To avoid duplication of reporting, for those centres with multiple publications over many years, the most recent or most comprehensive report was selected.
This paper highlights the need for the HQSC and PMMRC to work towards improving the recognition, reporting and review of SAE, and to prevent the duplication of reporting by healthcare staff.
In order to enhance readability of this manuscript, duplication of reported data (as required by PRISMA protocol) was condensed on occasion from two (or several) sections to one section.
17 Therefore, to overcome the same problem encountered by the process in New Zealand, the HQSC could work with the mortality review committees and the DHBs to consider how these organisations might share data submitted on severe adverse events to prevent duplication of reporting and utilise data reported to the HQSC for different purposes.
Avoiding duplication of HTA reports has been advocated as a means of avoiding duplicating effort unnecessarily; however, it should be acknowledged that sometimes there is a need to produce another HTA report on the same or a very similar topic.
The duplication of HTA reports is mentioned frequently in the literature; however, we have not been able to identify any other studies which have systematically analysed the data to test the extent to which this is the case for an individual technology.
Feedback from the field should be provided on duplication, complexity of reporting, logistical issues, workload and training requirements for the HIS in the disaster setting (WHO 2004).
At first, one researcher (XL) picked out duplications of these reports using NoteExpress, and scanned the title and abstract of the citation retrieved by the selection search engine (first scanning).
The contents of the reports identified were then examined to assess the extent of duplication of content between reports and potential for the use of the toolkit.
The aim of this study was to investigate the extent of duplication of published Health Technology Assessment HTAA) reports, on the same technology, for the same indication; using positron emission tomography (PET) for lung cancer and Hodgkin's disease as a case study.
