HEF provides health economic expertise, support and consulting, and cooperation possibilities concerning the integration of health economics into clinical studies and research projects
- Integration of health economics into clinical trials, observational studies, and other research projects
- Protocol writing and budget allocation for health economic components
- Inclusion of health economic aspects in informed consent forms and patient information packets
Design and implementation of economic evaluation of clinical and public health interventions
- Economic evaluation alongside clinical trials, observational studies (e.g. prospective cohort studies), and registries
- Economic evaluation of public health and health systems intervention, including implementation science
- Economic evaluation based on real-world data (e.g. using target trial emulation)
- Economic evaluation using decision-analytic modelling
- Budget impact analysis
- Support in obtaining patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) data, e.g. health-related quality of life data as a basis for estimating quality-adjusted life years (QALYs)
- How to measure QALYs systematically using patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs)?
- Enable informed choices of PROMs for specificstudy populations (e.g. EQ-5D-5L, EORTC, QLQ-C30, Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire, etc.)
- Apply systematic and robust methods of measuring and estimating healthcare costs
- Identify which costs should be considered. For example:
- Medication costs
- Cost of inpatient treatment
- Cost of outpatient treatment
- Cost of physiotherapy
- Cost of lost wages due to illness
- Select appropriate sources of cost data (e.g. TARDOC, TARMED, Spezialitätenliste, Swiss DRG, etc.)
- Identify which costs should be considered. For example:
- Development of Health Economic Analysis Plan
- Preparation and conduct of analyses using, e.g., RStudio, Stata, TreeAge Pro, Microsoft Excel and Visual Basic
- Presentation, reporting, and interpretation of results