Program - Health economics modelling in R

Topics: Cost-effectiveness analysis; R software

Lecture rooms

  • Day 1: 9:00-17:00 Lecture hall Petrén, Nobels väg 12B, KI Solna
  • Day 2: 9:00-17:00 Room Marie, Ground floor in Widerströmska huset, Tomtebodavägen 18a, KI Solna

The first session (9-11 on day 1) is open to anyone interested in listening to an overview of the field. Registration is not required for attending this first session.

Day 1 (Thursday 9th June 2022)

  • 9:00-9:10 Welcome and introductions
  • 9:10-10:00 Introduction to health economic evaluations
  • 10:00-11:00 Cost and cost-utility data

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  • 11:30-12:30 Model error and structural uncertainty

LUNCH

  • 1:30-2:30 Decision trees in HEE
  • 2:30-3:30 Markov models in HEE

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  • 4:00-5:00 Review and wrap up

Day 2 (Friday 10th June 2022)

Practical workbook

  • 9:00-9:10 Welcome and introductions
  • 9:10-10:00 Building a basic decision tree in R (Files on GitHub or .zip)
  • 10:00-11:00 Building more complex tree in R

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LUNCH

  • 1:30-2:30 Building a more complex (Bayesian) Markov model in R (Files on GitHub or .zip)
  • 2:30-3:30 Sensitivity analysis

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  • 4:00-5:00 Visualising cost-effectiveness analyses with the BCEA package
  • 5:00 Wrap up and thanks