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PU5501: ECONOMIC EVALUATION-APPLICATIONS AND POLICY (2020-2021)

Last modified: 05 Aug 2021 13:04

Course Overview

None.

Course Details

Study Type	Postgraduate	Level	5
Session	Second Sub Session	Credit Points	15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus	Aberdeen	Sustained Study	No
Co-ordinators	Dr Graham Scotland

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

Pg Certificate in Health Economics (Studied)
Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 31 August 2023 for 1st half-session courses and 22 December 2023 for 2nd half-session courses.

Summative Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type	Summative	Weighting	70
Assessment Weeks	12	Feedback Weeks		Look up Week Numbers
Feedback		Word Count

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome
Conceptual	Analyse	Identify the resource use events (costs) and benefits that should be included, from a range of different perspectives, in the economic evaluation of alternative health care interventions.
Conceptual	Evaluate	Discuss the common limitations of RCTs as a vehicle for the economic evaluation of health care interventions
Procedural	Create	Inform the design of an economic evaluation based on cost and outcome data collected alongside a randomised controlled trial of alternative health care interventions.
Procedural	Evaluate	Interpret and assess the robustness of the results of an economic evaluation for the purpose of informing policy and practice in health care.
Reflection	Apply	Demonstrate a working knowledge of how simple decision models can be developed and implemented in Microsoft Excel.
Reflection	Evaluate	Articulate a conceptual understating of how decision modelling can be used to overcome the limitations of RCTs for the purpose of economic evaluation.

Short answer questions

Assessment Type	Summative	Weighting	15
Assessment Weeks	8	Feedback Weeks	10	Look up Week Numbers
Feedback

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome
Procedural	Evaluate	Interpret and assess the robustness of the results of an economic evaluation for the purpose of informing policy and practice in health care.
Reflection	Apply	Demonstrate a working knowledge of how simple decision models can be developed and implemented in Microsoft Excel.

Short answer questions

Assessment Type	Summative	Weighting	15
Assessment Weeks	4	Feedback Weeks	6	Look up Week Numbers
Feedback

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome
Conceptual	Evaluate	Discuss the common limitations of RCTs as a vehicle for the economic evaluation of health care interventions
Procedural	Create	Inform the design of an economic evaluation based on cost and outcome data collected alongside a randomised controlled trial of alternative health care interventions.
Reflection	Evaluate	Articulate a conceptual understating of how decision modelling can be used to overcome the limitations of RCTs for the purpose of economic evaluation.

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Report: Individual

Assessment Type	Summative	Weighting	100
Assessment Weeks		Feedback Weeks		Look up Week Numbers
Feedback

Learning Outcomes

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Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome

Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome
Conceptual	Analyse	Identify the resource use events (costs) and benefits that should be included, from a range of different perspectives, in the economic evaluation of alternative health care interventions.
Procedural	Create	Inform the design of an economic evaluation based on cost and outcome data collected alongside a randomised controlled trial of alternative health care interventions.
Conceptual	Evaluate	Discuss the common limitations of RCTs as a vehicle for the economic evaluation of health care interventions
Reflection	Evaluate	Articulate a conceptual understating of how decision modelling can be used to overcome the limitations of RCTs for the purpose of economic evaluation.
Reflection	Apply	Demonstrate a working knowledge of how simple decision models can be developed and implemented in Microsoft Excel.
Procedural	Evaluate	Interpret and assess the robustness of the results of an economic evaluation for the purpose of informing policy and practice in health care.

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