HTA adaptation toolkit now available in Turkish

News release from the National Coordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment

28 July 2008


The team at NCCHTA leading on the development of the ‘HTA Adaptation Toolkit’ and accompanying glossary are delighted to hear that the Adaptation Toolkit has been translated into Turkish by Dr Rabia Kahveci, President of the Turkish Evidence Based Medicine Association. The toolkit and glossary have been put together as part of a wider project to establish a European Network for HTA (EUnetHTA).

The three year EUnetHTA project www.eunethta.net, due to come to an end in December 2008, involves HTA agencies, research institutions, and health ministries from across 24 European countries and is supported by the European Commission.

The toolkit and glossary have been produced to help HTA agencies in different countries adapt existing HTA reports so that they can be applied to their own setting. They are currently going through a second round of quality assurance testing and as part of this EUnetHTA partners are using these resources to adapt HTA reports written in other countries. The Turkish translation of the toolkit has been used at an Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) Symposium held in Turkey in March, for an introductory course on HTA.

The current versions of the toolkit and glossary, including the Turkish version, are available to view and download from www.hta.ac.uk/eunethta.

Dr Kahveci of the Turkish Ministry of Health visited the NCCHTA earlier in the year. If you would like to discuss the Turkish translation of the Adaptation Toolkit or developments in Turkish HTA, Dr Kahveci would be pleased to hear from you, email: drrabiakahveci@yahoo.com.

Notes for editors


  1. The HTA programme is a programme of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and produces high quality research information about the effectiveness, costs, and broader impact of health technologies for those who use, manage and provide care in the NHS. It is the largest of the NIHR programmes and publishes the results of its research in the Health Technology Assessment journal, with more than 400 issues published to date. The journal’s 2007 Impact Factor (3.87) ranked it in the top 10 per cent of medical and health-related journals. All issues are available for download free of charge from the website, www.hta.ac.uk The HTA programme is coordinated by the National Coordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment (NCCHTA), based at the University of Southampton.
  2. The National Institute for Health Research provides the framework through which the research staff and research infrastructure of the NHS in England is positioned, maintained and managed as a national research facility.  The NIHR provides the NHS with the support and infrastructure it needs to conduct first-class research funded by the Government and its partners alongside high-quality patient care, education and training.  Its aim is to support outstanding individuals (both leaders and collaborators), working in world class facilities (both NHS and university), conducting leading edge research focused on the needs of patients. www.nihr.ac.uk

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Telephone: 02380 595 646, Email: ns5@soton.ac.uk

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Telephone: 02380 595 584, Email: h.nikandrou@soton.ac.uk

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