Measuring and Valuing Outcomes
We have established an excellent reputation for leading innovative, ideas-driven, and theoretically sound research on the measurement and valuation of outcomes. Health care systems should put patient-relevant outcomes at the heart of decisions about funding and providing health and social care.
Antimicrobials Resistance: A Call for Multi-disciplinary Action. How Can HTA Help?
1 October 2017
This briefing provides a detailed summary of a symposium held at the HTAi 2017 meeting in Rome. This briefing provides a detailed summary of a symposium…
Data Governance Arrangements for Real-World Evidence: South Korea
1 September 2017
In 2015, OHE published a report which set out the core principles that should govern how Real-World Data (RWD) is accessed or generated, and used credibly to generate Real-World Evidence (RWE), thereby working toward a set of “international standards”1.
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…
Additional Elements of Value for Health Technology Assessment Decisions
1 May 2017
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change in ways that render the medications used to cure the infections they…
Comparing the Cancer-Specific EORTC-8D and the Generic EQ-5D-3L
4 January 2017
This early view paper published in Quality of Life Research compares a condition-specific preference based measure to a generic measure in a population of cancer patients.
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…
How can HTA meet the needs of health system and government decision makers?
4 January 2017
The 2015 meeting of the HTAi Asia Policy Forum meeting was held in Singapore, 29th -30th October 2015. The topic of the meeting was: How can…
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,…