Skip to content

cost-benefit analysis

IVF and the evaluation of policies that don’t affect particular persons

Over at the CLAHRC West Midlands blog, Richard Lilford (my boss, I should hasten to add!) writes about the difficulties with the economic evaluation of IVF. The post notes that there are a number of issues that “are not generally… Read More »IVF and the evaluation of policies that don’t affect particular persons

The irrelevance of inference: (almost) 20 years on is it still irrelevant?

The Irrelevance of Inference was a seminal paper published by Karl Claxton in 1999. In it he outlines a stochastic decision making approach to the evaluation of health technologies. A key point that he makes is that we need only to examine… Read More »The irrelevance of inference: (almost) 20 years on is it still irrelevant?

Chris Sampson’s journal round-up for 22nd August 2016

Every Monday our authors provide a round-up of some of the most recently published peer reviewed articles from the field. We don’t cover everything, or even what’s most important – just a few papers that have interested the author. Visit our Resources… Read More »Chris Sampson’s journal round-up for 22nd August 2016