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Guest post: The Economics of Elevated Hospital Mortality at Weekends
14 July 2015
…to justify an organisational change. There is as yet no clear evidence: that 7-day working will, in isolation, reduce the weekend death rate; that lower weekend mortality rates can be…
Incorporating Life-cycle Price Modelling into Pharmaceutical Cost-effectiveness Evaluations
25 August 2015
…sold at substantially lower prices. A newly published OHE Research Paper models and studies the price of a new drug along its life-cycle, from launch to discontinuation, to investigate how…
Waiting Time Policies in the Health Sector: What Works?
27 October 2015
…at a cost, as health care expenditure has also increased rapidly. Finally, Prof Siciliani discussed inequalities in waiting times by socioeconomic status. Several studies show that patients with lower socioeconomic…
New OHE Publication Compares 3L and 5L Versions of EQ-5D as Measures of General Population Health
10 November 2015
…poorer health status in older respondents, females, and those in a lower educational category. The EQ-5D-5L descriptive system, though not the Index or EQ-VAS, discriminated better between age groups than…
Spotlight on OHE: Beyond QALYs, Managed Entry Agreements, Business Models for Antibiotics, and the UK Market for Medicines.
12 April 2016
…the lowest in developed countries. The second half of the lecture looked at NICE and the ‘hurdle’ of demonstrating cost-effectiveness, as well as an overview of pricing regulation, and specific…
OHE Workshop: Surrogate Endpoints as Predictors of Overall Survival in Oncology
14 July 2016
…described the trade-off between getting much faster results and at lower cost using a surrogate endpoint, but at the expense of a less certain eventual outcome. In addition, Dr Oriana…
OHE at HESG Winter 2017: Meet the Team
22 December 2016
…on singly rewarded indicators. We find that there is higher reported achievement, lower exception reporting, and higher quality for multi-rewarded indicators than for singly rewarded indicators. We also find that…
Do People of Different Ages Value Health Differently?
18 April 2017
…TTO values obtained from the oldest respondents are systematically (and significantly, for the majority of profiles) lower than those obtained from younger age groups. Differences in values amongst age groups…
HTAi Asia Policy Forum Briefing Papers: Value and Affordability, Transferability, and Delivery of High Quality HTA for Decision Making
2 May 2017
…be adapted to different contexts. Overall, we conclude that some of the barriers to transferability may be lower than is generally believed. The topic of the 2013 meeting was: How…