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August 2006
ISPOR e-BULLETIN provides updates of recent ISPOR activities and events. For detailed
information on ISPOR activities, members are encouraged to go to
www.ispor.org.
Please share these new ISPOR activities with your colleagues.
NEW THIS MONTH
**NEW**
Value in Health Short Notes
**NEW**
Value in Health Vol. 9 No.4 (July/August 2006)
**NEW**
ISPOR 9th European Congress-UPDATES
**NEW**
ISPOR Special Interest Group (SIG) UPDATES
**NEW**
38 New Positions at the ISPOR Website
IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER
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26 September 2006 -
Early registration deadline ISPOR 9th Annual European Congress, 28-31, 2006, Radisson SAS Falconer Hotel & Conference Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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28-31 October 2006 - ISPOR 9th Annual European Congress, Radisson SAS Falconer Hotel & Conference Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
ISPOR ONGOING ACTIVITIES
1.
Publications
2.
Meetings and Congresses
3.
Educational Activities
4.
Student News
5.
ISPOR Special Interest Groups
6.
Committee and Task Force Activities
7.
Asia Consortium and Local Chapter News
8.
Employment in Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
9.
Membership
1.
PUBLICATIONS
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VALUE IN HEALTH
**NEW**
Value in Health Volume 9, Issue 4, July/August 2006
TABLE OF CONTENTS at:
http://www.ispor.org/valueinhealth_index.asp
POLICY AND APPLICATION
Are Australians Able to Access New Medicines on the
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme in a More or Less Timely Manner? An Analysis of Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee Recommendations, 1999-2003
Michael J. Wonder, A. Munro Neville, Richard Parsons
Trends in the Measurement of Health Utilities in Published Cost-Utility
Analyses
Carmen A. Brauer, Allison B.
Rosen, Dan Greenberg, Peter J. Neumann
EMPIRICAL
An Economic Evaluation of Two Ototopical Treatments for
Acute Otitis Media in Tympanostomy Tube Patients
Peter S. Roland, Curtis R. Waycaster, G. Michael Wall,
Jeffrey D. Glass
Estimating the Cost-Effectiveness of Fluticasone Propionate
for Treating Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in the Presence of Missing
Data
Andrew H. Briggs, Greta Lozano-Ortega, Sally Spencer,
Geraldine Bale, Michael D. Spencer, P. Sherwood Burge
Managing Meningococcal Disease in the United States: Hospital Case Characteristics and Costs by Age
Judith A. O'Brien, J. Jaime Caro, Denis Getsios
METHODOLOGY
Probabilistic Analysis and Computationally Expensive Models:
Necessary and Required?
Susan Griffin, Karl Claxton, Neil Hawkins, Mark Sculpher
Indirect Costs and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Richard Ernst
Comparing the EQ-5D and the SF-6D Descriptive Systems to
Assess Their Ceiling Effects in the US General Population
Murtuza Bharmal, Joseph Thomas
SHORT NOTES
Fraction
of Nursing Home Admissions Attributable to Urinary Incontinence
Alan Morrison, Richard Levy
CORRESPONDENCE
Applying the Grid Computation in Long-Term Retrospective
Health Insurance Data Analysis
Is Rosuvastatin Really a More Efficient Therapeutic Option
than Atorvastatin?
Formulary Decision-Making Should Rely on the Best Available
Evidence
VALUE IN HEALTH "ON-LINE EARLY" MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscripts for Volume 9, Issue 5 are now posted. To view
these "On-Line Early" manuscripts, simply go to
http://www.ispor.org/valueinhealth_index.asp,
log on using your membership information, and follow the link.
**NEW**
VALUE
IN HEALTH
SHORT NOTES
Value in Health accepts short notes as well as full length
research papers. A short note should include original results. Examples of
short notes include papers estimating the cost of illness in a single country
or site of care using standard methods; extensions of previously published
studies that include new results, and reliability and validity studies for
translations of patient reported outcome measures. For submission details, go
to:
http://www.ispor.org/publications/value/short_notes.asp
2.
ISPOR MEETINGS AND CONGRESSES
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ISPOR 9th ANNUAL EUROPEAN CONGRESS
Radisson SAS Falconer Hotel & Conference Center
Copenhagen, Denmark 28-31 October 2006
**UPDATES**
FIRST PLENARY SESSION
Sunday,
29 October 2006, 13:30-15:00
HEALTH
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT (HTA) AS A BASIS FOR REIMBURSEMENT AND PRIORITIES IN
HEALTH CARE
European
and Industry Perspective Speaker: Richard Bergström MScPharm, Managing Director, Swedish
Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry, Stockholm, Sweden
Government
and Nordic Perspective Speaker: Audun Hagaa MSc, Deputy Director General, Ministry
of Health, Oslo, Norway
For more
information go to:
http://www.ispor.org/congresses/denmark1006/102906.asp
SECOND PLENARY SESSION
Monday,
30 October 2006, 9:00-10:30
EVIDENCE
BASED MEDICINE (EBM): TIME FOR ASKING CRITICAL QUESTIONS
EBM -
Time for Asking Critical Questions?
Speaker: Ivar Sonbo Kristiansen MD, PhD, MPH, University of Oslo, Institute of Health Management and Health Economics, Oslo, Norway
EBM -
Emerging Reality and Assorted Myths
Speaker: Paul Glasziou MD, Professor, Department of Primary
Health Care Old Road Campus, University of Oxford, , Oxford, UK
For more
information go to:
http://www.ispor.org/congresses/denmark1006/103006.asp
THIRD PLENARY SESSION
Tuesday,
31 October 2006, 9:00-10:30
SOCIETAL
VALUE OF A QALY
Looking
for Willingness to Pay (WTP) Threshold for a QALY-- Does it make sense? -- A
Critical View
Speaker: Dorte Gyrd-Hansen PhD, Professor, University of Southern Denmark, Institute of Public Health, Odense, Denmark
Looking
for Willingness to Pay (WTP) Threshold for a QALY -- Does it make sense? -- A
Practical View
Speaker: Martin Buxton BA Soc Sci, Professor, Brunel University Health
Economics Research Group, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UK
For more
information go to :
http://www.ispor.org/congresses/denmark1006/103106.asp
EXHIBIT OPPORTUNITIES
Register
now for Exhibit space:
https://www.ispor.org/Exhibit_Sponsor/ExhibitorOpportunities.aspx?event=3
SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Register
for sponsorship promotional opportunities:
https://www.ispor.org/Exhibit_Sponsor/SponsorshipOpportunities.aspx?event=3
For more 9th Annual European Congress program info, go
to:
http://www.ispor.org/congresses/denmark1006/index.asp
3. EDUCATION
ACTIVITIES
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ISPOR Short
Courses Prior to the ISPOR 9TH Annual European Congress - October
2006
Sixteen short courses including 5
NEW courses will be given this year, with 9 courses on Saturday, 28
October, 2006, and 7 courses on Sunday,
29 October, 2006.
SATURDAY, 28 OCTOBER, 2006
**NEW**
Application of Item Response Theory in Patient Outcomes Measurement
**NEW**
Case Studies in Pharmaceutical/Biotech Pricing II - Advanced
**NEW**
Instrument Development and Evaluation for Patient-Reported Outcomes Assessment
For full descriptions of ALL Saturday short courses,
please visit:
http://www.ispor.org/congresses/denmark1006/sc102806.asp
SUNDAY, 29 OCTOBER, 2006
**NEW**
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis alongside Clinical Trials
**NEW**
Pharmacoeconomic Modeling - Advanced
For full descriptions of ALL Sunday short courses, please visit:
http://www.ispor.org/congresses/denmark1006/sc102906.asp
4. STUDENT NEWS
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For
more details on the ISPOR Student Network, please visit:
http://www.ispor.org/student/student_index.asp
5.
ISPOR SPECIAL
INTEREST GROUPS (SIG)
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SPECIAL
INTEREST GROUPS are
very important to ISPOR to achieve its mission. Their goals are to: develop
consensus; stimulate debate; advance knowledge/understanding; publish good
research practices; develop indices & tools for researchers and
decision-makers; compile health care information for public; respond to health
care public policy.
HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN EVIDENCE-BASED REIMBURSEMENT SIG
TRANSLATING RESEARCH TO PRACTICE SIG
PATIENT REGISTRY SIG
MEDICATION COMPLIANCE & PERSISTENCE SIG
RETROSPECTIVE DATABASE SIG
CO-CHAIRS:
Michael Johnson PhD, Associate Professor, University of Houston,
College of Pharmacy; Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, & Assistant
Professor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX, USA
William
D. Marder PhD,
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Medstat, Cambridge, MA, USA
Mission:
To provide
an international forum for ISPOR membership to identify and address
comprehensive issues in the development and use of retrospective clinical,
survey and administrative databases for pharmacoeconomic outcomes research.
Future
Plans for Retrospective Database SIG:
A
regrouping of this SIG group is now taking place. Members of the Retrospective
Database SIG group will be receiving an email with specific information on each
group. All members will be asked to respond indicating if they are interested
in being an active member of the SIG and which working group they are
interested in and the level – leadership or review group.
We would
like to encourage any ISPOR member that is not a part of this SIG group, but
would like to join, to please sign up at:
http://www.ispor.org/sigs/sigsindex.asp
**NEW**
Patient-Reported
Outcomes (PRO) SIG
ePRO Working Group (WG) Activated
The ISPOR PRO
SIG ePRO WG is ready to start its activities. The goal of the ePRO WG is to
identify relevant issues and develop ePRO good research practices.
If you are interested in participating on this Working Group,
you can join either the Leadership Group (a small group of SIG members
who develop the SIG initiatives and goals) Or Reviewer Group (larger
group of SIG members who respond to / comment on 'work products' produced by
the Leadership Working Group)
Click Here to Apply:
(http://www.ispor.org/MembershipAdmin/joingroup.aspx?id=30&guid=08354ED9-942A-4044-860B-D57E7B50464B)
For
information on the ePRO WG background, goals and tasks, visit
http://www.ispor.org/sigs/PRO_e.asp
RISK
MANAGEMENT SIG
Following
the ISPOR 11th Annual International Meeting, the Risk Management SIG put out a
detailed plan of action for their activities for the upcoming year. They will
continue to focus on publishing their White Papers on Pharmaceutical Perspectives
on Risk and plan to launch a nation-wide public survey on attitudes regarding
risk.
For more
information on the Risk Management SIG, visit
http://www.ispor.org/sigs/rm.asp.
6. ISPOR BOARD, COMMITTEE, AND TASK FORCE ACTIVITIES
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TASK FORCE ACTIVITIES
BUDGET IMPACT ANALYSIS TASK FORCE
For more on
this Task Force, please visit
http://www.ispor.org/workpaper/budget_impact.asp.
7.
LOCAL CHAPTER, ADVISORY COUNCIL, AND ASIA CONSORTIUM NEWS
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LOCAL
CHAPTER
ISPOR India Chapter was formed in May 2006.
For more
details on ISPOR Local Chapters, go to:
http://www.ispor.org/local_chapters/index.asp
ADVISORY
COUNCIL
ISPOR Asia-Pacific Medical Device & Diagnostics Council was formed in March 2006.
For more
details on ISPOR Advisory Councils, please visit:
www.ispor.org
ASIA CONSORTIUM
For more
details on this consortium, please visit:
http://www.ispor.org/consortiums/asia.asp
8.
EMPLOYMENT
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38 POSITIONS LISTED AT THE ISPOR WEBSITE:
http://www.ispor.org/employment/Index.aspx
Advertise
your positions on ISPOR Website (~1 million hits per month)
INTERNSHIPS
Visit
ISPOR's Internship-Professional Recruitment Assistance Program (I-PRAP)
at
http://www.ispor.org/iprap/index.asp
STUDENTS: Post your CVs/resumes for employers to view and search for
internship positions available. Nine student resumes posted!
EMPLOYERS: Post
your Intern positions for FREE and access CVs/resumes from students. If
you have any questions, please contact:
iprap@ispor.org. For more information, visit
our website at:
http://www.ispor.org/iprap/index.asp
9.
ISPOR MEMBERSHIP
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Update your contact information and email address at:
https://www.ispor.org/members/addresschange.asp! Your email
address is required as part of your log-in information in the members only
section of the ISPOR website.
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