PP95 Health Professionals’ Participation On Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Public Consultation: A Distribution Analysis Of Brazilian HTA In 2021

Abstract

IntroductionThe Brazilian HTA process includes calls for public consultations, in which society can give its opinion on reports emitted by the National Committee for Health Technology Incorporation (CONITEC). Open and closed queries for public consultation are performed by official formularies and are available online at CONITEC webpage. There are two categories of queries: clinical protocols and guidelines, and incorporation/exclusion demands. Incorporation/exclusion queries are subdivided in two additional categories: opinion and experience, or technical. In this study we analyze health professionals’ technical contributions and their opinion (pro or con) on the inclusion or exclusion of health technologies.MethodsOn November 26th, 2021, formularies concerning concluded public consultations on health technology incorporation/exclusion reports were extracted from CONITEC website for the period, January 1, 2021 to November 26, 2021. Entries on the technical contributions formularies included a close-ended question about the opinion of participants on health technology incorporation/exclusion reports (“favorable”/“against”/“neither”).ResultsA total of 63 health technology incorporation/exclusion queries were carried out during the study period, of which only 4 were exclusions. A total of 7783 contributions were registered. “Patients”, “Family or caregivers”, “Interest on the theme”, and “Health professionals”, accounted for 96.4% (10.9, 15.2, 17.1 and 53% respectively). Health professionals’ participation alone accounted for 4130 entries. Concerning the category “health professionals”, the total number of favorable opinions on the presented documents was 2740 (66.3%), 1306 (31.6%) disagreed, and 84 (2%) had no opinion.ConclusionsHealth professionals can be considered one of the main stakeholders considering HTA for technology incorporation in public health systems. Brazilian HTA reports are submitted to public consultation through queries, which are available open access at the Brazilian National Committee for Health Technology Incorporation website.