Defining the scope of health technology assessment and types of health economic evaluation.

Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is a process that uses principles from across various disciplines, including medicine, sociology, economics, and ethics, to evaluate health technologies. Policy makers can use HTA as a tool to assess health technologies in a systematic, unbiased, transparent, and robust manner in order to make informed and evidence-based decisions. Generally, researchers begin an HTA by defining the overall scope of the...