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An ethical analysis of the NEED framework: exploring the moral relevance and relative ethical urgency of its criteria

KCE Reports 427C (2026)

Needs Examination, Evaluation and Dissemination (NEED): identification of unmet health-related needs associated with psychotic disorders

KCE Reports 418C (2026)

Exploring and applying artificial intelligence tools for grey literature searches within the NEED initiative

KCE Reports 416C (2026)

Protocol for NEED (needs examination, evaluation and dissemination) research projects

KCE Reports 406C (2025)Supplementary material to the NEED protocol: Excel template for implementing results in the NEED database (65 KB, .xlsx)

NEED research Toolbox: instruments and tools for examining unmet health-related patient and societal needs

KCE Reports 407C (2025)Tool 1: Standardised search strategyTool 2: Generic patient questionnaireTool 3 : Generic patient interview guideTool 4: Generic patient interview guide for proxy respondentsTool 5: Declaration of conflict of interest formTool 6: Generic expert questionnaireTool 7 : Checklist for non-healthcare costsTool 8: Generic R scripts

NEED assessment framework 2025: EU expert consensus and core version

KCE Reports 401C (2025) The goal of the NEED initiative is to assess patients’ and society’s unmet health-related needs in a scientific and structured way. This information, collected in a dedicated database, can then be used to inform innovation and healthcare policies to help them target the areas of highest need.

Identification, evaluation, and selection of health conditions for the NEED research programme

KCE Reports 391C (2024)NEED is a project aimed at assessing unmet health-related needs in order to guide innovation and health policies more effectively. Partly funded by BELSPO, this initiative is the result of a collaboration between the KCE and Sciensano.In previous reports, the NEED research team developed a framework for assessing unmet needs for a given disease or health condition, which was then tested for Crohn's disease and malignant melanoma. Its applicability to rare diseases was also assessed. Read more...

NEED: assessment of the unmet needs of patients and society

KCE Reports 377C (2024)Thanks to the tremendous medical and scientific progress made in recent decades, a growing number of health issues can now be treated more effectively than ever. However, many needs remain not or insufficiently met by the current offer of products and services. To better target the areas which should be prioritised for research on solutions to address unmet needs, the first necessary step is to identify and assess these unmet needs. Which diseases remain underserved? What do people living with these conditions need most and foremost?

Palliative care - an exploratory study of categorisation tools based on patients’ needs and their value for entitlement

KCE Reports 367C (2023)

Identifying Patient needs: methodological approach and application

KCE Reports 348C (2022) Health innovations often meet needs which are more closely linked to the supply aspect (industry, hospitals, care providers, etc.) than to patient demand. The public authorities are aware of this fact and are trying to reverse this tendency.

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An ethical analysis of the NEED framework: exploring the moral relevance and relative ethical urgency of its criteria

Needs Examination, Evaluation and Dissemination (NEED): identification of unmet health-related needs associated with psychotic disorders

Exploring and applying artificial intelligence tools for grey literature searches within the NEED initiative

Protocol for NEED (needs examination, evaluation and dissemination) research projects

NEED research Toolbox: instruments and tools for examining unmet health-related patient and societal needs

NEED assessment framework 2025: EU expert consensus and core version

Identification, evaluation, and selection of health conditions for the NEED research programme

NEED: assessment of the unmet needs of patients and society

Palliative care - an exploratory study of categorisation tools based on patients’ needs and their value for entitlement

Identifying Patient needs: methodological approach and application

Multi-criteria decision analysis for the appraisal of medical needs: a pilot study

[Mental health care reforms: evaluation research of ‘therapeutic projects’]

Mental health care reforms: evaluation research of ‘therapeutic projects’ - second intermediate report

Mental health care reforms: evaluation research of ‘therapeutic projects’ - first intermediate report

[Differentiated practice in nursing: opportunities and limits]

[Chronic care of persons with acquired brain injury between the age of 18 and 65 years]

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An ethical analysis of the NEED framework: exploring the moral relevance and relative ethical urgency of its criteria

Needs Examination, Evaluation and Dissemination (NEED): identification of unmet health-related needs associated with psychotic disorders

Exploring and applying artificial intelligence tools for grey literature searches within the NEED initiative

Protocol for NEED (needs examination, evaluation and dissemination) research projects

NEED research Toolbox: instruments and tools for examining unmet health-related patient and societal needs

NEED assessment framework 2025: EU expert consensus and core version

Identification, evaluation, and selection of health conditions for the NEED research programme

NEED: assessment of the unmet needs of patients and society

Palliative care - an exploratory study of categorisation tools based on patients’ needs and their value for entitlement

Identifying Patient needs: methodological approach and application

Multi-criteria decision analysis for the appraisal of medical needs: a pilot study

[Mental health care reforms: evaluation research of ‘therapeutic projects’]

Mental health care reforms: evaluation research of ‘therapeutic projects’ - second intermediate report

Mental health care reforms: evaluation research of ‘therapeutic projects’ - first intermediate report

[Differentiated practice in nursing: opportunities and limits]

[Chronic care of persons with acquired brain injury between the age of 18 and 65 years]