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Profile of a Consensus Development Program in Norway: The Norwegian Institute for Hospital Research and The National Research Council
Pages 118-124

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... This nonprofit, health services research institute mainly conducts health planning and contract research for health authorities and hospital owners. The NTHR arranged the first consensus development conference in cooperation with the Health Services Research Unit of the National Institute of Public Health.
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... would be published in the near future, based on the consensus development conference statement. The national health authorities, the county hospital owners, and the health professionals have used the statements from the Norwegian consensus development conferences as a reliable form of advice.
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... NRC established a subcommittee on technology assessment: the TA committee. Two health services research institutes, the Royal Norwegian Ministry for Health and Social Affairs and the Directorate of Health, are represented on the TA committee.
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... The aspects of a technology addressed at a consensus development conference include effectiveness and efficacy (or practical, achievable health benefits) ; health risk; monetary cost; and organizational, ethical, social, and psychological consequences of increased or decreased use of a technology.
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... DOCUMENTATION AND USE OF EVIDENCE IN CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT The first two Norwegian conferences focused upon technologies for health screening. In both cases, the question of utility rested heavily upon a small number of RCTs (four and three studies, respectively)
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... DISSEMINATION AND IMPACT OF THE CONSENSUS STATEMENT After each conference, the proceedings are published in a report, together with the consensus statement and a short review of the main reasons for holding He conference. The mechanisms for dissemination of the consensus findings include: · press conference · newsletter to the media distribution of the statement to administrative authorities publication of the statement in the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association and distribution of the statement to over appropriate journals, and to radio, television, and over news media.
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... International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 3(3)
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  • development conference
  • consensus statement
  • hospital research
  • norwegian institute
  • social affairs

  • consensus conference
  • development conferences
  • royal norwegian
  • services research
  • conference statement

  • international society
  • medical technology
  • treatment program
  • norwegian ministry
  • hospital owners

  • health authorities
  • medical profession
  • broadly defines
  • pregnancy recommended
  • conference recommending

  • overhead costs
  • term medical
  • funded jointly
  • mainly conducts
  • parliamentary debate

  • controlled trials
  • mammography screening
  • affairs referred
  • health benefits
  • monetary cost


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