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| Estimation
of clinical & economic benefits of medical interventions |
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- Cost-effectiveness
studies.
- Cost-utility
studies.
- Cost-minimization
studies.
- Cost-of-illness
studies / Burden-of-illness studies.
- Costing
surveys.
- Employer-oriented
medical and productivity loss (direct and indirect) costs of a
disease.
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| Budgetary
impact analyses |
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Forecasting
the potential financial impact of new technology.
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Transparent,
user-friendly interactive simulation models.
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| Clinical
trials and retrospective analyses |
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Conducting pharmacoeconomic trials.
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Developing
research protocols for economic evaluations.
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Designing Case Report Forms (CRF) to capture economic data.
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Developing
resource use questionnaires .
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Economic assessment of clinical trial results (piggy-back studies)
to incorporate economic and quality-of-life data.
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Extrapolation of clinical trial results for use in other countries.
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Medical chart review and abstraction (hospital micro-costing).
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| Statistical
analyses and modeling |
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Markov
models of disease progression.
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Decision
tree models.
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Computer-based, interactive simulation modeling.
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Meta-analysis.
- Sample
size calculation.
- General
Linear Models for repeated measures studies.
- Interpretation
of statistical data.
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Expertise
in SPLUS and SAS.
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| Health
care database studies |
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Case
mix analyses.
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Health resource utilization analysis.
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Medical
claims analysis.
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In-house
library of unit cost databases (Canadian, US, UK, etc.).
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In-house library of Canadian and international epidemiological
survey databases, government documents, and published literature.
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| Strategic
services and communications |
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Preparation
of economic dossiers for formulary submission according to the
guidelines of the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH), the UK National Institute of Clinical Excellence
(NICE), and the US Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP).
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Health economic support from project inception to completion
and final publication.
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Client-oriented health economics training programs, workshops
and seminars
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Dissemination of economic data.
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Literature reviews.
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| Website
Design |
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- Strategic
planning, customized web development, and promotion.
- Conceptual
graphic design and implementation.
- ColdFusion
database driven website development.
- Web
animation and banners.
- Flash
programming.
- Corporate
identity.
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