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MRC Network of Hubs for Trials Methodology Research, Costing Workshop

Creating guidance for costing methodology within clinical trials, 10 October 2013, Oxford
Call for abstracts

HERC News

Issue 3 out now. Download here.

Capabilities and Mental Health

On 11 April 2013 Drs Judit Simon and Paul Anand presented as part of a webinar on 'Measuring Capabilities among Individuals with Mental Health Disorders' More

HERC at iHEA Sydney

HERC members going to iHEA to make oral presentations and organise sessions: James Buchanan, Helen Dakin, Alastair Gray, Reem Hafez, Boby Mihaylova, Oliver Rivero-Arias, Iryna Schlackow, Liz Stokes. Titles of papers and sessions

The economic burden of cancer across the European Union

Presentation by Jose Leal to the 8th NCRI Cancer Conference, November 2012. Abstract

Wider statin use in healthy people

could save 2,000 lives a year in the UK. Boby Mihaylova is the lead author of a paper published in the Lancet on 17 May which reports the results of the largest and most reliable study ever of the effect of statins.  Statins reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes and premature deaths among a wide range of apparently healthy people. The benefits greatly exceed any known risks. See CTSU press release here.

HERC hits the headlines with eye trial

HERC estimates of the cost savings possible by switching eye drugs have been quoted in the national press, including the BBC News, Guardian and Daily Mail. More

Latest Publications

Gray, A, and McGuire, A (2013). Professor Gavin Mooney 1943-2012 Obituary

Health Economics, 22:371-372.

Thorn, JC, Coast, J, Cohen, D, Hollingworth, W, Knapp, M, Noble, SM, Ridyard, C, Wordsworth, S, and Hughes, D (2013). Resource-Use Measurement Based on Patient Recall: Issues and Challenges for Economic Evaluation.Appl Health Econ Health Policy.

Pagano, E, Gray, A, Rosato, R, Gruden, G, Perin, PC, Merletti, F, and Bruno, G (2013). Prediction of mortality and macrovascular complications in type 2 diabetes: validation of the UKPDS Outcomes Model in the Casale Monferrato Survey, Italy. Diabetologia.

Breeman, S, Campbell, MK, Dakin, H, Fiddian, N, Fitzpatrick, R, Grant, A, Gray, A, Johnston, L, Maclennan, GS, Morris, RW, and Murray, DW (2013). Five-year results of a randomised controlled trial comparing mobile and fixed bearings in total knee replacement. Bone Joint J, 95-B(4):486-92.

Dakin, H, Gray, A, and Murray, D (2013). Mapping analyses to estimate EQ-5D utilities and responses based on Oxford Knee Score. Qual Life Res, 22(3):683-94.

Leal, J, Ades, A, Wordsworth, S, and Dezateux, C (2013). Regional differences in the frequency of the c.985A>G ACADM mutation: findings from a meta-regression of genotyping and screening studies. Clin Genet.

HERC Seminar Series

NEW DATE

Thursday 20 June 2013
Prof Simon Eckermann, Professor of Health Economics, Australian Health Services Research Institute, Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong
'Including quality attributes in efficiency measures consistent with net benefit: creating incentives for evidence based medicine in practice'

Wednesday 3 July 2013
Dr Charitini Stavropoulou, Lecturer in Health Care Management, Department of Health Care Management and Policy, University of Surrey
'Differences in risk perceptions among patients and doctors; a field experiment'

HERC Short Courses

CONFERENCES

New Directions in Welfare III: 2013 OECD-Universities Joint Conference
Economics for a Better World.
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iHEA: 9th World Congress on Health Economics: Celebrating Health Economics 7-10 July 2013, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Australia. Call for abstracts and more information