PRIORITISATION OF TECHONOLOGIES

CONCLUSIONS

• Obsolete health technology assessment must be preceded by a rigorous selection process in which technologies having greatest impact on health care are prioritised.
• A prioritisation tool helps prioritise obsolete health technology rigorously, specifically and transparently, and is potentially exportable to other settings.
• The prioritisation tool developed includes the views of the different actors involved in obsolete technology assessment, such as managers/administrators, clinicians and patients.
• The prioritisation process must be transparent and take into account all aspects that influence the impact of an obsolete health technology (population/end-users, risk/benefit, and cost, organisation and other implications). The prioritisation tool developed envisages these aspects and ranks them in accordance with values predefined by a panel of experts.
• The prioritisation tool developed here enables comparison of the relative importance of aspects that affect population/end-users, risk/benefit, and costs, organisation and other implications in the prioritisation of potentially obsolete technologies.