Professor Ben van Hout
School of Medicine and Population Health
Emeritus Professor of Health Economics
+44 114 222 0827
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School of Medicine and Population Health
Regent Court (ScHARR)
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I joined ScHARR in November 2009 as Professor of Health Economics.
I have extensive experience in modelling and have contributed to the methodology of economic evaluation in various areas. In 1993 I was one of the earliest researchers to apply discrete event models and was the first to apply a non-parametric method to estimate costs in the presence of censoring. In 1994 I was the first to apply Fieller's approach to calculate confidence intervals around cost-effectiveness ratios, and I introduced the acceptability curve, which is now a well-known concept in cost-effectiveness analysis. In 1996 I was one of the first to apply probabilistic sensitivity analysis. In 2000 I was one of the initial people to explore Bayesian techniques in economic evaluation. I have had work published on discounting and estimating utility functions.
I am one of the founding members of the EuroQol group and I currently enjoy chairing the valuation task force within the EQ-5D group. My experience covers several therapeutic areas, including renal disease, cancer, osteoporosis, sepsis, schizophrenia, blood safety and most notably cardiovascular disease. My main interest concerns the use of elegant techniques, mostly to solve practical problems, but sometimes also because of the elegance itself.
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- A Bayesian approach to economic analyses of clinical trials: the case of stenting versus balloon angioplasty.. Health Econ, 9(7), 599-609.
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