Direct and indirect mapping of the BATH disease activity and function indices (BASDAI/BASFI) onto the EQ-5D-5L utility index in axial spondyloarthritis

What is the problem? Clinical studies designed to assess the effectiveness of health technologies would ideally include outcome measures that are directly linked to utility measures of health-related quality of life. Health utilities are preference values that patients attach to their overall health status. This data is required to calculate quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) for …

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NCRI Festival: Early colorectal cancer treatment and outcomes in Scotland

Last month (8-12 November), the Scottish Bowel Cancer Intelligence UK team at Edinburgh Health Economics attended the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Festival: Making cancer research better together, with a poster on their recent work “Early colorectal cancer treatment and outcomes in Scotland: real world evidence from national linked administrative data”. We thought we would …

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Health economic studies of colorectal cancer and the contribution of administrative data

Several forces are contributing to an increase in the number of people living with and surviving colorectal cancer (CRC). However, due to the lack of available data, little is known about the implications of these forces. In recent years, the use of administrative data to inform research has been increasing. Administrative data is collected routinely ‘by …

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A study of socialising and depression in men

Historically, health economic research, especially economic evaluations and health technology assessment, have focused on physical health rather than mental health. This is partly explained by the difficulties in identifying and measuring mental health and its outcomes. A necessary first step before carrying out health economic research, is to describe and understand the size of the …

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