Health Economics Analysis Plans (HEAPs) for trial-based economic evaluations
Publications:
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Content of Health Economics Analysis Plans (HEAPs) for Trial-Based Economic Evaluations: Expert Delphi Consensus Survey
Journal article
Thorn JC. et al, (2020), Value in Health
Health Economics Analysis Plans (HEAPs) currently lack consistency, with uncertainty surrounding appropriate content. We aimed to develop a list of essential items that should be included in HEAPs for economic evaluations conducted alongside randomised trials. A list of potential items for inclusion was developed by examining existing HEAPs.
An electronic Delphi survey was conducted among professional health economists. Respondents were asked to rate potential items from one (least) to nine (most) important, suggest additional items, and comment on proposed items (round one).
A second survey (round two) was emailed to participants, including the participant’s own scores from round one along with summary results from the whole panel; participants were asked to re-rate each item.
Consensus criteria for inclusion in the final list were predefined as great than 70% of participants rating an item seven to nine and less than 15% rating it one to three after round two. A final item selection meeting was held to scrutinise the results and adjudicate on items lacking consensus. The process resulted in 58 essential items that should be considered by HEAPs.
Oxford project lead:
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Stavros Petrou
Academic Research Lead in Health Economics
Collaborators:
Collaboration led by Joanna Thorn, University of Bristol
Dates:
July 2018 – June 2020
Funder:
Medical Research Council
Our team
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Stavros Petrou
Academic Research Lead in Health Economics
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Lucy Abel
Health Economist, DPhil student
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Felix Achana
Senior Researcher in Health Economics
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Laura Armitage
Wellcome Trust Doctoral Research Fellow
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Corneliu Bolbocean
Senior Researcher in Health Economics
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Laia Bosque Mercader
Research Fellow in Health Economics
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Lin Bowker-Lonnecker
DPhil Student
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John Buckell
Researcher
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Padraig Dixon
Senior Researcher in Health Economics
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Patrick Fahr
Quantitative Researcher
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Carmen Fierro Martinez
NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellow
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Nadeem Hussein
NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellow
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Joseph Kwon
Researcher in Health Economics
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Sungwook Kim
Senior researcher in Health Economics
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Joan Madia
Researcher in Health Economics
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Joaquim Vidiella Martin
Researcher in Economics
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Catia Nicodemo
Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics
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Olu Onyimadu
Health Economist, DPhil Candidate
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May Png
Senior Researcher in Health Economics
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Stuart Redding
Project Lead, Centre for Health Service Economics & Organisation
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Elizabeth-Ann Schroeder
Senior Researcher in Health Economics
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Apostolos Tsiachristas
Associate Professor
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Raphael Wittenberg
Deputy Director, Centre for Health Service Economics and Organisation
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Yaling Yang
Senior Researcher in Health Economics