Research seminar: Economic evaluation alongside clinical trials

On Tuesday 20 February from 11am – 12noon, Dr Shihua Zhu will give a seminar entitled: Economic evaluation alongside clinical trials.

This seminar will describe an economic evaluation conducted alongside clinical trials. An economic evaluation was widely used in a clinical trial to investigate the cost of supplying health care of an intervention related to its benefit compared with comparators. However, there is no ‘gold standard’ type of an economic evaluation alongside clinical trials. This seminar will explore what type of an economic evaluation will be suitable to be planned and reported in a clinical trial.

Shihua is a senior Research Fellow in Econometrics and Health Economics in CaHRU and the Lincoln Clinical Trials Unit. His expertise lies in economic valuations alongside clinical trials, statistics and mathematical models. He has completed more than 10 economic evaluations alongside large scale random control trials. He has rich experience in conducting decision analytic models used in health care evaluation including the Markov model, discrete event simulation model and population dynamic model. He has published widely in high prestigious journals including Lancet, BMJ, PLOS One and HTA Reports.

All are welcome, if you would like to join us, contact Sue Bowler for details and a Teams link sbowler@lincoln.ac.uk.

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