EPI 213: Decision and Cost Effectiveness Analysis in Medicine (Winter 2015)
Section outline
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Course Overview
Goal, organization, student projects, grading, substantive snapshot.
Faculty: Jim Kahn
Location: Mission Hall 1406
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Core lecture 1: Decision Analysis & steps
Purpose and indications for decision analysis; Steps -- formal question, decision trees, probabilities, outcomes, sensitivity analysis.
Faculty: Jim Kahn
Location: Mission Hall 1406 -
Small Group Discussion Section: Software Tutorials
Faculty: Jim Kahn/Dhruv Kazi
Location: Kahn Excel MH -
Small Group Discussion Section 1: Decision analysis (trees)
Faculty: Jim Kahn or Dhruv Kazi, Elliot Marseille
Location: Kahn or Kazi MH 2109, Marseille MH 2106 -
Core Lecture 2: Health Outcomes (QALYs, DALYs)
Specification, measurement, calculation, and incorporation of health status indicators. Discounting.Faculty: Elliot Marseille
Location: Mission Hall 1406 -
Lecture: Special Topics: Hepatitis C treatment
CEA of treatment with new targeted antiviralsFaculty: Jim Kahn/Elliot Marseille
Location: Mission Hall 1406 -
Small Group Discussion Section 2: Health Outcomes (QALYs, DALYs)
Faculty: Jim Kahn, Elliot Marseille
Location: Kahn MH 1406, Marseille MH 1401 -
Core Lecture 3: Cost Effectiveness
Conceptual approach to CEA. Incorporation of costs into the analysis, calculation of the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER).Faculty: Jim Kahn
Location: Mission Hall 1406 -
Small Group Discussion Section 3: Cost-Effectiveness
Faculty: Jim Kahn, Elliot Marseille
Location: Kahn MH 1406, Marseille MH 1401 -
Lecture: Special Topic: Cost-Effectiveness & HIV
Review of findings for HIV prevention and treatment in the global setting.Faculty: Jim Kahn, Elliot Marseille
Location: Mission Hall 1406 -
Core Lecture 4: Markov Disease State Modeling
Uses and design of portrayal of disease states in decision trees.Faculty: Jim Kahn/Elliot Marseille
Location: Mission Hall 1406 -
Project Consultations
Faculty: TBA
Location: Mission Hall 1406 -
Small Group Discussion Section 4: Markov Modeling
Faculty: Jim Kahn, Elliot Marseille
Location: Kahn MH 1406, Marseille MH 1401 -
Core lecture 5 (optional): Data inputs
General approach (base case, range); Health inputs (health outcomes, population traits, hierarchy of evidence); Cost inputs (direct, time); Presentation.
Faculty: Jim Kahn
Location: Mission Hall 1406 -
Small Group Discussion Section 5: Data Inputs
Faculty: Jim Kahn, Elliot Marseille
Location: Kahn MH 1406, Marseille MH 1401 -
Core Lecture 6: Sensitivity Analysis
Lecture Description: Types of uncertainty; Deterministic SA (one-way, multi-way, scenario); Probabilistic SA (reasons for, data needs, methods); Uses (planning, checking, thresholds, policy.)Faculty: Elliot Marseille
Location: Mission Hall 1406 -
Small Group Discussion Section 6: Sensitivity Analysis
Faculty: Jim Kahn, Elliott Marseille
Location: Kahn MH 1406, Marseille MH 1401 -
Office Hours: Project Consultations
Faculty: Jim Kahn
Location: Mission Hall 1406 -
Lecture: Special Lecture Cardiovascular CEA
Faculty: Dhruv Kazi
Location: Mission Hall 1406
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Office Hours: Article review
Faculty: Jim Kahn
Location: Mission Hall 1406 -
Lecture: Iron CEA America
Fun team competition -- with apologies to Iron Chef America
Faculty: Jim Kahn
Location: Mission Hall 1406
