- 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
Structured Medication Review for Polypharmacy
Project leaders: Reinhard Jeindl
Project team: Reinhard Jeindl, Julia Kern
Duration: April 2025 – November 2025 (4 PM)
Language: English (with German summary)
Mental health screening of adults in primary care
Project team: Julia Kern
Duration: April to November 2024
Language: English (with German summary)
Publication: HTA Project Report No. 159: https://eprints.aihta.at/1544
Strategies to reduce weight stigmatisation of people with overweight or obesity in the healthcare sector
Project leaders: Sarah Wolf
Project team: Sarah Wolf, Julia Kern
Duration: Mid-April 2024 until Mid-November 2024
Language: German (with English executive summary)
Publication: HTA Project Report No. 160: https://eprints.aihta.at/1547/
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/
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/
Review on perinatal and infant mental health care models and pathways (third-party funded)
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)
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 team: Lucia Gassner
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/
