EQ-5D and PROMs
Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are used to evaluate health interventions, providing a measure of an individual’s health status. The EQ-5D is a PROM recommended by NICE for measuring health benefits. It considers 5 dimensions of health and can be used across various diseases.
New: Assessing the Performance of the EQ-VAS in the NHS PROMS Programme
16 April 2012
The NHS Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) programme, introduced in April 2009, is a significant development in the routine collection and use of patient reported outcome…
Spotlight on OHE: Valuing Spillovers, End-of-Life Decisions and Hospital Outcomes
20 March 2012
OHE’s outside activities in early 2012 focused on spillovers, HTA decision making, and measuring health outcomes.
Analysing Hospital Variation at the Level of EQ-5D Dimensions
20 February 2012
Measuring and publishing hospital data on achieved health outcomes is becoming routine in many health care systems. League tables of hospital quality – based on post-surgical…
Assessing the Performance of the EQ-VAS in the NHS PROMs Programme
1 April 2012
The NHS Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) programme, introduced in April 2009, is a significant development in the routine collection and use of patient reported outcome…
New Insights into Hospital Efficiency: Linking Costs and Patient Outcomes
18 October 2011
A new discussion paper from the Centre of Health Economics (CHE), University of York, reports first results from a programme of collaborative research by CHE, Nancy…
Spotlight on OHE: Measuring Preferences, HTA Benchmarking, Value-Based Pricing, and Rationing
13 October 2011
This post reviews OHE’s activities in September 2011 that contributed to advancing thought and stimulating innovative ideas in its three key research areas: financing and delivery…
Does Relative Effectiveness Vary Across Europe?
9 August 2011
At the Spanish Health Economics Association (AES) conference in May 2011, OHE’s Ruth Puig Peiró discussed a recent OHE study that reviewed the available literature on…
Comparing Variants of Lead and Lag Time TTO
1 February 2011
OHE was awarded a UK Department of Health grant to further develop three aspects of health status indexes. Results of the second of these, advances in…
Prof Devlin Elected Chair of EuroQol Group
25 November 2010
OHE is pleased to announce that Professor Nancy Devlin, Director of Research, has been elected as Chair of the EuroQol Group’s executive committee, effective as from…