The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence ( NICE) is taken for the typical success in u-sing health technology assessment to control cost increase. For other countries in a budget constrained context, this health technology assessment process and knowledge translation mechanism might be of significant implications. The objective of this paper is to provide some hints of knowledge translation to evidence-based decision making by sharing the experience from the NICE health technology assessment.

A description of the intervention measures of the reform program for integrated care and payment in pilot areas,covering such diseases as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cerbral stroke.The reform aims at exploring impacts on both medical behaviors and medical costs.Authors of the paper hold that the practice of packaged ceiling payment for a single disease is a two-edged sword for clinical pathway management,and joint efforts by the government,medical insurers,medical workers and patients at large are required to regulate medical behaviors over time.They also see the total growth of medical costs as an objective rule,and the correct way out for optimal use of medical insurance funds is to focus on makeup of such costs.

Objective:In order to scientifically promote the selection of appropriate technology of traditional non-pharmacologi-cal,the value evaluation index system of traditional non-pharmacological technology was constructed in line with the characteristics of TCM based on the theory of health technology assessment and multi-criteria decision analysis.Methods:The evaluation index pool was initially formed through literature research,and then those indicators were further improved through semi-structured inter-views and Delphi method.Results:The value evaluation index was constructed with seven dimensions,including quality standard,safety,effectiveness,economy,inheritance and innovation,suitability and accessibility,which were subordinated by 17 second-level indicators and 33 third-level indicators.The questionnaire response rate was 100%.The group authority coefficient of 17 experts was 0.87,and the concentration and coordination degree of expert opinions of the first-level indicators were high.Conclusion:The index pool constructed in this study has high expert authority,good concentration and coordination of expert opinions,which needs to be verified by practical experience,which is of great significance for the value evaluation of traditional non-pharmacological technology.