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FAQ

How can an organisation participate in the EUnetHTA activities?

Please see sections EUnetHTA Partners and EUnetHTA Associates

How does EUnetHTA Joint Action relate to the outcomes of the High Level Pharmaceutical Forum?

EUnetHTA Joint Action is taking forward the scientific recommendations from the Pharmaceutical Forum Working Group on Relative Effectiveness of Pharmaceuticals through the work performed in the EUnetHTA JA Work Package 5 (Relative Effectiveness Assessment of Pharmaceuticals). It is not a continuation of the Pharmaceutical Forum in terms of its structural/governance organisation.

What is HTA Core Model®?

It is a structured manner of creating and presenting HTA information as assessment elements. Some elements are prioritized over others to support European collaboration through defining them as "core elements".

Assessment element: The basic unit of the model. Defines a piece of information that describes the technology or the consequences of implications of its use, or any other implication that is relevant for the assessment, such as the patients and the disease for which it is applied. Each assessment element contains an "issue", which is a question that should be answered in an HTA. Not all issues, however, are relevant to all technologies/settings, and hence their relevance is considered separately for each assessment. Elements are defined through a combination of domain, topic and issue. For more information, please consult HTA Core Model® Handbook

What is Core HTA?

An actual assessment that

a) has been conducted using the HTA Core Model® and

b) has considered all core elements of all 9 domains. (Note: through this consideration some elements may be defined as irrelevant, but that should be documented).

A Core HTA contains a chapter that draws together key findings of various domains, but does not make recommendations regarding the use of technology. Through the wide scope, focus on core elements and the summary chapter, a Core HTA gives an overview of a technology that is likely to be useful in the European context. A Core HTA can be used as a basis for producing local HTA reports that take into account local circumstances (e.g. epidemiology, organisation, resources, values).

The purpose of Core HTAs is to act as evidence/information base that can be further refined, amended and interpreted into a local HTA report in each country/region/etc.

What is the Members only site?

The Members only site (MO site) is a private website restricted to EUnetHTA Partners and Associates.

Employees of EUnetHTA Partner or Associate agencies may access the MO site using their EUnetHTA id.

What is the EUnetHTA id?

EUnetHTA id is a single sign on system that allows each employee of a EUnetHTA Partner or Associate to get access to EUnetHTA tools

As of today (2011-05-23), EUnetHTA id allows to access the following tools (NB: some tools have more restrictive access rights):

To get your EUnetHTA id, please send the following information to the EUnetHTA Secretariat:

First Name
Surname
E-mail (must be professional e-mail; no GMail, HotMail etc.)
Institution short name
Insitution country
Institution website
Phone (please provide international format following this example: ++45 7222 8532)

When trying to enter the POP-database, I get an error-message?

If you get an error like "invalid username" or "server password is missing" when logging on, your account may be invalid or inaccessible through the central profile service. Please log on to the MO site and change or confirm your password with the "edit profile" function to validate your account. You should be able to log on to the POP database within the next three hours. If the problem remains, please contact the POP database moderator.