EUnetHTA Adaptation Glossary (beta) - EUnetHTA

EUnetHTA - WP5 Toolkit

E.Guegan — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:21:29 +0000

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.

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E.Guegan — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:31:29 +0000

Issue
The purpose of adaptation is to enable an HTA agency in one country (or region or setting) to make use of an HTA report produced elsewhere, thus saving time and money. This sounds simple but in reality, the adaptation process is complex.

Different types of HTA reports

Transferability - EUnetHTA

E.Guegan — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:52:12 +0000

For the WP5 toolkit, transferability is about the ability to apply information from one report into a user’s target setting. 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 pieces of information when applying these to their target setting.

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E.Guegan — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 09:07:33 +0000

The EUnetHTA adaptation toolkit has been developed to aid HTA agencies in the adaptation of HTA reports that are a synthesis of evidence. It contains checklists of questions and resources to enable the assessment of a report’s relevance, reliability and transferability.

Currently, the toolkit is in the form of a word document. It will be developed into something more interactive, in the context of the planned web-based clearing house.

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E.Guegan — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 09:00:58 +0000

In the context of adapting HTA reports, a reliable report is one that a potential user can trust and rely on: they can trust that what it says is true. If so, they may be adopted or considered for adaptation for another setting. One way of assessing reliability in a standardized way is through the use of quality checklists, such as those that are included in the EUnetHTA Toolkit.

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E.Guegan — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:36:50 +0000

Clinical question. In the field of evidence based healthcare, the patient-intervention-comparison-outcome (PICO) formula is widely used to construct a clinical question.

P - patient, population of patients, problem
I - intervention (e.g. a therapy, test)
C - comparator or control (e.g. another therapy, placebo)
O - outcome

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E.Guegan — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:43:32 +0000

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E.Guegan — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:51:12 +0000

Context and setting both refer to the place and time from which the evidence for the HTA report has come and/or in which the HTA report will be used. Time and place are both important dimensions of context/setting, as are level (national, regional, local), the kind of decision being made.

‘Setting’ in particular is commonly used in HTA to refer narrowly to an organizational dimension of health care, such as primary, secondary or tertiary care, or community care.

Adaptation - EUnetHTA

E.Guegan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:31:32 +0000

Issue

The purpose of adaptation is to enable an HTA agency in one country (or region or setting) to make use of an HTA report produced elsewhere, thus saving time and money. This sounds simple but in reality, the adaptation process is complex.