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.
Economic Post-Launch Studies: Matching the Desirable with the Feasible
1 September 2006
Whilst companies routinely conduct post-marketing surveillance studies to collect data on adverse events, the focus of this report is on ‘post-launch’ studies conducted to collect information…
The Many Faces of Innovation
2 January 2005
The Office of Health Economics (OHE) is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (registered number 09848965) and its registered office is at…
What Could be Nicer than NICE?
1 August 2004
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence is the closest anyone has yet come to fulfilling the economist’s dream of how priority-setting in health care should be…
Developments in Economic Evaluation in Health Care: A Review of HEED
3 January 2004
Health care decision makers are becoming increasingly concerned with obtaining value for money and therefore with the use of economic evidence, particularly as a criterion for…
To Heal and Harm: An Economic View of Drug Safety
1 December 2003
The aims of this book are to: • provide an historical background to modern pharmaceutical regulation; • summarise available data on the harm caused by medicines;…
Statistical Methods for Cost-Effectiveness Research: A Guide to Current Issues and Future Developments
1 November 2003
The purpose of this book is to bring together a collection of papers by acknowledged experts in the field of trial-based health economic evaluation to provide…
Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds: Economic and ethical issues
1 November 2002
The papers in this book are based on the proceedings of a workshop jointly organised by the OHE and the King’s Fund and hosted by the…
Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) for Decision-Making?
9 January 2002
Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) were introduced in 1993 amid the pages and policy directives of the World Development Report ‘Investing in Health’ (World Bank, 1993). DALYs…
Health Economics: An Introduction to Economic Evaluation
3 January 2002
The second edition of this guide to economic evaluation is significantly extended. This mirrors the development of economic evaluation since the first edition was published in…