Can Decision Analytic Modelling Promote Clinical Translation Of Personalised Medicine Markers For Oncology Drugs?
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$69,893.00
Summary
Personalised medicine is an approach that has great potential to improve healthcare. There has been limited success to date, however, in utilising proposed tests in the clinical. It is proposed that use of mathematical models early in the development of personalised medicine tests will allow early understanding of the value that the test will have for patients and society. Such insight will help build a strong case to undertake the research required before personalised medicine can be more widel ....Personalised medicine is an approach that has great potential to improve healthcare. There has been limited success to date, however, in utilising proposed tests in the clinical. It is proposed that use of mathematical models early in the development of personalised medicine tests will allow early understanding of the value that the test will have for patients and society. Such insight will help build a strong case to undertake the research required before personalised medicine can be more widely used to improve treatment for cancer.Read moreRead less
Adolescent Population Health: Application Of Best-Worst Scaling Discrete Choice Experiments To Value Health States For Use In Economic Evaluation
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$178,779.00
Summary
Historically, economic evaluations of health care treatment and preventive programs developed for adolescents have failed to incorporate adolescent values about their preferred health outcomes. This project will apply a novel approach known as Best-Worst Scaling to ascertain adolescent specific values for health states for incorporation into economic evaluation, thereby enabling the views of adolescents to be incorporated directly into the health care priorities decision-making process.
From Maps To Efficient Multi-parasite Control In The Philippines
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$358,121.00
Summary
Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths are major parasitic infections in Asia, causing anaemia, poor growth and poor school performance and death in some chronic schistosomiasis cases. We will use maps to demonstrate the geographic distribution of these parasites in the Philippines. We will estimate the impact and costs and benefits of parasite control programmes. This research will help plan more efficient parasite control and reduce the impact of these infections in the Philippines.
Development And Validation Of An Australian Diabetes Health Policy Simulation Model
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$400,396.00
Summary
Diabetes imposes a heavy personal, societal and financial burden on Australia and this is predicted to increase over time. The aim of this project is to develop a computer simulation model that can be used to inform clinicians and policy makers in efficient allocation of resources to improve the quality of diabetes care.
ACTIVE Dialysis: A Clinical Trial Of IntensiVE Dialysis
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$1,310,836.00
Summary
People with kidney disease requiring dialysis have substantially reduced life expectancy, poorer health status and quality of life. Better treatments are therefore urgently required. ACTIVE Dialysis is a clinical trial that will assess whether increased duration of dialysis improves these critical outcomes. A formal cost-effectiveness analysis will be conducted from a health system perspective.