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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022

How We Might Further Integrate Considerations of Environmental Impact When Assessing the Value of Health Technologies.

Barbara Greenwood Dufour, Laura Weeks, Gino De Angelis, Dave K Marchand, David Kaunelis, Melissa Severn, Melissa Walter, Nicole Mittmann

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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23citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Barbara Greenwood DufourCanadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, Ottawa, ON K1S 5S8, Canada.
Laura WeeksCanadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, Ottawa, ON K1S 5S8, Canada.
Gino De AngelisCanadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, Ottawa, ON K1S 5S8, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-2099-9870
Dave K MarchandCanadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, Ottawa, ON K1S 5S8, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-4608-1515
David KaunelisCanadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, Ottawa, ON K1S 5S8, Canada.
Melissa SevernCanadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, Ottawa, ON K1S 5S8, Canada.
Melissa WalterCanadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, Ottawa, ON K1S 5S8, Canada.
Nicole MittmannCanadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, Ottawa, ON K1S 5S8, Canada.
Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is growing awareness of the impact health technologies can have on the environment and the negative consequences of these environmental impacts on human health. However, health system decision-makers may lack the expertise, data, or resources to incorporate environmental considerations when making decisions about the adoption and use of health technologies. In this article, we describe how health technology assessment (HTA) is evolving to address climate change by providing health system decision-makers with the information they can use to reduce the impact of health care systems on the environment. Our objective is to consider approaches for including the environment domain when conducting an HTA-in particular, the use of the deliberative process-and for determining when the domain should be included. We explore the challenges of gathering the relevant data necessary to assess the environmental impact of a health technology, and we describe a "triage" approach for determining when an in-depth environmental impact assessment is warranted. We also summarize related initiatives from HTA agencies around the world.

Indexed as

Biomedical TechnologyTechnology Assessment, BiomedicalClimate ChangeDecision MakingEnvironmentHumansCanadaclimate changedeliberative processenvironmentguidelinehealth carehealth policyhealth systemshealth technology assessmentsustainability

Identifiers

PMID36231319
PMCPMC9566650
OpenAlexW4296993114

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Registered trials

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