Tag: PICO

Who Gets to Define the PICO? Patient and Clinician Input in EU JCA Evidence Planning
Who Gets to Define the PICO? Why Patient and Clinician Input Matters for EU JCA Evidence Planning A treatment may perform well in a clinical trial. But does the evidence answer the questions that matter to patients, clinicians and HTA assessors across Europe? That question is becoming harder to leave until submission. On 14 September…

JCA to National Reimbursement: A Technical Evidence Framework
From JCA Relative Effects to National Reimbursement: Managing PICO Multiplicity, Indirect Comparisons and Residual Evidence Gaps The central technical challenge of the EU Health Technology Assessment Regulation is not simply producing a Joint Clinical Assessment (JCA) dossier on time. It is preserving the validity and decision relevance of one evidence package as it moves through…


