Course content - Learning outcome - Admission - Prerequisites - Overlapping courses - Teaching - Examination - Evaluation

Course content

This course will include following topics:

• Using quality adjusted life years (QALY) in health economic evaluation.
  1. Using QALYs in economic evaluation
  2. Purpose, theory, assumptions and limitations

• Measuring QALYs
  1. SF-36
  2. EQ-5D
  3. 15D
  4. Time-trade off
  5. Standard gamble
  6. VAS

• Lab training
  1. Learn to estimate QALYs
  2. Simple presentations of QALYs

Learning outcome

The two main purposes of this course are to teach the students different measures of estimating quality adjusted life years and to train the students to estimate QALYs by using different statistical methods.

Admission

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The examination in this course is not available for external candidates. Only students admitted to the course may sit for the examination.

Prerequisites

Formal prerequisite knowledge

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Recommended previous knowledge

Some basic knowledge about health economic evaluation is preferable, but not necessary. Basic knowledge in using SPSS.

Overlapping courses

5 credits overlap with HME4307 - Measuring QALYs: A theoretical and practical approach.

Teaching

Language of tuition: English

Access to teaching

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Examination

Home exam. After two days with lecturing and lab, there will be given an exam to be written at home and presented in June.

Examination support material

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Grading scale

Grades are awarded on a pass/fail scale. Read more about the grading system.

Explanations and appeals

You may request an explanation of your grades, and you may also appeal against your grades or make a complaint about formal examination errors. Read more about explanations and appeals.

Resit an examination

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Withdrawal from an examination

A student may sit this exam up to 3 times. If a student wishes to withdraw from the exam, s/he must do so in StudentWeb at least two weeks prior to the first day of the exam. Failure to do so will be counted as one of the three opportunities to sit the exam.

Special examination arrangements

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Evaluation

Feedback from our students is essential to us in our efforts to ensure and further improve the high quality of our programmes and courses. All courses are subject to continuous evaluation. At regular intervals we also ask students on a particular course to participate in a more comprehensive, periodic evaluation of this course.