DCE and TTO published by Health Economics

Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are a promising alternative to more resource-intensive preference elicitation methods such as time trade-off (TTO), as pairwise comparisons are more amenable to online completion, which can save time and money. However, modeling DCE...

PFS: a valid surrogate for oncology?

Congratulations to Bruno Kovic for his paper entitled “Association between progression-free survival and health-related quality of life in oncology: a systematic review protocol” published by BMJ Open. For more details please click...

2016 HTAi issue panel

Dr. Feng Xie, together with Drs. Jeff Johnson, Eleanor Pullenayegum and A Simon Pickard presented at pre-conference workshop in 2016 HTAi Annual Meeting in...

Impact factor-mania?

“There are a number of problems with this approach. First of all, the journal IF is a journal-level metric, not an article-level metric, and its use to determine the impact of a single article is statistically flawed since citation distribution is skewed for all...