PHP272 - QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF TECHNICAL ERRORS FOUND IN ECONOMIC MODELS SUBMITTED TO THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE (NICE)

The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE).

In discussions on the development of the institutional framework for decisions on the benefit package of social health insurance in Germany, the English National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) is considered as either a good or a bad example for reform. According to this study, the procedures and criteria applied by NICE for making health care coverage decisions are legitimate. Procedu...

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

NICE to HELP: operationalizing National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines to improve clinical practice.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the United Kingdom developed guidelines for the diagnosis, prevention, and management of delirium in July 2010 that included 10 recommendations for delirium prevention. The Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP) is a targeted multicomponent strategy that has proven effective and cost-effective at preventing functional and cognitive...

Managing Conflicts of Interest in the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Clinical Guidelines Programme: Qualitative Study

BACKGROUND There is international concern that conflicts of interest (COI) may bias clinical guideline development and render it untrustworthy. Guideline COI policies exist with the aim of reducing this bias but it is not known how such policies are interpreted and used by guideline producing organisations. This study sought to determine how conflicts of interest (COIs) are disclosed and manage...

Papers Comparing Estimates of Cost Effectiveness Submitted to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (nice) by Different Organisations: Retrospective Study

Objective To assess the association between different types of organisation and the results from economic evaluations. Design Retrospective pairwise comparison of evidence submitted to the technology appraisal programme of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) by manufacturers of the relevant healthcare technologies and by contracted university based assessment groups. Data sour...