Patients are increasingly encouraged to become active players in self-care and shared decision-making. Such attention has led to an explosion of terms – empowerment, engagement, enablement, participation, involvement, activation – each having multiple and overlapping meanings. The resulting...

Objectives The increasing pace of development of healthcare technologies obliges hospitals to increase both the rationality and the accountability of priority setting for technology adoption. This paper aims at identifying which are the relevant issues for technology assessment and selection at...