ORAL Presentations - WEDneSday, June 18

Wednesday June 18

Cabin John Room

09:00-10:30
 OR044 - CROSSING BORDERS: TRANSFERABILITY OF ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS
Moderator: Debjani Mueller, South Africa
09:00  OR44.1 - Comparison of Health Technology Assessments from seven HTA Agencies (CADTH, G-BA, HAS, NICE, SMC, PBAC and CONITEC) in the Treatment of Hepatitis C with Protease Inhibitors
Rito Bergemann, Germany 		 
09:15  OR44.2 - Challenges Faced by Decision Makers from Middle Income Countries in Transferring Economic Evaluations from Other Jurisdictions
Michael Drummond, United Kingdom 		 
09:30  OR44.3 - Adopting health technologies in hospitals: a multiple case study analysis on decision-making across Europe
Americo Cicchetti, Italy 		 
09:45  OR44.4 - Do HTA experts assess a systematic review in the same way? A case study using AMSTAR and GRADE
Pernilla Östlund, Sweden 		 
10:00  OR44.5 - To what extent can we agree on the methods for economic evaluations? – A common framework for economic evaluations within EUnetHTA
Emelie Heintz, Sweden 		 
10:15  OR44.6 - Health Technology Assessment in Low- and Middle-Income Countries:  Findings from a Survey and Case Studies
Louis Garrison, USA 		 
     

Wednesday June 18

Roosevelt Room

09:00-10:30
 OR045 - DISCUSSIONS ON EXPEDITED REVIEW
Moderator: Ken Bond, Canada
09:00  OR45.1 - Early access to technologies ensuring safety and quality: the Galician experience (Spain)
Leonor Varela-Lema, Spain 		 
09:15  OR45.2 - Agency Preferences in HTA Clinical Evaluations
Anson Pontynen, USA 		 
09:30  OR45.3 - System of Tutelage of Health Technology (STHT) - Superintendencia de Servicios de Salud
Juan Denamiel, Argentina 		 
09:45  OR45.4 - Lack of recycling is wasteful- time to start reusing models for economic evaluation?
Torbjørn Wisløff, Norway 		 
10:00  OR45.5 - Rapid Evidence Reviews: The CADTH ExperienceA
Chris Kamel, Canada 		 
10:15  OR45.6 - Fast-track HTA assessments: different mechanisms by which HTA agencies facilitate rapid review in exceptional circumstances
Franz Pichler, United Kingdom 		 
     

Wednesday June 18

Renwick + Bulfinch Room

09:00-10:30
OR046 - HTA GUIDELINES AND BEST PRACTICES 
Moderator: Rod Taylor, United Kingdom
09:00  OR46.1 - Health technology assessment of medical devices in Europe
Sabine Fuchs, Germany 		 
09:15  OR46.2 - Technology Assessment in Health Services – the Newborn REBRATS Working Group
Luciana Simões Camara Leão, Brazil 		 
09:30  OR46.3 - Health Technology Assessment of robot-assisted surgery at “Bambino Gesù” Children’s Hospital
Matteo Ritrovato, Italy 		 
09:45  OR46.4 - A review of international HTA activities on medical devices
Britni Wilcher, United Kingdom 		 
10:00  OR46.5 - Development of Guidelines on New Health Technology Assessment in South Korea
Seonheui Lee, Korea 		 
10:15  OR46.6 - Characterization of Handbooks and Toolkits in healthcare and in HTA - tips for improvement
Krzysztof Andrzej Lach, Spain 		 
     

Wednesday June 18

Latrobe Room

09:00-10:30
OR047 - (DE)CONSTRUCTING MODELS: SOURCES AND ASSUMPTIONS 
Moderators: David Kaunelis, Canada & Sari Ormstad, Norway
09:00  OR47.1 - Comparison of Convergence of Health Indicators between China and United States: an Empirical Study
Junwen Yang, China 		 
09:15  OR47.2 - Value Judgments in the Health Technology Assessment Process in Brazil
Luiz Santoro Neto, Brazil 		 
09:30  OR47.3 - Appropriate Evidence Sources for Populating Decision Analytic Models within Health Technology Assessment (HTA): A Systematic Review of HTA Manuals and Health Economic Guidelines
Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss, Austria 		 
09:45  OR47.4 - The completeness of intervention descriptions in published UK NIHR HTA funded trials: A cross sectional study
Lisa Jane Douet, United Kingdom 		 
10:00  OR47.5 - A reflection on systematic search strategies for qualitative health research to inform HTA: To find the needle, you must get rid of the hay
Meredith Vanstone, Canada 		 
10:15  OR47.6 - Information Retrieval: the Impact of a Clinical Librarian in Health Technology Assessment
Silvana Marcia Bruschi Kelles, Brazil 		 
     

Wednesday June 18

Burnham Room

09:00-10:30
 OR048 - RESEARCH TOOLS AND PROTOCOLS
Moderators: Brendon Kearney, Australia & Jasmine Pwu, Taiwan
09:00  OR48.1 - Health Technology Assessment and Efficient Health Care Decision Making by the Judiciary System in Brazil: the NATS-UFMG Experience
Silvana Marcia Bruschi Kelles, Brazil 		 
09:15  OR48.2 - Analysis of the global clinical trials for health technology horizon scanning
Eunjung Park, Korea 		 
09:30  OR48.3 - A systematic review of Health Technology Assessment tools in Sub-Saharan Africa:  methodological issues and implications
Christine Kriza, Germany 		 
09:45  OR48.4 - Results from the survey of decision making for medical devices in Argentina
Victoria Wurcel, Argentina 		 
10:00  OR48.6 - Guidelines of the Brazilian Ministry of Health: Drafting Tools for Research in Health Technology Assessment in Brazil
Roberta Moreira Wichmann, Brazil 		 
     

Wednesday June 18

Farragut Square Room

09:00-10:30
OR049 - EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION RESEARCH 
Moderator: Jeonghoon Ahn, Korea
09:00  OR49.1 - Matching research with decisions: how  rapid HTA based on patients` outcomes can support Evidence Based Decision Making (EBDM)
Susanna Maltoni, Italy 		 
09:15  OR49.2 - A Tiered Approach to Prioritisation
Dylan Schwartz, New Zealand 		 
09:30  OR49.3 - Dissemination bias and evidence-based decisions on pharmaceutical coverage
Dimitra Panteli, Germany 		 
09:45  OR49.4 - Using indirect evidence to fill evidence gaps in disinvestment decision-making: Depression and anxiety associated with failed assisted reproduction
Janet E Hiller, Australia 		 
10:00  OR49.5 - The characteristics of expert advisors and the usefulness of their advice in evidence-based guidance production
Hannah Patrick, United Kingdom 		 
10:15  OR49.6 - Evidence-based decisions on pharmaceutical coverage in 36 European countries: a comparison
Dimitra Panteli, Germany 		 
     

Wednesday June 18

Lafayette Park Room

09:00-10:30
OR050 - REAL-WORLD INSIGHTS FROM BRAZIL 
Moderator: Guy Maddern, Australia
09:00  OR50.1 - Brazilian Ministry of Health´s Investment in HTA Training in 2013
Isadora Fernandez Patterson, Brazil 		 
09:15  OR50.2 - Pharmacoeconomic Education in Brazilian Schools of Pharmacy
Giácomo Balbinotto, Brazil 		 
09:30  OR50.3 - Pharmacoeconomic Education in Brazilian Schools of Pharmacy – 2012
Giácomo Balbinotto, Brazil 		 
09:45  OR50.4 - Brazilian Network for Health Technology Assessment (REBRATS) growth indicators
Lenilson Pereria Gonçalves, Brazil 		 
10:00  OR50.6 - The epidemiological profile of oral health professionals working in the National Health System in Nova Friburgo, Brazil
Gisele Caldas Alexandre, Brazil