Health Technology Assessment on the Net:
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Please note:  Because this course is now inactive, these links are not actively maintained.  These links have been provided because they offer a broad selection of health technology assessment resources, but linkage to these sites does not in any way imply endorsement of the material by the University of Victoria or its employees.  No guarantees can be made as to the accuracy or quality of the material available.

If you find a "broken" link on this page, please contact the webmaster :

Canadian Sites

International Sites

Links to External Sites from within Course Units :

Unit 1
Unit 3
Unit 5
Unit 6
Unit 7

Canadian Sites

Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research
BC Ministry of Health and Ministry Responsible for Seniors - Health Related Internet Resources,Research and Policy
British Columbia Office of Health Technology Assessment
Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre (OK as of Jan. 25, 03)

Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre

Canadian Coordinating Council for Health Technology Assessment (links page)
Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
Canadian Pharmaceutical Sites
Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis at McMaster University
Conseil d'évaluation des technologies de la santé (Quebec Council for the Evaluation of Health Technologies)
Health Information Research Unit: Evidence-Based Health Informatics at McMaster University
Health Services Utilization and Research Commission
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation
Medical Devices Canada (MEDEC)
Ontario Health Care Evaluation Unit

International Sites

Agencia d'Avaluacio de Tecnologia Medica (Catalan Agency for Health Technology Assessment)
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
Bandolier: Evidence-Based Health Care (Bulletin)
Monash Institute of Health Services Research (Australia)
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (UK)
The Cochrane Collaboration (Abstracts)
Finnish Office for Health Care Technology Assessment
Health Administration and Management Resources
International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment
International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care , and links page
NHS Research and Development Health Technology Assessment Programme
National Institutes of Health
The Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care
Netting the Evidence (A to Z listing of HTA information, sites, organizations, etc.)
University of York: NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination -
  • Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE); and
  • NHS Economic Evaluation Database

Links to External Sites from within Course Units

Unit 1

Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research

Unit 3

Department of Psychology, University of Trier
" Producing Data " - Statistics from the University of Newcastle, Australia
Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada - Code of Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans
Medical Research Council of Canada - Code of Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans
Australian site for research ethics resources

Unit 5

The Cochrane Handbook (OK as of Jan. 25, 03)

The Cochrane Handbook

Cochrane Abstracts
Abstracts and Summaries of Systematic Reviews , from the UK's National Health Service (NHS) Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment (INAHTA), index of papers from 24 HTA agencies around the world.
Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment (CCOHTA) online reports
Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research online reports
The Ontario Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) online reports
The Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA) at McMaster University in Ontario online report summaries
The Quebec Conseil d'évaluation des technologies de la santé online report summaries
The Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation online report summaries
The Saskatchewan Health Services Utilization and Research Commission (HSURC) online report summaries
The Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care online report summaries
The UK's National Coordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment (NCCHTA) online publications
The National Health Service (NHS) CRD online publications
The Health Economics Research Group (HERG) at Brunel University in the UK online report abstracts
The US Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR)
US Office of Technology Assessment online publications
Links to journals , including:
Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials, free trial issue
Some medical search engines:
Some traditional search engines:
MEDLINE searching online reading assignment , MEDLINE search tips
Internet Grateful Med online reading assignment , and Internet Grateful Med site
Free searches of MEDLINE and other databases using Internet Grateful Med and PubMed are available at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/freemedl.html .
Registration information for ordering copies of documents found using MEDLINE
More information on the other databases accessible through Internet Grateful Med

Unit 6

MEDLINE search
Excite search
American Society for Healthcare Resource and Materials Management
American Hospital Association
Cochrane library reviews
NHS CRD databases
Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment (CCOHTA)
International Network of Agencies for Health Technology Assessment (INAHTA)
Some Internet resources for unbiased HTA information:
Unit 6 assignment - initial resource: Whole Health Discount Center website

Unit 7

UK's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM)
The US Agency for Health Care and Policy Research (AHCPR) guidelines
The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) guidelines
British Columbia Council on Clinical Practice Guidelines
BC Protocol Steering Committee
Health Goals pages:
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