Objective Technology developments play an important and increasing role in health care provis Abstract (6) The admittance of these provisions is based on the principle of "Evidence based medi Medical technology has therefore to fulf1ll criteria as appropriateness for medical pur added value in medicine, cost effectivity. Medical Technology products are as yet seldomly e with these criteria in mind; most clinical evaluations respond only to the first criterion. Medical Technology assessment is nowadays an accepted tool in health care to prove cost effe ness and the other criteria. However, to apply MTA methodologies as an instrument for evalui products is relatively new and has to answer a number of conditions before being accepted by and health care authorities. This grant application is focussed on defining some of the necessary conditions before applyir proposal for a cooperative research project. Main questions are: verification of adequacy, appr ness and feasibility of MTA methodology for industry, validation of the MTA methodology f single products instead of the generic technique application, the adequacy of MTA methodolo the criteria /rules for application of MTA. The Exploratory Award phase has as principal objectives: selection of industrial partners (via organization), experimental study cases, definition of worktasks, the preparation of the final v gramme and a feasibility research study on the verification of MTA methodologies, novelty a acceptibility of MTA for industry. Tools used for this phase are literature studies, comparison clinical evaluation methodologies, outcome evaluation of methodologies used and the applica MTA for single products. Results will be used for an enquiry on the neccessity and acceptabil MTA methodologies for industry. Fields of science humanitieslanguages and literatureliterature studies Programme(s) FP4-BIOMED 2 - Specific research, technological development and demonstration programme in the field of biomedicine and health, 1994-1998 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme EAW - Exploratory awards Coordinator Medical Consultancy BV EU contribution No data Address 4A,Ossenmarkt 9712 NZ Groningen Netherlands See on map Total cost No data Participants (2) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Research & Development Center of Bioengineering GmbH Rostock Germany EU contribution No data Address 31,Richard-Wagner-Strasse 18119 Rostock See on map Total cost No data Thalcon European Systems Consultancy BV Netherlands EU contribution No data Address 51,Ceintuurbaan Noord 9301 NR Roden See on map Total cost No data
