Value, Affordability, and Decision Making
Efficient decisions about allocating health care budgets require assessment of the effects of health care interventions and the value for money they provide. Decision-making processes leading to funding decisions should be structured and evidence-based.
Using QALYs in Cancer: Review of the Methodological Limitations
1 October 2010
Current methods for constructing quality adjusted life year (QALY) measurements may be deficient for cancer patients in three respects: descriptions of health state, valuation of health…
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…
Assessment and Appraisal of Oncology Medicines: NICE’s Approach and International HTA Experience
1 February 2009
Lower usage of cancer medicines in the UK compared to other countries has created questions, including whether the current approach by NICE to assessing cancer medicines…
Medical Research: What’s It Worth?
1 November 2008
Understanding the nature, extent and processes involved in the return on investment in medical research has been largely neglected as an area of serious scientific study.…
New Guidelines for Economic Evaluation in Germany and the United Kingdom: Are We Any Closer to Developing International Standards?
1 November 2008
Australia was the first, in 1993, to make economic evaluation an important component of its decisions about reimbursement of drugs. Since then, several jurisdictions have followed…
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…
Health Systems Performance Assessment
1 April 2006
Annual lecture by Christopher Murray, who speaks in the UK about the work on health systems performance assessment (HSPA) at the World Health Organization. He gives…