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Reconciling MCDA and Augmented Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Do We Get the Same Decisions?

14 April 2021

…resource allocation decisions. WTP thresholds are most immediately relevant in health care systems such as the U.S. where the impact of an increase in expenditure from a new technology is…

Measurement of Medicines Expenditure in the Context of the 2014-18 PPRS

1 August 2018

…growth in Government funded healthcare expenditure in the UK of 4.0% whilst NHS Digital reported medicines expenditure growth for the English National Health Service (NHS) for the same period at…

Themes

…efficiency of health care provision. Measuring and Valuing Outcomes Health outcomes constitute the basis for any form of evaluation in the context of health. For any scenario involving health assessment,…

An Investigation of the Feasibility and Cultural Appropriateness of Stated Preference Methods to Generate EQ-5D-5L Values in the United Arab Emirates

1 February 2015

No EQ-5D-5L value sets are currently available in the Middle East to inform decision making in the region’s health care systems. This study tests the feasibility of eliciting EQ-5D-5L values…

Why Should Economic Evaluations of Medical Innovations Have a Societal Perspective?

1 October 2009

…that the basis for health care decision making today has evolved away from… In this Briefing, five leading European experts in health economics provide a comprehensive international review of changes…

Seminar Briefing: NHS Agency Staffing and the Impact of Recent Interventions

24 January 2018

…long lead time for training health care staff means that there can sometimes be a shortfall in available staff. This has made recruitment agencies and individual locum staff important suppliers…

A switch to vegan diets could save the NHS £6.7 billion per year, new research reveals

8 January 2024

…of health care cost savings. A new study by the Office of Health Economics shows that with 100% adoption of plant-based diets in England, the total health care cost savings…