ISPOR 8th Annual European Congress
6-8 November 2005, Palazzo Degli Affari, Florence, Italy


“INCORPORATING VALUES INTO HEALTH CARE DECISIONS”

MONDAY, 7 NOVEMBER 2005

7:30 - 8:45 Round Table Breakfast Discussions
 

Harmonizing Health Economics

Discussion Leaders: Lieven Annemans PhD, MSc, Mman, Professor & Senior Consultant, Ghent University, HEDM and IMS Health, Meise, Belgium; Nancy Kline Leidy PhD, President and CEO, The MEDTAP Institute at UBC, Bethesda, MD, USA

Is the US really in step with Europe? Does cost-utility analysis have the same role in the US and Europe? Does cost/QALY have the same relevance for US decision makers as for their European counterparts?


Valuing Health: Whose Values Count, Whose Values Should Count?

Discussion Leaders: Jeremy Chancellor BSc, MSc, Managing Director, European Operations, Innovus Research (UK) Ltd, Bucks, UK; Judith Barr, MEd, ScD, Associate Professor and Director, National Education and Research Center for Outcomes Assessment, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

Measuring the value of health benefits is central to the evaluation of treatment. If economic evaluation is based on societal values is there a role for patients' values in measuring outcomes?


Bridging the Gap: Linking Clinical and Economic Outcomes Data

Discussion Leaders: Michael Nichol PhD, Associate Professor & Chair, University of Southern California, Dept of Pharm Econ & Policy, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Paul Kind, Principal Investigator, Centre for Health Economics, Outcomes Research Group, University of York, York, UK

Clinical studies often incorporate measures that are useful in evaluating questions around safety/efficacy. But can health economists adapt those outcome data for economic evaluation and if so, how?
 

8:00 - 9:00 Contributed Poster Presentations - Session I Viewing
9:00 - 10:30 Second Plenary Session
 
Health Care Decision Makers Facing the Budget Allocation Dilemma:
Compressing Mortality vs Compressing Morbidity

Moderator: Lieven Annemans PhD, MSc, Mman, Professor & Senior Consultant, Ghent University, HEDM and IMS Health, Meise, Belgium

Speakers: Dr. Claudio Cricelli, President, Società Italiana di Medicina Generale, Firenze, Italy;
Dr. Giovanna Scroccaro
, President, Societa' Italiana di Farmacia Ospedaliera, Milan, Italy; Patrizia Berto, PharmD, MBA, President, PBE Consulting, Verona, Italy

This plenary session will discuss the issue of an aging population and the challenge for decision-makers to fund traditional therapies aimed at reducing mortality from chronic (eg cardiovascular, diabetes) diseases
while still saving room for reducing morbidity with emerging expensive treatments. How do they address this challenge?

10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:45 Contributed Workshops Session II  - See workshops details
  CLINICAL STUDY METHODOLOGY ISSUES

W9: META-ANALYSIS OF LONGITUDINAL DATA FOR ECONOMIC MODELS: AN APPLICATION OF MULTI-OUTCOME MODELS
Discussion Leaders: Khajak J Ishak MSc, Senior Statistician, Caro Research Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada; Robert W. Platt PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics & Epidemiology and Biostatistics McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; J. Jaime Caro MD, President & Scientific Director, Caro Research Institute, Concord, MA, USA

ADHERENCE/COMPLIANCE ISSUES

W10: INCORPORATING MEASURES OF COMPLIANCE AND PERSISTENCE IN PHARMACOECONOMIC EVALUATIONS
Discussion Leaders: Dyfrig Hughes PhD , Senior Research Fellow in Pharmacoeconomics, Centre for the Economics of Health, University of Wales, Bangor, UK; Warren Cowell MSc, Health Economist, Roche Products Ltd, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, UK; Tamas Andras Koncz MD, OR Manager, Outcomes Research and Evidence Based Medicine, Pfizer Ltd, Tadworth, UK

COST STUDY METHODOLOGY ISSUES

W11: THE ADDED VALUE OF BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORKS FOR DECISION MAKING
Discussion Leaders: G Baio PhD, Post Doc, Department of Statistical Science, University College London, London, UK; JP Jansen PhD, Project Manager, MAPI VALUES, Houten, Netherlands

HEALTH CARE COVERAGE AND REIMBURSEMENT ISSUES

W12: MIXED TREATMENT COMPARISONS
Discussion Leaders: Neil Stephen Hawkins MSc, Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York, Heslington, York, UK; Mark J Sculpher MSc, PhD, Professor, Centre for Health Economics, University of York; Heslington, York, UK; Steve Palmer MSc, Centre for Health Economics, University of York, Heslington, York, UK

HEALTH CARE POLICY DEVELOPMENT ISSUES

W13: PRICING POTENTIAL OF A NEW DRUG: APPLICATION OF THE PRICING MATRIX MODEL
Discussion Leaders: Mark JC Nuijten PhD, MD, MBA, Consultant, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands

W14: KEY ISSUES IN MARKET ACCESS: FRANCE, SPAIN, AND ITALY
Discussion Leaders: Xavier Badia MD, PhD, Managing Director, Health Outcomes Research Europe, Barcelona, Spain; Annie Chicoye PhD, Aremis Consultants, Neuilly sur Seine, France; Regina Múzquiz PhD, Director of Public Affairs, Sanofi-Aventis, Madrid, Spain; Cristina Negrini BSc, Director, Pbe Consulting, Milan, Italy

PREFERENCE-BASED STUDIES

W15: CONJOINT ANALYSIS: APPLICATION TO GLOBAL PRICING AND REIMBURSEMENT STRATEGY
Discussion Leaders: F. Reed Johnson PhD, Senior Fellow and Principal Economist, RTI Health Solutions, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA; Deirdre M Mladsi BA, Global Head, RTI Health Solutions, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA; Keiron Sparrowhawk MSc, MBA, Principal, PriceSpective Ltd, Buntingford, UK

QOL/PRO METHODOLOGY ISSUES

W16: THE USE OF COMPOSITE ENDPOINTS: A REVIEW OF THE REGULATORS PERSPECTIVE AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
Discussion Leaders: Christine De la Loge MSc, Project Manager, Mapi Values, Lyon, France; Benoit Arnould MSc, MA, Project Manager, Mapi Values, Lyon, France
 
11:45 - 13:15 Lunch, Exhibits & Contributed Poster Presentations - Session II
ISPOR 10 YEAR CELEBRATION
12.00 – 13.00 IMS Satellite Symposium - Room 1A
 
" TRANSFERRING HEALTH ECONOMIC METHODS AND RESULTS FROM ONE COUNTRY TO ANOTHER: ISSUES AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS”
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An IMS Health Symposium

Issues in transferring health economic methods and results from one country to another as well as potential solutions will be presented and discussed. Specific topics like differences in medical practice, differences in cost structures, difference in data availability will be covered.

OPENING REMARKS

Moderator: Lieven Annemans, PhD, MSc, MMan, Principal Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Brussels, Belgium


ISSUES IN TRANSFERRING METHODS AND RESULTS OF HEALTH ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS FROM ONE COUNTRY TO ANOTHER


Speaker: Jens Grüger, PhD, Global Head, Pricing & Health Economics, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland

Assessing the value for money of health technologies is mostly done on an individual country level. This is explained by the observation that health economic evaluation results can be quite different from country to country depending on differences in medical practice, cost structures, cost level etc… Besides the question regarding how far one should go in this individual country adaptation (i.e. up to one evaluation for each country?) this lecture discusses also the different issues that researchers face when the results of a health economic evaluation conducted in a country X need to be reproduced in a country.


POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS FOR HANDLING MULTI-COUNTRY HEALTH ECONOMIC EVALUATION ISSUES

Speaker: Frank-Ulrich Fricke, PhD, MSc, Principal Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Fricke & Pirk GmbH – A unit of IMS, Nürnberg

Based on experience with multi-country projects, this lecture provides suggestions about how some of the above mentioned issues could be resolved. It will be shown that solutions strongly depend on the objectives of multi-country projects and that there is not a “one and only” solution. In the light of the “cost-effectiveness of a cost-effectiveness study” it will appear that some solutions are more cost-effective than others. A final word is addressed regarding the geographical differences in societal willingness to pay for a unit of health benefit.

OPEN DISCUSSION

 
13:15 - 14:15 Contributed Podium Presentations - Session II (4 podium groups with 4 presentations per group)
 
Health Care Use And Policy: Focus On Health Professionals

HP1 IDENTIFYING PREDICTORS OF OFF-LABEL UTILIZATION PATTERNS OF TWO BIOTECHNOLOGY DRUGS, RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN ALFA AND DARBEPOETIN ALFA: A MULTI-HOSPITAL STUDY
Patkar AD, Holdford DA, Peterson SP Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

HP2 PHARMACIST RESPONSE TO COMPUTER-GENERATED DRUG THERAPY ALERTS IN A LONG TERM CARE SETTING
Wegner S1, Trygstad T2, Christensen DB2 1 AccessCare, Inc, Morrisville, NC, USA; 2 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

HP3 PHYSICIAN PRESCRIBING OF SLEEP DISORDER MEDICATIONS IN UNITED STATES OUTPATIENT SETTINGS: FACTORS AFFECTING PRESCRIPTION OF HIGH ABUSE POTENTIAL AND COSTLY MEDICATIONS
Rasu R1, Balkrishnan R2, Shenolikar R2, Nahata M2 1 University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA; 2 Ohio State University College of Pharmacy, Columbus, OH, USA

HP4 PRIMARY CARE AND GATEKEEPER MODELS IN GERMANY – WHAT DO THE PATIENTS WANT?
Kielhorn H1, Wolter AB1, Schoenermark MP2 1 Schoenermark, Kielhorn and Collegen, Hannover, Germany; 2 Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany


Methods And Concepts In Patient-Oriented Research

PO1 TRAJECTORIES OF EQ-5D QUALITY OF LIFE UTILITY SCORES FOR 10,000 SCHIZOPHRENIA OUTPATIENTS OVER 2 YEARS: A REPORT FROM THE SOHO STUDY
Hammond GC1, Croudace TJ1, Jones PB1, Belger M2, Novick D2 1 University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2 Eli Lilly and Company Ltd, Windlesham, Surrey, United Kingdom

PO2 DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A QUESTIONNAIRE TO EVALUATE SEVERITY OF SYMPTOMS IN PATIENTS WITH IBS-C AND IBS-A
Pare P1, Lam SY2, Balshaw R3, Morin I3, Khorasheh S3, Barbeau M4, Kelly S4, Dastani H5, McBurney C6
1 Centre Hospitalier affilie Universitaire de Quebec, Quebec, QC, Canada; 2 Hawse Clinic, Calgary, AB, Canada; 3 Syreon Corporation, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 4 Novartis Pharmaceuticals Inc (Canada), Dorval, QC, Canada; 5 Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp, East Hanover, NJ, USA; 6 Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland

PO3 CLASSIFYING AND PREDICTING ANTIPSYCHOTIC ADHERENCE AMONG SCHIZOPHRENIA OUTPATIENTS IN EUROPE: A LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS
Croudace TJ1, Jones PB1, Hammond GC1, Brown J2, Shi L3 1 University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; 2 Eli Lilly and Company Ltd, Windlesham, Surrey, United Kingdom; 3 Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA

PO4 EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE IN CHINA
A NEW MEASURE FOR ASSESSING HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE (HRQOL) IN PATIENTS WITH ADVANCED COLORECTAL CANCER (ACC): "CCRA-QOL"

Perulero N1, Badia X1, Marfá X2, Guallar JL2
1Health Outcomes Research Europe, Barcelona, Spain, 2Sanofi - Aventis, S.A.U, Barcelona, Spain

PCN41 A NEW MEASURE FOR ASSESSING HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE (HRQOL) IN PATIENTS WITH ADVANCED COLORECTAL CANCER (ACC): “CCRA-QOL”
Perulero N1, Badia X1, Marfá X2, Guallar JL2
1Health Outcomes Research Europe, Barcelona, Spain; 2 Sanofi – Aventis, S.A.U, Barcelona, Spain


Health Related Quality Of Life Based Patient Reported Outcomes: Session 1

QL1 DETERMINING THE MINIMALLY IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE OF THE OVERACTIVE BLADDER QUESTIONNAIRE (OAB-Q)
Coyne KS1, Matza L1, Kopp Z2, Jumadilova Z2, Thompson C1, Khullar V3 1 The MEDTAP Institute at UBC, Bethesda, MD, USA; 2 Pfizer Inc, New York, NY, USA; 3 Imperial College, School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom

QL2 TESTING THE CROSS-WALK: SALVAGING CANCER SPECIFIC MEASURES FOR USE IN ECONOMIC EVALUATION
Wilson TR1, Kind P2 1 University of York, York, United Kingdom; 2 Outcomes Research Group, York, United Kingdom

QL3 “FAMIDIAL STUDY”: ANALYSIS OF THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DIALYSIS PATIENTS AND THEIR CAREGIVERS (FAMILY CARERS, NURSES AND DOCTORS) ON DIALYSIS PATIENTS‘ HRQOL, AND OF THE FAMILY CARERS' HRQOL AND BURDEN
Alvarez-ude F1, Rebollo P2, Valdes C2, Estebanez C1
1 Hospital General de Segovia. Instutute "Reina Sofía "for Nephrological Research, Segovia, Segovia, Spain; 2 Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias and Institute Reina Sofia for nephrological research, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain


QL4 VARIABILITY IN QOL QUESTIONNAIRES AND THE HANDLING OF MISSING DATA IN PATIENTS WITH NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER TREATED WITH CHEMOTHERAPY

Johnson LL1, Miller KL1, Miller DP1, Colwell HH1, Bhattacharyya SK2, Deeter RG2, Mathias SD1 1Ovation Research Group, San Francisco, CA, USA; 2 Amgen, Inc, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA


Cost Evaluation Studies In Interventional Cardiology

IC1 THE COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF DRUG-ELUTING STENTS BASED ON THE A SYNTHESIS OF THE RESULTS OF 15 RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIALS
Hawkins N, Sculpher M Unversity of York, York, United Kingdom

IC2 PREDICTING THE COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF THE ABT-578 COATED DRIVER CORONARY STENT (ENDEAVOR) IN DE NOVO NATIVE CORONARY ARTERY LESIONS
Remák E1, Hutton J1, Oliver E2, Brasseur P3 1 The MEDTAP Institute at UBC, London, United Kingdom; 2 Medtronic Ltd, Watford, United Kingdom; 3 Medtronic AG, Tolochenaz, Switzerland

IC3 HEALTH ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF BIVALIRUDIN IN THE MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS UNDERGOING PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION IN BELGIUM
Ethgen O1, Lamotte M2, Annemans L2 1 University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 2 HEDM - IMS Health, Brussels, Belgium

IC4 ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE STRATEGY STUDY: TIROFIBAN AND DRUG ELUTING STENTS VERSUS ABCIXIMAB AND BARE METAL STENTS
Mittmann N1, Valgimigli M2, Percoco G3, Campo G3, Squasi P3, Arcozzi C3, Malagutti P3, Ferrari R3, Seung SJ4, Isogai P1 1 Sunnybrook & Women's Health Science Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada; 2 University of Ferrara, Institue of Cardiology, Arcispedale S' Anna, Italy, Ferrara, Italy; 3 University of Ferrara, Institue of Cardiology, Arcispedale S' Anna, Ferrara, Italy, Italy; 4 HOPE Research Centre, Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
 

14:15 - 14:30 Break
14:30 - 15:30 Contributed Podium Presentations - Session III (5 podium groups with 4 presentations per group)
 
Health Care Use And Policy: Focus On Patients

HP5 TREATMENT PATTERNS AMONG POSTMENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROTIC WOMEN STARTING ON DAILY OR WEEKLY BISPHOSPHONATE THERAPY
Huybrechts KF1, Ishak KJ2, Proskorovsky I2, Caro JJ1, Levinton C1 1 Caro Research, Concord, MA, USA; 2 Caro Research, Dorval, QC, Canada

HP6 EFFECT OF CO-PAYMENT ON COMPLIANCE TO STATINS AFTER CORONARY HEART DISEASE HOSPITALIZATION
Ye X, St.Peter WL, Gross CR University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

HP7 ADHERENCE TO IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE THERAPY IN PRIVATE PAYER TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS
Lalla A1, Gilmore A1, Legorreta A2 1 Health Benchmarks, Inc, Woodland Hills, CA, USA; 2 UCLA School of Public Health, Woodland Hills, CA, USA

HP8 PATIENT CHARACTERICS, GLYCEMIC CONTROL, AND THE USE OF ANTIDIABETIC AGENTS AMONG INDIVIDUALS DIAGNOSED WITH TYPE-2 DIABETES: EVIDENCE FROM THE UK
Secnik K1, Yurgin N1, Lage MJ2, McDonald-Everett C1 1 Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, USA; 2 HealthMetrics Outcomes Research, LLC, Groton, CT, USA


Health Related Quality Of Life Based Patient Reported Outcomes: Session 2

QL5 CLINICAL RESPONSES TO TREATMENT AND CHANGES IN THE DERMATOLOGY LIFE QUALITY INDEX (DLQI) IN MODERATE TO SEVERE PLAQUE PSORIASIS PATIENTS TREATED WITH ADALIMUMAB
Shikiar R1, Thompson C2, Melilli LE3 1 MEDTAP Institute at United Biosource Corporation, Seattle, WA, USA; 2 MEDTAP Institute at United Biosource Corporation, Bethesda, MD, USA; 3 Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL, USA

QL6 ADALIMUMAB REDUCES FATIGUE IN PATIENTS WITH ACTIVE ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS (AS) — 6-MONTH RESULTS OF A CANADIAN AS STUDY
Luo MP1, Revicki D2, Rentz A2, Wong RL3, Maksymowych WP4 1 Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL, USA; 2 MEDTAP Institute at United Biosource Corporation, Bethesda, MD, USA; 3 Abbott Laboratories, Parsippany, NJ, USA; 4 University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, AB, Canada

QL7 IMPACT OF LUTS ON QUALITY OF LIFE IN ITALIAN WOMEN
Prezioso D1, Zattoni F2, Pesce F3, Scarpa R4, Tubaro A5, Artibani W6, Santini A7, The FLOW Study Group I8 1 Federico II University, Naples, Italy; 2 S. Maria della Misericordia Hospital, Udine, Italy; 3 Policlinico GB Rossi, Verona, Italy; 4 San Luigi Gonzaga Hospital, Turin, Italy; 5 S. Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy; 6 University of Padua, Padua, Italy; 7 Boehringer Ingelheim, Milan, Milan, Italy; 8 Italian Urology Centers, Virgilio, Italy

QL8 QUALITY OF LIFE IN HEMOPHILIC PATIENTS WITHOUT INHIBITORS: THE COCHE STUDY
Scalone L1, Gringeri A2, Von Mackensen S3, Mannucci PM2, De Silvio S1, Anastasia M1, Di Stasi F1, Mantovani LG1 1 Center of Pharmacoeconomics, University of Milan, Milan, Italy; 2 Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre, Milan, Italy; 3 Institute for Medical Psychology, Hamburg, Germany
 

Cost Evaluation Studies In Diabetes And Neurological Disorders

DN1 ECONOMIC EVALUATIONOF SPECT-DATSCAN IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF PATIENTS WITH CLINICALLY UNCERTAIN PARKINSONISM IN ITALY
Busca R1, Antonini A2, Lopatriello S3, Berto P3 1 Pbe Consulting, Milano, Italy; 2 Istituti Clinici di Perfezionamento, Milano, Italy; 3 Pbe consulting, Verona, Italy

DN2 COST-UTILITY ANALYSIS IN A UK SETTING OF SELF MONITORING OF BLOOD GLUCOSE IN PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES.
Palmer AJ1, Dinneen S2, Gavin III JR3, Gray A4, Herman WH5, Karter AJ6 1 CORE - Center for Outcomes Research, Binningen, Switzerland; 2 National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland; 3 Emory University School of Medicine and Morehouse School of Medicine, Fairburn, GA, USA; 4 University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; 5 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; 6 Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA, USA

DN3 COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF NON-INVASIVE IMAGING IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF PARKINSONISM
Brüggenjürgen B1, Smala A2, Chambers M3 1 Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Institut für Sozialmedizin, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsökonomie, Berlin, Germany; 2 MERG - Medical Economics Research Group, München, Germany; 3 Health Economics, GE Healthcare, Little Chalfont, United Kingdom

DN4 PHARMACOECONONOMIC EVALUATION OF SEDATION WITH REMIFENTANIL/PROPOFOL VERSUS MIDAZOLAM/FENTANYL IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
Muellejans B1, Matthey T1, Schill M2, Welte R2,1 Heart Centre Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Karlsburg, Germany; 2 GlaxoSmithKline, Munich, Germany


Clinical Outcomes Studies

CO1 VALIDATION OF DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES IN SYMPTOMATIC BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA. CONCORDANCE BETWEEN INITIAL AND FINAL DIAGNOSIS IN DAILY CLINICAL PRACTICE
Carballido J1, Badia X2, Gimeno A3, Regadera L4, Dal-Re R5, Guilera M6 1 Hospital Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, Spain; 2 Health Outcomes Research Europe Group, Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain; 3 Hospital General La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain; 4 Glaxo Smith Kline, Madrid, Spain; 5 GlaxoSmithKline, Madrid, Spain; 6 Health Outcomes Research Europe, Barcelona, Spain

CO2 EARLY GLYCEMIC CONTROL IMPROVES HEALTH AND ECONOMIC BENEFITS IN TYPE 2 DIABETES: A MODEL BASED ANALYSIS
Eddy D1, Schlessinger L1, Patwardhan RN2 1 Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA, USA; 2 GlaxoSmithKline, King of Prussia, PA, USA

CO3 META-REGRESSION ASSESSMENT OF ATOMOXETINE EFFICACY USING RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED ADHD TRIALS
Bae JP Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, USA

CO4 A COMPARISON OF LOGISTIC REGRESSION AND COX PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF RISK FACTORS FOR RENAL IMPAIRMENT IN HORMONE REFRACTORY PROSTATE CANCER (HRPC) PATIENTS WITH BONE METASTASES (BM) TREATED WITH ZOLEDRONIC ACID (ZA)
Oh WK1, Proctor K1, Nakabayashi M1, Evan C1, Tormey LK1, Breierova L2, Smith M2, Neary M3, Duh MS2 1 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA; 2 Analysis Group Inc, Boston, MA, USA; 3 F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd, Basel, Switzerland

 

15:30 - 15:45 Break
15:45 - 16:45 Issue Panels Session I - See Issue Panels Details
  HEALTH POLICY/HEALTH CARE REIMBURSEMENT/COVERAGE ISSUES

IP1: PAYOR ORIENTED EVIDENCE GUIDELINES
Moderator: Joseph Singer MD, VP, Integrated Research Network, HealthCore, Inc, Wilmington, DE, USA
Panelists: James MacKay MD, Medical Director, Providence Health Plan, Beaverton, OR, USA

QOL/PRO METHODOLOGY ISSUES

IP2: MEMORY AND PERCEPTION: THE ISSUE OF RECALL BIAS IN PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOMES
Moderator: Nancy Kline Leidy PhD, President and CEO, The MEDTAP Institute at UBC, Bethesda, MD, USA
Panelists: Donald E. Stull PhD, Research Scientist, The MEDTAP Institute at UBC, Bethesda, MD, USA; Olivier Chassany, Département de la Recherche Clinique et du Développement Assistance Publique, Hopitaux de Paris Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France

IP3: SUBMISSION OF PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOMES TO THE EMEA AND THE FDA: AREAS OF CONVERGENCE OR DIVERGENCE
Moderator: Patrick Marquis MBA, MD, Managing Director, Mapi Values, Boston, MA, USA
Panelists: Laurie Burke RPh, MPH, Director, Study Endpoints and Label Development, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, MD, US; Giovanni Apolone MD, Head of Translational and Outcomes Research Lab, Mario Negri Institute, Milan, Italy

HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT ISSUES

IP4: PROGRESS AND UNCERTAINTY IN HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
Moderator: Frank Papatheofanis MD, MPH, PhD, Associate Professor, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
Panelists: Uwe Siebert MD, MPH, MSc, Director, Cardiovascular Research Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

ISSUES ON USE OF HEALTH OUTCOMES RESEARCH INFORMATION BY DECISION-MAKERS

IP5: EVALUATION OF DRUG SAFETY: CAN THE USE OF HEALTH ECONOMICS AND OUTCOMES RESEARCH (HEOR) METHODS PRODUCE BETTER DECISIONS?
Moderator: John Hutton, BSc, BPhil, Senior Research Leader, United BioSource Corporation, London, UK
Panelists: Francis Pang BSc, MSc, PhD, Head of Health Economics, Abbott Laboratories Ltd, Maidenhead, Berkshire, UK; Clive Pritchard PhD, Health Economist, Office of Health Economics, London, UK
 
16:45 - 17:00 Break
17:00- 18:00 ISPOR Forums
 
17:00-18:00 ISPOR EUROPEAN MEDICAL DEVICE AND DIAGNOSTICS COUNCIL FORUM - WHEN AND HOW TO ASSESS MEDICAL DEVICE AND DIAGNOSTICS: THE LEARNING CURVE ISSUE
  Moderator:  Rod Taylor MSc, PhD, Senior Reader in Public Health & Epidemiology & Director of MSC HTA Programme, Department of Public Health & Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, UK, Birmingham, United Kingdom
  Speakers: Patrick Galloo MD, CMO, Social Sickness Funds, Brussels, Belgium and Fred Lindemans, Vice-President and General Manager, Bakken Research Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands
 

17.00-18.00

MEDICATION COMPLIANCE & PERSISTENCE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP FORUM
  Everyone is welcome to participate in this Forum. Presentations will focus on the ongoing activities of Work Groups, and reports in preparation. The audience will have opportunity for discussions throughout the Forum. Please attend to learn more about current activites and to how to join this SIG in any capacity. Check the website in advance to familiarize yoiurself with the scope of projects http://www.ispor.org/sigs/medication.asp .
17.00-17.05 Overview of the Medication Compliance Special Interest Group
  Moderator: Joyce Cramer, BS Medication Compliance & Persistence SIG Chair, & Associate Research Scientist, Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, West Haven, CT, USA

17.05-17.10

Standardizing Medication Compliance and Treatment Persistence Definitions
  Speaker: Anita Burrell MS Definitions Working Group Co-Chair, & Global Health Outcomes & Market Access Senior Director, Sanofi-Aventis, Bridgewater, NJ, USA

17.10-17.15

Standards for Analyses Of Medication Compliance And Treatment Persistence
  Speaker: Michael B. Nichol PhD, Analyses Standards Working Group Chair & Department of Pharmaceutical Economics & Policy Chair, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

17.15-17.20

Educating Providers and Users Of Health Outcomes Data On Medication Compliance
  Speaker: Joyce Cramer, SIG Chair [for Andrea Adamus, PhD, Hieu Tran PhD, Jasmanda Wu, PhD, MPH

17.20-17.25

Standardizing Methods for Cost Analyses Related To Medication Compliance and Treatment Persistence
  Speaker: Dyfrig Hughes PhD, Economics of Compliance Working Group Chair & Senior Research Fellow, University of Wales, Bangor, UK
17.25-17.55 Breakout Group Discussions
17.55-18.00 Close

17:00-18:00 ISPOR USING ‘REAL WORLD’ DATA IN COVERAGE AND REIMBURSEMENT DECISIONS TASK FORCE FORUM
  Moderators: Task Force Co-Chairs: Peter Neumann ScD, Associate Professor of Policy and Decision Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health , Boston, MA, USA, and Lou Garrison PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle WA, US
Speakers:
Deborah Marshall, PhD, Director, Research & Development Health Economics & Outcomes Research, Innovus Research Inc., ON, CANADA; Dan Mullins PhD, Professor and Chair, Pharmaceutical Health Services, Research University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD, USA; Pennifer Erickson PhD, Co-founder, O.L.G.A., State College, PA, USA

The mission of the ISPOR Using “Real World” Data in Coverage and Reimbursement Decisions Task Force is to develop an analytic framework and action plan to assist health care decision-makers in dealing with “real world” data and information. The Task Force is describing the types of real-world data, defining the issues & hierarchy of methods using real world data, developing an understanding of benefits and challenges of “real world” data, and defining the use of real world data in clinical outcomes studies, economics outcomes studies, and quality of life/patient-reported outcomes studies. The progress of this ISPOR Task Force will be discussed during this Forum.

17:00-18:00 ISPOR RUSSIAN CHAPTER FORUM -THE REIMBURSEMENT SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AND RATIONAL USE OF DRUGS
  Moderator: Pavel Vorobiev MD, Professor, Moscow Medical Academy named after Sechenov, Head of the Research Department on Health Care Standardization Problems, Moscow, Russia
Speakers: Representative of the Federal Service on Surveillance under Health Care and Social Development; ISPOR Representative; Russian Regional Health Care Leader
 

17:00-18:00 ISPOR BUDGET IMPACT TASK FORCE FORUM
  Moderators: Task Force Co-Chairs: Josephine Mauskopf PhD, VP, Health Economics, RTI Health Solutions, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA; Sean Sullivan MS, PhD, RPh, Professor and Director, University of Washington, Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program, Seattle, WA, USA
  Speakers: Lieven Annemans MSc, PhD, Health Economist Ghent University, Senior Consultant Global Health Economics, HEDM and IMS Health, Brussels, Belgium;
J. Jaime Caro MD, Scientific Director, Caro Research, Concord, MA, USA;
C. Daniel Mullins PhD, Professor and Chair, Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD, USA; Mark Nuijten MBA, MD, PhD, Sr. Research Scientist, Dir. of Business Dev., MEDTAP International, Inc., Jisp, The Netherlands; Ewa Orlewska PhD, Lecturer, Pharmacoeconomics Centre Warsaw, Warsaw; Paul Trueman MA, Sales & Marketing Director, York Health Economics Consortium, University of York, York, UK; John Watkins MPH, RPh, Pharmacy Manager, Formulary Development, Premera Blue Cross, Bothell, WA, USA; Andrew Wilson BMedSc, MB SC, FRACP, MSc, Deputy Director and Professor of Public Health, University of Queensland, School of Public Health, Brisbane, Australia
 

17:00-18:00 ISPOR PATIENT REGISTRY SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP FORUM - PATIENT REGISTRIES: OPPORTUNITY AND RESPONSIBILITY
  Key issues presented during this Forum will include the capture of "real world" clinical, economic, and humanistic data for a more accurate characterization of health care interventions (drugs and devices) in actual medical practice as well as patient survey commercialization, safety surveillance, analytical methods, technology, and global initiatives. The results of the ISPOR Patient Registry SIG Survey, an ISPOR member survey to gain a better understanding of the needs of users of patient registry information, will also be presented.

Moderator: Jeffrey Trotter MM, ISPOR Patient Registry SIG Chair & President, Ovation Research Group, Highland Park, IL, USA.
Speaker:
Leanne Larson MHA, Senior Vice President, Patient Registries, Ovation Research Group, Highland Park, IL, USA
 

17:00-18:00 ISPOR HEALTH CARE STRATEGY COUNCIL FORUM – A WORD FROM HEALTH CARE DECISION-MAKERS ON OUTCOMES RESEARCH
  The goal of the ISPOR Health Care Strategy Council (an ISPOR advisory council consisting of health care decision-makers from USA, Canada, UK, and Germany) is to define areas of concern and key issues within these areas with regard to outcomes research and its use by health care decision-makers. During this Forum, key issues in 5 key areas (education, training, communication – pricing & market force – outcomes methods & standards – availability, access & sharing – credibility & bias) will be discussed.
 
17:00-17:05 Overview of the Health Care Strategy Council
  Moderator: Marcus Wilson PharmD, ISPOR Health Care Strategy Council Chair & President, HealthCore Inc., Wilmington, DE, USA
17:05-17:10 Education, Training, & Communication Key Issues & Council Recommendations
  Speakers: Dennis W Raisch PhD, Department of Veterans Affairs, Clinical Research Pharmacy Coordinating Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA; Brian Sweet B.S. Pharm, MBA, WellPoint Pharmacy Management, West Hills, CA, USA
17:10-17:20 Pricing, Market Force, Health Policy, & Applicability Key Issues & Council Recommendations
  Speakers: Laurie Beth Burke RPh, MPH, FDA, CDER, DDMAC, Rockville, MD, USA; Andreas Laupacis MD, MSc, FRCPC, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Canada
17:20-17:30 Methods & Standards Key Issues & Council Recommendations
  Speakers: Eugene Eavy R.Ph., MBA, St. Joseph Mercy Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; James MacKay MD, Providence Health Plan, Beaverton, OR, USA
17:30-17:40 Availability, Access, & Sharing Key Issue & Council Recommendations
  Speaker: Joseph Singer MD, Integrated Research Network, HealthCore, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware, USA
17:40-17:50 Credibility, Integrity, & Bias Key Issues & Council Recommendations
  Speakers: Marcus Wilson PharmD, Health Core, Inc, Wilmington, DE, USA; Michael Drummond PhD, University of York, Centre for Health Economics, Heslington, York, UK
17:50-18:00  Open Discussion
 

17:00-18:00 ISPOR STUDENT FORUM
  OUTCOMES RESEARCH: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
Moderator: Josh Epstein, ISPOR Student Network Chair and PhD Student, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

THE ORIGINS OF OUTCOMES RESEARCH AND ITS PUBLIC HEALTH IMPLICATIONS
Speaker: Abraham Hartzema PharmD, PhD, Professor and Eminent Scholar, Pharmacy Health Care Administration, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA

A GUIDE TO TYPES OF CLINICAL OUTCOME MEASURES
Speaker: Judith Barr, Associate Professor and Director, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

EXTENDING CROSS-SECTIONAL TIME PERIODS FOR UTILIZATION ANALYSES
Speaker: Michael Nichol PhD, Associate Professor & Chair, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA
 
18:00 - 20:00 Exhibitors' Wine & Cheese Reception & Poster Presentations - Session II
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