Background: Due to lack of data, assessments often include modelling or simulation techniques in order to analyse long-term effects. This, in turn requires increasing cooperation of experts from different fields of science such as HTA, statistics, data management, modelling & simulation as well...

In order to allocate scarce resources effectively, reimbursement decisions for health technologies should be evidence-based. However, decision-makers are often confronted with the problem that study results are either not applicable to clinical routine or that high quality data is not available...