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.
Health Economics: Prospects for the Future
1 July 1987
The purpose of this book is to review the current state of health economics and look forward to developments over the next 25 years. The coverage…
What Are My Chances Doctor? – a Review of Clinical Risks
1 November 1986
Half a century ago little attention was paid to the risks associated with medical and surgical treatment. The hazards of sickness itself were so obvious, that…
Measurement of Health
1 June 1985
Expenditure on health care is continuing to rise in all Western countries, both in total and as a percentage of gross national product (Table 1). This…
Techniques of Health Status Measurement Using a Health Index
1 April 1985
It is widely accepted that resources for the provision of health care are scarce, that is, there are not and never will be enough resources to…
Measuring the Social Benefits of Medicine
1 July 1983
There has been a spectacular explosion of therapeutic progress over the past 35 years. The consequent improvements in public health may seem self-evident. Why, then, is…
Medicines and the Quality of Life
1 September 1982
Previous studies concerned with the benefits of modern medicines have concentrated mainly on their economic consequences (Wells NEJ 1980; Teeling-Smith G 1982). By contrast this paper…
Question of Balance: the Benefits and Risks of Pharmaceutical Innovation
1 May 1980
Since this monograph was completed, two new stories concerning the safety of medicines have been featured prominently in the British press. The first has been on…
Evaluation in the Health Services
1 May 1972
Proceedings of a symposium HELD AT THE Royal College of General Practitioners on Thursday 21 October 1971 One of the main ideas behind a symposium on…