Valoración ética en un proceso de HTA de un tratamiento para la infertilidad

[Autom. eng. transl.] As a multidisciplinary research modality, the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programs have always provided, at least theoretically, the ethical evaluations on the use of health technologies according to the criteria of those on safety, efficiency, economic impact, organizational impact, etc. In practice, all this has been, however, mostly neglected and ethical assessments have found place in the HTA reports only in more recent times and with a limited frequency. In order to present the modus operandi and the results of this type of analysis and eventually raise a debate on the argument, the contribution refers to the assessment of the consequences of an ethical nature on the use of a treatment for infertility care, the Fostimon More particularly, such assessment has been part of an HTA program, organized by the Center for Research in Environmental Sanitary Engineering and Health Technology Assessment of the Catholic University of the Sacred Cuore of Rome in order to establish its preference over others treatments