Extending the QALY beyond health – the EQ-HWB (Health and well-being)

Professor John Brazier

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Abstract
Measures for estimating Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) (e.g. EQ-5D, SF-6D) attempt to capture the health of patients but miss broader wellbeing considerations such as autonomy and relationships that are important to patients and users of social care. Furthermore these measures do not consider the impact on carers’ quality of life. This limitation of existing measures led to the joint MRC and Euroqol Research Foundation funded Extending the QALY (E-QALY) project.
On behalf of the E-QALY team, John Brazier will describe the idea for a new and broader measure of health and wellbeing (i.e. why it was needed) for use in health and social care, some of the conceptual issues encountered and how they were approached in a large international programme of work. He will also present the mixed methods empirical work to develop the new measure called the EQ Health and WellbeingTM (EQ-HWB). Please come along and join in the discussion about the empirical research and the policy questions this new measure raises.
Bio
John Brazier is a Professor of Health Economics in the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield. He was the first Director of the Economic Evaluation Policy Research Unit (EEPRU) which is a joint Sheffield and York Unit funded by the Department of Health in England to undertake applied and methodological research to inform health policy in England. Professor Brazier is currently a NIHR Senior Investigator (Emeritus).
Professor Brazier has more than 25 years’ experience of conducting economic evaluations of health care interventions for policy makers and has published over 200 peered reviewed papers. His special interest is in the measurement and valuation of health for economic evaluation where he has published widely.
Perhaps best known for his work in developing a preference-based measure of health for the SF-36 (SF-6D), but with colleagues he has further developed and extended these methods to a number of specific condition including measures in asthma, cancer, overactive bladder, diabetes, mental health, dementia and epilepsy.
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ScHARR Mini Masterclass in Health Research - Estimating the comparative effectiveness of cancer treatments - Wednesday 16th February 2022

Fact or fiction? Estimating the comparative effectiveness of cancer treatments using UK registry data

Dr Nicholas Latimer

Wednesday 16th February 2022 (Online 13:00 - 14:00 GMT)

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In the UK we collect very large amounts of data on cancer patients, held by the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS). Given that we collect all this data, it makes sense to think about what we can do with it: can we use it to robustly compare the real world effectiveness of cancer treatments? The issue with analysing observational data is that there are lots of potential biases – for example, confounding by indication, where patients who receive one treatment may differ prognostically from patients who receive a different treatment. This makes comparisons of treatment effectiveness difficult. However, using methods from the causal inference literature in a “Target Trial” framework may overcome these problems, if the data used to conduct the analyses are comprehensive enough. In Sheffield a programme of work is being undertaken to investigate whether cancer registry data collected in the UK are sufficient for comparing the effectiveness of cancer treatments used in clinical practice, mirroring work also being done in the US and Canada. I will describe the research and comment on progress made so far.

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Nicholas Latimer

Nick is a Reader in Health Economics. He joined ScHARR in 2008 having previously worked in consultancy and the pharmaceutical industry. He has a degree in Economics from the University of Nottingham (2003), an MSc in Health Economics from the University of York (2004) and a PhD in Health Economics from the University of Sheffield (2012). Since joining ScHARR Nick has worked on a variety of projects, including economic evaluations alongside clinical trials, NICE Technology Appraisals, and consultancy projects. His research has focused on the incorporation of survival analysis in economic evaluations and he has completed NIHR Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships on this topic. In 2019 Nick began a Senior Research Fellowship funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research in which he is investigating the application of causal inference techniques to estimate comparative effectiveness from cancer registry datasets. Nick has authored NICE Decision Support Unit technical support documents on survival analysis (TSD14, 2011), treatment switching (TSD16, 2014), and partitioned survival analysis (TSD19, 2017), and is a member of NICE Technology Appraisal Committee B.

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ScHARR Mini Master Class - Undertaking data-centric healthcare research - Tuesday 18th January 2022

Undertaking data-centric healthcare research: Experiences from urgent & emergency care systems
Professor Susan Mason
Tuesday 18th January 2022

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Title

Undertaking data-centric healthcare research: Experiences from urgent & emergency care systems

Presenter

Professor Suzanne Mason

(Professor of Emergency Care)

Abstract

This talk will focus on the importance of developing real world data systems for research, the value it can bring to research and the importance for improving the health and care of populations. I will talk about my own research journey using real-world data relating to urgent and emergency care. I will describe the challenges involved in managing the governance and data acquisition hurdles, describing how we developed linked datasets and provide some examples of how it helps us to understand and improve the system.

Bio

Professor Mason qualified in medicine from London University in 1990 and then trained initially in surgery and then specialised in Emergency Medicine.

From there she spent a year as a Royal College of Surgeons of England Research Fellow and was awarded an MD whilst undertaking higher training in Emergency Medicine.

Professor Mason joined Sheffield University as a Senior Clinical Lecturer in 2001, was promoted to Reader in 2007 and professor in 2010. She divides her time between the university and as a consultant at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust emergency department.

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