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NICE’s severity modifier: a step in the right direction, but still a long way to go
23 March 2022
…with a new, broader severity modifier. This blog outlines the new modifier and discusses the need for further related research. What is NICE’s new severity modifier? NICE’s new severity modifier…
New NICE Manual for Health Technology Evaluations: A Critical Discussion on the Most Relevant Changes (or Lack Thereof)
23 February 2022
…to new interventions. NICE guidance on methods for health technology assessment (HTA) is of paramount importance because of its impact on the approach used by other HTA bodies internationally. NICE…
How Restrictive are NICE ‘Optimised’ Decisions?
27 April 2023
…of recommendations would help paint a more accurate picture of recommended levels of patient access associated with NICE decision outcomes. Citations Bulut, M., O’Neill, P. and Cole, A. (2020) NICE…
NICE’s Social Value Judgments about Equity in Health and Health Care
17 January 2012
…examine the inclusion of social value judgments in NICE guidance decisions and describe the social value judgments about equity in health and health care that NICE has used to guide…
NICE Decisions: Exploring the Influence of Cost-Effectiveness and Other Factors
30 April 2013
…the basic model for this research were the factors deemed most likely to affect NICE’s decisions : (1) incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs); (2) clinical evidence, hypothesising that NICE will reject a technology…
Implementing NICE Decisions in Wales: Opportunity Costs
10 June 2014
…technologies. By law, technologies recommended by NICE are to be funded within three months of publication of NICE’s technology appraisal (TA) decision. Just out is a new Research Paper from…
The NICE Health Technology Evaluation Manual: A Fresh Perspective Needed?
16 March 2022
…example the effect of a treatment to reduce alcohol misuse on crime (Walker et al., 2019) or children’s ability to attend school regularly. What perspective does NICE take? The NICE…
NICE Recommendation Highlights Role of Social Value Judgements
9 August 2018
…for prioritising treatments for rare diseases is less clear-cut. NICE’s own Citizens Council (a panel of members of the public, established to provide advice about the social values that NICE…
NICE Decisions: Cost-effectiveness is the Most Significant Predictor
21 November 2013
…identifying the influence of cost-effectiveness and other factors on NICE decisions, and investigating whether NICE’s decision making has changed over time. NICE’s decisions were modelled as binary choices, i.e. “yes”…