Nice Dsu Technical Support Document 12: the Use of Health State Utility Values in Decision Models Report

Nice Dsu Technical Support Document 11: Alternatives to Eq-5d for Generating Health State Utility Values Report by the Decision Support Unit

The NICE Guide to the Methods of Technology Appraisal i is a regularly updated document that provides an overview of the key principles and methods of health technology assessment and appraisal for use in NICE appraisals. The Methods Guide does not provide detailed advice on how to implement and apply the methods it describes. This DSU series of Technical Support Documents (TSDs) is intended to...

Nice Dsu Technical Support Document 19: Partitioned Survival Analysis for Decision Modelling in Health Care: a Critical Review

Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis for Health Technology Assessment Report by the Decision Support Unit

Acknowledgements The author is grateful for financial support from the NICE Decision Support Unit (DSU). NICE had no responsibility or control over the content of this paper. This paper aims to look at the applicability of multi criteria decision analysis (MCDA) for health technology assessment. MCDA is aimed at supporting decision makers faced with evaluating alternatives, taking into account ...

Development of the Alcohol Policy Document in Iran

Background: Statistics of alcohol use Iran was investigated in the beginning of 2010 in Mental, Social Health and Addiction Department of Ministry of Health. The findings showed that the alcohol use, especially in young people, is notable. Hence a strategic plan or a policy document in alcohol use was needed to explain the main vision also provide countrywide strategies for all related domains ...

Sustainable Management of Saravan Sylvan Park Using Stochastic Dynamic Programming

The present study sustainable management of Guilan Saravan Sylvan Park was planned. The used method in the form of decision support model in three10-year period was studied for parks of various states and with considering the economic, ecological and social criteria during the years 2008 to 2038. By using hierarchical fuzzy analysis method, the reaching to an optimal level of economic, ecologic...