R for trial and model-based cost-effectiveness analysis
We are excited to announce the R for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) workshop that will be held on Friday 28th June, Monday 1st July, and Tuesday 2nd July 2024.
Friday 28th will be an in-person day-long, hybrid event hosted by at ScHARR, University of Sheffield, while the other days will be online only. Our program will be announced in May. The overall goal is to present interesting and enlightening presentations on the use of R that will engage an audience of those working in the field of health technology assessment and related analysis. Sessions may cover some or all of the following:
- New methods and applications for economic modelling using R
- Efficient modelling for economic evaluation using dedicated R packages
- Improving modelling for HTA using R – Lessons from industry and academia
- Teaching economic evaluation and HTA using R
Registration for the workshop can be made at this webpage. Please note that we can only accept payments via card.
The registration fee is structured as follows
| Attendance type | Standard price | LMIC and students discount* |
|---|---|---|
| Online only (28 June, 1 and 2 July 2024) | £50 | £10 |
| In person (28 June) and online (1 and 2 June 2024) | £90 | £65 |
NB: LMIC relates to country of residence/occupation and not origin. When registering, you will be asked to give details of your student status or country of occupation.
Registration for the workshop is now open through the UCL Online Store
We look forward to seeing you there!
Full programme
Day 1. Friday 28th June (In person)
| Session | Name | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00-10:10 | Robert Smith | Dark Peak Analytics/University of Sheffield | Welcome |
| 10:10-10:30 | Dawn Lee + Darren Burns | PenTAG, University of Exeter | Learnings from the design of a pathway model in R |
| 10:30-10:50 | Alfredo Mariani | NICE | The advantages and challenges of using R and Shiny to develop diagnostic pathway models for NICE clinical guidelines |
| 10:50-11:10 | Stuart Wright | University of Manchester | Improving the speed of a discrete event simulation model in breast cancer screening: The experience of an intermediate level R user |
| 11:10-11:40 | Break | ||
| 11:40-12:00 | Shubhram Pandey | Heorlytics | A digital solution to streamline the meta-analysis of Kaplan-Meier curves from published studies |
| 12:00-12:20 | Victoria Zaitceva | HIVE Health Optimum | Analysing the Interval from Marketing Authorization to HTA Outcomes in High-Income Countries Using the Shiny Dashboard |
| 12:20-12:40 | Paul Schneider | Dark Peak Analytics | Building Shiny Apps for Health Economic Models: A Practical Guide |
| 12:40-13:00 | Andrew Pijper + Jamie Kettle | LCP Health Analytics | Methods for estimating Healthy Life Expectancy |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00-14:20 | Lewis Michaelwaite | Maple Health Group | The design and development of the easyBIM R package |
| 14:20-14:40 | Michael O’Donnell | University of Bristol | REEEVR - Automated Conversion of Excel to R |
| 14:40-15:00 | Robert Smith + Tom Ward | Dark Peak Analytics/University of Sheffield | assertHE: an R package to improve quality assurance of health economic models |
| 15:00-15:20 | Felicity Lamrock | Queen’s University Belfast | Closing remarks |
Day 2. Monday 1st July (Remote)
| Session | Name | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00-9:10 | Felicity Lamrock | Queen’s University Belfast | Welcome |
| 9:10-9:40 | Sven Klijn | Bristol Myers Squibb | Modeling the Future: Pioneering the First Dossier Submission with R |
| 9:40-10:10 | Jean-Etienne Poirrier | Parexel | Using R for Health Economics Modelling in Consulting: R (are) We There Yet? |
| 10:10-10:30 | Junwen Zhou | University of Oxford | Estimating Costs Associated with Disease Model States Using Generalized Linear Models in R |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break | ||
| 10:45-11:05 | |||
| 11:05-11:25 | |||
| 11:25-11:45 | Zachary Waller | Queen’s University Belfast | Spending time to save time: strategies for making your code run faster |
| 11:45-12:05 | Hawre Jalal | University of Ottawa | Introducing Grammar of Modeling R package (gmod) and the Decision Twigs graphical user interface for building HTA models |
| 12:05-12:50 | Lunch | ||
| 12:50-13:10 | Jasper Zhongyuan Zhang | The Hospital for Sick Children | Agent-based modeling for Health Decision Making in R |
| 13:10-14:00 | Panel | Panel: Building capacity in the use of R for HTA | |
| 14:00-14:15 | Howard Thom | University of Bristol | Closing remarks |
Day 3. Tuesday 2nd July (Remote)
| Session | Name | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13:00-13:10 | Nathan Green | University College London | Welcome |
| 13:10-13:30 | Anna Grootendorst | NHTA, CSL Seqirus | Application of RShiny as a Strategic Tool for Evidence-Based Payer Engagement in Nordic Influenza Vaccine Tenders |
| 13:30-13:50 | Annachiara Rossi | Novo Nordisk | A User-Friendly R-Shiny Application for Indirect Treatment Comparisons in Health Technology Assessment |
| 13:50-14:10 | Andrew Clark | Delta Hat | Cross-referencing and aggregating multiple independent sources to estimate subgroup-level values: The EQ-5D utility of emicizumab in severe haemophilia A |
| 14:10-14:25 | Break | ||
| 14:25-14:45 | Niccolò Morgante | NHTA | Early modelling of ileostomy management systems: showcasing value in RShiny |
| 14:45-15:05 | Jack Ettinger | Parexel | Assessing the Cost-effectiveness of Warmth on Prescription Schemes for COPD Patients: A Markov Model Analysis Using R |
| 15:05-15:25 | William Hall | University of British Columbia | Development and Application of Economic Learning Health Systems: A Forecasting and Simulation Based Analysis of Home Health for Seniors |
| 15:25-15:40 | Break | ||
| 15:40-16:00 | Dominic Muston | MSD | An R package to inform structural assumptions for three state oncology cost-effectiveness models and examine the impact of adjusting for background mortality (psm3mkv) |
| 16:00-16:50 | Panel | Panel: Generative AI for HEOR: Potential, Challenges, and Future Directions | |
| 16:50-17:00 | Robert Smith | Dark Peak Analytics/University of Sheffield | Closing remarks |
