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University of Sheffield - Measuring and Valuing Health 

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Measuring and Valuing Health
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Overview

Duration

3 weeks

Total fee

2,205

Mode of learning

Online

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Credential

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Measuring and Valuing Health
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Measuring and Valuing Health
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Highlights

  • Duration 3 weeks
  • Weekly study 3 hours
  • 100% online Learn at your own pace
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Measuring and Valuing Health
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Course details

More about this course
  • Healthcare systems around the world are increasingly under pressure to fund new drugs, treatments and other healthcare interventions.
  • On this course, you'll learn how health outcome measuring can help us to make more informed decisions about where to spend our limited healthcare budgets.
  • You'll find out how patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) are developed and calculated, and learn how they can be used to compare treatment benefits in practice.

Measuring and Valuing Health
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Curriculum

Measuring Health: Why and How?

Welcome to the course

The challenge of measuring health

Patient Reported Outcome Measures

Wrapping up the week

Valuing Health: Quality Adjusted Life Years and Decision Making

Welcome to Week 2

Decision-making in healthcare

Quality Adjusted Life Years

Putting the Q into QALY

QALYs and decision-making

Wrapping up the week

Further viewing (optional)

Utility Measures in Practice

Welcome to Week 3

The EQ-5D

Whose values should we use?

Utility measures in practice

Wrapping up the course

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