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.
How Should We Measure Quality of Life Impact in Rare Disease? Recent Learnings in Spinal Muscular Atrophy
1 March 2019
The measurement of quality of life in the context of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is challenging. This is because the disease is experienced by children and is rare, which makes data collection difficult. This Briefing reports on a symposium that outlined some lessons that can be learnt from the SMA context that might be more widely applicable.
Making Outcome-Based Payment a Reality in the NHS
2 January 2019
This report explores the feasibility of introducing one type of flexible payment mechanism – outcome-based payment (OBP) – for cancer medicines into the NHS in England. OBP could help to accelerate patient access to some new medicines and ensure close monitoring of real-world patient benefit.
Public Preferences for Health Gains and Cures: A Discrete Choice Experiment
1 January 2019
Whether or not society values curative therapies more highly (or less highly) than the sum of the iterative improvements that might come from conventional therapy has…
A Note on the Relationship Between Age and Health-related Quality of Life Assessment
12 December 2018
A new OHE-authored paper on the relationship between age and health-related quality of life has been published in Quality of Life Research.
New NICE Position Statement – 5L Value Set Still ‘On Hold’
29 November 2018
NICE has issued a new position statement regarding the use of the EQ-5D-5L value set in evidence submitted to its HTA process.
EQ-5D-5L Value Set for England Study Team Responds to the EEPRU Review
29 November 2018
OHE has published a response to the critique of the EQ-5D-5L value set for England study.
OHE at the ISPOR Summit on New Approaches to Value Assessment: Towards More Informed Pricing in Healthcare October, 2018
5 November 2018
OHE presented at the ISPOR Summit on New Approaches to Value Assessment: Towards More Informed Pricing in Healthcare, held October 2018.
OHE Lunchtime Seminars: Steven Pearson and Janel Hanmer
4 October 2018
OHE will be hosting two lunchtime seminars in October – one on the 22nd with Steven Pearson, ICER, and another on the 31st with Janel Hanmer,…
OHE at the EuroQol Plenary Meeting 2018
2 October 2018
OHE contributed to the organisation and scientific content of the recent EuroQol Plenary Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal.