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Overview

Duration

4 weeks

Total fee

2,763

Mode of learning

Online

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Credential

Certificate

Health Technology Assessment: Choosing Which Treatments Get Funded
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Highlights

  • Duration 4 weeks
  • Weekly study 3 hours
  • 100% online Learn at your own pace
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Health Technology Assessment: Choosing Which Treatments Get Funded
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Course details

More about this course
  • Why are some treatments made available to patients while others are not?
  • On this course, you'll explore how health technology assessment (HTA) informs whether we should have access to certain treatments on the NHS or other healthcare systems.
  • You'll learn how decisions are made about which treatments are made available and the considerations that made surrounding benefits and costs.
  • This course is based on the University of Sheffields online distance-learning program, the
  • . You can continue to learn about healthcare decision-making in our other online course
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Health Technology Assessment: Choosing Which Treatments Get Funded
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FutureLearn 
Curriculum

What is Health Technology Assessment?

Introduction to the course

What is HTA?

The HTA process

How does HTA inform healthcare funding?

Reflection and a look at next week

How do we know if the treatment is of benefit?

Pre-trial stages

Therapeutic value propositions

Clinical trials

Reflection and a look forward to next week

How can we make sense of all the evidence?

An introduction to systematic reviews

The different stages of a review

Uncertainty and risk of bias in the evidence base

Qualitative reviews

Reflection and a look at next week

How is evidence of the cost of treatments used in HTA?

Introduction to economic evaluation

Modelling

The final HTA report

Perspectives on the decision-making process

End of the course and farewell

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