Within the UK, a standard approach to compare the cost-effectiveness of interventions has been established by decision makers like NICE. It relies on the costs to the NHS and social care balanced against difference in QALYs. For several reasons, this approach falls short when evaluating interventions at the End of Life. Firstly, a significant proportion …
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 …
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact worldwide. Throughout the world, this impact has been felt especially in the long term care (LTC) sector. Edinburgh Health Economics (EHE) Research Fellow Elizabeth Lemmon has been working with colleagues from Scotland and the rest of the UK, on several pieces of work investigating the impact of …
Join Scottish Health Economics (SHE) for a virtual seminar on the 26th of January from 15.00 to 16.00. Programme: Introduction and launch of the SHE website (Marjon van der Pol) Scotland’s rich tradition in using and developing economic methods for eliciting preferences (Mandy Ryan) UK general public’s preferences for government responses during a pandemic (Luis …
A couple of weeks ago, we posted a blog from Emma Wilson, an undergraduate economics student here in Edinburgh, who spent some time working with Edinburgh Health Economics on a voluntary internship during the summer. This week we hear from a second student, Georgina, who also worked on a project with EHE. Georgina shares a …
Although there have been substantial developments in the analysis of uncertainty in economic evaluations of health care programmes, the development of methods for one-way sensitivity analysis has been notably slower. Conditional incremental net benefit was recently proposed as an approach for implementing probabilistic one-way sensitivity analysis for economic evaluations comparing two strategies. Here, we generalise …
This summer, after running our first undergraduate Health Economics module, a couple of enthusiastic economics students approached us to ask if there were any opportunities to get some work experience with Edinburgh Health Economics. Whilst we don’t run any formal internship schemes, we thought we could definitely think of some useful projects for the students …
…and what does the health team think? We are conducting a study to get a better understanding of what is important to secondary breast cancer patients when making treatment decisions. We are also looking at what is important to the clinical team looking after the patients and to the general public. Our study aims to …
A national population administrative secondary care data linkage study Pre-print publication: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.29.20203794v1 People who are nearing the end of life are high users of hospital services. The absolute cost to providers and its value is uncertain. There is a need to identify which groups of people spend a lot of time in hospital so that …
Our Research Fellow, Elizabeth Lemmon, has been contributing to several reports on the impact of COVID-19 within the long term care (LTC) system in Scotland and around the world, with colleagues from the University of Stirling, Edinburgh Napier University, London School of Economics and the Bruyère Research Institute. These reports are being produced for the …
