Clinical Outcomes
Valuing Health at the End of Life: An Exploratory Preference Elicitation Study
1 December 2011
In 2009, the UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) issued supplementary advice that its Appraisal Committees are to consider when assessing treatments that…
Willingness to Pay and Publicly Funded Health Care: Contradiction in Terms?
1 November 2011
Because health care resources always are scarce, decisions about what (and what not) to pay for cannot be avoided. Deciding how to value health and aspects of…
Using Happiness to Value Health
1 November 2011
In this new report, Prof Paul Dolan provides an accessible guide into the latest developments in happiness research as they apply to the valuation of health. …
Managing Poorly Performing Clinicians: The Value of Independent Help
1 March 2011
The UK’s National Clinical Assessment Agency (NCAS) is designed specifically to provide advice on performance issues, on request, to NHS organisations employing or contracting with doctors,…
A Comparison of Alternative Variants of the Lead and Lag Time TTO
12 January 2010
OHE was awarded a UK Department of Health grant to further develop three aspects of health status indexes. Results of the second of these, advances in…
Assessment of the Impact of Orphan Medicinal Products on the European Economy and Society
1 November 2010
This report examines the effect of the European Union’s 1999 Regulation on Orphan Medicinal Products (OMPs) on the European economy and society. This study collected data…
Using QALYs in Cancer: Review of the Methodological Limitations
1 October 2010
Current methods for constructing quality adjusted life year (QALY) measurements may be deficient for cancer patients in three respects: descriptions of health state, valuation of health…
Measuring Health Output, Productivity and Equity: Future Challenges
1 January 2010
Why, whether and how to measure health outputs, productivity and equity in the UK was the focus of the OHE’s 15th Annual Lecture, given by Prof…
QALYs versus Experience: A Perspective from Experimental Economics
1 August 2008
OHE’s 14th Annual Lecture was delivered by Professor Daniel Kahneman, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his pioneering work integrating insights from…