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December 11, 2009
PhD Studentship: University of East Anglia - Health Economics Group, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice
Location: Norwich UK
Application deadline: 11/12/09
Title: An economic evaluation of total hip and knee replacement surgery using a national patient reported outcome measure
Research Question
Economic evaluation of total hip and knee replacement surgery using a new national dataset of patient related outcome measures (PROMS) for hip and knee joint replacement surgery. The project will link PROMS data to the National Joint Registry database and the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) database. This will be the first analysis of its kind using nationally collected patient reported outcome measures, to determine the costs of joint replacement on a national scale, spanning public and private healthcare. The project will also be a platform for testing methods for including economics aspects in Cochrane reviews,
Research methodology
This proposal builds on an existing project by the applicants, using National Joint Registry and HES linked data-sets to assess the cost-effectiveness of the alternative prostheses used in total hip and knee replacement surgery. The existing project uses survival of the prosthesis as the main outcome measure, incorporating direct medical costs and data from a local study of the patient reported outcome measures by prosthesis. The data from these sources informs the parameters of a fully probabilistic economic decision analytic model to determine the costs effectiveness of the alternative prostheses. It is envisaged that this model will be further developed in the proposed new research to test the impact of patient reported outcomes on the models. The student will be systematically reviewing literature, analysing large datasets, building and running probabilistic markov models, A further element of the research methodology will be to collaborate on building pilot economic commentary for relelvant Cochrane reviews.
NB: Deadline for applications: 11/12/09
Students may register from 1 October 2010 for a three year full-time MPhil/PhD degree.
Funding includes UK/EU tuition fees, maintenance expenses of £13,290 and some appropriate training costs
Applicants should hold a 2:1 degree or above and a master’s degree in science, social science or health related subject or equivalent, either including the study of economics at degree level, or have successfully completed masters level health economics modules.
Applicants whose first language is not English must demonstrate evidence of appropriate English language proficiency, normally defined as minimum IELTS score of 7.5
To download an application pack, please visit http://www.uea.ac.uk/foh/PGR
Informal enquiries to: Professor Miranda Mugford M.Mugford@uea.ac.uk
