Workshop information

• Introduce the use of quality of life assessment and patient reported outcome measures in clinical studies and for economic evaluation
• Introduce Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY’s) and utilities
• Explain methods of measuring and valuing quality of life and how these differ
• Introduce condition-specific utility measures including the cancer specific EORTC QLUC10D
• Lunch and networking drinks included

Presenters

Professor Madeleine King
Professor Rosalie Viney
Dr Richard De Abreu Lourenco
Mr Brendan Mulhern
Dr Sanjeewa Kularatna – AusHSI

For full details and to register visit http://www.isporac.org/events/quality-of-life-brisbane/

This seminar will focus on recent collaborative research with Guido Erreygers which aims to:
1. elaborate how the concept of ‘health poverty’ can be defined and measured, and;
2. apply this methodology to study health poverty in a variety of cases.
Although not entirely new, the notion of health poverty is seldom used – in contrast to the notion of income poverty. After examining measures of income poverty such as the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) class of poverty indicators we consider how they can be employed with health measures such as the risk of chronic diseases and mortality. We use this approach to obtain a robust estimate of the extent of health poverty in Australia and attempt to measure its evolution over time using data from the HILDA’s survey.

Presenter Professor Philip Clarke was, until recently, Director of the Centre for Health Policy at University of Melbourne and from September will become the Director of Health Economics
Research Centre at the University of Oxford, UK. His research interest include evaluating policies to improve the management of people with chronic diseases such as diabetes, health
inequalities and the use of simulation models to inform health economic evaluation. He has also undertaken policy relevant research for the World Bank, OECD, AusAID and DoH and is
on the Lancet Commission on Diabetes.

The SPR 2018 Conference will bring together leaders from across the Health Sector that have the potential to influence improvements in system performance.

System Performance Reporting (SPR) is Queensland Health’s reporting platform for performance information. The vision for SPR was to provide transparent and credible information to empower our workforce and provide them with clarity on how the performance of their hospital compares to similar hospitals; and how their performance contributes to the Hospital and Health Service and ultimately to that of Queensland.

AusHSI is a proud sponsor of a breakfast session on health economics, to be facilitated by Professor Nick Graves on Friday 10th August.

Decisions about adopting new healthcare interventions should be supported by the best available evidence on their safety, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness. Nevertheless, evidence is never certain and so is any decision based on that evidence. This uncertainty may lead to suboptimal decisions with costly consequences to the health system. Clearly, collecting more information may reduce uncertainty; however, there is a cost for conducting additional research. Value of Information (VOI) analysis is a systematic approach to quantify the value of additional research in reducing decision uncertainty. It compares the expected research monetary benefit with its expected cost to inform whether additional research is worthwhile, optimally design research studies and set research priorities.

The presentation will be given by Dr Haitham Tuffaha, Griffith University. All welcome to the talk, more information can be found at: https://cbeh.centre.uq.edu.au/research-seminar-series

Seminar Date & Time: Tuesday 14^th August, from 11:30am to 12:30pm in the Board Room, Centre for the Business and Economics of Health, Level 3 West, Pharmacy Australia Centre of Excellence (PACE), 20 Cornwall Street, Woolloongabba (next to Dutton Park train station).