Non-Award
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to health economic evaluation, focusing on cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analyses. Participants will learn computer-based methods and techniques essential for evaluating healthcare interventions and technologies.
This is a 3-day course run by Melbourne Health Economics within the Centre for Health Policy at the University of Melbourne. It aims to familiarise participants with the fundamental theories as well as computer-based methods and techniques that are routinely used in economic evaluation with an emphasis on cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analyses. Economic evaluation has been widely used to assess new health care interventions and technologies and inform decisions about which interventions should be subsidized from available funds. In Australia, for a drug or a medical device to be listed on the PBS or MBS, economic evaluation is required to determine whether it represents value for money.
This computer-based course will cover the analytic steps in an economic evaluation, from methods for analysing cost and outcome data, developing decision analytic and Markov models, conducting sensitivity analyses and reporting and interpreting the results.
Participants should have a prior working knowledge of STATA software and an appreciation of the concepts of health economic evaluation. It is recommended that participants be familiar with common commands in STATA, introductory statistics and Microsoft Excel. The course will be computer-based, 'hands-on', and participants will be expected to bring a laptop computer (and mouse) with STATA and TreeAge Pro installed for use throughout the course. Licenses for STATA and TreeAge Pro will be supplied as part of the course materials. Exercises for cost and health outcomes analyses are moderately technical with the use of numerous STATA commands; therefore, participants are expected to review STATA commands and familiarize themselves with the exercises before the lectures. If you wish to discuss your suitability for this course, or make special arrangements to hire a laptop, please contact: health-economics@unimelb.edu.au
This is a 3-day course run by Melbourne Health Economics within the Centre for Health Policy at the University of Melbourne. It aims to familiarise participants with the fundamental theories as well as computer-based methods and techniques that are routinely used in economic evaluation with an emphasis on cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analyses. Economic evaluation has been widely used to assess new health care interventions and technologies and inform decisions about which interventions should be subsidized from available funds. In Australia, for a drug or a medical device to be listed on the PBS or MBS, economic evaluation is required to determine whether it represents value for money.
This computer-based course will cover the analytic steps in an economic evaluation, from methods for analysing cost and outcome data, developing decision analytic and Markov models, conducting sensitivity analyses and reporting and interpreting the results.
The course will involve a series of modules that build on each other to provide an overview of all the steps required for health economic evaluation.
Day 1Study Design Principles (morning)
Techniques for Analysing Costs (afternoon)
Techniques for Analysing Outcomes (morning)
Introduction to decision models (afternoon)
Markov modelling and Applications
Each module will be re-enforced by exercises in Excel and the specialist modelling software TreeAge and we will demonstrate aspects of the course using the statistical software STATA.
Applications close three days prior to course commencement.