Evaluation of individual medical services - MEL 2013

Marisa Warmuth
Project co-operation: LBI-HTA staff for individual reviews
Duration: November 2012 - April 2013

Suggested by: BMG
Publication of reports: on July 15th 2013

Objective:
Each year, the Austrian Ministry of Health, Family and Youth receives suggestions for numerous new medical interventions to get reimbursed. The aim of this project is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of interventions, suggested to be included into the MEL (German for: individual medical services) catalogue. Themes (interventions) were prioritized by the Ministry of Health and contracted out to the LBI-HTA.

Method:
The assessments are based on systematic reviews for each intervention and a summary of the scientific evidence according to the GRADE scheme. For the second time, there is a cooperation with the german NUB process, which also appraises with the same method for both countries relevant new medical interventions at the same time.

Decision Support Documents 2013:

• DSD 64: Percutaneous coronary intervention for chronic total occlusion
  https://eprints.aihta.at/1000/
• DSD 65: Implantation of a lumbar artificial endoprosthesis (anuloplasty/ anular repair device)
  https://eprints.aihta.at/1001/
  
  - Letter to the editor
  - Response to the letter
  
   
• DSD 66: Repair of cartilage defects via matrix-asocciated autologous chondrocyte immigration
  https://eprints.aihta.at/1002/
• DSD 67: Duodeno-jejunal bypass liner (DJBL) for patients with obesity
  https://eprints.aihta.at/1008/
• DSD 68: Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) of periphery arteries with drug-eluting balloon (DEB)
  https://eprints.aihta.at/1003/
• DSD 69: Endovascular repair of aortic aneurysms
  https://eprints.aihta.at/1004/
• DSD 70: Percutaneous transcatheter closure of prosthetic mitral and aortic paravalvular leaks
  https://eprints.aihta.at/1005/
• DSD 71: Percutaneous transluminal septal myocardial ablation (PTSMA) in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM)
  https://eprints.aihta.at/1006/

+1 Update:

• DSD 24/ Update 2013: Percuteneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) with paclitaxel-coated drug-eluting balloon (DEB) (1st Update)
  https://eprints.aihta.at/1007/