Objectives: We conducted a multi‑stakeholder survey to determine key areas where a joint European health technology assessment (HTA) could provide "additional benefit" compared to the status quo of many parallel independent national and subnational assessments. Methods: Leveraging three...

Objectives: Key challenges for a joint European Health Technology Assessment (HTA) include consolidated approaches towards the choice of adequate comparator(s), selection of endpoints that are relevant to patients with a given disease, dealing with remaining uncertainties as well as transparent...

Background: The purpose of this study was to analyse the impact of commissioned addenda by the Federal Joint Committee (FJC) to the HTA body (IQWiG) and their agreement with FJC decisions and to identify potential additional decisive factors of FJC. Methods: All available relevant documents up...