In 2009, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) issued supplementary advice to its Appraisal … cost-effective. However, NICE’s public consultation revealed concerns that there is little scientific evidence to support … single ‘consensus’ set of preferences, we conclude that there are ways in which the results suggest that the current NICE …

Severity of illness is an important official criterion for priority setting in health care in a number of jurisdictions …. An 8-point scale of severity and functional status has been used in a number of studies in Norway in order to estimate … the strength of concerns for severity in population samples. The scale has attracted international attention and may be of …

Clinical practice guidelines produced by NICE – the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence – are seen as key … mechanisms to regulate and standardise UK healthcare practice, but their development is known to be problematic, and their … the response of healthcare professionals to publication of a single NICE guideline in 2009 which proposed a re …

To determine the willingness to pay (WTP) of senior managers in the UK National Health Service (NHS) for services to …

total of 1799 respondents in the UK (each completed 15 DCETTO tasks on-line). We compared models across different sample …

There have been changes in the way that NICE evaluates medical treatments for patients who are in the last stages of … their lives. If medicines fulfil some criteria to be considered “end of life” NICE considers if QALYs gained under these …