Institute within the scope of the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG)
Institute within the scope of the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG)
The DAHTA commissions external specialists with the task of preparing HTA reports. Here you will find topics currently being handled. If one of these matters is of particular interest to you, and about which you wish to be informed if the report is published, please contact the Helpdesk HTA (Sort by: prevention/screening, diagnosis, therapy/rehabilitation, methodology/other and nursing).
| Prevention/screening | Status |
|---|---|
| Which prevention measures for Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder are effective and efficient in which setting? What is the cost-effectiveness? What ethical, social and legal aspects must be taken into consideration? | forthcoming |
| Which options has primary prevention depending on different forms of eating disorders in practice? How effective are they? How is the cost-benefit-relation? | in process |
| Are fissure sealings of the resting large side teeth (molars) an effective and cost-effective caries prophylaxis among children and youths with high caries risk? Which ethical, social and juridical aspects have to be considered? | in process |
| How is the medical efficacy of a screening for the prevention of grave consequences of the adominal aortic aneurysm/AAA (reduction of mortality)? Which therapeutic measures are due to the results of the screening? How cost-effective is the screening? Which ethical, social and legal aspects have to be considered? | in process |
| How can be avoided infections in vascular prosthesis surgery? Which costs are caused by infections of vascular prosthesis? Which ethical, social and legal aspects have to be considered? | in process |
| Diagnosis | Status |
|---|---|
| What is the medical benefit of the analysis of asymptomatic arteriosclerosis? | in process |
| Therapy/rehabilitation | Status |
|---|---|
| Cement-free versus cemented (and partially cemented) endoprosthesis: which form of therapy is the most successful and cost-effective? What effects does this have on the German health system? What ethical, social and legal aspects must be taken into consideration? | in process |
| What operation steps in terms of a primary sectio lead to which direct and indirect costs or cost savings? Would a change to compensation for spontaneous births and planned Caesarean sections (e.g. settlement using a time factor during support in childbirth) lead to a reduction in sections (currently on the increase)? What ethical, social and legal aspects must be taken into consideration? | in process |
| Which diets do support to lose weight and to keep it? How is the cost-effectiveness of different diets? Which ethical, social and juridical aspects have to be considered? | in process |
| How is the efficiency of the acute pain therapy on operative and conservative wards? How is the cost-benefit-effectiveness? Which ethical, social and juridical aspects have to be considered? | in process |
| How effective are minimal invasive procedures versus other methods of lung volume reduction with pulmonary emphysema? How have to be evaluated the health economic effects as well as the ethical and juridical aspects? | in process |
| Music therapy in a palliative setting | in process |
| How effective is the application of drugs considering gender and age specific differences? Which health economic, ethical, social and juridical effects takes a gender and age specific medication? (for example: neuro-psychotropic drugs, antibiotics) | in process |
| What is the medical effect of the mistletoe therapy in the treatment of mastocarcinoma? How should the therapy be administered: as injection or in another dosage form? | in process |
| Methodology and others | Status |
|---|---|
| In terms of out-patient care, can a continuous, retraceable, cost-neutral measurement be performed according to EU laws as to the extent to which the quality of care for out-patient rheumatism sufferers in a defined region (on a city, district, regional or provincial level) meets the care requirements as per §70 of the SGB V? What indicators or criteria are important? What ethical, social and legal aspects must be taken into consideration? | in process |
| What measures for the health behaviour of men are effective (vulnerable groups and socially deprived)? | in process |
| Nursing | Status |
|---|---|
| Which instruments are used to assess expert standards in the central risk areas of nursing? Are the determined results vulnerable and reliable? How are the sensitivity and the specifity of the instruments? Is the quality of nursing in the different settings optimised by the assessment? Which ethical, social and juridical aspects have to be considered? | in process |
| How can be realistically judged the individually required nursing? Are the resulting nursing investment and the for it necessary services of the care givers and the providers appropriate and quality assured? Are the quality assurance systems appropriate to fulfil the demands of care in Germany? Which health economic, social and legal determining factors have to be considered? | in process |
| How effective is ergotherapy in the treatment of humans with moderate or severe dementia? How is the cost-benefit-aspect? Which ethical, social and legal aspects have to be considered? | in process |