Resources for teaching Economic Evaluation

Lecture Slides

Principles and methods of economic evaluation 3-hour introductory lecture for NHS Finance Directors - provided by Nancy Devlin, City University, 2007.

Valuing Health Powerpoint slides for a 2-3 hour lecture on methods of valuing benefits in health and health care - provided by Adam Oliver at LSE, 2007

Richard Smith, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Richard Smith's materials are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.

• Economic Evaluation – Research Question
• Economic Evaluation – Resources and Costs
• Defining and Assessing Benefits of Economic Evaluation
• Measurement and Valuation of Health
• Pharmaco-economic Evaluation – Benefits and Outcomes
• Pharmaco-economic Evaluation – Analysis and Results

Kevin Frick, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence

• Economic Evaluation – An Overview
• Economic Evaluation – Calculating QALYs
• Economic Evaluation – Calculating Costs Over Time
• Economic Evaluation – Costing, Discounting and Inflation
• Economic Evaluation – Decision Rules
• Recommendations of the US Panel on Cost Effectiveness in Health and Medicine

Emma Frew, University of Birmingham

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• Measuring Outcomes - Introduction to QALYs
• Measuring Outcomes - Estimating QALYs and methodological challenges with QALYs

Audio-Visual Material

Limitations of Quality Adjusted Life Years:
4'56" video interview, Jo Coast, University of Birmingham

Group Exercises

Instructions for a classroom exercise on eliciting and analysing visual analogue scale valuations for EQ-5D health states. This exercise involves students completing a VAS valuation task, and then using their questionnaires as the basis for a structured discussion, and a follow-up exercise to analyse the data from the group. Also provided here, the VAS questionnaire to accompany this exercise. Please note this is provided only for use in this classroom experiment! Exercise developed by Nancy Devlin at City University, 2008.

Instructions and exercise sheets required to run two classroom experiments (a) a classroom experiment on willingness to pay (WTP) and (b) eliciting Time Trade Off (TTO) values in the classroom. The latter can be demonstrated to students using a simple spreadsheet. These are part of the teaching resources developed to accompany Economic Analysis in Health Care by Morris, Devlin and Parkin (2007) and available via the book's companion website. Reproduced here with kind permission of Wiley.

A simple pen-and-paper exercise on incremental cost effectiveness ratios, suitable for use with with under-grad students or as an introductory exercise for post-grads, including detailed notes for instructors. This exercise was developed to accompany Economic Analysis in Health Care by Morris, Devlin and Parkin (2007); the instructor notes are provided by Nancy Devlin, 2008.

Assessment Material

Final exam from an introductory MSc module on Economic Evaluation
Nancy Devlin, City University, 2005
 

Other

Measuring Health Improvements for a cost-effectiveness analysis – A Case Study
Stephen Heasell, Nottingham Trent University