Health technology assessment for a service contract : a new method for decisional tools

The method of HTA is applied to the decisional process for a Service Contract. The standard method of HTA is improved with standard techniques of graphical representation. The goal is to facilitate the communication with the decision maker which could be not strongly skilled in mathematical methods. As case study we consider the needs of a public hospital of medium dimensions, allocated in a medium town of north Italy, which need to purchase a Service Contract for a CT Equipment