The value framework developed by the IECS is a valuable tool for decision makers seeking to evaluate diagnostic technologies in Latin America. This framework helps ensure that decisions about the inclusion or exclusion of diagnostic technologies are made in a transparent and evidence-based manner.
This framework is a tool that helps decision makers evaluate the value of health technologies, taking into account a variety of factors, including effectiveness, safety, costs and benefits to patients.
The value framework developed by the IECS is designed to be transparent and participatory, and is supported by a wide range of actors, including decision-makers, funders, producers, health professionals and patients.
Grouped into four categories:
- Effectiveness: measures the impact of technology on patient health.
- Safety: measures the risk of adverse effects associated with the technology.
- Acceptability: measures the acceptance of technology by patients, health professionals and society in general.
- Budget impact: measures the cost of technology in relation to its benefits.
Through a User Manual, the work team operationalized the components of the value framework, as well as the compilation of tools to assess each of the domains. By reading it, researchers are assisted in the evaluation process of a diagnostic technology using the Value Framework.
In this video, Prof. Dr. Federico Augustovsi and Dr. Verónica Alfie explain the features of the User Manual.
Value Framework for Diagnostic Technologies in Latin America
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This guide has been prepared with the objective of offering guidelines to guide its use when making decisions in the incorporation of diagnostic technologies in the health system.
Our project conducted a targeted systematic review, aiming to propose an updated, evidence-based framework informed by a broad group of stakeholders working in the health technology assessment (HTA) space.
How is a diagnostic technology evaluated? What makes them different? How is the value of a diagnostic test defined? This reading material will address some of these issues and will surely also open new questions.
This document was prepared by the Department of Health Technology Assessment of the Institute of Clinical and Health Effectiveness (IECS) in the context of the project “Value Framework for Diagnostic Technologies in Latin America”.
Tools to apply a Diagnostic Technologies Value Framework in decision making