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Informe de evaluación científica basada en la evidencia disponible. Condición de Salud: Cáncer de Páncreas. Tecnología Sanitaria Evaluada: Erlotinib
Scientific evaluation report based on available evidence. Health Condition: Pancreatic Cancer. Evaluated Health Technology: Erlotinib

ANTECEDENTES: En el marco de la Ley Ricarte Soto (Ley N°20.850), que establece el proceso destinado a determinar los diagnósticos y tratamientos de alto costo con Sistema de Protección Financiera, se realizó el siguiente informe. Este informe evalúa erlotinib en combinación con gemcitabina para per...

Informe de evaluación científica basada en la evidencia disponible. Condición de Salud: Cáncer de Ovario Epitelial. Tecnología Sanitaria Evaluada: Trabectedina
Scientific evaluation report based on available evidence. Health Condition: Epithelial Ovarian Cancer. Evaluated Health Technology: Trabectedin

ANTECEDENTES: En el marco de la Ley Ricarte Soto (Ley N°20.850), que establece el proceso destinado a determinar los diagnósticos y tratamientos de alto costo con Sistema de Protección Financiera, se realizó el siguiente informe. El cáncer epitelial de ovario es una alteración celular que se origin...

Dissemination and implementation research in Health: translating science to practice

Fifteen to twenty years is how long it takes for the billions of dollars of university-based research to translate into evidence-based policies and programs suitable for public use. Over the past decade, an exciting science has emerged that seeks to narrow the gap between the discovery of new knowledge a...

Fostering an organizational culture supportive of evidence-informed policymaking

We identified a total of 21 relevant documents by searching Health Systems Evidence and running targeted searches in PubMed, with the search strategy for these databases detailed in Box 2. A document was included when it directly addressed the question posed for this rapid synthesis (i.e., it was specifi...

Apoyo psicosocial para mujeres que deciden voluntariamente interrumpir su embarazo: síntesis rápida de evidencia
Psychosocial support for women who voluntarily decide to terminate their pregnancy: a rapid synthesis of evidence

ANTECEDENTES Y OBJETIVO En relación con la ley de despenalización de la interrupción del embarazo por tres causales, el Ministerio de Salud se encuentra evaluando el diseño de un programa de apoyo psicosocial a estas mujeres, con el objetivo de reducir el impacto psicológico. En este contexto el De...

Examining the effects of value-based physician payment models

Healthcare provider remuneration mechanisms are one of the key policy levers that decision-makers can harness to influence health-system performance.(1) In Canada, remunerating physicians is the second-largest source of public expenditures accounting for 21% of all health spending in the country.(2) With...

Changing practice to achieve equity in Ontario's education sector

Ontario is home to people from more than 200 countries who speak more than 130 languages. Multiculturalism, human rights and diversity are core values embraced in the province.(1) The public education system can play a crucial role in supporting these core values by transcending socio-economic and ethno-...

Examining the coverage of pharmacogenetic tests and use of pharmacogenetic information at the population level

Our jurisdictional scan yielded no information about phamacogenetic tests that are publicly covered at the population level for select conditions across the jurisdictions reviewed. However, in reviewing the literature, we did find one primary study that examined coverage policies for individual pharmacog...

Examining the public provision and funding of clinical genetic tests

Since the completion of the Human Genome Project in the 1990s, there have been rapid advances of research in the area of genetics and genomics.(1) When combined with evolving medical technologies this has meant that the use of genetic testing and screening are increasingly common in the health system. Ge...

Manual metodológico sobre síntesis rápidas de evidencia para informar políticas de salud
Methodological manual on rapid evidence synthesis to inform health policies

Este manual metodológico ofrece un enfoque detallado para realizar síntesis rápidas de evidencia que apoyen la formulación de políticas de salud. Incluye las principales etapas del proceso: formulación de preguntas, búsqueda, selección y extracción de evidencia, evaluación de la certeza de los ...