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Two New Papers on EQ-5D-5L Valuation in Ireland
21 August 2018
OHE’s Koonal Shah and Nancy Devlin are co-authors on two new papers focusing on the valuation of the EQ-5D-5L in Ireland. In Ireland, the importance of health technology assessment has…
Progression-free Survival as a Surrogate Outcome for Overall Survival in Oncology
4 September 2018
When should progression-free survival be used as a surrogate for overall survival in oncology? A recent article in the International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, co-authored by OHE…
MoCA Initiative and its Value Framework: An Opportunity to Improve Decision Making for Orphan Drugs in Europe?
18 September 2018
Orphan drugs inherently face a number of challenges in their development and value assessment. In this blog post, we describe the Mechanism of Coordinated Action (MoCA) initiative, and discuss why…
OHE at the ISPOR Summit on New Approaches to Value Assessment: Towards More Informed Pricing in Healthcare October, 2018
5 November 2018
OHE presented at the ISPOR Summit on New Approaches to Value Assessment: Towards More Informed Pricing in Healthcare, held October 2018. OHE Director Adrian Towse, OHE Director of Research…
New Publications: Real-World Evidence for Coverage and Formulary Decisions
7 December 2018
Two articles, published in the Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research, explore the use of real-world evidence for coverage and formulary decisions. Two articles, published in the Journal of Comparative Effectiveness…
Kahneman’s legacy in health economics
4 April 2024
His research in the 1970s with Amos Tversky resulted in the development of prospect theory, which directly challenged the assumptions that underlie expected utility theory (Kahneman & Tversky, 1979). This…
Should We ‘Drop Dead’ from Health State Valuation?
10 December 2020
In a new OHE Research Paper, Chris Sampson, David Parkin, and Nancy Devlin consider whether ‘dead’ must be used as an anchor in health state valuation. The authors are looking…
Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds and Expert Elicitation: a Bridge Too Far?
29 April 2021
A team at the University of York recently published a study in which they sought to generate more reliable evidence to inform the estimation of marginal productivity in the NHS….
Allocating Public Spending Efficiently: Is There a Need for a Better Mechanism to Inform Decisions in the UK and Elsewhere?
16 June 2021
Our new paper explores the evidence currently being used to allocate budgets between public sector activities in the UK and its limitations. We argue that there is much that can…