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Should access to life saving medicines be determined by economic evaluations?
9 January 2020 - Time is the most precious commodity all of us have. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Nov 2019
Improving transparency in decision models: current issues and potential solutions
23 October 2019 - Decision-analytic models have become an essential tool used to inform health technology assessments. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Jul 2019
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 Jun 2019
Novel approaches to value assessment within the cost-effectiveness framework
20 June 2019 - The second plenary session focused on the need to move beyond conventional cost-effectiveness analysis of healthcare interventions ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jun 2019
New cost-effectiveness methods to determine value-based prices for potential cures: what are the options?
12 June 2019 - Evaluating different approaches to assessing the clinical effectiveness and value of potential cures will be essential to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Jun 2019
Incorporating future medical costs: impact on cost-effectiveness analysis in cancer patients
12 June 2019 - The inclusion of future medical costs in cost-effectiveness analyses remains a controversial issue. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 May 2019
Cost effectiveness analysis in the context of US commercial health insurance
29 May 2019 - Discussions of the cost effectiveness of medical services often are couched in the framework of 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 ...