Real world data in health technology assessments in kidney transplants in Germany: use of routinely collected data to address epidemiologic questions in kidney transplants in the AMNOG process in Germany.

Conclusions: The use of data routinely collected for QA in the hospital sector is feasible to address epidemiologic questions in kidney transplantation in the AMNOG process in Germany, which is basically following the systematic of an HTA process. All patients with kidney transplants are represented thus avoiding sampling error. Limitations include the availability of all necessary data in the QA data set. Within <6 months' time with reasonable resources it was possible to meet timelines. The analyses were accepted by the authorities. PMID: 29472834 [PubMed - in process]
Source: GMS German Medical Science - Category: General Medicine Tags: Ger Med Sci Source Type: research