EPI 213: Decision and Cost Effectiveness Analysis in Medicine (Winter 2020)
Section outline
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Course Overview
Goal, organization, student projects, grading, substantive snapshot.
Core Lecture 1: Decision Analysis & steps
Purpose and indications for decision analysis; Steps -- formal question, decision trees, probabilities, outcomes, sensitivity analysis.
Faculty: Elliot Marseille
Location: Mission Hall 1406
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CEA Purpose URL
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Lecture: Software Tutorials
Group Discussion: Decision analysis (trees)
Faculty: Elliot Marseille/Sri Lekha Tummalapalli
Location: Mission Hall 1406
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CEA approaches and ICERs URL
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Core Lecture 2: Health Outcomes (QALYs, DALYs)
Specification, measurement, calculation, and incorporation of health status indicators. Discounting.Lecture: Special Topic: HIV prevention cost-effectiveness
CEA of two interventions in global health context - female condom and pMTCT
Faculty: Elliot Marseille
Location: Mission Hall 1406-
DALYs and QALYs URL
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Core Lecture 3: Cost-Effectiveness
Conceptual approach to CEA. Incorporation of costs into the analysis, calculation of the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER).Faculty: Elliot Marseile
Location: Mission Hall 1406-
Timing in CEAs URL
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CEA Research Questions URL
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Decision Trees for CEAs URL
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Jamison File
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Kahn File
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Russell File
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Lecture: Special Topic: Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds
Critique of WHO thresholds and the way forwardFaculty: Elliot Marseille
Location: Mission Hall 1406-
CEA Results Table URL
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Obtaining Inputs Data and In-Class Journal Club
Core Lecture 4: Data inputs PPT Posted to CLE (Faculty: Jim Kahn)
General approach (base case, range); Health inputs (health outcomes, population traits, hierarchy of evidence); Cost inputs (direct, time); Presentation.
Location: Mission Hall 1406
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Example of a systematic qualitative assessment of disparate medical care cost studies - from E. Marseille's CEA of MDMA for PTSD.
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Core Lecture 5: 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-
Sensitivity Analyses URL
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Krahn MD Primer on Med DA--Part 4--Analyzing the Model Interpreting the Results Med Decis Making Apr-Jun 1997 File
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Lecture: Special Topic: Ethics of Cost-Effectiveness
Utilitarian and competing ethical principles.
Faculty: Elliot Marseille
Location: Mission Hall 1406
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CEA Next Steps URL
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Core Lecture 6: Markov Disease State Modeling
Uses and design of portrayal of disease states in decision trees.Faculty: Elliot Marseille
Location: Mission Hall 1406-
Naimark D et al Primer on Medical DA--Part 5--Working with Markov Processes In Med Decis Making Apr-Jun 1997 File
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Article Review
Location: Zoom only
Zoom Link: https://ucsf.zoom.us/j/423247047 or +1 669 900 6833 (Meeting ID: 423 247 047)
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Extra CEA research example URL
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Iron CEA America
Fun team competition -- with apologies to Iron Chef America
Faculty: Elliot Marseille / Jim Kahn
Location: Zoom only
Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/262358867
Meeting ID: 262 358 867
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Lindfors KK et al CE of Mammo Screening Strategies In JAMA 20Sept1995 ocr File
