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Location: Level 7, 178 North Terrace

Learning and Teaching Team
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Email: postgrad_enq@adelaide.edu.au
Location: Level 7, 178 North Terrace

1	Understand theoretical basis for decision making using economic evaluation
2	Recognise practical constraints, and responses to decision making using economic evaluation
3	Understand the advantages and disadvantages of alternative methodological frameworks for economic evaluation
4	Demonstrated experience of applying of all components of a model-based economic evaluation (implementation, population, calibration, and analysis)
5	Understanding and application of model-based cost-effectiveness methods to performance measurement, benchmarking, and quality improvement in health care
6	Demonstrated knowledge of alternative health care funding models and their relation to economic evaluation and opportunity cost

Health Economic Evaluation and Decision Making reading brick

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A Briggs, M Sculpher, K Claxton, Decision Modelling for Health Economic Evaluation, 2006, ISBN10: 0198526628. Oxford 最新糖心Vlog Press

TBA (this course will be offered on-line from 2015)

The central learning and teaching approach is lectures supported by problem-solving tutorials developing material covered in lectures.

Three hours of face-to-face teaching has been allocated for each of the 12 semester weeks, comprising a mix of lectures, and computer and non-computer-based practical sessions. In between these sessions, students will be expected to consolidate content knowledge via assessed and non-assessed assignments.

Topic	Lecture
Economic evaluation and opportunity cost	Economic evaluation review; Decision making in theory; The centrality of opportunity cost, what is it and how can it be estimated?
Decision trees	When, where, and how to use decision trees as a framework for economic evaluation?
Trial-based economic evaluation	When, where, and how to use clinical trials as a framework for economic evaluation?
State transition modeling	When, where, and how to use state transition models as a framework for economic evaluation? The basics
Sensetivity analysis	What are, and how to apply, deterministic and probabilistic sensitivity analysis methods?
State transition modelling - extensions	Parameterising clinical parameters
State transition modelling - extensions	Parameterising cost parameters
State transition modelling - extensions	Parameterising utility parameters
Discounting costs and outcomes	Why do we discount costs and outcomes, and how?
Model calibration	What is, and how to apply, model calibration techniques?
Service evaluation and quality improvement	How to use economic evaluation methods to evaluate services and inform quality improvement?
Allocating resources in the real world	What alternative approaches have been used to inform the allocation of scarce health care resources?
Assignment review	Providing support with respect to the final and main assessment task

N/A

The problem solving elements of the course are undertaken in small groups, with close oversight from the lecturers to support discovery around the application of health economic methods.

Assessment Task	Assessment Type	Weighting	Learning Outcome(s) being addressed
Opportunity cost short Q&A assessment	Summative	40%	1, 2, 6
Staged application of a model-based economic evaluation	Summative	60%	3-5

N/A

Assessment task 1 requires 2 to 3 sentence answers to 10 questions relating to the concept of opportunity cost: concerning theoretical and practical issues around the estimation of opportunity cost, and the use of economic evaluation to inform funding decisions.

Assessment task 2 involves the replication of a published decision analytic cost-effectiveness model, re-analysis of the model to evaluate a newer intervention, and a report of the methods and findings.

Extensions
All extensions for assignments must be requested, at the latest, by the last working day before the due date of submission.   Extensions will generally be granted only on medical or genuine compassionate grounds.  Supporting documentation must be  provided at the time a student requests an extension.  Without documentation, extensions will not be granted. Late requests for extension will neither be accepted nor acknowledged.

Only the Course Co-ordinator(s) may grant extensions.

Supporting documentation will be required when requesting an extension. Examples of documents that are acceptable include: a  medical certificate that specifies dates of incapacity, a police report (in the case of lost computers, car & household theft etc.), a  letter from a Student Counsellor, Education and Welfare Officer (EWO) or Disability Liaison Officer that provides an assessment of  compassionate circumstances, or a letter from an independent external counsellor or appropriate professional able to verify the  student’s situation.  The length of any extension granted will take into account the period and severity of any incapacity or impact  on the student.  Extensions of more than 10 days will not be granted except in exceptional circumstances.  

Late submission
Marks will be deducted when assignments for which no extension has been granted are handed in late.

All assignments, including those handed in late, will be assessed on their merits.  In the case of late assignments where no  extension has been granted, 5 percentage points of the total marks possible per day will be deducted.  If an assignment that is 2  days late is awarded 65% on its merits, the mark will then be reduced by 10% (5% per day for 2 days) to 55%.  If that same  assignment is 4 days late, the mark will be reduced by 20% (5% per day for 4 days) to 45%, and so on.

The School of Public Health reserves the right to refuse to accept an assignment that is more than 7 days late.

Assignments submitted after the due date may not be graded in time to be returned on the listed return dates.

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Resubmission
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