UPDATED BACKGROUND READING LIST

Health technology assessment. An introduction to objectives, role of evidence, and structure in Europe.

Velasco Garrido M, Busse R (2005) - Observatory Policy Brief, No. 8, 2005

Health technology assessment and health policy-making in Europe. Current status, challenges and potential.

Marcial Velasco Garrido, Finn Børlum Kristensen, Camilla Palmhøj Nielsen and Reinhard Busse (2008)

How can the impact of health technology assessments be enhanced?

Sorenson C, Drummond M, Kristensen F, Busse R (2008). HEN-OBS joint policy brief No.2 (2008)

Evidence-based health care – an expanded role for Health Technology Assessment? Health Policy.

Velasco Garrido M, Gerhardus A, Rottingen J-A, Busse R (2009)

Health technology assessment in Europe

Boerlum Kristensen F (2009) in Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Ensuring value for money in health care. The role of health technology assessment in the European Union.

Sorenson C, Drummond M, Kanavos P (2008)

Health technology assessment in the European Union.

Banta HD, Oortwijn W (2000) in International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 24(3); 244-58

The development of health technology assessment.

Banta D. Health Policy 2003

Health technology assessment and its influence on health-care priority setting.

Oliver A, Mossialos E and Robinson R (2004) in International Journal of Technology in Health Care

Health technology assessment in England and Wales

Stevens and Milne in International Journal of Technology in Health Care (2004)

Health Technologies and Decision-Making.

OECD (2005)

Health technology assessment: lessons learned from around the world – an overview.

O’Donnell JC, Pham SV, Pashos PL, Miller DW, Dix Smith M in Value in Health (2009)

Comparative Effectiveness Research and Evidence-Based Health Policy: Experience from Four Countries.

Chalkidou K, Tunis S, Lopert R, Rochaix L, Sawicki P, Nasser M, Xerri B (2009) in The Milbank Quarterly

The discipline of innovation.

Drucker P. in Harvard Business Review 1985

Will disruptive innovations cure health care?

Christensen CM, Bohmer R, Kenagy J in Harvard Business Review 2000

Why innovation in health care is so hard.

Herzlinger RE in Harvard Business Review 2000

EUnetHTA WP4. HTA Core Model for diagnostic technologies

The Danish HTA Handbook in English

Best practice in undertaking and reporting HTA.

Busse R, Orvain J, Velasco M, Perleth M, Drummond M, Gürtner F, Jørgensen T, Jovell A, Malone J, Rüther A, Wild C (2002) in Int J Technology Assessment Health Care

Systematically reviewing qualitative and quantitative evidence to inform management and policy making in the health field.

Mays N, Pope C, Popay J. in Journal of Health Services Research & Policy 2005

Synthesising qualitative and qualitative evidence: a review of possible methods.

Dixon-Woods M, et al. in Journal of Health Services Research & Policy 2005

Towards systematic reviews that inform health care management and policy making.

Lavis J, Davies H, Oxman A, Denis J-L, Golden-Biddle K, Ferlie E. in Journal of Health Services Research & Policy (2005)

Informing policy-making and management in healthcare: the place for synthesis.

Pope C, Mays N, Popay J. in Healthcare Policy 2006

Cost-effective public health guidance: Asking questions from the decision-maker's viewpoint.

Chalkidou K, Culyer A, Naidoo B, Littlejohns P. in Health Economics (2008)

Methods for the development of NICE public health guidance (second edition)

On the value for money of public health care.

Oliver A in Health Policy Monitor, October 2008

EUnetHTA (2008). Proposal for the EUnetHTA Collaboration.

Why ‘knowledge transfer’ is misconceived for applied social research.

Davies H, Nutley S and Walter I in Journal of Health Services Research and Policy (2008)

The in-between world of knowledge brokering.

Lomas J. in BMJ (2007)

Knowledge transfer and exchange: review and synthesis of the literature.

Mitton C, Adair CE, McKenzie E, Patten SB, Waye Perry B. in The Milbank Quarterly (2007)

Evidence based guidelines or collectively constructed „mindlines“? Ethnographic study of knowledge management in primary care.

Gabbay J, Le May A. in BMJ (2004)

Systematic reviews and knowledge translation.

Tugwell P, Robinson V, Grimshaw J, Santesso N. in Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2006)

Use of communities of practice in business and health care sectors: a systematic review.

Li CL, Grimshaw J, Nielsen C, Judd M, Coyte P, Graham I. in Implementation science 2009

Organizational interventions to implement improvements in patient care: a structured review of reviews.

Wensing M, Wollersheim H, Gro R. in Implementation science 2006

What can management theories offer evidence-based practice? A compartive analysis of measurement tools for organisational context.

French B, Thomas L, Baker P, Burton C, Pennington L, Roddam H. in Implementation science 2009

Evidence-Based Decision Making: When Should We Wait For More Information? Coverage decisions that are conditional on gaining more evidence are a powerful tool for informed decision making.

Chalkidou K, Lord J, Fischer A, Littlejohns P. in Health Affairs 2008

Addressing uncertainties about the effects of treatments offered to NHS patients: whose responsibility?

Chalmer I. in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (2007)

Developing and evaluating complex interventions: the new Medical Research Council guidance.

Craig P, Dieppe P, Macintyre S, Michie S, Nazareth I, Petticrew M. in BMJ (2008)

Harveian Oration. De testimonio: on the evidence for decisions about the use of therapeutic interventions.

Michael Rawlins in The Lancet (2008)

Key principles for the improved conduct of health technology assessments for resource allocation decisions.

International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2008)

Key principles for the improved conduct of health technology assessments for resource allocation decisions.

International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2008)

Theory versus Practice: Discussing the Governance of Health Technology Assessment Systems.

The innovation Sandbox

publication suggested by Boris Azais (participant)

What are the Prospects for a New Golden Era in Vaccines?

publication suggested by Boris Azais (participant)

How Much Is Life Worth: Cetuximab, Non – Small Cell Lung Cancer, and the $440 Billion Question

JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access published June 29, 2009 (additional publication suggested by John-Arne Roettingen)