Record Status This is a bibliographic record of a published health technology assessment from a member of INAHTA. No evaluation of the quality of this assessment has been made for the HTA database. Citation Healthcare Improvement Scotland. What approaches have been taken and efforts made to ensure public involvement in decision making relating to potential disinvestment in healthcare interventions and technologies? Glasgow: Healthcare Improvement Scotland. Technologies Scoping Report 16. 2013 Authors' conclusions Detecting and eliminating potentially obsolete health technologies is a complex process that requires input from all relevant stakeholders, including the public. In addition to the lack of any standard definition of disinvestment, there are also inconsistencies in the terms used to depict disinvestment-type activities.
This review shows that little research has been done to find the best ways of involving the public in making healthcare decisions as regards to disinvestment. There was no strong evidence to suggest that any of the frameworks identified could be considered a best practice model. Most of the articles reported that more effort is needed to enable the public to develop and express informed views, and consequently to incorporate
these views when making disinvestment decisions. Indexing Status Subject indexing assigned by CRD MeSH Budgets; Delivery of Health Care; Humans; Investments; National Health Programs; Resource Allocation; State Medicine; Technology Assessment, Biomedical Language Published English Country of organisation Scotland English summary An English language summary is available. Address for correspondence Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Delta House, 50 West Nile Street, Glasgow, G1 2NP Tel: 0141 225 6998 Email: doreen.pedlar@nhs.net AccessionNumber 32013000499 Date abstract record published 25/06/2013 |