Overview
The HTAi Disinvestment and Early Awareness Interest Group (DEA IG) is a platform for collaboration, sharing knowledge and expertise, and development of methods for disinvestment and early awareness of health technologies.
Resources & Materials
Disinvestment and Early Awareness Alert
Guidelines and Methodological Resources
- Methodological Guidelines, Health Technology Performance Assessment, 2017, Ministry of Health of Brazil (English)
- Reducing the use of ineffective health care interventions (Center for Health Economics Research and Evaluation)
- Identification, prioritization and assessment of obsolete technologies. A methodological guideline
- GuNFT – Guideline for Not Funding existing Technologies
Toolkits
EuroScan International Network:
A toolkit for the identification and assessment of new and emerging health technologies
Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Ibargoyen-Roteta N, Galnares-Cordero L, Benguria-Arrate G, Chacón-Acevedo KR, Gutiérrez-Sepulveda MP, Low-Padilla E, De La Hoz-Siegler IH, Guevara-Pérez CI, Del Pozo-Pérez Á, Suárez M, Dauben HP, Otte M, Gutiérrez-Ibarluzea I. A systematic review of the early dialogue frameworks used within health technology assessment and their actual adoption from HTA agencies. Front Public Health. 2022 Oct 6;10:942230. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.942230. PMID: 36276363; PMCID: PMC9583828.
- A collaborative pilot on current awareness alerts for disinvestment and horizon scanning
- A scoping review of de-implementation frameworks and models. Walsh-Bailey C, Tsai E, Tabak RG, Morshed AB, Norton WE, McKay VR, Brownson RC, Gifford S. Implement Sci. 2021 Nov 24;16(1):100. doi: 10.1186/s13012-021-01173-5.PMID: 34819122 Review
- Esmail R, Hanson HM, Holroyd-Leduc, Niven DJ, Clement F. (2021). Is there a Knowledge Translation Theory, Model or Framework Suitable for Health Technology Reassessment? Results from an International Survey. BMJ Open. 11:e042251. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-042251
- Esmail R, Clement F, Holroyd-Leduc, Niven DJ, Hanson HM. (2021). Characteristics of Knowledge Translation Theories, Models and Frameworks for Health Technology Reassessment: Expert Perspectives through a Qualitative Exploration. BMC Health Services Research. 21:401
- Esmail R, Hanson HM, Holroyd-Leduc J, Brown S, Strifler L, Straus SE, Niven DJ, Clement FM. (2020). A scoping review of full-spectrum knowledge translation theories, models, and frameworks. Implementation Science. 15 (1):11 DOI:10.1186/s13012-020-0964-5
- Esmail R, Hanson H, Holroyd-Leduc J, Niven DJ, Clement F. (2018). Knowledge translation and health technology reassessment: identifying synergy. BMC Health Services Research. 18:674
- Doos L, Packer C, Ward D, Simpson S, Stevens A. (2016). “Past speculations of the future: a review of the methods used for forecasting emerging health technologies.” BMJ Open. 6
- Ermisch, M, Bucsics A, Bonnano, PV, Arickx F et al. (2016). “Payers’ Views of the Changes Arising through the Possible Adoption of Adaptive Pathways.” 7(305).
- Nascimento A, Vidal AT, Almeida RT. (2016). “Mapping stakeholders’ preferences in prioritization criteria for horizon scanning in healthcaremtechnologies.” Cad. Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, 32(7):e00177614
- Parkinson B, Sermet C, Clement F, Crausaz S et al. (2016). Stratgies de dsinvestissement des produits pharmaceutiques: une revue de littrature internationale. Questions d’conomie de la sant n 220 – Juillet/aot 2016:1-8).
- https://www.euroscan.org/research-and-publications/
News and Events
HTAi 2019 (Cologne, Germany)
HTAi 2018 (Vancouver, Canada)
HTAi 2017 (Rome, Italy)
- HTAi DEA-IG Meeting Agenda – 20 June 2017
- HTAi DEA-IG Meeting Presentation
- HTAi DEA-IG HTAi XIV Presentation

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