EUnetHTA Adaptation Glossary (beta)

Commissioning

Commissioning is sending or officially charging an individual or group to undertake certain functions or to complete certain tasks. Usually one commissions tasks that can’t be completed within one’s own sources to people more competent for the task.

Commissioning may refer to:

- report (Agency for HTA commissions academic entity to produce HTA, Minister of Health commissions producing HTA on given subject to AHTAPol);
- new research (to fill gaps in knowledge).

Planning

What we understand by ‘applicability’ is the application/use of the results from clinical trials (done on restricted, specially selected populations) to other groups/individual people for the use in one’s own medical practice (in other words, “usefulness of these results in own clinical practice”). A randomised trial only provides direct evidence of causality within that specific trial. As individual characteristics will affect the outcome for this person, it takes an additional logical step to apply this result to a specific individual.