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.
OHE’s Devlin on Using the EQ-5D to Measure Patients’ Outcomes
11 June 2013
OHE’s Professor Nancy Devlin has researched, written and spoken widely on the use of the EQ-5D, and related measures, both in her capacity as the Director…
OHE This Week: BioWales 2013, UK Medicines Market and EQ-5D in Asia
18 March 2013
19 March: Jon Sussex will be at BioWales 2013 speaking on the health and wider economic benefits of life sciences research. 21 March: Jorge Mestre-Ferrandiz will…
Review of Plans for Refining Patient-Reported Outcomes Measures
19 February 2013
At a recent meeting of the Pharmaceutical Onology Initiative’s (POI) HTA group, OHE’s Nancy Devlin provided an overview of the EuroQol Group’s scientific research agenda for…
EQ-5D Index Clustering: Causes and Implications for Health Care
5 February 2013
In a paper presented at the January 2013 Health Economics Study Group meeting, David Parkin of the NHS and OHE’s Nancy Devlin and Yan Feng examined…
Critique of CHE Research Paper 81: Methods for the Estimation of the NICE Cost Effectiveness Threshold
12 January 2013
This paper counters the recently-published recommendation by Claxton et al[1] that NICE should lower its cost-per-QALY threshold from the current £20,000–£30,000 official range to £12,936. The…
The Influence of Cost-effectiveness and Other Factors on NICE Decisions
1 November 2013
In this Research Paper, the authors explore which factors have most influenced NICE decisions from 1999 through the end of 2011. The research has two objectives:…
A Study of the Relationship Between Health and Subjective Well-being in Parkinson’s Disease Patients
1 July 2013
Significantly increases of wealth and health in the Western world over the past 50 years do not appear to have produced an equivalent increase in societal…
Spotlight on OHE: Measurement and Valuation of Health Using PROMs
20 December 2012
The OHE continues to play a central role in the development and use of patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs). The last quarter of 2012 was characteristically busy.
OHE Awarded £457K Grant on Measuring Public Preferences for Health States
2 August 2012
OHE’s Prof Nancy Devlin and Prof Ben van Hout of the University of Sheffield have been awarded a £457,000 grant from the Policy Research Programme (PRP)…