de Galicia (AVALIA-T)
avalia-t.sergas.es/Paxinas/web.aspx - Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud
www.iacs.aragon.es/awgc/ - Servicio de Evaluación de Tecnologías Sanitarias - Osteba. Departamento de Salud, Gobierno Vasco.
www.osakidetza.euskadi.eus/r85-pkoste01/es/ - Servicio de Evaluación y Planificación del Servicio Canario de Salud.
www3.gobiernodecanarias.org/sanidad/ - Unidad de Evaluación de Tecnologías Sanitarias (UETS) de la Comunidad de Madrid
http://www.madrid.org/
- Agencia de Calidad y Evaluación Sanitarias de Cataluña (AQuAS)
- Agencies, networks and international HTA units:
- International Network Agencies of Health Technology Assessment (INAHTA)
www.inahta.org - International Society for Health Technology Assessment (HTAI)
www.htai.org - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
www.ahrq.gov - National Coordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment (NCCHTA)
www.ncchta.org - European Network for Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA)
www.eunethta.net
- International Network Agencies of Health Technology Assessment (INAHTA)
- Databases:
- The International Information Network on New and Changing Health Technologies (EuroScan). International Group on Early Awareness and Alert Systems. Osteba is a founding member.
www.euroscan.bham.ac.uk
- The International Information Network on New and Changing Health Technologies (EuroScan). International Group on Early Awareness and Alert Systems. Osteba is a founding member.
- Agencies and evaluation units of emerging technologies:
- National Horizon Scanning Centre (NHSC) has specific links to news sites of emerging technologies, databases and early assessment methodology.
www.pcpoh.bham.ac.uk - Health Technology Assessment Agency Sweden (SBU) and SBU-alert program contains evaluation and methodology documents freely available.
www.sbu.se - Osteba, Basque Office for Health Technology Assessment contains early evaluation documents upon request and free access model identification sheets.
www.osanet.euskadi.net/osteba - Health Council of the Netherlands. Gezonheidsraad includes early assessments of technologies relevant to the Netherlands.
www.gr.nl - Agency for Health Technology Assessment in Denmark (DACEHTA).
www.dihta.dk - Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health (CADTH) Assessment documents freely accessible in pdf format both drugs and devices.
www.cadth.ca - Agency for Health Technology Assessment Norway (NOKC) provides assessment documents in Norwegian with English summary free access.
www.kunnskapssenteret.no - Agency of the Public Hospitals of Paris (CEDIT). Health Technology Assessment.
cedit.aphp.fr - Agency of the Health Institute Carlos III (AETS-ISCIII) provides early assessment documents and close out identification database freely available.
sintesis.isciii.es - Galician HTA agency (Avalai-T), Directorate General of Insurance and Health Planning, just put up a screening program of new health technologies and emerging (DETECTA-T).
avalia-t.sergas.es - AETSA. The HTA Agency of Andalusia offers a series of guides on technology assessment elements provide a structured methodology, aimed at guiding the decision-making prior to the incorporation of new health technologies to the service portfolio of the Andalusian Health Service.
www.juntadeandalucia.es
- National Horizon Scanning Centre (NHSC) has specific links to news sites of emerging technologies, databases and early assessment methodology.
- Drugs:
- United Kingdom Medicines Information (UKMi) New Medicines in the UK. With databases and search engine with new drug approval.
www.ukmi.nhs.uk - European Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA).
www.emea.europa .eu/ - Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS).
www.agemed.es - New Drugs Group London APC / DTC.
www.londonpharmacy.nhs.uk
- United Kingdom Medicines Information (UKMi) New Medicines in the UK. With databases and search engine with new drug approval.
- Devices:
- Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Surgical Interventional Procedures - (ASERNIP-S) contains documents and evaluation methodology exclusively on surgery-related devices open access.
www.surgeons.org - Agency for the evaluation of devices the in the UK (MDA) has a search engine and a message board with news.
www.medical-devices.gov.uk - SERNIP-S.
guidance.nice.org.uk
- Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Surgical Interventional Procedures - (ASERNIP-S) contains documents and evaluation methodology exclusively on surgery-related devices open access.
- Choosing Wisely USA (www.choosingwisely.org)
- Choosing Wisely Canada (https://choosingwiselycanada.org)
- Choosing Wisely Australia(http://www.choosingwisely.org.au/home)
- Choosing Wisely Gran Bretaña (http://www.choosingwisely.co.uk/i-am-a-clinician/recommendations/)
- Diana Salud (http://www.dianasalud.com/)
- Compromiso por la Calidad de las Sociedades Científicas en España (http://www.msc.es/organizacion/sns/planCalidadSNS/cal_sscc.htm)
- GUIASALUD
www.guiasalud.es - Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation (AGREE)
www.agreecollaboration.org - National Guidelines Clearindghouse
www.guideline.gov - New Zealand Guideline Clearing House
www.nzgg.org.nz - Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)
www.sign.ac.uk - Guidelines International Network (GIN)
www.g-i-n.net - Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Clinical Practice Guidelines
www.nhmrc.gov.au/publications/subjects/clinical.htm - Guidelines Advisory Commite (GAC)
gacguidelines.ca - Monash Institute of Health Services Research
www.mihsr.monash.org/hfk/guidelines.html - Primary Care electronic Library (PCEL)- St'Georges University of London
www.pcel.info - eGuidelines
www.eguidelines.co.uk/index.php - Clinical Practice Guidelines at University of California
medicine.ucsf.edu - Canadian Medical Association (CMA) ePractice Tools
www.cma.ca - Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ)
www.ahrq.gov - Alberta Medical Association Clinical Practice Guidelines Programme
www.topalbertadoctors.org - Cancer Care Ontario
www.cancercare.on.ca
- MEDLINE-PubMed
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - The Cochrane Library
www.cochrane.co.uk - Cochrane Library plus
www.cochrane.es - Spanish Library for Health
www.bvsalud.org - Spanish medical Index
bddoc.csic.es - ISI Web Of Knowledge (WOK)
www.accesowok.fecyt.es
- Spanish Association of Health Economics
www.aes.es - Tufts-New England Medical Center
www.tufts-nemc.org - NHS Economic Evaluation Database del Centre for Reviews and Dissemination de York
www.york.ac.uk - European Network of Health Economics Evaluation Databases
infodoc.inserm.fr - Rediryss, Economic Assessment Research Division
www.fgcasal.org/rediryss/linea.html - Choosing Interventions that are Cost Effective (WHO-CHOICE)
www.who.int - Center for Health Economics-University of York
www.york.ac.uk - Institute of Health Economics
www.ihe.ca/
- The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
www.kaiseredu.org - Spanish Ministry of Health, Social Policy and Equity
www.msc.es - Observatory on innovation in hospital management-Periscopihos
www.periscopihos.org - International Digest of Health Legislation
www.who.int/idhl-rils/ - WHO health legislation
www.who.int - WHO Health Policy
www.who.int - Public Health-European Union
ec.europa.eu - Public Health Services in the Spanish Health System
www.msc.es
- Database of Thesis (Teseo)
www.micinn.es/teseo/login.jsp - CSA Illumina
www.csa.com - Health Evidence Network
www.euro.who.int - Pan American Health Oragnization
www.paho.org - New York Academy of Medicine
www.nyam.org - Grey Literature Network Service
www.greynet.org
- McMaster University, Evidence Based Practice Center
hiru.mcmaster.ca - The University of Sheffield-Netting the Evidence
www.shef.ac.uk - University of Herfordshire-Evidence Based Medicine
www.herts.ac.uk - Oxford Centre for Evidence Based Medicine
www.cebm.net - European Union Evidence Based Medicine Unit
www.ebm-unity.org - Webpage de Rafa Bravo
www.infodoctor.org - Fisterra
www.fisterra.com - Red CASP (Critical Appraisal Skills Programme)
www.redcaspe.org - PHRU - SPH(Solutions for Public Health)
www.phru.nhs.uk - Rediris
www.rediris.es
- Public Library of Science
www.plos.org - Plos Medicine
medicine.plosjournals.org - Free Medical Journals
www.freemedicaljournals.com - Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research
www.gfmer.ch - Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo
www.unifesp.br - Imbiomed
www.imbiomed.com.mx - Biomed Central
www.biomedcentral.com - Doyma
db.doyma.es - Directory of Open Access Journals
www.doaj.org - HigWire Press Standford University
highwire.stanford.edu - Bioline International
www.bioline.org.br - PubMed Central
www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov - Amadeo Challenge
www.freebooks4doctors.com - Free Medical Videos
www.newmediamedicine.com - Free Medical Books.com
www.medicalbooks.com
- ReutersHealth (www.reutershealth.com) Access in Spanish and Portuguese. It has two sections one to the consumer free of charge and the other addressed to the professional that is.
- Health Clips Subscription Service (www.sdh.sk.ca) has a system of news and updates free of charge, primarily related to healthcare in Canada.
- MedScape (www.medscape.com) This website offers a weekly e-mail with news or can be scanned directly to seek new technologies or breaking news in the healthcare sector.
- F- D- C Reports (www.fdcreports.com) provides summaries of news published in medical newsletters.
- EurekAlert (www.eurekalert.org) is the website of the American Association for the advancement of science and covers news from all areas of it. Includes long-form summaries with links or contact information for profesionales.
- Food and Drug Administration (www.fda.gov) contains an excellent search engine highly useful in the discovery of new drugs and devices at the point of licensing or just newly obtained to be marketed in the USA. The news section ("news") can be used to find out what is the latest addition to the web.
- HMS Beagle (www.biomednet.com) This website offers a free weekly e-mail subscription that includes the latest news on the efficacy of health technologies.
- Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures (SERNIP) (www.nice.org.uk) contains a list of surgical procedures analyzed by NICE in the United Kingdom.
- Medical Breakthroughs (www.ivanhoe.com) Another website that offers a free weekly e-mail subscription that includes the latest medical information primarily devoted to patients.
- Doctor's Guide (www.Pslgroup.Com) Provides a database engine that search on medical news. It could be got a free weekly news newsletter by filling out a subscription form.
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