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Medical Research: How Long Does it Take?

10 February 2015

It is surprisingly hard to measure how long medical research takes. A recently published study by OHE, Brunel and RAND Europe shows a better way to…

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Benefiting Sooner from Medical Research

3 February 2015

Recently published study by OHE, Brunel University, RAND Europe and Kings College London analyses time lags in medical research and where to shorten them.

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Multinational Evidence of the Applicability and Robustness of Discrete Choice Modeling for Deriving EQ-5D-5L Health-State Values

13 January 2015

Published in Medical Care [open access] is a paper reporting a multi-country pilot study investigating the feasibility of using discrete choice experiments (DCE) to value EQ-5D-5L…

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OHE in the BMJ: Reforming the Cancer Drug Fund, and Reviving the PROMs Programme

10 December 2014

On 28th November 2014 the BMJ published the Editorial “Reforming the Cancer Drug Fund”. In this editorial, Buxton, Longworth, Raftery, Sculpher and Towse  argue that the…

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Just Published: Empirical Study Examining Public Preferences Regarding End of Life Treatments

24 November 2014

Just published in Social Science & Medicine [open access] is a social preference study by OHE’s Koonal Shah and the University of Sheffield’s Aki Tsuchiya and Allan…

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OHE’s Devlin Co-Author on Prize-Winning EQ-5D Paper

14 October 2014

An OHE co-authored journal article that analyses variations in hospital performance in improving patient health has been awarded the prize by EuroQol for ‘best scientific paper’…

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Spotlight on OHE: Competition in the NHS, HESG, Publications

17 July 2014

Jon Sussex was a keynote speaker at the Capita conference on competition in health care held in June, where the audience was primarily from the NHS.…

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Orphan Drugs Policies: A Suitable Case for Treatment

20 May 2014

Towse and Drummond take a critical look at deficiencies in policy and suggest revisions. An editorial just published by OHE’s Adrian Towse and Michael Drummond of…

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Pricing Variations Within and Across Countries: Gauging Efficiency

25 February 2014

This research explores which approaches to pricing can produce the greatest efficiency and access to medicines within and across countries. OHE collaborated on two articles published…