The Haute Autorité de Santé (French health authority) has selected st[è]ve consultants to perform a literature review on selection criteria of health technologies requiring additional data. This study is in line with the network EUnetHTA (European Network for Health Technology Assessment), which primary objective is to set up an efficacious and lasting collaboration of health technology assessments
in Europe.

st[è]ve consultants took part to the conference entitled "modeling to decide" set up by the French Society of Health Economics (SFES). During this session, the last advances in health economics modeling such as the science of complex systems were discussed. In addition, the strategic perspectives of modeling in public health raised questions, in particular their acceptation and their place in the decision making process at a national level.
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st[è]ve consultants has realized the economic part of the following report: "Evaluation and establishment of stereotactic radiosurgery in order to treat nonmalignant diseases", through an exhaustive literature review and a health-economic evaluation.
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st[è]ve consultants conducted, in partnership with Saint-Louis hospital (AP-HP, Paris), an economic evaluation comparing the costs associated with the use of standard Huber needles with those associated with the use of positive-pressure secured Huber needles in the prevention and treatment of obstruction of totally implantable ports. Results of this evaluation have been presented at the 6^th French-speaking congress on long-term intravenous access devices in Paris (January 13-14, 2012).
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st[è]ve consultants has evaluated the cost of prenatal determination of the fœtal Rhesus D status from maternal plasma within at risk pregnant women in France.
This report was published on october 28^th 2011 and the HAS issued a favorable advice on October 4^th 2011, for the inscription of this test on the list of medical acts mentioned in the article L.162-1-1 of the Code de la Sécurité Sociale. More about it…

Prolonged air leaks after pulmonary resection: a descriptive nation-wide study.
Rivera C, Bernard A, Falcoz P-E, Thomas P, Schmidt A, Bénard S, Vicaut E, Tiffet O, Filaire M and Dahan M.
Chirurgie Thoracique Cardio-Vasculaire - 2011;15(3):161-169. More about it…

Characterization and prediction of prolonged air leak after pulmonary resection: a nation-wide study setting up the Index of Prolonged Air Leak.
Rivera C, Bernard A, Falcoz P-E, Thomas P, Schmidt A, Bénard S, Vicaut E et Dahan M.
Ann Thorac Surg. 2011 Sep;92(3):1062-8. More about it…