Search results for: Pricing and Reimbursement

Uses of Models in Economic Evaluations of Medicines and Other Health Technologies

1 October 1996

…Sheldon (1994)) do have to be addressed, and Rittenhouse discusses sources of bias, hierarchies of evidence, and the extent to which sensitivity analysis and other ways of handling uncertainty can…

Common Illness of Our Time: a Study of the Problem of Ischemic Heart Disease

1 July 1966

In England and Wales in 1963, 187,023 deaths were certified as due to diseases of the heart. These included 154,815 deaths due to arteriosclerotic and degenerative heart disease of which…

Presentation at the NHS Global Health Volunteering Group Meeting: “The Value of International Volunteering and Placements to the NHS”

…volunteers are classified into three areas according to the MILES (Macroeconomic conditions, Investment climate and infrastructure, Labour market regulations and institutions, Education and skill development, and Social protection) framework. The…

OHE at the EuroQol Plenary Meeting 2017

26 September 2017

…of EQ-5D-3L and EQ-5D-5L index data. The paper was co-authored by OHE’s Nancy Devlin and Ben van Hout of the University of Sheffield, and was discussed by Eleanor Pullenayegum. Bernarda…

Antimicrobials Resistance: A Call for Multi-disciplinary Action. How Can HTA Help? A Summary of a Symposium held at HTAi Rome 2017

31 October 2017

…infections, such as overuse of antibiotics in human and veterinary care, and poor prevention and hygiene practices. On the other hand, the scarcity of new treatments, both recently launched as…

Seminar Briefing: NHS Agency Staffing and the Impact of Recent Interventions

24 January 2018

…of Recent Interventions’. The NHS is one of the biggest employers in the world, with around 1.7 million staff across all NHS services. However, difficulty in predicting demand and the…

Minimal Access Surgery – Why Don’t We Do More?

20 March 2018

…surgery. This results in an improved patient experience and quality of life, and shorter inpatient stays: good news for patients and for our financially and physically constrained NHS.    Despite…

Issues in Development: a Guide

5 January 1983

…only contribute effectively to mass wellbeing in the third world if used hand in hand with the help poorer farmers and landless labourers need in the form of job opportunities,…

Coronary Heart Disease: the Scope for Prevention

1 August 1982

One person in every four in England and Wales dies from coronary heart disease and at a minimum estimate the costs borne by the National Health Service in its treatment…