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Consumer and the Health Service
1 July 1968
Proceedings of a Symposium held at The Royal College of General Practitioners, London 27 January 1968 MANY of the general public and the medical profession have strong views on the…
Assessing the Performance of the EQ-VAS in the NHS PROMs Programme
1 April 2012
The NHS Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) programme, introduced in April 2009, is a significant development in the routine collection and use of patient reported outcome data. Data currently are…
The Use of Pay-for-Performance for Drugs: Can It Improve Incentives for Innovation?
1 February 2012
Interest is growing in schemes that involve “paying for pills by results”, that is, “paying for performance” rather than merely “paying for pills”. Despite its intuitive appeal, this approach is…
New Methods for Modelling EQ-5D-5L Value Sets: An Application to English Data
1 January 2016
This paper provides details of how the EQ-5D-5L value set was derived, focusing on the methods used to model the stated preference data. Results for different model specifications, and taking…
New Drugs to Tackle Antimicrobial Resistance: EU Policy Options
1 October 2010
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to drugs, a natural and unavoidable consequence of treating infectious diseases, is a growing global public health threat. The EU Commission is to develop comprehensive proposals by…
The Impact of Health Technology Assessment on Drug Development
3 January 2009
…important snapshot of current industry perspectives on the impact of HTA. Responses show that the pharmaceutical industry is adjusting to the realities of today’s cost conscious health care systems by…
Infant and Child Health
1 December 1975
In 1901 approximately 127,000 infants and 81,000 children aged 1-14 died in England and Wales. By 1973, the corresponding figures were 11,500 and 4,500, representing falls of 91 per cent…
Evaluating the Cost-effectiveness of Health System Strengthening: A Platforms Perspective
1 February 2020
Health System Strengthening (HSS) is an important concept now widely discussed, but too often without sufficient structure or an adequate understanding of what actually is involved. The articles on which…
Price Comparisons of Identical Products in Japan, the United States and Europe
1 August 1981
…of guidance has been sought through comparisons of international prices. Unfortunately, differences in regulatory/reimbursement systems and in corporate strategies coupled with inconsistencies between methods of administration, dosage strengths and usage…