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.
Researching the Relative Efficacy and Relative Effectiveness of Medicines across Europe
1 October 2010
Ten member companies of the EFPIA HTA Task Force commissioned OHE consulting to provide research, data and analysis that would enable EFPIA both to support and…
Getting the Most out of PROMs: Putting Health Outcomes at the Heart of NHS Decision-Making
1 March 2010
In 2009, the English NHS began collecting patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) for four elective procedures. Using a series of structured questions that ask patients about their…
Measuring Health Output, Productivity and Equity: Future Challenges
1 January 2010
Why, whether and how to measure health outputs, productivity and equity in the UK was the focus of the OHE’s 15th Annual Lecture, given by Prof…
Why Should Economic Evaluations of Medical Innovations Have a Societal Perspective?
1 October 2009
In this Briefing, five leading European experts in health economics provide a comprehensive international review of changes in health economic evaluation and the reasons for them. …
Deliberative Processes in Decisions about Health Care Technologies
1 June 2009
In the UK and elsewhere, choices about how to allocate health care resources are guided not only by economic calculations, but also by social value judgments…
NHS Outcomes, Performance and Productivity
3 March 2008
OHE established a Commission on NHS Outcomes, Performance and Productivity. It’s overall conclusion was that the collection and use of outcomes measures in the NHS is both practical and essential.
Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Benefit-Risk Assessment of Pharmaceuticals from an Economic Perspective
1 August 2008
This Briefing reports the discussions of a group of experts at an OHE workshop on the benefit-risk assessments of drugs. The objective was to identify how…
The Economics of Health Care
1 January 2007
For over a decade, the OHE website included a popular interactive e-source, The Economics of Health Care, focusing on the UK and aimed at post-16 students…
Three Challenges to Achieving Better Analysis for Better Decisions: Generalisability, Complexity and Thresholds
1 October 2006
In June 2006, a conference entitled Better Analysis for Better Decisions: Bridging the Gap Between Economic Evaluation and Healthcare Decision-Making was held at McMaster University in…