Ethics in HTA

Overview

The HTAi Interest Group for Ethical Issues in HTA (Ethics IG) brings together all those involved in HTA (staff from HTA bodies, industry, government, academia and patients and citizens) who have an interest in the explicit and formal identification and analysis of ethical issues both of and within HTA.

Organization Information

Co-Chairs:

Bart Bloemen, Netherlands
Pietro Refolo, Italy

Technical Officer: Costanza Raimondi, Italy

Terms of Reference

Join Ethics IG

Contact our Technical Officer to find out how to become part of this interest group.

Costanza Raimondi
to.ethics@htai.org

Presentations & Business Meetings

Co-chairs: Ken Bond and Dario Sacchini

Technical Officer (TO): Sylvia Nabukenya

Item One: Welcome remarks (co-chairs)

Item Two: Minutes from previous Business Meetings

Item Three: Outstanding items from February 2021 Business Meeting

Item Four: Virtual Meeting summary

Item Five: Next IGoE activities

Item Six: Other Business

Date: June 28, 2021, at 6:30 a.m. MDT (UTC -6)

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Co-chairs: Ken Bond and Dario Sacchini

Technical Officer (TO): Sylvia Nabukenya

Item One: Welcome remarks (co-chairs)
Item Two: Proposal of prolongation of IG chairs mandate up to Manchester HTAi 2021
- Approval from HTAi (received from Lucy Henry and Leonor Varela-Lema)
- Core member response (received approval)
- Full member response
Item Three: Approval of minutes of HTAi IGoE Annual Business Meeting 2019 in Cologne, Germany
Item Four: HTAi IGoE Oslo Meeting summary
- Updates on Competencies paper on for ethics in HTA led by Dario Sacchini and Pietro Refolo
- Ethical relevance on disinvestment paper led by Wija Oortwijn, Ken Bond and Iñaki Gutiérrez-Ibarluzea
Item Five: Update from HTAi IG steering committee meetings held on May 28 and March 26. (Co-chairs represented the HTAi IGoE)
Item Six: Next HTAi IGoE activities for Manchester 2021
Item Seven: Other business

Date: June 31, 2020, at 7:00 a.m. MDT (UTC -6)

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Resources & Materials

2014

Ethics Checklist Workshop (2014)
- Ethics Checklist Workshop – Edmonton and Cologne
Revealing and Acknowledging Value Judgements in HTA – IJTAHC (2014)
Harmonization of Ethics in HTA – IJTAHC (2014)
Views of members on new activities of the Ethics IG (2014)
- Results of a web-based survey among members of the Ethics IG

International Workshop on Methodology in Ethics for HTA

On January 19-20th, 2012 an international workshop on methodology in ethics for HTA was held at IQWiG, Cologne (Germany). The workshop was organised by the INAHTA/HTAi Ethics Interest Subgroup.

Participants

Sigrid Droste (IQWiG, Germany)
Bjørn Hofmann (NOKC, Norway)
Tanja Krones (Universitt Zrich, Switzerland)
Mirella Marlow (NICE, United Kingdom)
Wija Ortwijn, (Ecorys, the Netherlands)
Dario Sacchini (Universit Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy)
Irina Cleemput (Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre, Belgium)
Christa Harstall (Institute of Health Economics, Canada)
Ken Bond (Institute of Health Economics, Canada)
Flp Scheibler (IQWIG, Germany)
Alric Rther (IQWiG, Germany)
Sophie Werko (SBU, Sweden).

Summary

During the two-day workshop the Socratic approach (axiological approach) used in HTA was compared with other approaches, assessing whether it is possible to elaborate a joint model in ethics in HTA. All participants contributed to the workshop, presenting their experiences with various approaches. Advantages, disadvantages and shortcomings of different methods, including the Socratic approach, capability approach, and the EUnetHTA Core model, have been revealed.

In addition, more general issues were discussed, such as whether social, ethical, legal, and cultural issues could or should be addressed by the same methodology, whether certain methods are more suitable for certain kinds of technologies or for particular kinds of HTA (assessment or appraisal), as well as whether ethics interferes with norms of policy making.

The outcomes of the workshop will be presented in two journal articles that are currently in preparation.