Treatment-Specific Interrupted Time Series Analyses of Judicial Deference to Health Technology Assessment in Brazil

Treatment-Specific Interrupted Time Series Analyses of Judicial Deference to Health Technology Assessment in Brazil

The use of health rights litigation as a parallel decision-making venue to bypass health technology assessments (HTA) has resulted in unintended inequitable impacts on Latin American health systems since the 1990s. Brazil created a new HTA body in 2011 to promote a transparent and evidence-informed process in the Ministry of Health´s decisions about treatment coverage, but its impact on the judicial system’s provision of specific treatments to patient litigants has not yet been quantitatively evaluated.

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