- Research Projects
- Synopsis of current research projects
Synopsis of current research projects
HTA-methods & steering instruments
Implementation aspects of expensive (gene) therapies (working title)
Project leaders: Claudia Wild
Project management part 1: Kathrin Wohlhöfner
Project management part 2: NN
Duration: February to June (part 1), July to November (part 2)
Language: English (with German summary)
Evaluation of individual medical procedures - MEL 2021
Project co-operation: AIHTA staff for individual reviews
Duration: November 2020 – March 2021
HTA-methods & steering instruments
Evidence-based reimbursement processes in Europe Part 2: A comparative analysis of selected medical devices in German and Austrian hospitals and possible influencing factors
Project leaders: Helene Eckhardt, Gregor Goetz
Duration: October 2020 – April 2021
Language: English (with German summary)
HTA-methods & steering instruments
Evidence-based reimbursement processes in Europe Part 1: Reimbursement decisions for medical procedures in Austria. An analysis of factors – besides clinical evidence – influencing reimbursement decisions for the hospital benefit catalogue
Project leaders: Gregor Goetz
Project team: Gregor Goetz
Duration: September 2020 – November 2020
Language: English (with German summary)
High tech medicine, European collaboration
Minimally invasive surgical procedures for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)
Project leaders: Judit Erdös
Project team: Judit Erdös
& EUnetHTA partners (RER, VASPVT, SNHTA, Azienda Zero)
Duration: May 2020 – January 2021
Language: English with German summary
High tech medicine
Exoskeletons and functional electrical stimulation (FES) for stroke rehabilitation: a systematic review of effectiveness and safety
Project leaders: Gregor Goetz
Project team: Gregor Goetz, Melanie Walter
Duration: April 2020 – August 2020
Language: English (with German summary)
High tech medicine
HSS/ Horizon Scanning for Covid19
Project leaders: Claudia Wild
Project team: All employees of the AIHTA
Coordination (vaccinations): Gregor Götz
Coordination (drugs): Sarah Wolf
Duration: March 2020 – open
Language: English and German
Publication: Policy Brief No. 002: http://eprints.aihta.at/1234/
Health economics
ThemenCheck Medizin (IQWIG): Depression in children and adolescents - Does psychotherapy lead to better results compared to other therapies? (HT19-04) (Health Economics and Ethics)
Project leaders: Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss
Project team: Michal Stanak, Christoph Strohmaier
Duration: January 2020 – September 2020
Language: German
In co-operation with: Department for Evidence Based Medicine / DUK
Psychological & psychiatric interventions
‘How to raise the village to raise the child?’ Supporting children with mentally ill parents in Austria (short title: ‘village’)
Principal investigator: Jean Paul (Ludwig Boltzmann Society, Medical University Innsbruck)
Project leader at AIHTA (lead of work package ‘co-development’): Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss
Project team at AIHTA: Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss
Project partners: Melinda Goodyear (Monash University Melbourne); Annette Bauer (London School of Economics), Hanna Christiansen (Philipps University Marburg), Ingunn Olea Lund (Norwegian Institute of Public Health), Batool Fatima (Aga Khan University Karachi)
Duration: February 2018 – January 2022
Language: English and German
European collaboration
EUnetHTA - European network for Health Technology Assessment
Project leaders: Claudia Wild
Project team: Sabine Ettinger, Judit Erdös, Julia Mayer-Ferbas
Duration: 2006-2008/ 2009/ JA1: 2010-2012/ JA2: 2012-2015/ JA3: 6/2016-5/2021
