Search results for: Health Care Systems

Using Performance Thresholds to Affect GP Behaviour: Evidence from Scotland

4 March 2014

…result of QOF incentives, as well as modest improvement in health outcomes, fewer emergency hospital admissions, lower health care expenditure, and reduced population mortality. In this article, OHE’s Yan Feng…

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

1 February 2015

Stated preference studies are increasingly being used to understand people’s views about the relative importance of different criteria for making health care priority setting decisions. Stated preference studies are increasingly…

Competition and Outcomes in the NHS: Hip Replacement

23 September 2014

…the authors[i] note, ‘Health care reforms in England during the last decade have been influenced by the idea that encouraging competition between hospitals, with nationally fixed prices, will increase the…

2020 OHE Annual Report to the Charity Commission

1 December 2021

…achieve its charitable objectives of advancing the education of the public in general/health care payers/policy makers on the subject of health economics and health care policy; and using health economics…

2021 OHE Annual Report to the Charity Commission

1 December 2022

…health economics and health care policy; and using health economics methods to produce evidence-based health policy and health care management that contributes to a more efficient and effective health care…

2018 OHE Annual Report to the Charity Commission

1 November 2019

…economics and health care policy; and using health economics methods to produce evidence-based health policy and health care management that contributes to a more efficient and effective health care system….

Establishing a Reasonable Price for an Orphan Drug

11 September 2020

…lead us to want higher thresholds for treatments for catastrophic diseases (Lakdawalla and Phelps, 2020, Garrison et al., 2019).  However, health care decision-makers are still likely to find themselves asked…

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2019 OHE Annual Report to the Charity Commission

1 December 2020

…advancing the education of the public in general/health care payers/policy makers on the subject of health economics and health care policy; and using health economics methods to produce evidence-based health…