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Published in Health Economics: the Effect of Free Personal Care for the Elderly on Informal Caregiving

17 March 2015

Just published in Health Economics is an article by OHE’s Sarah Karlsberg Schaffer that estimates the effect of free personal care on the supply of informal…

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A Framework for Payer Assessment of the Value of New Technologies: A US Approach

10 March 2015

Dr Steven Pearson has convened a US policy workgroup of payers, drug and device manufacturers, patients’ groups, and clinician specialty societies to help develop a “value…

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Do Respondents Completing Abstract, Hypothetical Priority-Setting Exercises Agree with the Policy Implications of Their Choices?

3 March 2015

A new OHE Consulting Report examines whether respondents completing abstract, hypothetical priority-setting exercises in stated preference studies agree with the policy implications of their choices.

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OHE Briefing on Incentives to Follow Best Practice in Health Care

27 February 2015

OHE has published a Briefing by Karlsberg Schaffer, Sussex and Feng summarising the evidence on incentives that encourage providers of health care to follow guidance on…

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OHE Occasional Paper Critiques the Claxton et al. £13,000 per QALY Estimate

24 February 2015

OHE has published an Occasional Paper highlighting the significant shortage of data that forced Claxton et al. to rely on a large number of strong assumptions…

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Pharmaceutical Pricing in Emerging Markets: Effects of Income, Competition, and Procurement

17 February 2015

Just published in Health Economics is an article by OHE’s Adrian Towse and others on pharmaceutical pricing in middle and low income countries (MLICs).

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Medical Research: How Long Does it Take?

10 February 2015

It is surprisingly hard to measure how long medical research takes. A recently published study by OHE, Brunel and RAND Europe shows a better way to…

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Benefiting Sooner from Medical Research

3 February 2015

Recently published study by OHE, Brunel University, RAND Europe and Kings College London analyses time lags in medical research and where to shorten them.

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Universal Health Coverage: The Holy Grail? 21st Annual Lecture Publication.

31 January 2015

The 21st OHE Annual Lecture was given by Professor Anne Mills, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, on the subject of Universal Health Coverage in…