Applied Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Course

This is an intensive online course for health economists and health professionals, with some knowledge of health economics who wish to learn about the methodology of cost-effectiveness analysis as applied in healthcare.  

Online courses are held via Zoom (live sessions only, no recordings)

Course Description

What is the course about?

Analytic methods of economic evaluation are applied in healthcare to address the fundamental economic question of how to allocate scarce healthcare resources to maximise health gain. This course teaches the latest methods for performing a cost-effectiveness analysis of a healthcare intervention.

 

Background

Standards of best practice in economic evaluation, required by health technology assessment and reimbursement agencies, and more recently by leading journals, have become more explicit and more demanding over time. The course provides the expertise to use and interpret the guidelines issued by official and professional bodies.

In addition, health economists are increasingly involved in complex studies: for example, conducting economic evaluations alongside large pragmatic trials running over a long period of time with multiple comparisons, multiple endpoints and incomplete patient specific data on resource use and quality of life. 

Even the largest and longest clinical trials do not remove the need for economic modelling, which may be required before, during, after and instead of trials. The course provides the tools for conducting such evaluations, alongside an introduction to economic modelling. The exercises that form part of the course enable participants to learn the techniques by direct experience.