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Victor R. Fuchs Award for 2020 Goes to Patricia Danzon
23 June 2020
The American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon) announced Patricia Danzon as recipient of the 2020 Victor R. Fuchs Award. This is given to an economist making significant lifetime contributions to…
Just Published: Systematic Review of Utility Weights Used in Economic Evaluations of Vaccines for Paediatric Infectious Diseases
21 April 2016
…and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) methodology. 15 articles were identified which described the elicitation of utility weights intended for use in the populations of interest and 86 articles which employed utility weights…
Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa
1 March 1994
This report is concerned with people who persistently starve themselves (anorexia nervosa), as well as those who follow chaotic eating patterns (bulimia nervosa). Both conditions are associated with considerable morbidity…
NICE’s severity modifier: a step in the right direction, but still a long way to go
23 March 2022
…indicate that a QALY weight should be applied, and the weights differ, the higher weight is applied. QALY weight Proportional QALY shortfall Absolute QALY shortfall 1 Less than 0.85 Less…
Prices, Competition and Regulation in Pharmaceuticals: A Cross-National Comparison
1 June 2000
…countries under comparison, including branded products (whether sold by the originator company or a licensee, hereafter ‘originator’ and ‘licensed’ products) and generic products, and all formulations, strengths and packs. Standard…
NICE’s Social Value Judgments about Equity in Health and Health Care
17 January 2012
…been extremely reluctant to do so explicitly except in the special case of life-extending end of life treatments.” They note, however, that advisory bodies implicitly have taken into account a…
Valuing Orphan Medicines Using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
7 May 2013
…representatives, however, gave greater weight than the experts to the patient’s quality of daily life and less weight to clinical factors. The weighted attributes proved usable in practice; they readily…
GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: Shifting Obesity Management
12 May 2025
…maintaining weight loss is difficult. This is why obesity may require pharmacological intervention. Prior to the development of GLP-1 receptor antagonists, alternative options to weight loss drugs were limited. For…