Synopsis of current research projects
HTA-methods & steering instruments
HTAR (HTA-Regulation): Implementation in Austria
Project leaders: Claudia Wild
Project team: Claudia Wild, Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss, Sabine Ettinger
Duration: May 2022 – December 2024
Language: German
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
Laufzeit: Mai 2022 – August 2022
Sprache: Englisch mit deutscher Zusammenfassung
Prevention and screening
Review on perinatal and infant mental health care models and pathways (third-party funded)
Project leaders: Inanna Reinsperger
Project team: Inanna Reinsperger (first author, AIHTA), Jean Paul (second author, MUI)
Duration: April 2022 – November 2022
Language: English with German summary
This review is part of the project ‘Co-designing perinatal mental health support in
Tyrol’ in which the AIHTA is a partner (host: Medical University Innsbruck)
Prevention and screening
Child and adolescent mental health care models
Project leaders: Reinhard Jeindl
Project team: Reinhard Jeindl, Viktoria Hofer
Duration: April 2022 – November 2022
Language: English with German summary
Rehabilitation and occupational therapy
Osteopathy: effectiveness and safety for musculoskeletal pain and overview of training and quality requirements
Project leaders: Lucia Gassner
Project team: Lucia Gassner, Viktoria Hofer
Duration: April 2022 – November 2022
Language: English with German summary
HTA-methods & steering instruments
Clinical-quality registers in dementia care: a scoping review and mapping of registers for improving quality of care and service delivery
Project leaders: Christoph Strohmaier
Project team: Christoph Strohmaier, Lucia Gassner, Anja Panhuber
Duration: April 2022 – November 2022
Language: English with German summary
Psychological & psychiatric interventions
Co-designing perinatal mental health support in Tyrol
Project leaders: Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss
Project team: Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss, Inanna Reinsperger
This AIHTA third-party funding is part of a larger FWF-Project
Principal investigator: Jean Paul Mmedical University Innsbruck)
Further partners: University Innsbruck, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Rehabilitation Research
Duration: April 2022 to March 2027
Language: English and German
Prevention and screening
Risk-based breast cancer screening in Austria: a systematic analysis of predictive models to assess the individual breast cancer risk, their utility and applicability in breast cancer screening programs
Project team: Sarah Wolf
Irmgard Frühwirth
Project lead: Irmgard Frühwirth
Duration: March 2022 – August 2022
Language: German
European collaboration
Core-MD
Project leaders: Claudia Wild, Sabine Ettinger
Project team: Sabine Ettinger
Duration: 4/2021 – 3/2024
HTA-methods & steering instruments
Evidence-based reimbursement processes in Europe Part 2: A comparative analysis of selected medical devices in Austrian, English. French and German hospitals and possible influencing factors
Project leaders: Helene Eckhardt*, Gregor Goetz*
Project team: Helene Eckhardt*, Gregor Goetz*, Hendrikje Lantzsch, Cornelia Henschke, Dimitra Panteli
Duration: October 2020 – August 2021
Language: English
*authors will contribute equally