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Publication of 4 NEED reports on the assessment of the unmet needs of patients and society

📢 The NEED team recently published 4 new reports on the assessment of patient and societal unmet needs:

  •  A report proposing a scientific framework for assessing unmet patient and societal needs

🔗NEED: assessment of the unmet needs of patients and society - The assessment framework

  •  A report assessing to what extent the NEED approach is applicable to rare diseases

🔗NEED: applicability to rare diseases

  • Two case studies applying the NEED assessment framework to two health conditions in the Belgian context

🔗NEED: identification of unmet health-related needs associated with malignant melanoma

🔗NEED: identification of unmet health-related needs associated with Crohn's disease

The NEED reports pave the way for allowing healthcare system stakeholders to better take unmet patient and societal unmet needs into account when making decisions or setting priorities.

About NEED

NEED is financially supported by the Belgian Federal Science Policy (BELSPO) through the INFRA-FED call.

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Project coordinators

dr. Irina Cleemput

KCE

irina.cleemput@kce.fgov.be

prof. dr. Robby De Pauw

Sciensano, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Service Health Information

robby.depauw@sciensano.be