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SUMMARY:HE@Cam Seminar: Tray Brown - Building a Discrete Event Simulation 
 to Determine the Cost-Effectiveness of Treatments for Systemic Lupus Eryth
 ematosus - Tray Brown -Department of Public Health and Primary care
DTSTART:20180514T140000Z
DTEND:20180514T150000Z
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CONTACT:David Wastlund
DESCRIPTION:Health Economics @ Cambridge are happy to present Tray Brown f
 or a seminar on model building within Health Economics. Tray works at the 
 Department of Public Health and Primary Care\, University of Cambridge. Th
 e seminar will focus on the basis of Discrete Event Simulation (DES)\, a m
 odelling technique that has become increasingly more used as individual pa
 tient characteristics are given a bigger place within health economic eval
 uation. In this Seminar\, Tray will share his experience as a model develo
 per\, using examples from his model on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.\n\n*T
 ime:* 15:00-16:00 Monday 14th May 2018\n\n*Venue:* Large Seminar Room\, 1s
 t Floor\, Institute of Public Health\, University Forvie Site\, Robinson W
 ay\, Cambridge\n\nInformation about the seminar can also be found "here":h
 ttp://www.publichealth.cam.ac.uk/14-may-2018-tray-brown/\n\n*About the sem
 inar:*\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 including an inability to efficiently incorporate 
 patients’ histories and limited\, if any\, tracking of patients’ attri
 butes. These make cohort models unsuited to accurately reflect the experie
 nces of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) as the disease ca
 n manifest itself in different ways in each patient and previous events ef
 fect future event probabilities. This can be addressed by using a discrete
  event simulation (DES)\, a model type growing in acceptance in health eco
 nomics. This talk will introduce the concepts of DES and illustrate the st
 eps involved in developing one by drawing from the researcher’s experien
 ce building DES decision model for SLE.\n\n*Tray Brown:*\n\nTray is a Rese
 arch Methods Fellow working at the Department of Public Health and Primary
  Care\, University of Cambridge. He is funded by the NIHR to develop a dec
 ision model for treatments for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)\, which 
 will be used to predict the life-time cost-effectiveness of various novel 
 treatments for SLE under development in Cambridge. He recently completed a
 n MSc in Economic Evaluation in Healthcare (with distinction) at City\, Un
 iversity of London.\n\n*All welcome. Part of the HE@Cam seminars 2017/18 s
 eries.*\nFor any questions\, please contact healtheconomics@medschl.cam.ac
 .uk
LOCATION:Large Seminar Room\, 1st Floor\, Institute of Public Health\, Uni
 versity Forvie Site\, Robinson Way\, Cambridge
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