EUnetHTA - WP5 Toolkit

Generalisability refers to whether the results of an HTA report can be extrapolated to other settings. This is sometimes referred to as ‘external validity’.
For the WP5 toolkit, transferability is about the ability to apply information and/or data from one report into a report for the user’s target setting. Transferability is dependent on context specificity.

Generalisable information/data can be readily adopted. However, the more context specific, the less likely that data/information in one report can be adopted into another i.e. transferred without making any changes or additions.

Each domain of the WP5 toolkit includes transferability questions and links to relevant resources. The purpose being to help the user decide whether they can adopt, need to adapt or disregard specific information/data when applying these to their target setting.