Nancy is Professor of Health Economics and Director of the Centre of Health Policy, University of Melbourne. Her principal areas of research expertise are the measurement and valuation of patient reported health outcomes (PROs); the cost effectiveness thresholds used in making judgments about value for money in health care; priority setting in health care; production, performance and efficiency of hospitals; and the use of multi-criteria decision analysis in health care decision making.
The EQ Valuation Technology (EQ-VT) protocol has been widely used in the valuation of EuroQol instruments, including in over 25 national EQ-5D-5L value sets and, in an adapted form, the valuation of EQ-5D-Y-3L. Adapted versions of it are also currently… Read More »The ‘wheelchair example’ – why it should be dropped from EQ-5D valuation tasks
From time to time, a little puff of steam emerges from my Twitter feed as Paul Kind (one of the founding members of the EuroQol Group and a key figure in the development of the EQ-5D) objects to yet another… Read More »‘Preference-based measure’ is misleading – can we agree on something better?