The selection of topics for assessment, which includes identifying and prioritizing HTA questions, is a constant challenge for HTA agencies because the number of technologies requiring an assessment exceeds the resources available.
However, the intended topic of assessment remains important.
Scoping, incorporating interviews, focus groups and document review, enables assessors to focus attention on certain human rights indicators, or topics, included in topic catalogues used for assessment.
Measures specialized on specific topics (for example, assessment of visuospatial functioning, verbal learning) or not developed for AD, dementia, or geriatric patients were omitted.
Improving predictive relationships between strong ground motion and seismically induced damage in buildings is an important topic for seismic risk assessment.
The influence of Climate Change on plant development as well as on carbon and nitrogen cycling in soils is an important research topic for Global Change impact assessment at the regional scale.
The third component of the semester course consisted of a group project, where students collaboratively researched a given topic and created artefacts for assessment.
In addition, there are findings in mammalian species showing that Bt toxicity is a relevant topic for detailed health risk assessment: Some Cry toxins are known to bind to epithelial cells in the intestines of mice [36, 37].
The selection of HTA topics which includes identifying technologies for assessment and prioritizing them, is part of the mandate of HTA units and agencies.
We use an application-files experimental design to investigate a new topic in the assessment of candidates for junior-engineering jobs.
As a consequence and to add to the complexity, the existing tools for assessment of energy-topics at urban scale often rely on proprietary, application-specific, and sometimes closed data formats, de facto nullifying data interoperability.
