Student Research Committee, Faculty of Management and Medical Information Sciences, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Islamic Republic of Iran.
Health Services Management Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Islamc Republic of Iran.
East Mediterr Health J. 2023 Jul 31;29(7):524-529. doi: 10.26719/emhj.23.039.
Health technology assessment (HTA) is a conventional method for evaluating reasonable use of health technologies in many countries.
To investigate the ethical soundness of HTA studies in Islamic Republic of Iran.
All HTA reports published by the HTA office until 2020 were reviewed using the HTA Core Model and the Q-SEA questionnaires.
We evaluated 91 reports for ethical soundness. The research question, literature search and inclusion/exclusion criteria were included in 91.2%, 83.5% and 82.4% of the HTA reports, respectively. Only 13.2% of the reports explicitly stated the objective of the analysis and 6.6% stated the ethics framework. Only 2.2%, 4.4%, 9.9%, 9.9%, 14.3%, and 2.2%, respectively, of the reports, complied with the completeness, bias, policy implications, other implications, conceptual clarification, and conflicting values.
HTA reports in the Islamic Republic of Iran require coordinated and integrated framework acceptable to all stakeholders to ensure their compliance with sound ethical requirements.
卫生技术评估（HTA）是许多国家评估卫生技术合理使用的常规方法。
调查伊朗伊斯兰共和国 HTA 研究的伦理合理性。
使用 HTA 核心模型和 Q-SEA 问卷，对 HTA 办公室截至 2020 年发布的所有 HTA 报告进行了审查。
我们评估了 91 份报告的伦理合理性。研究问题、文献检索和纳入/排除标准分别在 91.2%、83.5%和 82.4%的 HTA 报告中得到了体现。只有 13.2%的报告明确说明了分析的目标，6.6%的报告说明了伦理框架。只有 2.2%、4.4%、9.9%、9.9%、14.3%和 2.2%的报告分别符合完整性、偏倚、政策影响、其他影响、概念澄清和冲突价值观的要求。
伊朗伊斯兰共和国的 HTA 报告需要协调和整合所有利益相关者都能接受的框架，以确保其符合健全的伦理要求。
