Clinical Outcomes
The Impact of New Medicines in the NHS: 70 Years of Innovation
1 August 2018
In 2018, the NHS turns 70. This OHE Consulting Report demonstrates the contribution and impact of medicines to the health economy in the UK throughout the…
Quality of Life in Long-term Cancer Survivors: Implications for Future Health Technology Assessments in Oncology
1 June 2018
Cancer survival rates have improved dramatically in recent decades due in part to pharmaceutical advances, with a growing range of increasingly effective and targeted medicines being…
New Methods for Analysing the Distribution of EQ-5D Observations
1 April 2018
This paper reports new methods for analysing the distribution of EQ-5D observations. The Health State Density Index and Health State Density Curve are used to summarise…
A New Valuation Method: Directly Eliciting Personal Utility Functions
1 August 2017
Standard methods for eliciting the preference data upon which value sets are based (e.g. time trade-off, standard gamble) generally have in common an aim to ‘uncover’ the…
Why Do Immigrants Report Lower Life Satisfaction?
1 July 2017
Questions of happiness and well-being have increasingly been drawing the attention of health economists, with the understanding that its measures approximate quality of life, or at…
Age and Utilities: Issues for HTA
1 April 2017
Several studies have found differences in health state values by age. We investigate whether and how age affects respondents’ Time Trade-Off (TTO) and Visual Analogue Scale…
Comparing the UK EQ-5D-3L and the English EQ-5D-5L Value Sets
1 March 2017
Three EQ-5D value sets (the EQ-5D-3L, crosswalk and EQ-5D-5L) are now available for cost utility analysis in the UK and/or England. The value sets’ characteristics differ,…
What is the Normative Basis for Selecting the Measure of ‘Average’ Preferences for Use in Social Choices?
1 February 2017
The aim of this paper is to consider what normative arguments might exist for advocating the use of any given measure of the average in the…
Important Aspects of Health Not Captured by EQ-5D: Views of the UK General Public
12 January 2016
This Research Paper reports the views of 179 members of the UK general public about important aspects of health that they consider to be missing from the five dimensions of the EQ-5D instrument.