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CATEGORIES:Health Economics @ Cambridge
SUMMARY:HE@Cam Seminar: Tray Brown - Building a Discrete E
 vent Simulation to Determine the Cost-Effectivenes
 s of Treatments for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus -
  Tray Brown -Department of Public Health and Prima
 ry care
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180514T150000
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UID:TALK103441AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/103441
DESCRIPTION:Health Economics @ Cambridge are happy to present 
 Tray Brown for a seminar on model building within 
 Health Economics. Tray works at the Department of 
 Public Health and Primary Care\, University of Cam
 bridge. The seminar will focus on the basis of Dis
 crete Event Simulation (DES)\, a modelling techniq
 ue that has become increasingly more used as indiv
 idual patient characteristics are given a bigger p
 lace within health economic evaluation. In this Se
 minar\, Tray will share his experience as a model 
 developer\, using examples from his model on Syste
 mic Lupus Erythematosus.\n\n*Time:* 15:00-16:00 Mo
 nday 14th May 2018\n\n*Venue:* Large Seminar Room\
 , 1st Floor\, Institute of Public Health\, Univers
 ity Forvie Site\, Robinson Way\, Cambridge\n\nInfo
 rmation about the seminar can also be found "here"
 :http://www.publichealth.cam.ac.uk/14-may-2018-tra
 y-brown/\n\n*About the seminar:*\n\nCohort models 
 are still used most frequently when building decis
 ion models for cost-effectiveness analyses. These 
 model types suffer from a number of limitations in
 cluding an inability to efficiently incorporate pa
 tients’ histories and limited\, if any\, tracking 
 of patients’ attributes. These make cohort models 
 unsuited to accurately reflect the experiences of 
 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) a
 s the disease can manifest itself in different way
 s in each patient and previous events effect futur
 e event probabilities. This can be addressed by us
 ing a discrete event simulation (DES)\, a model ty
 pe growing in acceptance in health economics. This
  talk will introduce the concepts of DES and illus
 trate the steps involved in developing one by draw
 ing from the researcher’s experience building DES 
 decision model for SLE.\n\n*Tray Brown:*\n\nTray i
 s a Research Methods Fellow working at the Departm
 ent of Public Health and Primary Care\, University
  of Cambridge. He is funded by the NIHR to develop
  a decision model for treatments for systemic lupu
 s erythematosus (SLE)\, which will be used to pred
 ict the life-time cost-effectiveness of various no
 vel treatments for SLE under development in Cambri
 dge. He recently completed an MSc in Economic Eval
 uation in Healthcare (with distinction) at City\, 
 University of London.\n\n*All welcome. Part of the
  HE@Cam seminars 2017/18 series.*\nFor any questio
 ns\, please contact healtheconomics@medschl.cam.ac
 .uk
LOCATION:Large Seminar Room\, 1st Floor\, Institute of Publ
 ic Health\, University Forvie Site\, Robinson Way\
 , Cambridge
CONTACT:David Wastlund
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