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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
This online course explored how two health outcome measures, Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) and Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs), are used to measure treatment benefits; asking how they are developed, calculated, and used in practice.
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 combines video, articles, exercises, discussion, and multiple choice quizzes and tests. The topics learners cover in this course include:
- The challenges of defining and measuring ‘health’.
- How patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are developed and implemented.
- An introduction to the process of decision-making in healthcare, namely, economic evaluation, and the limitations of PROMs in measuring benefit.
- What quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) are and how they are generated including describing health states and how they can be valued through methods such as Time Trade Off.
- Utility measures and how they are used in calculating QALYs.
- Where QALYs are used in decision-making around the world.
Issued on 31st January 2017
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