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Health economist working in #HTA #CostEffectiveness #health. Views my own.
Nov 18, 2020 48 tweets 25 min read
I'm now live tweeting from the #ISPOREurope session Much Ado About Little: Dealing with Limited RCT Evidence for Early HTA and Reimbursement Decisions with @MJSculpher, @SBujkiewicz, Eva Dietrich, Steven Palmer from @CHEyork, and @UweSiebert9 @MJSculpher starts by setting the context and introducing the speakers.
@UweSiebert9 is the 1st plenary speaker, on causal inference in #RCTs and #RWE
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Nov 17, 2020 35 tweets 17 min read
Next, live from #ISPOREurope IP8: Integrating Patient Preference into Health Technology Assessment- Can Patient Preferences be Incorporated into the ICER? w/Esther de Bekker-Grob @erasmusuni, Kevin Marsh @evideraglobal Mendwas Dzingina @pfizer & @JacolineBouvy at
@NICEComms Esther de Bekker-Grob starts with the questions addressed in this panel

The background is that, given the increased focus on pt preferences, #HTA should not fall behind

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Nov 17, 2020 30 tweets 17 min read
Fellow #ISPORians I'll be logging in to the #WomenInHEOR #ISPOREurope session Adapting to the ‘New Normal’ 😀
W/ @juliaslejko, Olivia Wu, @DrBlytheAdamson, @nancydevlin1, Ebere Onukwugha and @LouiseTimlin - a panel of #HEOR stars 🤩 To start, @juliaslejko presents the context for the @ISPORorg #WomenInHEOR initiative.
There is evidence that diversity pays off in terms of companies' profitability. But women are under-represented, and there is a leaky pipeline in academia
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Nov 16, 2020 5 tweets 7 min read
Which @ISPORorg #ISPOREurope session would you like a live twitter thread tomorrow? You can help me choose by voting 🗳️😀 One option is IP6: How Should Pharmaceutical Companies and Patients Served By Health Systems Share the Value Generated By New Medicines? with Danny Palnoch from @NHSEngland, @bs_woods from @CHEyork, Jens Grueger from @UW_Pharmacy and Patricia Danzon from @Wharton #ISPOREurope
Nov 16, 2020 36 tweets 17 min read
I'm now logging into #ISPOREurope live session IP3: The Meaning of Cure – the Search for What? with @NRLatimer, @BettinaRyll, and K. Jack Ishak and Ágnes Benedict from @evideraglobal ispor-europe2020.secure-platform.com/a/gallery/roun… Image Jack Ishak starts by introducing panellists and setting the motivation for this panel: therapies that have raised the potential of cure, given the plateau since in the OS and PFS curves
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Nov 16, 2020 34 tweets 21 min read
Missed the panel “Value-Based Pricing and Market Allocative Efficiency: How Should Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds be Set to "Optimally" Distribute Value between Payers and Developers?” w @mikepaulden, @MBerdud & Laura Vallejo-Torres at #ISPOREurope?
ispor-europe2020.secure-platform.com/a/gallery/roun… Laura starts with what her presentation will cover:
1-What is a #CostEffectiveness #Threshold for?
2-What should it reflect?
3-How to estimate it empirically?
4-What are the consequences of setting the decision threshold at != from empirical threshold?
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