Welcome to YHEC's February Newsletter

Read on to find out about all the latest news, conferences, courses and publications at YHEC.

A New YHEC Course for ISPOR'S Education Center

A?YHEC-developed course is currently being rolled out as part of ISPOR's?newly launched?Education Center.

The course includes top level understanding of the main alternative types of reviews: scoping, rapid, overview and living reviews.

Presentation Accepted for EHRA 2024

YHEC's Daniela Afonso, Tom Bromilow, Stuart Mealing and Joe Moss?have had an?abstract presentation accepted for EHRA 2024:

?"An economic evaluation of first-line cryoballoon ablation versus antiarrhythmic drug therapy for the treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation from a Danish healthcare perspective".

Supporting Learning at the University of York

One of the things that makes?YHEC?unique is our close relationship with Health Economics students at the University of York.

As well as?extending our commitment to teaching on the distance learning degrees in health economics, we have been speaking with this year's MSc Health Economics students about opportunities for placements and what it's like to work at?YHEC.

Find out more about the programmes: https://www.york.ac.uk/economics/study/

Celebrating Graduations

Graduation congratulations to YHEC's?Joe Goldbacher, Barbara Uzdzinska, and Ben Hyde who graduated this month.

Barbara and Joe both graduated with a Masters in Health Economics and Ben graduated with a Masters in Social Research.?

Our Latest Publications

YHEC's work in Journal of Health Economics and Outcomes Research

Sam Harper and?Stuart Mealing?have authored a paper, “Budget Impact of RefluxStop? as a Treatment for Patients with Refractory Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease in the United Kingdom”.

YHEC's work in PharmacoEconomics - Open?

Joe Moss, Stuart Mealing,?Tom Bromilow and Damian Lewis are YHEC authors on a recent paper, “An Economic Evaluation of a Streamlined Day-Case Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Protocol and Conventional Cryoballoon Ablation versus Antiarrhythmic Drugs in a UK Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation Population”.

YHEC's work in Open Heart

YHEC's Joe Moss, Stuart Mealing, Tom Bromilow and Damian Lewis are YHEC authors on a new publication, “Economic evaluation of first-line cryoballoon ablation versus antiarrhythmic drug therapy for the treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation from an English National Health Service perspective ”.

YHEC's work in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Erin Barker and Karin Butler are YHEC authors on a new publication, “Predictors of left ventricular ejection fraction in high-risk percutaneous coronary interventions”.

Click here to see more of our published work.

Upcoming Webinars & Training Courses

Alternatives to Systematic Reviews. What They Are and How Do They Compare.

This two-hour course will enable participants to understand how scoping reviews, rapid reviews, overviews of how reviews and living reviews can be used and when they would be appropriate.

Wednesday 06 March

Book here

Environmental Sustainability in Health Technology Assessment

This new webinar provides an overview of current methods to quantify the environmental impact of healthcare interventions, and discusses various approaches towards incorporating environmental sustainability into HTA decisions.

Thursday 14? March

Book here

Careers at YHEC

Keep an eye on our website to find out about any new vacancies.?

In addition to advertised jobs, we are always happy to receive enquiries from?from modellers, information specialists or systematic reviewers with at least two years’ experience.

To find out more about working at YHEC, click here.

Phone: +44 (0)1904 323620 ? Email: [email protected]

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