Exeter Hosted the HESG winter conference - Jan 2013

The Health Economics Group in Exeter, hosted the 2013 winter meeting of the UK Health Economists Study Group (conference website).  The meeting had 130 delegates engaging in the high quality programme, and the meeting proved a huge success. The Exeter Health Economics Group presented 2 papers and 2 posters, at the meeting:

Goodwin E. Developing a classification system for an MS-specific preference-based measure.

Devine A, Taylor SJC, Spencer A, Diaz-Ordaz K, Eldridge S, Underwood M. Proxy reporting of Health-Related Quality of Life using the EQ-5D in care home residents; how good is it and how should we deal with clustering effects? 

Kandiyali R, Mant J, Barton P, Stevens A. What is the cost-effectiveness of GP initiation of treatment in patients with recent suspected TIA?

Auguste P, Green C. Modelling of future outcomes to estimate the cost-effectiveness of interventions related to child and adolescent overweight and obesity.

Date: 31 January 2013