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ecj-1516	Iannone, Primiano	The need of a health technology assessment perspective in emergency medicine	2013	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1627	47	33	So, the health tech- nology assessment (HTA), defined as the multi-disciplinary field of policy analysis that examines the medical, economic, social and ethical implications of the incremental value, diffusion and use of a medical technology in health care, is intended to provide a bridge between the world of the biomedical research and that of the decision-making. In any case, HTA can offer a substantial contribute to decide the wise allo- cation of the limited resources devoted to health care, and to stop the relentless rise of health care wastes (such as over treatment, failure of care co-ordination and processes, pricing failures, over diagnosis and defensive medicine), seriously threatening the sustain- ability of publicly based health care systems, and respecting the law of diminishing returns, according to Donabedian’s definition:2 The balancing of improvements in health against the cost of such improvements.	cache/ecj-1516.pdf	txt/ecj-1516.txt