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Economic Evaluation

Economic evaluation is an important component of the application of economics research to health care decision making. Increasingly health care funders and providers wish to assess the cost-effectiveness (efficiency) of interventions, not just their safety and effectiveness.

Methods in economic evaluation are developing rapidly and CHERE has a strong focus on the application of rigorous and up to date methods, and extending these applications to complex interventions. The assessment of health outcomes that are relevant to end users, sensitive to differences in alternative interventions, and valid in comparing across health care services remains a major challenge in applying economic evaluation.

Current projects:

A population-based comprehensive lifestyle intervention to promote healthy weight and physical activity in people with cardiac disease: The PANACHE (Physical Activity, Nutrition And Cardiac HEalth) study

An economic evaluation of community and residential aged care falls prevention strategies in NSW

Building capacity in innovative approaches to health technology assessment: the CHEETAH project

Can discrete choice experiments be used to predict uptake of new drugs?

Costing Health Economic Evaluation Project (CHEEP)

Costs and Benefits of Health Programs: a framework to assist in informing policy decisions

CREST: Cancer Research Economic Support Team

Incorporating the contribution of informal carers into the economic evaluation of community palliative care

Investigating best practice primary care for older Australians with diabetes using record linkage

Clinical trial of rehabilitation after ankle fracture (the EXACT Trial)

Developing multi-attribute utility instrument weights for Australia (MAUDcE)

DoCs Early Intervention Program “Brighter Futures”

Economic evaluation of Cystic Fibrosis (CF): A cost of illness and cost effectiveness analysis of carrier screening

Evaluation of NSW Health Drug and Alcohol Consultation Liaison Services

Evaluation of the NSW Get Healthy Service

Home based rehabilitation program for survivors of a critical illness: a randomised clinical trial

Health related quality of life (HRQOL) and supportive care needs of men after treatment for early stage prostate cancer

Mandatory public health interventions, loss of consumer choice and economic evaluation: Does the (dollar) value for those in favour, compensate for the loss in consumer choice

Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC) Applications

Modelling the costs and benefits of interventions to prevent and reduce obesity

Modelling the costs and benefits of interventions to prevent and reduce tobacco smoking in NSW

Modelling the impact of speech and language impairment on educational performance and emotional wellbeing: A study of The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

Optimising access to best practice primary health care: A systematic review

The Out-and-About Trial: Improving the quality of life by increasing outdoor journeys after stroke

Person-centred environment and care for residents with dementia: A cost-effective way of improving quality of life and quality of care?

Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC)

Probiotic Prophylaxis of Spinal Cord Injury Urinary Tract‐Infection TherapeUtic‐Trial (ProSCIUTTU)

Reducing the use of ineffective health care interventions

SMILE: a randomized controlled trial of humour therapy in residential care: the Sydney Multisite Intervention of LaughterBosses and ElderClowns

Systematic review of the cost-effectiveness of treatments for low back pain

The impact of care-giving on the health of informal carers: change over time and association with stressors and resources

Using clinical and economic evidence to inform local decision making in cancer care (EM-CAP)

What factors drive the gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal diabetes rates and related health outcomes in NSW? Pilot study