CAHTA's Newsletter, Issue 47, March 2010
Editorial: Choice architecture - Immigrant and native population: health and use of services - Lower respiratory tract infections in children - Coronary stents in Spanish hospitals - Renewing health: a telemedicine project - Telephone-based counselling and home care in the reduction of hospital emergencies - Drug assessment: local and international iniciatives - The ISOR project and assessment of the impact of research in decision-making - eHealth Conference Barcelona 2010 - Interview: Cyril Frank. |
CAHTA's Newsletter, Issue 46, December 2009
Editorial: Obama's health care reform CAHTA projects - Childhood and youth obesity from the evidence - Rapid screening test for HIV - Electronic prescribing system in the Catalan territory - Multiple chemical sensitivity - Attributing social impacts to research - PET research in Catalonia Research - Conference for the presentation of the 2004 CAHTA Research Call results - 14 new research projects, results of the 2008 CAHTA - Interview: Carles Tobar i Pascual. |
CAHTA's Newsletter, Issue 45, September 2009
Editorial: Diagnostic imaging techniques: benefits and uncertainties - New evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for the management of stroke, schizophrenia and eating disorders - Perception of school bullying in children and adolescents - Shared Clinical Record in Catalonia - Amotosalen for inactivation of pathogens - Early detection of ischemic cardiopathy in asymptomatic diabetic patients - Minority diseases, the target of the 2009 TV3 Telethon - Interview: Carlos Sisternas. |
CAHTA's Newsletter, Issue 44, May 2009
Editorial: New challenges, new agency - HIFU and live cancer - Prenatal screening of Down Syndrome - EUnetHTA Handbook capacity building - FRAX and risc of osteoporotic fracture - Respiratory rehabilitation in health spas - Social impact of the research - Grant Call 2008 - Interview: Barbara Starfield. |
CAHTA's Newsletter, Issue 43, June 2008
Editorial: Fifteen years collaborating in Health Technology Assessment in Europe - Healthcare process and results of high complexity digestive cancer surgery: Oncorisc study - Results and products of the EUnetHTA project - A priority system for patients on waiting lists for assisted human reproduction techniques - Organization of an arthroplasty registry in the Spanish National Health System: Delphi study - Call for topics. CAHTA 2008 Research Call - Involvement of patients/carers in the development of CPG - Sample size: amongst error, variability and effect. |
CAHTA's Newsletter, Issue 42, February 2008
Editorial: The final frontier? - Analysing the characteristics and outcomes of hip and knee artrhoplasty - The Kidscreen follow-up - Defining process and assessment indicators. Assessing healtcare practice in oncology - Oncological and reconstructive breast surgery in Andalusia and Catalonia - Priorisation of topics for clinical and health services research in Catalonia - Outcome assessment of projects funded by CAHTA calls - Closing event of the 2002 CAHTA Call - Research funding agencies bet for Open Access - Literature search protocols: towards systematisation in information retrieval. |
CAHTA's Newsletter, Issue 41, September 2007
Editorial: What about drugs? - Palivizumab in the prophylaxis of hospitalisation from respiratory syncytial virus infection in infants - Three-year effectiveness of radical prostatectomy, brachytherapy and external conformal radiotherapy in localized prostate cancer - Respiratory rehabilitation systems: eFlow, The Vest and Coughassist - Description of cancer screening in Spain. DESCRIC Project - 2006 research call of the Fundació La Marató de TV3 on chronic pain - Composite/combined endpoints, outcomes in clinical trials. |
CAHTA's Newsletter, Issue 40, November 2006
Editorial: Assessment of biomedical research - Update on some of the CAHTA clinical practice guidelines - International arthroplasty registers - Photodynamic therapy in patients suffering from age-related macular degeneration - Call Research CAHTA 2006 - 2005 research call of the Fundació La Marató de TV3 on neurosciences - Ethical and legal challenges of genetic counselling in hereditary cancer - Assessment of biomedical research teams. |
CAHTA's Newsletter, Issue 39, Abril 2006
Editorial: The great paradoxes - Assessment of the therapeutic procedure and its outcomes in digestive oncology: initial results - CAHTA participation in the EUnetHTA project - The CoCanCPG Project - Guide for the indication of bone densitometry. Update December 2004 - Isolated limb perfusion with tumour necrosis factor alpha and melphalan for patients with melanoma of the limb - OncoGuide for genetic counselling in hereditary cancer - HRQoL in children and adolescents: the Spanish versions of the VSP-A and KINDL-R questionnaires - Call Research Proposals 2006 - Advantages and limitations of digital radiology systems - Odds ratio and relative risks. |
CAHTA's Newsletter, Issue 38, January 2006
Editorial: Like a rolling stone - Scientific productivity of La Marató de TV3: bibliometric analysis - Catalan Arthroplasties Register: results of the analysis of the CMBDAH - Cochlear implants in adults and children - Indication for PET in oncology in Catalonia - OncoGuides 2004: ovary, prostate, oropharynx, Hodgkin's lymphoma and paediatric tumours of the central nervous system - 2004 research call of the Fundació La Marató de TV3 on cancer - Factors influenciny the behaviour of the population in choosing hospital emergency services - The Commitee of Assessment of New Medicinal Products (CANM): 5 years of experience - QALY: definition, limitations and applications. |
