Browsing Institutt for helse og samfunn by Author "Sandman, Lars"

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  • Evaluating facts and facting evaluations: On the fact-value relationship in HTA 
    Hofmann, Bjørn Morten; Bond, Ken; Sandman, Lars (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    Health technology assessment (HTA) is an evaluation of health technologies in terms of facts and evidence. However, the relationship between facts and values is still not clear in HTA. This is problematic in an era of “fake ...
  • Integrating Empirical Analysis and Normative Inquiry in Health Technology Assessment: The Values in Doing Assessments of Health Technologies Approach 
    Van Der Wilt, Gert Jan; Bloemen, Bart; Grin, John; Gutierrez-Ibarluzea, Iñaki; Sampietro-Colom, Laura; Refolo, Pietro; Sacchini, Dario; Hofmann, Bjørn Morten; Sandman, Lars; Oortwijn, Wija (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    Health technology assessment (HTA) aims, through empirical analysis, to shed light on the value of health technologies (O’Rourke et al. [2020, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 36, 187–90]). HTA ...
  • Q-SEA – a tool for quality assessment of ethics analyses conducted as part of Health technology assessments 
    Scott, Anna Mae; Hofmann, Bjørn; Gutiérrez-Ibarluzea, Iñaki; Lysdahl, Kristin Bakke; Sandman, Lars; Bombard, Yvonne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    Introduction: Assessment of ethics issues is an important part of health technology assessments (HTA). However, in terms of existence of quality assessment tools, ethics for HTA is methodologically underdeveloped in ...
  • Severity as a moral qualifier of malady 
    Solberg, Carl T.; Barra, Mathias; Sandman, Lars; Hoffmann, Bjørn (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    The overarching aim of this article is to scrutinize how severity can work as a qualifier for the moral impetus of malady. While there is agreement that malady is of negative value, there is disagreement about precisely ...
  • Why we don't need "unmet needs"! On the concepts of unmet need and severity in health-care priority setting 
    Sandman, Lars; Hofmann, Bjørn Morten (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    In health care priority setting different criteria are used to reflect the relevant values that should guide decision-making. During recent years there has been a development of value frameworks implying the use of multiple ...