Author: Alistair Bullen Background to the project and the think aloud pilots The INFO-BC (Supporting shared decision making in secondary breast cancer) project is continuing to make great progress towards releasing a full-scale survey to patients, health professionals and the general public. INFO-BC is a planned survey which aims to understand preferences for secondary breast …
Author: Robert Nagy 2019 European International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes (ISPOR) As a PhD student working on a project that is on the borderline of Data Science, Medical Informatics and Health Technology Assessment, I felt it was crucial for me to attend this year’s European International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes (ISPOR) – the …
Author: Katharina Diernberger Health Economics at the 9th International Seminar of the European Palliative Care Research Centre At the end of October (23rd to 25th), I travelled to Krems in Austria to attend the 9th International Seminar of the European Palliative Care Research Centre (EPCRC). In this post, I will offer my thoughts on the …
It’s been just over one month since the official launch of Scottish Health Economics (SHE) at Discovery Point in Dundee. Set up by the Health Economics Research Unit (HERU) in Aberdeen (find out more about SHE here), “SHE seeks to act as a vehicle for widening engagement with health economics in Scotland, bringing together users …
Background Alistair is an early career researcher who is currently the Research Assistant attached to the INFO-BC (Supporting shared decision making in secondary breast cancer) project. He graduated from the University of York’s MSc in Health Economics in 2018 having previously completed a degree in Economics from the University of East Anglia. Alistair intends to …
Author: Alistair Bullen Health Economics Study Group and Discrete Choice Experiments I am the primary researcher on INFO-BC. We plan to implement a discrete choice experiment (DCE). A DCE is a type of stated preference exercise where respondents make decisions hypothetical scenarios. Our team identified opportunity to use DCE’s in a secondary breast cancer setting. …
Background Katharina is currently working as a Research Fellow for Health Economics at the Clinical Trials Unit Edinburgh and part time as a Doctoral Fellow at the Edinburgh Cancer Centre. She is a Masters Graduate in European Health Economics and Management (EU-HEM) which included studying at the Management Center Innsbruck, University of Bologna and the …
Hello everyone and welcome! We are the Edinburgh Health Economics (EHE) group, part of Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit (ECTU), and this is our new blog! In recent years, our enthusiastic team has been growing. We now feel like it is about time that we shared with you, the research community, some of the work that …
