Scientific Assessment of Health Technology
The Swedish Council on Health Technology Assessment is known internationally by its Swedish acronym, SBU. For more than fifteen years, SBU has stayed on the leading edge of health technology assessment (HTA). As a forerunner in the field, SBU has been instrumental in promoting scientific assessment in Sweden and abroad.
Scientific assessment in health care aims to identify interventions that offer the greatest benefits for patients while utilizing resources in the most efficient way.
Health services do not always use the best available methods. Many routine methods of diagnosis and treatment are, in fact, obsolete and ineffective. Some newer methods are widely used, even though their benefits, risks, and costs have never been critically evaluated. At the same time, there are methods that should be used on a much broader scale - methods shown by scientific assessment to be both beneficial and cost effective.
Scientific assessment is needed in health care - both for established methods and for new medical innovations.
SBU Assesses Health Technology
· Which treatment options are most effective? · How can we diagnose problems most accurately? · How can we use healthcare resources to achieve optimum benefits?
SBU was established in 1987 by the Swedish Government to answer these and similar questions on behalf of the healthcare sector. Initially, SBU was an agency under the Swedish Government Offices.
In 1992, SBU was commissioned as an independent public authority for the critical evaluation of methods used to prevent, diagnose, and treat health problems.
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