Research

An Empirical Study of Two Alternative Comparators for Use in Time Trade-Off Studies
7 July 2015
A paper by OHE’s Koonal Shah on alternative comparators for use in TTO studies is the first to be published as part of the new EuroQol…

OHE’s Professor Nancy Devlin and Koonal Shah Join the EuroQol Research Foundation’s Valuation Working Group
5 May 2015
OHE’s Professor Nancy Devlin and Koonal Shah have both been appointed to serve on the Valuation Working Group of the EuroQol Research Foundation.

Published in Health Economics: the Effect of Free Personal Care for the Elderly on Informal Caregiving
17 March 2015
Just published in Health Economics is an article by OHE’s Sarah Karlsberg Schaffer that estimates the effect of free personal care on the supply of informal…

Medical Research: How Long Does it Take?
10 February 2015
It is surprisingly hard to measure how long medical research takes. A recently published study by OHE, Brunel and RAND Europe shows a better way to…

Benefiting Sooner from Medical Research
3 February 2015
Recently published study by OHE, Brunel University, RAND Europe and Kings College London analyses time lags in medical research and where to shorten them.

Multinational Evidence of the Applicability and Robustness of Discrete Choice Modeling for Deriving EQ-5D-5L Health-State Values
13 January 2015
Published in Medical Care [open access] is a paper reporting a multi-country pilot study investigating the feasibility of using discrete choice experiments (DCE) to value EQ-5D-5L…

EQ-VAS an Important and Under-used Element of the EQ-5D
17 December 2014
On 18th November 2014 OHE’s Professor Nancy Devlin presented at the King’s Fund Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) research conference. Nancy’s presentation focused on the role of…

Just Published: Empirical Study Examining Public Preferences Regarding End of Life Treatments
24 November 2014
Just published in Social Science & Medicine [open access] is a social preference study by OHE’s Koonal Shah and the University of Sheffield’s Aki Tsuchiya and Allan…

OHE Seminar Launches ‘An EQ-5D-5L Value Set for England’
13 November 2014
At an OHE seminar on October 30th, OHE’s Professor Devlin and Professor van Hout from University of Sheffield jointly presented the key results from their study…