Systematic reviews (SRs) are incredibly crucial for healthcare decision-making, as they often provide a reliable summary of evidence on the comparison among healthcare interventions. They identify, assess, and combine the results of similar but individual studies and help to clarify the known and unknown benefits and risks associated with drugs, devices, and other healthcare interventions. […]
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is gaining wide acceptance from researchers globally as it thoroughly optimizes the latest available evidence to make informed care decisions. This involves evaluating the quality of the clinical data by critically assessing methodologies reported in publications. Moreover, EBM incorporates both clinical expertise as well as patient values. Meta-analyses of RCTs often make […]
India is in the middle of health transformation. Although infectious diseases like tuberculosis, malaria, dengue, H1N1 pandemic influenza and antimicrobial resistance continue to pose health and economic burden, the country is also facing challenges with chronic non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer; which are the leading cause of mortality. Social and economic determinants […]
Heath Technology Assessment (HTA) is a scientific research area that makes informed clinical as well as policy decisions on the use of health technologies, which include pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostics, procedures and other clinical, public health and organizational interventions. (1) Recently, ‘early HTA’ is progressively being promoted as a perspective to determine added value of […]
We all want safe and effective medicines to reach patients as soon as possible, but as we know, drug development, market authorization and payer assessment are all slow sections of a long and drawn out journey for a drug. But what if patients could have access to medicines not just months earlier, but potentially 8 […]
Health systems have developed at different speeds, and with differing degrees of complexity throughout the twentieth century, reflecting the diverse political and social conditions in each country. Notwithstanding their diversity, all systems, however, share a common reason for their existence, namely the improvement of health for their entire populations. To attain this goal a health […]
