News at HERC

An article by Winnie Yip on 'China's Health Care Reform: A Tentative Assessment' has been published in China Economic Review. More

WHO Handbook on Indoor Radon
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recently launched a new handbook on indoor radon which includes a chapter written by Alastair Gray on the cost-effectiveness of radon control. The handbook is available to download here.

A letter written by Oliver Rivero-Arias has been published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The letter 'Is a simple "Thank you" too much to ask?' summarises a review Oliver conducted on the number of acknowledgements patients received after participating in multinational randomised clinical trials and economic evaluations published over the past decade and also from randomised controlled trials published in the BMJ during 2009.

ISPOR 12 Annual European Congress, 24 - 27 October 2009, Paris. Emma McIntosh along with colleagues from Australia will be presenting a workshop on 'Recent progress on best-worst scaling: Health-related applications'

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Latest Publications

Williamson, I, Benge, S, Barton, S, Petrou, S, Letley, L, Fasey, N, Haggard, M, and Little, P (In Press). A Double-blind randomised placebo controlled trial of topical intra-nasal corticosteroids in 4-11 year old children with persistent bilateral Otitis Media with Effusion in primary care. British Medical Journal .

Campbell H, Taylor M, Harris A, Gray A (In Press) An investigation into the performance of the ADJUVANT! Online prognostic programme in early breast cancer for a cohort of patients in the UK. British Journal of Cancer.

Rivero-Arias O, Ouellet M, Gray A, Wolstenholme, J, Rothwell PM, and Luengo-Fernandez R (In Press). Mapping the Modified Rankin Scale (mRS) measurement into the generic EuroQol (EQ-5D) health outcome. Medical Decision Making.

Edwards, SJ, Clarke, MJ, Wordsworth, S, and Borrill, J (2009). Indirect comparisons of treatments based on systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials. Int J Clin Pract, 63(6):841-54.

In Press Publications

Research Design Service

Support for NHS researchers preparing proposals for NIHR funding.  More

HERC Short Courses

• Introduction to Health Economic Evaluation
  New dates now available for next year.
  16 April 2010
  15 October 2010
  

• Advanced Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
  7-9 December 2009
  

HERC Seminars: Autumn 2009

• Tuesday 24 November 2009, 4.00 pm

Professor Rachel Elliott, Division for Social Research in Medicines and Health, The School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham

'To take or not to take: the economics of medicines taking'  

• More seminars
  

Handbooks in Health Economic Evaluation, 4 volumes

Edited by Alastair Gray and Andrew Briggs. Oxford University Press.

Vol 1 Decision Modelling for Health Economic Evaluation

Vol 2, Economic Evaluation in Clinical Trials.

Latest Downloads

• Supporting materials to the BMJ paper on the economic evaluation of the DiGEM study

• Algorithm to translate SF-12 into EQ-5D data
  
• Other downloads

For a copy of HERC's Annual Report for 2008, email HERC for hard copy by post, or download the pdf.