EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS for DECISION MODELING: 5-day course
April 14th - 18th, 2008
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Course Organizers:
Prof Keith Abrams, Prof Tony Ades, Dr Nicola Cooper, Dr Alex Sutton and
Dr Nicky Welton,
Intended audience:
(a) Anyone undertaking health technology assessments, including in
the context of cost-effectiveness analysis.
(b) Statisticians, with or without experience in meta-analysis, who
wish to learn about Bayesian methods for evidence synthesis particularly
in the context of cost-effectiveness analysis.
The methods taught on the course are designed to be compatible with the
recent guidance issued by the National Institute for Health and Clinical
Excellence (NICE) and similar bodies worldwide, requiring probabilistic
methods in cost-effectiveness models. The course focuses particularly on
Bayesian methods for evidence synthesis that can be integrated within a
probabilistic modeling framework, and can be used to statistically
combine evidence from a range of structures. The course is built around
a series of examples using the WinBUGS statistical software.
VENUE:
This year the course is taking place at the Lenox, 61 Exeter Street,
Boston, Massachusetts 02116, USA.
COURSE DETAILS:
Introduction to Bayesian Methods & WinBUGS,
Bayesian Approaches to Meta-Analysis - fixed and random effects
modeling,
Heterogeneity, Meta-Regression and Adjusting for Baseline Risk,
Model Critique and Evidence Consistency - in random effects
meta-analysis,
Bayesian Approaches to Evidence Synthesis for Decision Modeling,
Multi-Parameter Evidence Synthesis - in epidemiological models,
Mixed Treatment Comparisons,
Markov Decision Models,
Markov Modeling & Meta-Analysis,
Chain of Evidence,
Multiple Outcomes,
Observational & Randomized Evidence - Generalized Evidence Synthesis,
Further Issues in Evidence Synthesis - Publication Bias, Value of
Information methods.
FURTHER DETAILS and booking form can be downloaded at
www.le.ac.uk/hs/kra1/Boston2008.pdf
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Keith R Abrams
Professor of Medical Statistics &
Course Director, MSc in Medical Statistics
Department of Health Sciences
University of Leicester
2nd Floor, Adrian Building
University Road
LEICESTER LE1 7RH
Tel +44 (0)116 229 7266
FAX +44 (0)116 229 7250
Email [log in to unmask]
WWW www.le.ac.uk/hs/kra1
MSc in Medical Statistics:
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/health-sciences/extranet/BGE/biostatist
ics/medstats
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