Search results for: Policy Analysis

Incorporating Quantitative Patient Preference Data into Healthcare Decision Making Processes: Is HTA Falling Behind?

4 April 2018

…data are not as regularly utilised in HTA, relative to the regulatory space, because: Cost-utility analysis (CUA) is dominant in HTA and therefore the opportunities for patient preferences to be…

OHE at HESG, AES and PROMs Summer 2018

15 June 2018

…describes an analysis of data from a cohort of cancer patients that switched from using the EQ-5D-3L to the EQ-5D-5L. The study provides insights into the implications of using the…

Opportunity Costs of New Health Care Technologies: A Research Agenda

8 August 2018

…for the English NHS. First, it is possible that some purchasers can introduce health services by improving efficiency rather than displacing an existing activity. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) can be…

Progression-free Survival as a Surrogate Outcome for Overall Survival in Oncology

4 September 2018

…Visiting Fellow Alastair Fischer, demonstrates that uneven reporting of results, different definitions and methods of analysis, and a lack of rigour in applying methodology, make progress difficult. Most drug therapies…

OHE at the EuroQol Plenary Meeting 2018

2 October 2018

…quality of primary care in England affects patients’ self-reported outcomes. The analysis used data from the GP Patient Survey and the national Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) datasets to estimate…

OHE at ISPOR Europe 2018

…on the theory and practice of payment schemes with Louis Garrison and Josh Carlson from the University of Washington. Short course: Using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis in Health Care Decision Making:…

Pricing and Paying for Cures: Early Experience with HTA of Gene Therapy in the USA

28 February 2019

…cost-effectiveness analysis need to be considered. Three seem particularly relevant: i) first and only successful treatment; ii) the effect on society (schools, the community); and iii) effects on the infrastructure…

Exploring Variations in the Opportunity Cost Cost-effectiveness Threshold by Clinical Area: Results from a Feasibility Study in England

20 March 2019

…but involve political judgements. Two methods are used to explore the marginal relationship between health expenditure and health outcomes: data envelopment analysis (DEA) and quantile regression (QR). DEA allows the…

OHE is Leading Research to Develop EQ-5D ‘Bolt-ons’ for Cognition and Vision

24 May 2019

…will ask participants to complete the EQ-5D-5L questionnaire with candidate bolt-on items, as well as other condition-specific instruments. The testing will include classical psychometrics and regression, factor analysis, and Rasch…