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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

New paper: "Measuring & Valuing Health Using EuroQol Instruments: New Developments 2025 and Beyond" ▶️open access: tinyurl.com/EuroQol2025u... @fengtastic.bsky.social @beaunebeaune.bsky.social @ellystolk.bsky.social #HealthEconomics #PROMS #HRQOL #EQ-5D #EQ-5D-Y #EQ-HWB-9 #EQ-TIPS #Bolt-ons

Highlight points from a new paper summarising established and new tools for measuring and valuing health related quality of life, developed by a not for profit organisation called the EuroQol Research Foundation.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Will Trump's plan to use 'Reference Pricing' cut US drug prices? This #ValueinHealth paper by Grueger, Martin & Sullivan argues reference pricing is ill-advised & will lead to unintended consequences. open access 👉 tinyurl.com/reference-pr... #Trump #HealthEconomics

Image is copyright to Jane Doe/ Shutterstock. Shows a cartoon image of Donald Trump with a signed Executive Order

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

New impact factor for Value in Health. We're chuffed! #healtheconomics

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Tomorrow at #ISPOR2025: in this 75-min 'spotlight' session we will give in-depth consideration of whether Cost Benefit Analysis could play a bigger role in HTA. If you are here in Montreal, I hope to see you there! #HealthEconomics

A powerpoint slide from Prof. Devlin linking the case for CBA to the need for cross-sectoral economic evaluation

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

#ISPORAnnual Virginia Acha notes that tough pricing regulation in the US will reduce incentives for investment in innovation - and this is a double whammy if coupled with reduced US funding of basic science. #referencepricing #HealthEconomics

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

At ISPOR 2025 Darius Lakdawalla: some form of price intervention is now inevitable in the US, hopefully based on value, and done in a ‘US specific way’. Time for the US to adopt its own HTA.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

At today’s ISPOR conference: Sean Sullivan arguing US reference pricing is ‘lazy and misguided’ - but has bipartisan support.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

[1/2] "24 yrs After the Launch of the EU Orphan Regulation: Analyzing Dutch Price Dynamics, Biosimilars & Generics for Orphan Medicinal Products"by Sibren van den Berg & colleagues in the May issue of Value in Health @amsterdamumc.bsky.social 👉 tinyurl.com/EUOrphanMeds #HealthEconomics

abstract of a new paper just published in Value in Health, May 2025, Twenty-Four Years After the Launch of the EU Orphan Regulation: Analyzing Dutch Price Dynamics, Biosimilars, and Generics for Orphan Medicinal Products

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

"The Price Effects of Biosimilars In the US" by Mireia Jofre-Bonet et al. concludes the US biosimilars market has become highly competitive; driving price reductions between 2015-2023 with substantial savings for Medicare ➡️ tinyurl.com/PriceEffects... @ohenews.bsky.social #HealthEconomics

abstract of a new paper in Value in Health, May 2025, by Mireia Jofre-Bonet and colleagues about the effect of biosimilars on prices in the US

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Are women under-represented in publishing in #HealthEconomics? We did an analysis of submissions and acceptances to Value in Health. Results are quite encouraging - but still scope for improvement. open access paper here: tinyurl.com/WomenAuthors...

highlight points from a paper published in Value in Health, looking at how well women are represented in authorship of papers submitted and accepted by the journal.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

What is 'Whole Health' and what does it mean for approaches to economic evaluation? The new issue of Value in Health has articles on this from US CDC, WHO & ISPOR, and this little editorial from me & fellow editors Daniel Mullins & Pieter van Baal: 👉 tinyurl.com/WhatDoesWhol... #HealthEconomics

screenshot of an editorial in the May 2025 issue of Value in Health. The paper discussed what the term 'Whole Health' means and discuses some of the implications for how we evaluate costs and benefits.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I love it when someone really interesting is interviewed on the news sitting in front of their bookcase. @maryrziegler.bsky.social's new book, 'Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction' now added to my reading list. @cnn.com

Photo of author and researcher Mary Ziegler being interviewed on CNN about her new book, 'Personhood: the new civil war over reproduction'.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Since it’s the weekend- what are you all reading? Here are my favourite books from the last six months. ‘Atlas of AI’, ‘Character Limit’ & ‘Careless People’ all strongly recommended to understand the tech world. And some excellent fiction for temporary respite from it! #booksky @rcshuker.bsky.social

A picture taken by Nancy Devlin of the books she has most enjoyed reading in the last 6 months. Careless People; Nothing to see here; The Royal Free; Butter, All Fours; and Character Limit.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Having lived in the UK for several decades, I am still not adjusted to the topsy-turvy seasons back in NZ. It's Autumn and it's cold - but it's Easter holidays - so we hid the kids' easter eggs in the piles of fallen leaves & thinking about carving a pumpkin...with... a rabbit face?!

Picture of an Easter egg hidden in a pile of autumn leaves in New Zealand. Whereas Easter coincides with spring in the northern hemisphere, in the southern hemisphere it occurs in Autumn, when there are falling leaves and pumpkins and bonfires.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

"Using Outcome Information During Consultation Yields Better Shared Decision Making, Better Patient Experiences, and More Positive Expectations" - paper on the use of PROs data in clinical settings, in April 2025 issue of Value in Health by Loos et al. ➡️ tinyurl.com/9fb6m4k7 #HealthEconomics #PROMs

Figure from a paper published in Value in Health. The Figure shows how patient reported outcomes data was used In clinical consultations, via a Dashboard.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Also at ISPOR Montreal 2025: I'll be moderating this in-depth session on the use of CBA in #HealthEconomics Friday 16th May 10-11.15am

programme entry for the ISPOR May 2025 conference in Montreal, describing a session which will debate the use of cost benefit analysis in health technology assessment.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

1/2 Going to ISPOR Montreal 2025? May 15th 11.30am: Value in Health's editors-in-chief are having a 'fireside chat' with the lead authors of the 'Paper of the Year' in 2024 (Aurelie Meunier) & 2023 @peterneumann.bsky.social

screen shot of the programme for ISPOR Montreal, May 2025, showing the session details for Value in Health Editors in Child having a fireside chat with the lead authors of the Papers of the Year in 2024 and 2023.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The first time I saw this, I thought it was a joke. But nope - Reading to Dogs is an actual thing that happens every Monday night at my lovely little local library here in Wānaka, New Zealand. #libraries #literacy#Libsky

An advertisement for the Reading to Dogs programme at Wanaka Library. I'm sure the dogs like it, but the main point is to help children improve their literacy in a non-judgemental environment. That's probably why it's not Reading to Cats. Cats judge.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

What role does equity play in health technology assessment in Asia? New paper in Value in Health reviews current practice in 13 countries. Conclusion: Equity is considered in HTA, but use of quant methods (like DCEA) still relatively rare. tinyurl.com/HealthEquity... #HTA #HeathEconomics #equity

screen shot of the title page of an article in the April issue of Value in Health. The paper is called 'Role of health equity in HTA: a landscape analysis of 13 health systems in Asia'.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

2/2 The study identifies challenges with using the cTTO to elicit values < 0. Authors Meixia Liao, Zhihao Yang, Kim Rand, Mila Karimi & Nan Luo suggest improvements are needed. #HRQoL #TTO #preferences #EQ-5D #HealthEconomics @euroqol.bsky.social

The abstract and highlight points for a paper published in Value in Health, called "How do individuals value worse than dead EQ-5D-5L health rates in composite TTO Tasks? A qualitative study".

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

1/2 In the April issue of Value in Health: this fascinating paper, using qualitative analysis to investigate 'How Individuals Value Worse-Than-Dead EQ-5D-5L Health States' using the composite TTO which is a standard part of @euroqol.bsky.social 'EQ-VT' valuation protocols. #HealthEconomics

screen shot of a task, called composite TTO, used to elicit values for health states that are considered either 'better than dead' or 'worse than being dead'

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Out now: the April 2025 issue of Value in Health features 8 papers on the economics of Alzheimers & related dementias; plus papers on a wide range of other topics in health economics & outcomes research. 👉 www.valueinhealthjournal.com/current #Alzheimers #HealthEconomics #ValueinHealth

screenshot of the cover of the peer reviewed journal called 'Value in Health'.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

To offer a little moment of calm - here's a picture from southern New Zealand, where I live. It's Autumn here, it's peaceful, and it's beautiful. I wish you all a peaceful and happy weekend, wherever you are.

A photograph of an autumn scene, showing Lake Hayes, looking toward Queenstown, in the South Island of New Zealand. About as far away from the madness going on in the US as you can get. Photo taken by Nancy Devlin.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

SO happy for my PhD student Marie-Anne Boujaoude who has won 2025 iHEA 1st prize for her paper reporting health inequality aversion parameters for Australia. You can find her paper here: ➡️https://tinyurl.com/healthinequalityaversion #HealthEconomics #HTA #inequality #DCEA

screen shot showing the announcement of the iHEA student prize winners, and showing details of 2025 1st prize winner Marie-Anne Boujaoude , PhD student from University of Melbourne.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

The paper summarises the new Dutch guidelines for economic evaluation in health care, many of which aim at a broader societal perspective.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

A 6.9 magnitude earthquake just now, south of where I live. Just NZ doing its usual earthquakey thing! Quite hard to work when the house is wobbling, though 😳

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

1/3 Another interesting paper from the March issue of Value in Health! "A Systematic Literature Review of Important and Meaningful Differences in the EQ-5D Index and Visual Analog Scale Scores" by Fatima Al Sayah, @drjeff780.bsky.social & co-authors ➡️https://tinyurl.com/EQ-5D-MIDs

screen shot of the 'highlight points' from a paper published in Value in Health about how to interpret whether changes in patient reported health, measured by EQ-5D, are 'important and meaningful'.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

2/2 The paper concludes there is much uncertainty around costs & benefits, but that "the intervention may be more cost-effective for schools in more deprived areas with high levels of conduct problems" @sheffielduni.bsky.social, @alan-brennan.bsky.social @sarahbyford.bsky.social #HealthEconomics

screen shot of a pdf of a paper published recently in the journal Value in Health. The paper, by Sarah Bates and co-authors, reports an economic evaluation of the costs and benefits of a classroom management intervention aimed at children 3-8 years old.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Just back from a thought provoking and inspiring EuroQol Academy meeting in Barcelona. What really impresses me about these EuroQol meetings is the depth of talent among the PhD students, early career researchers and new EuroQol members from around the world. #HealthEconomics #EQ-5D #HRQoL #EuroQol

a group photo of attendees at the 2025 EuroQol Academy meeting in Barcelona.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Seen at the EuroQol academy conference here in Barcelona - this fantastic data visualisation of health inequalities (measured in terms of self-reported health on the EQ-5D). #HealthEconomics #healthinequalities #HRQoL

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Students at this university have made 'researcher ID cards' to help them to spot, at health economics conferences, the researchers who work on specific topics. This is very cute. And could have the makings of a very niche card game. #HealthEconomics

screen shot from a LinkedIn page, showing a series of cards, each showing a researcher's picture and a short bio about their work. The cards were made by students at the Universite Catholique de Louvain.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

"Evidence Synthesis in Health Economics and Outcomes Research" NEW call for papers from Value in Health. Papers reporting systematic reviews/ evidence synthesis are welcome on any topic within the aims & scope of Value in Health. 👉https://tinyurl.com/Value-in-Health #healtheconomics

a screenshot of a webpage inviting papers to be submitted to the journal "Value in Health", reporting systematic literature reviews and other kinds of evidence synthesis on any topic in the field of health economics and outcomes research.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

"Digital Health Technologies: examining Value, Regulation and Equity". This call for papers from Value in Health is still open - deadline is May 15th. More info for authors here: tinyurl.com/VIH-DigitalH...

image shows a screenshot of a webpage, inviting researchers to submit papers to the journal Value in Health on the topic of 'Digital Health Technologies: examining Value, Regulation and Equity'.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I have the great pleasure of spending this morning working from the wonderful Reading Room at @wellcometrust.bsky.social, London.

A picture of the Reading Room at London's Wellcome building, with historical medical artefacts and artworks at ground level, and bookshelves on the floor above.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

In Jan 2025 NICE released draft guidance, still under consultation, on how health inequalities are to be incorporated into its appraisal of new medicines: 👉https://www.nice.org.uk/consultations/2817/5/proposed-new-content

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Working on health equity research? Value in Health has an open call for papers on Health Equity: Methods and Measures for Equity Informative Evaluations. full info here 👉 tinyurl.com/health-equit... Other current calls for papers here: tinyurl.com/VIH-call-for...

screen shot of a webpage inviting researchers to submit an abstract - and eventually a paper - to the journal Value in Health, on the topic of Health Equity: Methods and Measures for Equity Informative Evaluations.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Atlas of AI by @katecrawford.bsky.social is fantastic. From the story of Clever Hans the Horse, to the unknown (to me!) origins of Bentham's panopticon, it is both scholarly & completely riveting, taking in a vast sweep of historical, political, economic & environmental context. What a book!

The picture shows Nancy Devlin holding her copy of Kate Crawford's incredible book, 'Atlas of AI'.

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

A bit like this? www.valueinhealthjournal.com/article/S109...

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The November issue of Value in Health is out now - Contents here: www.valueinhealthjournal.com/article/S109... Papers in this issue includes this ISPOR Taskforce Report on using methods for 'Structured Expert Elicitation'. #healthecon

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Prof Nancy Devlin @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

"Musk may have convinced himself he bought Twitter protect the global town square...But the truth was much simpler. Whether or not he wanted to admit it, he had bought it for himself, and for a brief moment, he had the thing he wanted most. How owned Twitter - and then it was gone." 👇

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