HEDS Teaching

Good starting point for all kinds of information including sociodemographics, prescriptions, PROMS, etc. Requires (free) registration.

Free course including slides and mp3 commentary. Part 2 covers study design, linear regression, logistic regression and survival analysis.

Good overview of economic evaluation methods - "a free mini Drummond". Although based around social welfare interventions, most is generally applicable.

A free 59 page textbook written by Prof John Cairns. Clearly written and easy to read. Published in 1998, so some of the issues are out-of-date, such as 'Guidelines for Economic Evaluation' which do not refer to the NICE Methods Guidelines. But overall, a good introduction and overview.

Link has changed to: http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/sites/files/nuffield/publication/Economic-Evaluation-and-Health-Care.pdf

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.

Part 1 of an easy 3 part tutorial on Markov models.

Free course including slides and mp3 commentary. Part 1 covers describing data, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing and introduction to survival analysis.

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.

Free 72 page book produce by the Department of Veteran Affairs in the US, covering most practical issues relating to utility measurement.

Some basics about NHS in England and how it is going to change

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

Excellent booklet giving an introduction to Bayesian statistics and its application to cost-effectiveness analysis.

Thanks for that. It is extremely clear, easy-to-read booklet.

Training activities on a range of topics. Critical appraisal is within "Health economics information resources: a self-study course" and general methods within "HTA 101: Introduction to health technology assessment"

A free pdf of an OHE book. Contents: Chapter 1 Introduction: the evaluation problem and linear regression Chapter 2 The Health and Lifestyle Survey Chapter 3 Binary Dependent Variables Chapter 4 The Ordered Probit Model Chapter 5 Multinomial Models Chapter 6 The Bivariate Probit Model Chapter 7 The Selection Problem Chapter 8 Endogenous Regressors: the evaluation problem revisited Chapter 9 Count Data Regression Chapter 10 Duration Analysis Chapter 11 Panel Data

Published by WHO on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policy back in 2004. So some of the policy stuff will be out of date......but its free. At 395 pages it's a bit of a beast, but if you are selective in your reading it gives a broad perspective on licensing, economic evaluation, etc, in relation to the pharmaceutical industry.

Nationally negotiated prices for generic and branded drugs

Links to pdfs of short descriptions of key EBM terms including some economic concepts, e.g. QALY, cost-utility analysis, etc.

Link page through to the latest edition of 'Unit Costs'.

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.

Set of MTC programmes to use within WinBUGS.