Health Technology Assessment

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The teaching methodologies are active and students are required to use the computers to implement the cost-effectiveness analysis models.

This course has a mixed assessment consisting of the preparation of an applied work (50%) and a final exam (50%).

Learning Outcomes

- To provide an overview of applied methods for conducting cost-effectiveness analyses on health care interventions.

- To give participants ‘hands on’ experience through the use of computer based exercises with patient level data.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

- Introduction - Key aspects about modelling in economic evaluation. Economic evaluation in health care.

- Modelling for economic evaluation in health care.

- Decision analytic modelling for health care economic evaluation: modelling using decision trees.

- Decision analytic modelling for health care economic evaluation: modelling using Markov models

- Representing uncertainty in health economic decision analytic models

- Presenting cost-effectiveness results.

Head Lecturer(s)

Óscar Manuel Domingos Lourenço

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 50.0%
Exam: 50.0%

Bibliography

Gray AM, Clarke PM, Wolstenholme J, Wordsworth S. Applied Methods of Cost-effectiveness Analysis in Healthcare.