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Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services
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The Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services (Swedish: Statens beredning för medicinsk och social utvärdering, SBU) previously the Swedish Council on Health Technology Assessment is an independent Swedish governmental agency tasked with assessing and evaluating methods in use in healthcare and social services. SBU is tasked with summarizing and communicating evidence and is a knowledge center for both healthcare and social services in Sweden.[1] The agency performs review by systematically searching the literature, evaluating, assuring quality, and weighing together results. SBU does not carry out any original research beyond meta-analysis, systematic review or health technology assessment (HTA).[2] It is one of the world's oldest HTA agencies that started conducting systematic reviews in 1987.[3]