scholarly journals Documentary Practices of Hospital Librarians in Evidence-based Medicine: the Example of Health Technology Assessment in Swedish Healthcare

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Ahlryd ◽  
Fredrik Hanell
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Technology Assessment ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Evidence Based Medicine ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Search Process ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Rational Decision Making ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Based Medicine

Today’s healthcare rely on a basis of evidence-based medicine (EBM) and in modern healthcare there are demands for rational decision-making about new methods, technology and treatments. HTA (Health Technology Assessment) supports decision-making in healthcare and in this study we turn to documentary practices of hospital librarians in HTA, as well as how documentary practices shape and are shaped by the work and roles of hospital librarians. Five central documentary practices were identified as initial searching, negotiating a search strategy, the main searching, making a selection, and documenting the search process. These practices construct the work and roles of hospital librarians through different documents, for example formal guidelines for systematic reviews and various tools used for searching, selecting and documenting the search process.

scholarly journals Health technology assessment in Finland

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (S1) ◽  
pp. 102-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjukka Mäkelä ◽  
Risto P. Roine
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Technology Assessment ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Health Technologies ◽  
Based Medicine ◽  
Special Responsibility ◽  
Made In

Since the 1990s, health policy makers in Finland have been supportive of evidence-based medicine and approaches to implement its results. The Finnish Office for Health Technology Assessment (Finohta) has grown from a small start in 1995 to a medium-sized health technology assessment (HTA) agency, with special responsibility in providing assessments to underpin national policies in screening. External evaluations enhanced the rapid growth. In the Finnish environment, decision making on health technologies is extremely decentralized, so Finohta has developed some practical tools for implementing HTA findings. The Managed Uptake of Medical Methods program links the hospital districts to agree on introduction of technologies. The Ohtanen database provides Finnish-language summaries of major assessments made in other countries.

International meeting for HTA-emerging countries

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (03) ◽  
pp. 425-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rabia Kahveci
Keyword(s):  
Health Technology Assessment ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Evidence Based Medicine ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Emerging Countries ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
International Meeting ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Based Medicine

KDTD (Turkish Evidence-Based Medicine Association) hosted a conference on the subject of health technology assessment (HTA)-emerging countries in Ankara, Turkey on March 4–6, 2009.

HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT AND CLINICAL DECISION MAKING:

1999 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 585-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicia Granados
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Technology Assessment ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Systematic Process

This paper examines the rationality of the concepts underlying evidence—based medicineand health technology assessment (HTA), which are part of a new current aimed at promoting the use of the results of scientific studies for decision making in health care. It describes the different approaches and purposes of this worldwide movement, in relation to clinical decision making, through a summarized set of specific HTA case studies from Catalonia, Spain. The examples illustrate how the systematic process of HTA can help in several types of uncertainties related to clinical decision making.

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