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Exciting Job Opportunity! Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics and Prioritisation in Health and Social Care £50,132 to £58,089 per annum, pro rata for part time Fixed-term until 30 September 2024. Closing date: 30 July 2019. The Health Economics Group at UEA and its research, health and social care partners […]
Valuing Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) outcomes in heart failure: the valuable study Project title: Valuing Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) outcomes in heart failure: the valuable study Contact: For further information on this project, please contact Helen Hall: Helen.Hall@jpaget.nhs.uk Share this articleTwitter
Project title: How reproducible are economic decision-analytic models? A systematic review and replication study Type of research: Secondary data analysis Background & Scientific Rationale: Reproducibility refers to the degree to which others can replicate published research to confirm the findings using similar methods. Good science should ensure results are reproducible […]
Project title: Are QALY gains an appropriate measure of the societal value of end-of-life care? Type of research: Societal preference elicitation Background & Scientific Rationale: Competing healthcare interventions are increasingly prioritised on the basis of relative cost-effectiveness, or the additional cost per unit of health benefit. Health benefits are most […]
Christina-Jane Crossman-Barnes: My Journey to becoming a PhD student When I graduated from my undergraduate degree in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Southampton, I knew that I wanted to continue in a health-related field as health issues have always been of interest to me. After doing some research into […]
Ebola economics and the Bottom Billion. In March 2014 the first official cases of Ebola were reported in Guinea and Liberia. Nine months on, the outbreak has escalated to the most severe in the disease’s history, claiming over 6000 deaths. Until 2014, there were just over 1000 recorded cases in […]
Project title: How should we collect health care resource use data in trials conducted in care homes? A comparison of data collected from GP records versus care home records Type of research: Primary data analysis Background & Scientific Rationale: In an economic evaluation alongside a clinical trial, there are alternative […]
Project title: Economic Evaluation of telehealth: Systematic Review and economic model Type of research: Systematic review & meta-analysis Background & Scientific Rationale: Treatment costs for people with long term conditions are rising, as are the number of people with these conditions. Telehealth services (where monitoring occurs through the remote exchange […]
Project title: Economic evaluation of the EQUIP programme Type of research: Economic evaluation alongside a clinical trial Background & Scientific Rationale: It has been argued that that criminal offending is associated with a developmental delay in moral reasoning, distorted cognitions, and social skills (Gibbs et al, 2010). To address this, […]
Project title: Health resource use measurement in clinical trials: should we measure general health services or disease-specific health service resource use? Type of research: Reanalysis of RCT data and comparison of reporting methods Background & Scientific Rationale: In economic evaluation alongside clinical trials, there are alternative ways of obtaining health […]