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Value Frameworks: Value in Health Special Issue
29 March 2018
A recent issue of Value in Health contains the ISPOR Special Task Force Report on US Value Assessment Frameworks. In this blog post, we summarise the Task Force Report and…
Valuing Health at the End of Life: A Review of Stated Preference Studies in the Social Sciences Literature
9 April 2018
Just published in Social Science & Medicine: a review of stated preferences examining the extent of support for an end of life premium. A source of debate in the health…
Opportunity Costs of New Health Care Technologies: A Research Agenda
8 August 2018
A new OHE Research Paper sets out an agenda for the development of methods to estimate cost-effectiveness thresholds in the NHS. For many years, health economists have been concerned with…
NICE Recommendation Highlights Role of Social Value Judgements
9 August 2018
This blog post discusses the role of social value judgements in NICE technology appraisals, focusing on the recent appraisal of dinutuximab beta for high-risk neuroblastoma. The use of social value…
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…
Socio-Economic Value of Adult Immunisation Programmes
18 April 2024
Global Demographic Transitions and Health Challenges The world is currently undergoing significant demographic shifts, with ageing populations as the dominant trend. For infectious diseases, such as shingles and pneumococcal disease,…
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…