Abstract
This issue of Applied Health Economics and Health Policy includes a detailed description of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance, and of its development, on the adoption into practice of the ‘PleurX peritoneal catheter drainage system for vacuum-assisted drainage of treatment-resistant, recurrent malignant ascites’.[1] This is the ninth piece of Medical Technologies Guidance on a diverse range of devices and diagnostics (table I). Table I Published Medical Technologies Guidance (MTG) The aim of this Commentary is to provide some background to the NICE Medical Technologies Evaluation Programme (MTEP), and to why the assessment reports – which will be summarized in this journal – are vital to its methodology.
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