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As part of CADTH’s 25th anniversary celebrations, we’ve launched a special lecture series on health technology assessment (HTA) in Canada.
We invite you to join us for the next talk in our series, featuring Dr. Stirling Bryan, Director, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, The University of British Columbia. Dr. Bryan will argue that “It’s Time to Break Our Addiction to Technology Adoption: Reframing HTA as the Cornerstone of ‘Resource Stewardship’.”
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Dr. Nick Bansback Receives CIHR New Investigator Award
Lidia Engel, PhD student at SFU and research assistant at C2E2, presented work on ‘Examining Exclusion Criteria in National Health State Valuation Studies: a Systematic Review’ and received an award for the best student oral presentation.
Slowing the rapid growth of health care spending requires a shift in focus away from adopting new technologies (i.e. drugs, devices, procedures, and screenings) toward better management of already existing technologies, according to an editorial authored by researchers at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation (C2E2), a major research centre within Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute.
Videos of all our Annual Lectures are available at this YouTube link
Lidia Engel is a PhD student at C2E2
Low adherence to controller therapies is an important contributor to the fact that asthma remains uncontrolled in a large proportion of patients—despite the fact that for most patients, effective and inexpensive controller therapies are readily available.
