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SHORT COURSE
ECONOMIC EVALUATION IN HEALTH CARE
NOVEMBER 25TH-27TH 1998
LOCATION. Missenden Abbey Management Centre, Buckinghamshire
BOOKINGS BY THE END OF SEPTEMBER ARE CHARGED A LOWER RATE.
CONTENT. This is the 9th course to be run by Brunel University's Health Economics
Research Group (HERG) on economic evaluation in health care. This introductory
course will cover seven main areas:
* Alternative types of economic evaluation
* Costing for economic evaluation
* Outcome measurement for economic evaluation
* Data sources: trials versus models
* Dealing with uncertainty
* Designing an economic evaluation
COURSE FACULTY. The course faculty will consist of the following people from
HERG:
Prof Martin Buxton (Course chair)
Dr Jackie Brown
Jonathan Karnon
Kathy Johnston (Course convenor)
Julie Ratcliffe
COURSE METHODS. These will include presentations, syndicate group exercises,
group discussions, a video and interactive computer software. Participants will be
encouraged to bring projects from their own areas of work to contribute to the study
design exercises.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND? The course is intended for a wide range of people working
in the health care industry who need to understand the methods and results of
economic evaluation. Previous course participants have included: from the NHS,
purchasers, pharmaceutical advisors, R & D managers, clinicians involved with
research and pharmacists; a range of professionals from the pharmaceutical and
medical device industries have also attended. No previous experience in health
economics is required.
COST. Including two nights accommodation and all meals, as well as the three day
course for bookings by the end of September:
Public sector: 695 pounds sterling
Commercial sector: 1095 pounds sterling.
Later bookings are charged an additional 100 pounds sterling.
Three NHS Executive regional offices (R&D Divisions) have agreed to support the
course financially through assisted places. For appropriate professionals working within
the boundaries of North Thames, Anglia and Oxford and Trent regions, a limited
number of subsidised places are available. Applicants from other regions can apply the
regions' training bursary scheme for funding.
WHAT TO DO NEXT. For further details or enquiries about the course, including
application forms for assisted places contact:
Kathy Johnston
Health Economics Research Group
Brunel University
Uxbridge
Middlesex UB8 3PH
Tel. 01895 274000 ext 3491
Fax. 01895 203330
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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