Cost Effectiveness Modelling for Health Technology Assessment (5 day practical course)

Learning Objectives:
- Understand the concepts and rationale of HTA and types of economic evaluation
- Understand when you would use a decision tree model and how they work
- Understand when you would use a Markov model, how they work and how to use them to inform decision making
- Appreciate the importance of uncertainty in economic evaluations and how this can be assessed
- Be able to generate a probabilistic Markov model in Excel and produce and interpret outputs
- Understand the concept of value of information and calculate this from probabilistic model results
- Learn about key developments and debates in HTA including precision medicine, real-world evidence and the willingness to pay threshold
Who should attend?
This course is aimed at students, researchers, health care professionals and commissioners and those working in industry or a policy context who have an interest in economic evaluation in health. No previous experience or knowledge in this area is assumed but the course does require quantitative skills and some experience using MS Excel.
Course Fee:
- Student: £400
- NHS/Academic: £800
- Industry: £1300
If you have any questions, email the Edinburgh Clinical Research Facilities team
Visit the CRF website for more course details, including a course programme.