TY - JOUR ID - 3237 TI - Fair Processes for Priority Setting: Putting Theory into Practice; Comment on “Expanded HTA: Enhancing Fairness and Legitimacy” JO - International Journal of Health Policy and Management JA - IJHPM LA - en SN - AU - Jansen, Maarten P. AU - Helderman, Jan-Kees AU - Boer, Bert AU - Baltussen, Rob AD - Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands AD - Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands AD - Institute of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Y1 - 2017 PY - 2017 VL - 6 IS - 1 SP - 43 EP - 47 KW - Priority Setting KW - Healthcare Technology Assessment (HTA) KW - Values KW - HTA as Learning KW - Fair KW - Processes KW - Evidence-Informed Deliberative Processes DO - 10.15171/ijhpm.2016.85 N2 - Embedding health technology assessment (HTA) in a fair process has great potential to capture societal values relevant to public reimbursement decisions on health technologies. However, the development of such processes for priority setting has largely been theoretical. In this paper, we provide further practical lead ways on how these processes can be implemented. We first present the misconception about the relation between facts and values that is since long misleading the conduct of HTA and underlies the current assessmentappraisal split. We then argue that HTA should instead be explicitly organized as an ongoing evidenceinformed deliberative process, that facilitates learning among stakeholders. This has important consequences for whose values to consider, how to deal with vested interests, how to consider all values in the decisionmaking process, and how to communicate decisions. This is in stark contrast to how HTA processes are implemented now. It is time to set the stage for HTA as learning. UR - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3237.html L1 - https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3237_e62e692b3fbcbeee53132befe81f0277.pdf ER -