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December 01, 2003
Bayesian Statistics in Health Economics and Outcomes Research
Authors: Anthony O'Hagan, Bryan R. Luce
Publishers: Bayesian Initiative in Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Centre for Bayesian Statistics in Health Economics
This Primer is for health economists, outcomes research practitioners and biostatisticians who want to understand the basics of Bayesian statistics and how Bayesian methods may be applied in the economic evaluation of health care technologies.
To order a hard copy contact Susan Potter
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To Heal and to Harm: An Economic View of Drug Safety
Authors: Jonathan Silcock, Clive Pritchard
ISBN: 1 899040 82 X
Publisher: Office for Health Economics
Price £12.50
This book considers; What are the causes of adverse drug reactions? How might ADRs be prevented? What is the trade off between risks, benefits and costs in making better use of existing knowledge or acquiring additional information? This book illustrates how economics analysis can be used to assess whether the costs of implementing preventative measures are justified or how to include them in the design of clinical trials for gathering information on the costs of ADRs.
Three aspects of organising healthcare were explored in OHE's research and publication programme this year. In the monograph "Quality in Primary Care" Michael Kuhn uses insights from economics to examine the pivotal role of primary care in the quality of health care provision, and the potential to encourage primary care providers such as GPs to deliver the optimal quality of service within limited resources.
In December 2003 the OHE published the briefing paper "Reducing Harm to Patients in the National Health Service: Will the Government's Compensation Proposals Help?" Many adverse medical events occurring in the NHS each year result in harm or death to patients and many are avoidable. Few patients receive compensation and there is little incentive for the NHS to tackle the causes of harm with valuable information about preventable errors, generated from patient claims is lost. The Government report "Making Amends" includes helpful ways forward. In this publication the authors; discuss how these proposals can be made.
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