Tanvejsilp Pimwara, Ngorsuraches Surachat
J Med Assoc Thai. 2014 May;97 Suppl 5:S10-6.
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 assessment, after which they choose an appropriate type of health economic evaluation, one of the most important elements of HTA. The objective of this article is to provide recommendations about the scope of HTA as well as guidance on the kinds of health economic evaluation that are appropriate in the context of the new Thai HTA guidelines. A well-defined research question that addresses five major components-target population, technology or intervention, comparator outcome of interest, and perspective-is an essential
卫生技术评估（HTA）是一个运用包括医学、社会学、经济学和伦理学等多学科原理来评估卫生技术的过程。政策制定者可以将HTA作为一种工具，以系统、公正、透明和稳健的方式评估卫生技术，从而做出明智且基于证据的决策。通常，研究人员开展卫生技术评估时首先要界定评估的总体范围，之后选择合适的卫生经济评估类型，这是卫生技术评估最重要的要素之一。本文的目的是就卫生技术评估的范围提供建议，并针对符合泰国新卫生技术评估指南背景下适用的卫生经济评估类型提供指导。一个明确界定的、涉及五个主要组成部分——目标人群、技术或干预措施、对照、感兴趣的结果以及视角——的研究问题至关重要。
