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KCE Reports 411C (2026)

KCE Reports 410C (2025)

KCE Reports 408C (2025) In the context of KCE research, qualitative methods can provide a deeper, more concrete understanding of the topic under investigation than purely quantitative data, as well as valuable insights regarding its wider context.

KCE Reports 386C (2024)Classic KCE reports are often time- and resource-consuming, but in a rapidly changing healthcare environment, there is sometimes a need for faster assessments of available evidence. To provide faster scientific answers to pressing healthcare questions, the KCE has developed a new ‘accelerated’ methodology.

KCE Reports 340C (2021)This process note aims at providing guidance on how to involve patients at various stages of a research process. It follows the publication of the Position Paper on Patient Involvement in KCE research in 2019 (KCE Report 320). The process note describes potential barriers and proposes practical solutions to help researchers to actively involve patients in their research projects.This process note is accompanied by a practical guide of animation techniques that may help to involve patients in a practical, effective and pleasant way.

KCE Reports 320C (2019) Around the world, the tendency is to involve patients in scientific research projects aimed at providing guidance to healthcare policy-makers. Patients, who are faced with the physical, emotional and financial consequences of their illness, have specific knowledge which researchers do not have (or which are not described in the scientific literature).

KCE Reports 187C (2012)