Cost Effectiveness and Decision Making for Health Care

Cost-Effectiveness and Decision-Making for Health Care

This four-course specialization introduces the principles and methods of economic evaluation in healthcare. Participants will learn how to assess costs and health benefits, interpret cost-effectiveness findings, and build decision-making models such as decision trees and Markov models. Through videos and practical exercises, the program equips learners with the skills to evaluate healthcare interventions and make informed, evidence-based policy and clinical decisions.

Course One - Introduction to Economic Evaluation

In this module, you will be introduced to the foundational concepts of economic evaluation in health care. We will cover the essential background, key concepts, and definitions that will set the stage for the analytical methods you will learn in the next modules.

Course 1 videos are available from the link below:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WYvClGZd0Zy1maPF88V5Gxq_VmYlQkJj?usp=drive_link

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Course Two - Assessing costs and health benefits

In this module, we cover the basics of costing methods used for economic evaluation and introduce the concept of the Quality Adjusted Life Year; the main outcome measure used for cost-effectiveness studies.

Course 2 videos are available from the link below:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EkyU-3jj15XniWHMx5q2lR925Xon5mBv?usp=drive_link

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Course Three - interpreting the findings

In this module, we demonstrate how the results of cost-effectiveness studies should be interpreted for informed decision-making. This will enable you to read and understand a published cost-effectiveness paper

Course 3 videos are available from the link below:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RE1BNHN6Q-sgrpbMHyfoSHKHBjbKB50G?usp=drive_link

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Course Four - Building models for cost-effectiveness

In this module, we cover modelling in generals as a way of thinking and then teach two commonly used methods ‘Decision Trees’ and ‘Markov Models’

Course 4 videos are available from the link below:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fT-OgfXEAsBTegAN_NDSzPB_nqI1PFma?usp=drive_link

The videos are copyrighted by Duke NUS. Please do not share these videos without approval.