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.
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…
Policy Options for Formulary Development in Middle-income Countries: Mexico Case Study
1 January 2017
PhRMA commissioned OHE Consulting to explore options and recommend methods that could help middle-income countries efficiently and effectively identify medicines for formulary inclusion. In a previous…
New OHE Research Paper: Extrapolation from Progression Free Survival to Overall Survival in Oncology
28 December 2016
The Office of Health Economics, in a research project funded by the Pharmaceutical Oncology Initiative (POI), has published a report entitled: Extrapolation from Progression Free Survival…
New Publication: Important Aspects of Health Not Captured by EQ-5D
15 December 2016
A new OHE Research Paper examines the views of the UK general public about aspects of health considered to be missing from the five EQ-5D dimensions.
New OHE Research Paper: The Distribution of the EQ-5D-5L Index in Patient Populations
1 November 2016
Just published is a new OHE Research paper entitled ‘The Distribution of the EQ-5D-5L Index in Patient Populations’.
OHE at the EuroQol Plenary Meeting 2016
17 October 2016
OHE’s Amanda Cole, Nancy Devlin, Yan Feng, Mike Herdman and Koonal Shah all contributed to the 33rd Plenary Meeting of the EuroQol Group in Berlin.
New Report Published: Improving Efficiency and Resource Allocation in Future Cancer Care
26 September 2016
The Office of Health Economics (OHE) and the Swedish Institute for Health Economics (IHE) publish a report evaluating the efficiency of resource allocation in cancer care…
The Application of Anchoring Vignettes to the EQ-5D-5L: A Possible Solution to Reporting Heterogeneity in PROMs
30 August 2016
Responses on subjective scales (like the EQ-5D) will be inaccurate if groups systematically differ in their use and/or interpretation of the categories. Anchoring vignettes offer a…
OHE Awarded Funding for Seven Projects by the EuroQol Research Foundation
18 July 2016
OHE is set to work on seven new projects funded by the EuroQol Research Foundation. The work will cover a range of topics from understanding the…