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Deciding whether to refer a patient to an Intensive Care Unit (or Critical Care Unit) has always been a difficult clinical and ethical challenge. The limited number of ICU beds means that decisions often have to be made about who should be referred and who should not. Intensive care can…
The Life Under Lockdown report from King’s College has provided valuable insights into the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on population mental health in the UK. Almost half of the respondents in the survey indicated that they have felt more anxious or depressed than normal as a result of the…
Patients with undiagnosed rare diseases often undergo a long, stressful and costly testing process. This is called the ‘diagnostic odyssey.’ Standard testing involves numerous tests, missed diagnoses, and considerable stress and uncertainty for affected individuals and families. On average, it takes 5.6 years to…
Obesity in Scotland
Severe obesity is a growing public health concern. In 2018 in Scotland, 2% of men and 5% of women were classed as morbidly obese (no data exists for severe obesity). Severe obesity leads to more hospital admissions, earlier death, and poorer quality of life due to the higher risk…
The Scottish Health Economics (SHE) group was officially launched in October 2019.
The Discovery Point in Dundee, home to the RSS Discovery, was a fitting place to launch the Scottish Health Economics (SHE) group. The idea of SHE came out of a recognition that there is now a sizeable community of health economists…
In 2019, the Methods of Benefit Valuation team in HERU delivered our ‘Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics’ course twice. The course teaches one of the most commonly used preference elicitation tools: the Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE). In 2019, we held our annual course in Aberdeen, and also held…
The number of people living with cancer in Scotland is almost quarter of a million - and growing. Many cancer survivors feel they are not getting the help they need; staff shortages in the National Health Service (NHS) could be contributing to this situation.
The Chief Executive of Macmillan Cancer…
We know surprisingly little about how effective or cost-effective dental interventions are. For example, in the UK each year people have over 15 million scale and polish treatments on the NHS. Yet, there is no strong evidence that scale and polish prevents poor dental health or that scale and polish…
Falls and older people
Falls are a common and serious occurrence for everyone and are more common in older people. One in three community dwelling people aged 65 years or over fall at least once per year. Falls can lead to injury, fractures, disability, poorer quality of life, loss of…
Each year HERU hosts up to three paid Interns in the Unit to build health economics capacity and contribute to our research projects. We sat down with this year’s interns, Jeanne Armand (left) Cameron Owens (middle) and Jennifer Martin (right), to talk about their time at HERU.
Jeanne is a 3rd year…
