Using economic evaluation to design both complex interventions and their subsequent evaluation: a case study of screening strategy for glaucoma
Thursday 17 May 2012, 1.30PM to 2.30pm
Speaker(s): Luke Vale, Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University
Abstract:
The MRC framework for the development and evaluation of complex interventions emphasises the iterative multidisciplinary development of complex interventions. The role of health economics is often restricted to the evaluation of pre-specified interventions to identify the key areas for further research. This is in itself valuable but perhaps there is scope to use the techniques of economic evaluation more actively? In particular can they be used in shaping and defining the interventions that would be taken forward for further research? In this presentation we take a case study of a recent project investigating whether a screening programme should be implemented for a common eye condition: glaucoma. We show how the modelling framework used for the economic evaluation of the screening programme can be used to help define key aspects of a potentially efficient intervention that could be taken forward to trial.
Location: Alcuin A019/020