by Rachel Montague | May 2, 2019 | Industry insights
Written by David Trueman, Director The rate at which future costs and outcomes are discounted has long stood at 3.5% for UK HTA agencies (1,2). The source of this discount rate is the Social Time Preference Rate (STPR), presented in previous versions of the Treasury’s...
by Mark | Mar 22, 2019 | Industry insights
Written by Juliet Mumby-Croft, Director Project HERCULES is a unique international multi-stakeholder collaborative project set up by Duchenne UK to develop tools and evidence to support Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and reimbursement decisions for new treatments...
by Rachel Montague | Feb 2, 2019 | Industry insights
Written by Julie Fricke (Systematic Review Analyst) and Neil Webb (Head of Systematic Review) As described in the Cochrane Collaboration Handbook, a systematic literature review (SLR) attempts to collate all empirical evidence that fits pre-specified eligibility...
by Rachel Montague | Feb 2, 2019 | Industry insights
Written by Elise Elvers, Health Economist The Boston-based Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, otherwise known as ICER, has caught the attention of important stakeholders in the past few years. Between reports for high-impact drugs that have stirred public...
by Rachel Montague | Jan 2, 2019 | Industry insights
Written by Neil Webb, Head of Systematic Review The search strategy is the foundation of a well-conducted systematic literature review (SLR) and is the fundamental element that can affect the overall quality of the results of the final review (1, 2). The aim of a...
by Rachel Montague | Jan 2, 2019 | Industry insights
Written by Fionn Woodcock, Senior Consultant Health Economist The standard survival analysis techniques used in oncology modelling, such a parametric survival curves, provide a useful way of estimating transition probabilities to populate economic models. These models...
