How to make a compelling submission to NICE: tips for sponsoring organisations

摘要

The apparent effectiveness of a health technology can be enhanced at every stage of its assessment by a variety of techniques These include using ineffective comparators and methods when generating the evidence; selectively reporting the most favourable evidence; analysing the results in a way that favours the technology; and choosing favourable assumptions when modelling the evidence and dealing with uncertainty Producers and users of health technology assessments need to be aware of these potential biases.