New and Emerging Health Technology Reports

Recent Reports from CADTH and Other HTA Agencies

Previous issues of Health Technology Update

CADTH

These reports are available without cost at the web sites shown below:

Australia and New Zealand Horizon Scanning Network (ANZHSN)

• Primer and probe set for the diagnosis of avian influenza

  • Available:
    http://www.health.gov.au/internet/horizon/publishing.nsf/Content/8F86C8B4D8513895CA25715C0005D972/$File/Primer%20and%20probe%20set%20of%20avian%20influenza%20Vol%2014%20No%201%20Sept2006.pdf

• Nicotine metabolite ratio test as a predictor of smoking cessation
  • Available:
    http://www.health.gov.au/internet/horizon/publishing.nsf/Content/8F86C8B4D8513895CA25715C0005D972/$File/Nicotine%20metabolite%20Vol%2014%20No%204%20Sept2006.pdf

Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH)

• Transient elastography (FibroScan) for non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis
  • Available: http://www.cadth.ca/media/pdf/442_fibroscan_cetap_e.pdf
• Digital mammography: an update
  • Available: http://www.cadth.ca/media/pdf/444_digital_mammography_
    cetap_e.pdf
• Open magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners
  • Available: http://www.cadth.ca/media/pdf/E0011_MRIScanners_cetap_e.pdf
• “Hot” techniques for tonsillectomy
  • Available: http://www.cadth.ca/media/pdf/E0003_tonsillectomy_cetap_e.pdf
• Intra-articular hyaluronic acid (viscosupplementation) for knee osteoarthritis
  • Available: http://www.cadth.ca/media/pdf/E0010_viscosupplementation
    _cetap_e.pdf

Ontario Medical Advisory Secretariat (MAS)

• Energy delivery systems for treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia
  • Available: http://www.health.gov.on.ca/english/providers/program/mas/tech/reviews/pdf/rev_bph_081806.pdf
• Gastric electrical stimulation
  • Available: http://www.health.gov.on.ca/english/providers/program/mas/tech/reviews/pdf/rev_ges_081806.pdf
• Negative pressure wound therapy
  • Available: http://www.health.gov.on.ca/english/providers/program/mas/tech/reviews/pdf/rev_npwt_070106.pdf

US California Technology Assessment Forum (CTAF)

• An interspinous process distractor (X Stop) for the treatment of spinal stenosis of the lumbar spine
  • Available: http://www.ctaf.org/content/assessments_pdf/82151206101_XSTOP0606.pdf;jsessionid=3C7B8118D138F067D1855CF9E44FEFC7
• Brachytherapy for accelerated partial breast irradiation following conserving surgery

• Available: http://www.ctaf.org/content/assessments_pdf/82151206100_Brachytherapy0606.pdf;jsessionid=3C7B8118D138F067D1855CF9E44FEFC7