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CHAPTER 6

GUIDANCE MANUAL TO HTA-QUALITY ASSESSMENT CHECKLIST INDIA

6. Background

A study (Prinja et al.) reports that the average quality score for economic

evaluations done in India is 65.1%. Out of 104 studies included in the analysis, only

16% had performed PSA, only 36% considered the fiscal implications of the

intervention and just 40% of the studies considered generalizability of their findings.

Since the primary aim of HTA is to generate evidence to ensure and facilitate the

process of informed healthcare decision making, it is important to standardize the

processes pertaining to it. Therefore, it was decided to develop a standardized

tool/checklist to assess the quality of HTA studies being conducted in India.

The primary objective is to develop a comprehensive tool that will capture all
vital aspects of conducting an HTA study. This will enable to standardise the reporting

as well as reviewing processes pertaining to HTA studies being conducted in India.

Also, it would improve the quality of reporting practices thus ensuring transparency

and clarity.

6.1. Purpose of the guidance manual

The guidance manual to the checklist aims to ease the process of filling out the

checklist. It consists of the operational definitions of all the questions which are to be

filled out by the author as well as reviewer. This will help the author and the reviewer

to respond to the questions as expected.

6.2. Overview of the checklist

The checklist has been divided into two parts: a self-reporting section to be filled

by the author and the other to be filled by the reviewer. The reviewer checklist has

further been divided into two sections: to review the report/manuscript and the other

to review the model.

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