Clinician perspectives on hospital-based HTA

Abstract

The success of any hospital-based health technology assessment (HB-HTA) program depends on many stakeholders, but without buy-in from physicians and other members of the clinical team, HB-HTA will fail to reach its full potential. Physicians and clinical team members have great influence on which drugs, technologies, and techniques are used in the hospital setting, due to their pivotal role in hospital decision-making from the microlevel (individual/patient level clinical practice) to the meso-level (institutional policy/standard) and ultimately to the macro-level (national or governmental guidelines/standards).