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Health Technology Assessment in Croatian Healthcare System

The healthcare system in Croatia is in transition. HTA can improve quality and increase its efficiency. In our feasibility study we made analysis of the efficiency of Croatian healthcare system, and as a result we found out that the system is very expensive and of an extremely low efficiency. Health technology assessment is the systematic evaluation of the properties and effects of health care tech-nology. It may nvolve the investigation of one or more of the following attributes of technologies: Performance characteristics that include sensitivity and specificity of diagnostic tests, and conformity with specifications for design, manufacturing, reliability, ease of use and maintenance. Safety, a judgment of the acceptability of risk (a meas-ure of the chances of an adverse health outcome and its severity) associated with using a technology in a particular situation. Efficiency refers to the benefit of using a technology to address a particular problem under ideal conditions (e.g., within the protocol of a carefully managed randomized controlled trial, involving patients meeting narrowly defined criteria, or conducted at a “ center of excellence” ). Effectiveness refers to the benefit of using a technol-ogy for a particular problem under general or routine condi-tions (e.g., by a physician in a community hospital treating a variety of patient types).

HTA; WHO Project; Healthcare system

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