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Health economic and Pharmaco-economic National services for 13 Multi-site National Cancer Collaborative Clinical Trials groups

Project Member(s): Viney, R., Cronin, P., Haas, M., Hall, J., Van Gool, K., Goodall, S., De Abreu Lourenco, R., Kenny, P.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Cancer Australia (Cancer Australia Grant Funding)

Start year: 2013

Summary: To develop resources to assist the Cancer Collaborative Clinical Trials Groups in the incorporation of health and pharmaco-economic analyses into trial protocols, as well as to build capacity for health economics.

Publications:

Kasparian, NA, De Abreu Lourenco, R, Winlaw, DS, Sholler, GF, Viney, R & Kirk, EPE 2018, 'Tell me once, tell me soon: parents’ preferences for clinical genetics services for congenital heart disease', Genetics in Medicine, vol. 20, no. 11, pp. 1387-1395.
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De Abreu Lourenco, R 1970, 'A role for health economics in the changing face of radiotherapy', TROG ASM, Hobart.

De Abreu Lourenco, R 1970, 'Drug funding and consumers, Improving Participation and Advocacy for Clinical Trials', Breast Cancer Trials Group, Melbourne.

De Abreu Lourenco, R 1970, 'Health care, costs and quality of life: Trials informing reimbursement decision-making', Breast Cancer Trials 40th Annual Scientific Meeting, Sydney.

De Abreu Lourenco, R 1970, 'Health Economics, Drug funding and consumers', Cancer Trials Consumer Network (CTCN), COSA, Sydney.

De Abreu Lourenco, R 1970, 'Is it too early to think about health economics?', PoCoG Fear of Cancer Recurrence Concept Development Workshop, Sydney.

De Abreu Lourenco, R 1970, 'Should you be thinking about costs and outcomes?', ANZUP Renal Cell Carcinoma Concept Development Workshop, Sydney.

Trevena, L, Mulhern, B, Viney, R & De Abreu Lourenco, R 1970, 'That’s what I want to avoid: Do clinical recommendations on risk reduction mirror what the community wants to avoid?', PC4 Scientific Symposium, Sydney.

van Breeschoten, J, De Abreu Lourenco, R, Signorelli, C, Haas, M, Cohn, RJ, Wakefield, CE & Fardell, JE 2017, 'Patterns and drivers of health care use in long-term childhood cancer survivors: A systematic review', Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology, vol. 120, pp. 60-76.
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Wakefield, CE, Fardell, JE, Doolan, EL, Drew, D, De Abreu Lourenco, R, Young, AL & Cohn, RJ 2017, 'Grandparents of children with cancer: Quality of life, medication and hospitalizations', Pediatric Blood & Cancer, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 163-171.
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Lourenco, RDA 1970, 'Assessing the Cost-Effectiveness of Immunotherapy: Do Modern Drugs Need Modern Methods?', ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA) Annual Scientific Meeting, WILEY, Perth, pp. 67-67.

De Abreu Lourenco, R 1970, 'Using health economics in radiotherapy research (Invited during plenary session)', TROG Annual Scientific Meeting.

Haas, M & De Abreu Lourenco, R 1970, 'The development and implementation of Health Economics in the SAFRON II trial protocol – an interactive workshop', TROG Annual Scientific Meeting.

Haas, MR 1970, 'Health Economics 101 (Invited during plenary session)', TROG Annual Scientific Meeting.

Haas, MR 1970, 'Health economics analysis using secondary data', TROG Annual Scientific Meeting.

Keywords: clinical trials, health economics, pharmacoeconomics

FOR Codes: Health Economics, Health Policy Evaluation, Health Policy Economic Outcomes, Health economics , Evaluation of health and support services not elsewhere classified