Open Courseware

The following materials are freely available for students or teachers of cost-effectiveness analysis. We request that users modify them and send them back to us with improvements or suggestions.

Worked Exercises from the Textbook

Table 6.4
Table 6.5
Table 6.6
Table 8.1

Laboratory Tutorials

These tutorials will walk you through the process of building a Markov model, comparing two interventions, and testing the interventions using a sensitivity analysis. The tutorials are available as a single Acrobat (.pdf) format workbook. They have been tested in class, but are still in draft form. Please email me if you would like them in Word (.doc) format so that you can make modifications.

Laboratory Workbook (The first exercise requires the use of this file).

This workbook is open courseware. In this spirit, please use and distribute as you like, but please email us with any changes you make, so that we can continuously improve it. Here is a modifiable copy in Word format.

 

Learning Tools

1. 2003 QALE calculator. This table can be used to calculate changes in life expectancy and quality-adjusted life expectancy when risk ratios are applied to specific age groups. (Excel format.)

2. Discounting and inflating future events. This tutorial describes the treatment of future costs in instances of high medical inflation.

 

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