I am looking for comprehensive elaborations, presenting a set of criteria for introducing / adopting / market approval of drugs and medical devices. Could you recommend some reading?
Start at EUnetHTA's website, www.eunethta.eu. Here is a paper on pharmaceuticals: Relative Effectiveness Assessment of Pharmaceuticals: Similarities and Differences in 29 Jurisdictions
Sarah Kleijnen, MSc1, 2, Corresponding author contact information, E-mail the corresponding author, Elisabeth George, PhD3, Scott Goulden, MSc3, Anne d'Andon, MD4, Pauline Vitré, PD, MSc4, Boguslawa Osińska, MSc5, Rafal Rdzany, PhD5, Steffen Thirstrup, MD, PhD6, Belen Corbacho, MSc7, Bence Z. Nagy, MSc8, Hubert G. Leufkens, PhD2, Anthonius de Boer, MD, PhD2, Wim G. Goettsch, PhD1, 2
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2012.04.010
ISPOR also has a set of guidelines for PHARAMCOECONOMIC EVALUATION AT WWW.ISPOR.ORG