CLINICAL ENGINEERING AND HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT

1. Medical devices: general aspects, evolution of legislation on medical devices, acquisition, management, maintenance and disposal
2. Clinical engineering: definition of the professional figure and clinical engineering services for the management of biomedical equipment, tasks of the clinical engineer
3. Economic evaluations in healthcare: definition of costs and benefits in the health sector, cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-utility analysis, cost-benefit analysis
4. Methods for preference (utility) elicitation in health care
5. Creation and analysis of decision trees for health economic evaluations
6. Markov models: definition and statistical properties (irreducibility, ergodicity, properties of the transition matrix, residence time, steady state probability) and their application for health economic evaluations
7. Methods for sensitivity analysis in the presence of parameter uncertainty: definitions of variability, heterogeneity and uncertainty, deterministic and probabilistic sensitivity analysis and tornado diagrams
8. Linear regression and logistic regression for the individualization of the parameters of decision models, and basic elements of feature selection
9. Survival analysis: censoring, risk and hazard function, survival function, methods for the creation of survival functions (Kaplan-Meier method, parametric models, parametric regression methods, Cox regression)
10. Health technology assessment: origins and evolution, objectives, bodies responsible for issuing evaluation reports, types of reports (fundamentals on key features for their analysis and creation)