Products and Publications

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VATAP products and publications are listed here by report type or topic.

VATAP products by report type:

• Bibliographies (selective, quality filtered, not subject to external review)
• INAHTA Briefs (Structured abstracts of reports produced by members of INAHTA)
• Reports (lengthy reviews & assessments)
• Brief Overviews
• Short Reports (5 - 20 pages)
• Tech Watch (E-mailed VATAP Newsletters of TA related reports and news)

VATAP products by topic

• Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
• Amputation
• Bariatric Surgery
• Benzocaine
• Brain Metastases
• Brain Surgery
• Cardioplegia
• C-Leg®
• Clinical Prediction
• Colonoscopy
• Colonography
• Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
• Case Management
• Chronic Wound Management
• Congestive Heart Failure
• Coordination of care
• Dentistry
• Depression
• Diagnostic Test Evaluation Methods
• Diagnostic Tests
• Erectile Dysfunction
• Eyeglasses
• Gamma Knife
• Impotence
• Joint Replacement
• Low Vision
• Lower limb Prostheses
• Managed Care
• Mental Health
• Methemoglobinemia
• Microprocessor Controlled Prostheses
• Obesity


• Outcomes Measures
• PACS
• Pallidotomy
• Parkinson's Disease
• Perimetry
• PET Scanning
• Physiologic Telemonitoring
• Picture Archiving and Communications Systems
• Pill Splitting
• Positron Emission Tomography
• Prostate Care
• Prostheses
• Robotic Surgery
• Schizophrenia
• Shared Decision Making
• Spinal Cord Injury
• Stents
• Sterilization
• Stereotactic Pallidotomy
• Stereotactic Radiosurgery
• Stroke
• Surgical Robotics
• Tablet Splitting
• Telemonitoring
• TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Stimulation)
• Thermometry, Post-Operative Care


• Visual Disorders
• Visual Fields
• Wait Times