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EUR-ASSESS Project Subgroup Report on Coverage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Richard Cranovsky ,
Yves Matillon  and
David Banta
Richard Cranovsky
Affiliation:
Swiss Medical Association, Aarau, Switzerland
Yves Matillon
Affiliation:
National Agency for the Development of Medical Evaluation (ANDEM), Paris, France
David Banta
Affiliation:
Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Leiden, The Netherlands
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The issue of health benefits coverage—and its relation to health technology assessment (HTA)—has gained increasing attention in recent years. Economic constraints on health care, as well as the rapid pace of technological change, have forced European countries to face difficult choices in providing such care. The active use of coverage decision making has been proposed as a tool to help rationalize health care, and HTA has been advocated as a necessary activity to improve coverage decisions.

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Special Section: Report from the Eur-Assess Project Eur-Assess
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International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , Spring 1997 , pp. 287 - 332
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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