This study at $150,000 over three years uses qualitative and quantitative methods to assess enabling and impeding factors that affect the translation of evidence from Health Technology Assessment (HTA) into health policy. The study uses drugs, high-cost medical devices (stents and hip replacement) and hi-tech medical equipment (CT and MRI) as case studies to assess the relationship between HTA research findings and policy. Surveys and in-depth interviewers with HTA researchers and policy-makers at the provincial and national level will be used to develop measures of the effectiveness of translation of research findings into health policy.