@article{article_260388, title={Comprehensive Needs Analysis For Health Technology Assessment Studies and Improvement Proposal}, journal={Eurasian Journal of Health Technology Assessment}, volume={1}, pages={69–76}, year={2016}, url={https://izlik.org/JA46XE65SF}, author={Ozturk, Necla and Tozan, Hakan and Vayvay, Özalp}, keywords={HTA, HTA needs, HTA users, MCDM for HTA}, abstract={<span style="line-height:115%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;font-size:10pt;" lang="en-gb" xml:lang="en-gb">Increase in chronic diseases prevalence, longer life expectancy, and improvements in science and engineering speed up the innovations in healthcare technology. In this study it is aimed to provide both a deep understanding in needs of recent health technology assessments and an improvement proposal for health technology assessments studies based on multi criteria decision making (MCDM). </span> <span style="line-height:115%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;font-size:10pt;" lang="en-gb" xml:lang="en-gb"> It is concluded that an integrated MCDM model is essential for satisfying the current needs of HTA studies. </span>}, number={1}