External Publications
New Research: Achieving Efficient Prices for Drugs in a Global Context
7 February 2013
With Prof Patricia Danzon of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, OHE’s Adrian Towse and Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz have released an important working paper that addresses how…
New OHE Study Compares Decisions by Five HTA Agencies on Oncology Meds
31 January 2013
Just out in the International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care is an important new study that reviews appraisals of breast cancer and colorectal cancer…
Spotlight on OHE: Recent Awards, Publications and Presentations
12 September 2012
This post reviews selected external OHE activities and publications from the past three months.
Prospective Observational Studies: Whether, When and How to Use
18 June 2012
OHE’s Adrian Towse is co-author on the recent report by the ISPOR Good Research Practices Task Force on assessing comparative effectiveness using prospective observational studies.
NICE’s Social Value Judgments: A Closer Look at Progress
30 May 2012
Now out as a “FirstView” article in Health Economics, Policy and Law is an important analysis on the inclusion of social value judgments in NICE guidance,…
Can lessons from valuing health be useful in valuing development aid?
25 March 2012
Measuring and evaluating the impact of development aid is a perennial challenge. Various approaches have been tried. Since many have been aimed at donor needs and…
Spotlight on OHE: Valuing Spillovers, End-of-Life Decisions and Hospital Outcomes
20 March 2012
OHE’s outside activities in early 2012 focused on spillovers, HTA decision making, and measuring health outcomes.
Analysing Hospital Variation at the Level of EQ-5D Dimensions
20 February 2012
Measuring and publishing hospital data on achieved health outcomes is becoming routine in many health care systems. League tables of hospital quality – based on post-surgical…
NICE’s Social Value Judgments about Equity in Health and Health Care
17 January 2012
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) routinely publishes details of the evidence and reasoning underpinning its recommendations, including its social value judgments. To…