This increase in probability of cost effectiveness, coupled with a substantially reduced potential opportunity loss could influence a decision maker’s confidence in making a reimbursement decision. On discussions with the decision maker we now intend to incorporate the use of VOI into our HTA...

<Emphasis Type="Bold">Background: The growth of economic analyses and in particular cost-utility analyses (CUA), which use the QALY as a measure of outcome, has heightened the interest in the methodologies used to calculate the QALY. The EQ-5D has produced quite different utility values from that of the SF-6D. This...</emphasis>

Abstract

The decline of institutional industrial relations has led to a major reassessment of the way that traditional industrial relations actors operate. Yet, the debate about institutional change has been characteristically asymmetrical in as much as some institutional actors have figured extensively...