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🧠 Learn how to conduct Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) and uncover the "why" behind choices in health and care🤔 Our course: 📚 Focused on health, with 20+ years of experience. 📊 Real-world applications + hands-on learning. 👩‍🔬 Chat with researchers throughout the course.

The most interesting finding: Although hospital-based monitoring is generally preferred, patients with prior experience in community services actually prefer community based monitoring, suggesting that experience and familiarity play roles here

Our recent article with colleagues from @HERU_Abdn investigates patients’ preferences for alternative ways of ocular hypertension monitoring using a choice experiment doi.org/10.1136/bmjoph…

This paper is part of the delivery for the NIHR-funded project GRIP led by Augusto Azuara-Blanco. Project info: fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR1318…

We simulated individual patients from a rick dataset containing 5000+ patients from electronic medical records using a novel discrete event simulation model. The results suggest that risk prediction strategy had a 96% probability of being cost effective

Check our recent paper with colleagues in @HERU_Abdn and other institutions assessed the cost-effectiveness of making treatment decisions for ocular hypertension patients based on a risk prediction tool in the UK bmjophth.bmj.com/content/9/1/e0…

@dwayne_boyers presenting the findings from his DCE! Great to see the public have a strong preference for choosing fluoridated toothpastes to avoid decay! @HERU_Abdn @BSODR_UK #BSODR2024

Fantastic research from @dwayne_boyers @aberdeenuni @HERU_Abdn presented @BSODR_UK #bsodr2024 Such a breadth of health economics in oral health research showcased over the past few days, which has been so good to see! 🙌

🚀#IP5MATTER multicentre trial results (n=303) in @EurUrolOncol @EUplatinum Patients willing to accept additional cytoreductive treatments with 10%-point increases in urinary incontinence & fatigue to gain 3.4 mo & 2.7 mo overall survival 🔗 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S25…

The Summer 2024 HERU @HERU_Abdn newsletter has been issued - we have news on staffing and Unit funding, new research projects, and forthcoming courses - bit.ly/3WBD1ir

🎉 A huge thank you to all the #IP5MATTER multicentre Trial Investigators across the UK for their hard work in recruiting over 300 patients from with newly-diagnosed metastatic prostate cancer (NCT04590976) published today in @EurUrolOncol @EUplatinum 🔗 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S25…

💬 #IP5MATTER trial reports patients with advanced (metastatic) are willing to accept additional cytoreductive radiotherapy, surgery, ablation & SABR for survival benefits - in particular those that preserve urinary function and reduced fatigue @EUplatinum @EurUrolOncol

Paying people with obesity to lose weight seems to have short-term benefits, but whether the approach is sustainable or cost-effective remains to be seen. newscientist.com/article/243709…

Are outdoor ‘green spaces’ at hospital or GP sites invaluable to our health and wellbeing? Researchers from the University of Aberdeen have been awarded funding to find out. Read more about the project - abdn.ac.uk/news/23274/ @SEFARIscot

“Scotland’s rural & island communities are diverse so we have designed this research in a way that will allow us to explore healthcare inequalities in these different communities.” @aberdeenuni @NHSResearchScot @neilcgray @MareeToddMSP @RuralGPScot @ahdrc healthandcare.scot/stories/3855/r…

This World Wellbeing Week, we celebrate a new fellowship awarded to @HERU_abdn to calculate the economic value of NHS outdoor spaces in terms of the health & wellbeing benefits to its users, including NHS staff. Read more here: abdn.ac.uk/news/23274/

Only a few spaces left on our @HERU_Abdn course on 'Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Health Economics'. Register until 13 Sept. The course covers the theoretical & practical issues of DCEs and is held in Aberdeen from 24-26 Sept 2024 bit.ly/3SjfKgt @healtheconomics