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Introduction One objective of the European Network for Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA) Joint Action 3 (JA3) is to set up a quality management system (QMS) for joint work that serves as a standalone infrastructure for a sustainable European HTA-collaboration. Structures of the QMS (quality policy, processes and procedures, and organizational structures) combined with the measures of QM (quality planning, assurance, control and improvement) both ensure achieving the objective of producing high-quality HTAs. Methods Based on a thorough concept with involvement of a spectrum of EUnetHTA partners, re-evaluation, internal workshops and national expertise, the existing inventory consisting of procedures, templates, methodological guidelines and tools is being refined, complemented and revised. Procedures are gradually being transferred into Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), seamlessly and chronologically covering all assessment phases. Supplemented by quality-control-checklists and templates these SOPs are linked to relevant guidelines and tools. The so-established QMS is subject to continuous improvement by recurrently applying the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA)-cycle. Members of t

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Author

Reza Fathollah-Nejad; Miriam Luhnen; Maike Rehrmann; Maya Nocon; Heike Hutner

Publisher

Cambridge University Press; Cambridge University Press (CUP) (ISSN 0266-4623)

Published

2019

Language

EN

Field

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)