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Research on the costs of cancer to be presented at an international conference in India

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Oct

8

2015

Cancer deaths in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (the largest emerging economies in the world) result in over $51 billion (USD) in lost productivity each year. These results are being presented at an international conference in India today. Researchers at the National Cancer Registry Ireland (NCRI) have estimated that lost productivity due to ...

The cost to society for time off work after head and neck cancer

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Feb

24

2015

When people take time off work because of cancer, society loses their contribution to the economy. Our new study looks at different ways of valuing this contribution. Most people with cancer take some time off work for treatment, recuperation and rehabilitation. As well as impacting on a person’s sense of identity and quality of life, ...

Selecting a wage growth rate for economic evaluations in an uncertain economy

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Mar

5

2014

When doing economic evaluation you often need to forecast into the future. And when projecting about earnings, you need to account for changes in the economy (for example, inflation). I am currently working on a study examining productivity losses associated with cancer in Ireland, and need to account for wage growth in the future. But ...

ISPOR 2013 Posters

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Nov

2

2013

I am attending the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) conference in Dublin on the 2nd to the 6th of November. As part of this I am presenting two posters related to my PhD. 1. Can administrative data predict chemotherapy adverse events? 2. Australian standard costs and consequences of four chemotherapy adverse events. ...

Resources for Emerging Researchers

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Feb

10

2013

This blog post was originally written for and published by the Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand (HSRAANZ) Emerging Researcher Group (ERGO) section of the December 2012 Newsletter. It has been, and will continue to be, updated as I find out about new resources. The number of resources for PhD students ...

My experience of working with data that isn’t ‘mine’

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Feb

10

2013

This blog post was originally written for and published by the Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand (HSRAANZ) Emerging Researcher Group (ERGO) section of the August 2012 Newsletter. During my PhD I was lucky enough to be offered access to a large dataset for analysis. This was a fantastic opportunity, which ...