Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
The University of Sheffield
This online course explored health outcomes and explained how they can be measured and valued, to make more informed decisions about where to spend our limited healthcare budgets.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dr Katherine Stevens
Senior Research Fellow
The University of Sheffield
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Discuss what health means and how to measure its impact on quality of life.
- Evaluate how to develop and use patient reported outcome measures including their limitations in decision-making.
- Calculate QALYs in simple examples to arrive at values which can be used to compare treatment benefits.
- Perform a time trade off to develop an understanding of how this method can be used to value health states and generate preference weights.
- Debate who should value our health. Should it be patients, health professionals or the general public and should this be different for children’s health?
- Compare where QALYs are used in healthcare decision-making worldwide and discuss the merits of this method compared to those used where you live.
Syllabus
The course focuses on two different types of measures, asking how they’re developed and calculated, and how they’re used by decision makers in practice:
- Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs): which are measures completed by the patients themselves, about their health, symptoms, functioning, well-being or satisfaction with treatment.
- Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs): which compare the benefits of different treatment options, based on the quality and quantity of life they yield.
Issued on 13th November 2018
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