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Allocating Resources Based on “Happiness” – OHE Lunchtime Seminar
16 March 2012
…difficult to cope with a chronic illness might be allocated relatively more resources, aimed specifically at improving a sense wellbeing, than another group of patients who are coping well. Following…
EQ-5D Index Clustering: Causes and Implications for Health Care
5 February 2013
…vein and hernia repairs) and from a study of two chronic conditions (asthma and angina). The distribution of EQ-5D index values was compared with distributions from data that are not…
Personalised Medicine and the Value of Molecular Diagnostics: Case Studies
18 December 2013
…testing to determine treatment choices for colorectal cancer BCR-ABL to monitor treatment progress in chronic myleloid leukaemia Testing for the CYP2C19 enzyme in the use of clopidogel (Plavix®) in heart…
What Determines the Shape of an EQ-5D Index Distribution?
12 August 2014
…and varicose vein and hernia repairs) and a study of primary care patients with chronic disease (asthma and angina). The distributions of EQ-5D index values are compared to distributions based on…
OHE Briefing on Incentives to Follow Best Practice in Health Care
27 February 2015
…are associated with positive results, including use in chronic care (as opposed to acute care) and incentivising clinical outcomes (rather than those relating to patient experience). The authors end…
OHE Welcomes Two New Economists: Bernarda Zamora and Patricia Cubi-Molla
15 September 2015
…of an illness has a positive impact on self-assessed health. This positive relationship also holds when looking at specific chronic conditions, but it is only statistically significant for a subset…
Invitation to OHE’s Annual Lecture 2017: Why are Mortality Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Non-Hispanic Americans? Could it Happen in Europe?
12 May 2017
…chronic pain and inability to work. Rise in death rates from drug and alcohol poisonings and suicide supporting evidence of growing midlife distress. These have risen in a similar fashion…
OHE at HESG Winter 2018
4 January 2018
…Ekaterina Kuznetsova Discussed by Luke Munford, Chaired by Yan Feng, 10th January, 14:35, B103 A Markov Model to Estimate the Cost-effectiveness of Interventions for Treatment of Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers…
Comparing Preference-based Outcome Measures for Overactive Bladder: EQ-5D-5L vs OAB-5D
31 January 2018
…The paper is authored by OHE’s Michael Herdman, and Nancy Devlin, in collaboration with researchers from Astellas Pharma Europe, the European Foundation for the study of Chronic Liver Failure, Alliance…