by Rachel Montague | Jan 2, 2017 | Industry insights
Written by David Trueman, Director htasurv is an open source Stata module for assessing alternative parametric distributions when extrapolating survival data for use in health economic models. The function distfind loops through alternative distributions (specified by...
by Rachel Montague | Oct 2, 2016 | Industry insights
Written by Juliet Mumby-Croft, Director The following pointers aim to provide practical guidance to strengthen the communication of your economic case, avoid the introduction of mistakes and make the deadline. Validate your model first. Then get someone else to...
by Rachel Montague | Oct 2, 2016 | Industry insights
Written by Juliet Mumby-Croft, Director When developing a model methodology, there should be a Eureka moment. The moment when you find a model structure that reflects natural history, captures the relative benefits and harms of the new intervention versus standard of...
by Rachel Montague | Oct 2, 2016 | Industry insights
Written by Juliet Mumby-Croft, Director It’s an accepted principle that the structure of a cost-effectiveness model should reflect the natural history of disease. Further, that it should capture the differences in outcome, cost and resource use expected to result from...