- Research Projects
- Synopsis of completed research projects
Synopsis of completed research projects
HTA-methods & steering instruments
Registries in Austria and their usage for healthcare improvement
Project leaders: Christoph Strohmaier
Project team: Christoph Strohmaier, Julia Kern
Duration: Mid-April to Mid-November 2023
Language: German (with English summary)
Publication: HTA Project Report No. 157: https://eprints.aihta.at/1489/
Prevention and screening
Review of strategies regarding target group accessibility, participation motivation, and adherence in prevention programmes for overweight or obese children, adolescents, and adults
Project team: Sarah Wolf
Project duration: Mid-April 2023 until Mid-November 2023
Language: German (with English executive summary)
Publication: HTA Project Report No. 155: https://eprints.aihta.at/1486/
High tech medicine
Image-guided spinal injections in treatment of chronic spinal pain: an overview of evidence-based guideline recommendations and specific focus on guidance techniques
Project leaders: Gregor Goetz
Project team: Mirjana Huic (first author, HTA/EBM Center, Croatia), Gregor Götz (second author, AIHTA, Austria)
Duration: April 2023 – October 2023
Language: English (with German summary)
Publication: HTA Project Report No. 156: https://eprints.aihta.at/1477/
High tech medicine
Robot-assisted surgery: A systematic review of effectiveness and safety in thoracic and visceral surgery
Project leaders: Claudia Wild
Project team: Lucia Gassner, Nicole Grössmann-Waniek
and Michaela Riegelnegg
Duration: April 2023 – August 2023
Language: English (with German summary)
Publication: HTA Project Report No. 108: https://eprints.aihta.at/1461
HTA-methods & steering instruments
Transparency: Sponsoring of patient initiatives 2021, update
Project leaders: Claudia Wild
Project team: Nikolaus Gregor-Patera
Duration: February 2023 – April 2023
AIHTA - Project „Transparency“
Health economics
Economic dimensions of community nursing: a systematic literature review
Project leaders: Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss
Project team: Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss
Katharina Buzath
Duration: January to September 2023
Language: German (with Englisch summary)
Publication: HTA Project Report No. 153: https://eprints.aihta.at/1470/
The project was commissioned by the ‘Gesundheit Österreich GmbH’, supported by sources from the ‚Agenda Gesundheitsförderung‘.
Update PET/PET-CT: evidence for need based planning in oncological indications
Project leaders: Claudia Wild
Project team: Ozren Sehic, Daniela Auinger
Duration: December 2022 – April 2023
Prevention and screening
Oral and parenteral preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV in people at risk: a systematic review of clinical effectiveness and safety with assessment of organisational, economic, patients/social, ethical and legal elements
Project authors: Mirjana Huic (Center for HTA/EBM, Croatia), Inanna Reinsperger
Duration: November 2022 – March 2023
Language: English with German summary
Publication: HTA Projektbericht No. 152: https://eprints.aihta.at/1436/
High tech medicine
Evaluation of individual medical procedures - MEL 2023
Project leaders: Gregor Goetz
Project co-operation: AIHTA staff for individual reviews
Duration: November 2022 – March 2023
Publications: Evaluation of individual medical procedures - Reports
High tech medicine
Wearable cardioverter-defibrillator (WCD) therapy as prevention of sudden cardiac death in patients at risk – Update 2022
Project leaders: Gregor Goetz
Project team: Gregor Goetz
and Bernhard Wernly
Duration: May 2022 – August 2022
Language: English with German Summary
Publication: Decision Support Document No. 103/2. Update 2022: https://eprints.aihta.at/1407/
