- Research areas
- Prevention and screening
Prevention and screening
The prevention and the early detection of diseases aims at reducing/ avoiding subsequent interventions. The AIHTA reports critically discuss questions on benefits and potential harms related to prevention strategies and screening interventions.
Research projects
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 leaders: Inanna Reinsperger
Project authors: Mirjana Huic (Center for HTA/EBM, Croatia), Inanna Reinsperger
Duration: November 2022 – March 2023
Language: English with German summary
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)
Publication: HTA Project Report No. 148: https://eprints.aihta.at/1420/
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
Publication: HTA Project Report No. 149: https://eprints.aihta.at/1418/
Indicators
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
Publication: HTA Project Report No. 145: https://eprints.aihta.at/1402/
Regulation and financing of prenatal screening and diagnostic examinations for fetal anomalies in selected European countries (Policy Brief)
Project leaders: Inanna Reinsperger
Project team: Inanna Reinsperger
Duration: December 2021 – March 2022
Language: English with German summary
Suggested by: Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection
Publication: Policy Brief No. 12: https://eprints.aihta.at/1369/
Effectiveness of national strategies for non-communicable diseases
Project leaders: Inanna Reinsperger
Project team: Lucia Gassner, Inanna Reinsperger
Duration: April 2021 – November 2021
Language: English with German summary
Suggested by: Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection
Publication: HTA Project Report No. 139: https://eprints.aihta.at/1349/
Stool DNA testing for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening
Project leaders: Gregor Goetz
Project team: Gregor Goetz
Duration: April 2021 – July 2021
Language: English (with German summary)
Publication: Policy Brief No 011: https://eprints.aihta.at/1335
Lung cancer screening in risk groups Systematic review(s) of effectiveness and utility (part 1) Costs and budgetary consequences (part 2)
Project leaders: Claudia Wild (part 1), Ingrid Zechmeister-Koss (part 2)
Project team:
- Thomas Semlitsch (IAVEM) & EUnetHTA partners (IQWIG, potentially others) (part 1)
- Christan Böhler, Sarah Wolf (part 2)
Duration: May 2020 – November 2020
Language: English with German summary
Publications:
HTA Project report No. 132a: http://eprints.aihta.at/1282/ (part 1)
HTA Projektbericht Nro 132b: https://eprints.aihta.at/1283 (part 2)
Molecular genetic diagnostics as a triage mechanism in cardiology using the example of familial hypercholesterolemia: Organisational and ethical implications (part 1) and economic effects (part 2)
Project team: Christoph Strohmaier
Project lead: Melanie Walter (part 1), Christoph Strohmaier (part 2)
Duration: May 2020 – October 2020
Language: English (with German summary)
Publication: HTA Project report No. 130: http://eprints.aihta.at/1281/
Prevention of cervical cancer in Austria – Implementation of HPV testing into the existing screening programme
Project team: Sarah Wolf
Duration: April/May 2019 – October 2019
Suggested by: Main Association of Austrian Social Security Institutions
Language: German
Publication: LBI-HTA Project report No. 121: https://eprints.aihta.at/1223/
