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A non-inferiority framework for cost-effectiveness analysis
24 July 2019 - Traditional decision rules have limitations when a new technology is less effective and less costly than a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Apr 2019
Expanding the scope of costs and benefits for economic evaluations in health: some words of caution
18 April 2019 - Discussions regarding the appropriate scope of costs and benefits for inclusion in economic evaluation in healthcare have ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Feb 2019
Choosing a time horizon in cost and cost-effectiveness analyses
21 February 2019 - When designing a comparative outcomes or a cost-effectiveness analysis, the time horizon defining the duration of time ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Jan 2019
Future costs in cost-effectiveness analyses: past, present, future
23 January 2019 - There has been considerable debate on the extent to which future costs should be included in cost-effectiveness ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Nov 2018
Which databases should be used to identify studies for systematic reviews of economic evaluations?
16 November 2018 - This study investigated which databases and which combinations of databases should be used to identify economic evaluations ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Oct 2018
Systematic reviews of economic evaluations in health technology assessment: a review of characteristics and applied methods
22 October 2018 - When making decisions in health care, it is essential to consider economic evidence about an intervention. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Jun 2018
Takeda pioneers NICE’s new service for economic model review
7 June 2018 - NICE Scientific Advice (NSA) launched a new health economic model review service, PRIMA, in December 2017 and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Oct 2017
Predictive validation and the re-analysis of cost-effectiveness: do we dare to tread?
30 October 2017 - Predictive validation (also known as fourth-order validation) involves the comparison between model outputs and observed data ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Oct 2017
Economic evaluation of personalised medicine: a call for real-world data
18 October 2017 - In the last decade, we have witnessed a change in healthcare management, with ‘personalised medicine’ as the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Mar 2017
Systematic reviews of economic evaluations: how extensive are their searches?
28 March 2017 - Economic evaluation is an accepted element of decision making and priority setting in healthcare. Although search methodology ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Jul 2016
Unrelated future costs and unrelated future benefits: reflections on NICE Guide to the Methods of Technology Appraisal
3 July 2016 - This editorial considers the vexing issue of ‘unrelated future costs’ (for example, the costs of caring ...