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Latest NHS and pharmaceutical news - probably the best of many sources

These are MDM web-based resources based on US population analyses by Sullivan et al 2006. The ICD-9 calculator produces figures based on age, gender, race, income and occupation. The SF-12 converter is based on MCS and PCS and also produces a standard error.

Presentation by Andy Briggs describing how to relate continuous hazards to discrete-time transition probabilities. Includes slides, practical exercise and answer.

Anlytical tools to help with funnel plots, calculation of standardised rates, inequality measures (Lorenz curves), population pyramids, prevalence estimator

I think the two most useful things within this are the inequality measures - with a nice introductory presentation on what Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients are, and the life tables (including standard errors, which are not available in the standard GAD tables which are also bookmarked)

APHO supports joint working across the PHOs to produce information, data and intelligence on people's health and health care for practitioners, policy makers and the wider community. The high quality public health intelligence is central to both local and central government health policy and decision-making. With specialist knowledge and a wealth of information and analytical skills across our network, APHO is able to provide access to a range of national and international public health data, methodological and audit tools. (funnel plots are also included)

Link to methods guide, supplementary guidance relating to 'end of life' plus working papers used in the development of the guide (which formed the basis of subsequent papers in Pharmacoeconomics).

Good practice guidelines and consensus statements on over 50 ISPOR related topics

The ISPOR OUTCOMES RESEARCH DIGEST is an electronic database of research papers presented at ISPOR Annual International Meetings, ISPOR Annual European Congresses, ISPOR Asia-Pacific Conferences, and ISPOR Latin America Conferences from 1998 to date.

Simtools is freeware that adds statistical functions and procedures for doing Monte Carlo simulation and risk analysis in spreadsheets. Note that these add-ins stay with the machine that they are loaded onto, so speadsheets that use these functions will not work on other machines that do not have the add-in.

Data for individual councils on residential, nursing, day care and home help. The unit costs will be of most use in economic evaluation

Free online book and also available as a pdf download. Chapter 15 is Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Priority Setting by Philip Musgrove and Julia Fox-Rushby. Chapter 15 is 16 pages, the full book is 1400.

These are a series of documents produced by the NICE Decision Support Unit. They were commissioned by NICE with the aim of providing further information about how to implement the approaches described in the current NICE Guide to the Methods of Technology Appraisal (2008).

The Public Health Interventions Cost Effectiveness Database (PHICED) is a database of bibliographic records comprising; National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Guidance and Costing Templates, Cost-Effectiveness Studies and Decision Tools in; Alcohol, Obesity, Physical activity and Tobacco.

OHE Occasional Paper

OHE Occasional Paper