Despite the advances made in the development of ethical frameworks for health technology
assessment (HTA), there is no clear agreement on the scope and details of a practical …

Objectives: Although ethics has been on the agenda in health technology assessment (HTA)
since its inception, the integration of moral issues is still not standard and is performed in a …

Health technology assessment (HTA) is the multidisciplinary study of the implications of the
development, diffusion and use of health technologies. It supports health-policy decisions by …

This chapter focuses on health technology assessment (HTA) Health care is a moral
endeavor, and the vast potential of technology poses complex moral challenges. Health …

The social shaping of technology (SST) approach has been developed as a response and
extension to the ideas of techno-economic rationality and linear conceptions of technology …

The widespread application of technology in health care has imposed a broad range of
challenges. The field of health technology assessment (HTA) is developed in order to face …

ObjectivesSocial and cultural aspects are rarely assessed in health technology assessments
(HTA), despite being part of most HTA definitions. One hypothesis for the reason why they …

The regulation of reproductive medicine technologies differs significantly among Western
industrialized countries. In Germany, preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is prohibited …

From the conception of HTA in the 1970s it has been argued that addressing ethical issues
is an element of HTA, and many methods for integrating ethics in HTA have become …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to set out a structured meta‐methodology, named
DIODE, for the ethical assessment of new and emerging technologies. DIODE has been …