Health economics in guidelines
One day course covering the principles and methods of health economics and cost effectiveness analysis.
Goals of the course:
- To improve decision-making in clinical guidelines by promoting appropriate use of the principles and methods of economic evaluation.
- To improve the quality of economic analysis in guidelines by enabling non-economists to better understand, inform and critique them.
- To achieve a more integrated approach to the analysis of clinical and economic evidence.
- Date:
- Aug 22, 2012
- Location:
- Berlin, Germany
- Venue:
- BCC - Berliner Congress Center
- Conference organiser:
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G-I-N and NICE
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This one day course is offered by NICE.
Programme
Proposed schedule and content for the course is as follows:
| 10.30 | Welcome and introduction | |
| 10.40 | Talk 1 | Introduction to economic evaluation |
| 10.50 | Talk 2 | How to estimate costs |
| 11 | Talk 3 | Valuing health outcomes |
| 11.30 | Break | |
| 11.40 | Talk 4 | Assessing cost-effectiveness |
| 12.00 | Exercise | Case A - Lung cancer |
| 12.30 | Lunch | |
| 13.30 | Talk 5 | The role of modelling |
| 14.10 | Exercise | Case B - COPD |
| 14.40 | Talk 6 | Investigating uncertainty |
| 15.00 | Break | |
| 15.10 | Talk 7 | Making a decision |
| 15.40 | Exercise | Case C - Contraception |
| 16.10 | Talk 8 | Economics in NICE guidelines |
| 16.30 | End of the course |
Main facilitator
- Prashanth Kandaswamy (NICE, UK)
