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Evaluation of Digital Medical Technologies

KCE Reports 362C (2nd edition; 1st edition:13 January 2023)

Do innovative medicines against cancer always have a real added value?

KCE Reports 343C (2021) During the past twenty years, a number of cancer treatments considered innovative have been introduced, such as monoclonal antibodies and immunotherapies. But what exactly should we expect from a new cancer treatment? That it prolongs life and/or that it improves quality of life.

Polyvalent immunoglobulins – Part 1: A rapid review

KCE Reports 327C (2019) Immunoglobulins, which are produced from human plasma, are invaluable and costly medicines used to treat equally rare and sometimes very serious diseases. There is an ever increasing risk of shortage, both in Belgium and worldwide, which means that strategies must urgently be devised with a view to a better control of their supplies and optimisation of the way they are used.

Bariatric surgery: an HTA report on the efficacy, safety and cost-effectiveness

KCE Reports 316C (2019) Bariatric operations (i.e. for the purpose of losing weight) have increased by more than 80% over the last seven years. In the majority of cases, these operations result in significant and lasting weight loss, along with a reduction in the risk of obesity-related death and an improvement in diabetes, which is often present in obese people.

Cost-effectiveness analysis of HPV vaccination of boys in Belgium

KCE Reports 308C (2019) The vaccine for the human papilloma virus (HPV) which causes cervical cancer was introduced about ten years ago in Belgium, but only girls benefit from it. However, it is now established that this same virus is also involved in other cancers, including throat cancer.

Home Oxygen Therapy

KCE Reports 156C (2011) People suffering from chronic lung diseases need sometimes an oxygen complement at the house. In Belgium, this treatment can be prescribed without restriction by any doctor and one notes a clear increase in the expenditure these last years. Several authorities of decisions are implied in the organization of oxygen treatment, just like of the professional bodies or deprived, and there is a lack of integrated approach.

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Evaluation of Digital Medical Technologies

Do innovative medicines against cancer always have a real added value?

Polyvalent immunoglobulins – Part 1: A rapid review

Bariatric surgery: an HTA report on the efficacy, safety and cost-effectiveness

Cost-effectiveness analysis of HPV vaccination of boys in Belgium

Home Oxygen Therapy

Percutaneous heart valve implantation in congenital and degenerative valve disease. A rapid Health Technology Assessment

[Rapid assessment of a selection of new treatments for prostate cancer and benign prostate hypertrophy]

[Elective endovascular treatment of the abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA)]

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Evaluation of Digital Medical Technologies

Do innovative medicines against cancer always have a real added value?

Polyvalent immunoglobulins – Part 1: A rapid review

Bariatric surgery: an HTA report on the efficacy, safety and cost-effectiveness

Cost-effectiveness analysis of HPV vaccination of boys in Belgium

Home Oxygen Therapy

Percutaneous heart valve implantation in congenital and degenerative valve disease. A rapid Health Technology Assessment

[Rapid assessment of a selection of new treatments for prostate cancer and benign prostate hypertrophy]

[Elective endovascular treatment of the abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA)]