NOR-ECON
Health economics in the treatment of inflammatory arthritic diseases
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ABOUT THE PROJECT
REMEDY aims to ensure research that improves patient care in rheumatology and musculoskeletal diseases. To build a bridge between clinical research and health policy decisions, an assessment of the costs and benefits of treatment, as well as analyses of the burden of disease, is needed.
NOR-ECON is a cross-cutting project, anchored in work package 6, which aims to incorporate health economic aspects into current REMEDY projects. NOR-ECON includes health economic evaluations, carried out either as part of a randomized, controlled trial (1), or as decision analysis modeling (2), but also analyses of health-related quality of life and costs from prospective studies or linkage of national health registries. The projects included in NOR-ECON thus obtain data from other studies, such as NOR-DMARD. NOR-DMARD is linked to the Cause of Death Registry, the Cancer Registry, the Norwegian Patient Registry, the Joint Prosthesis Registry, the Vaccine Registry, the FD Trygd and the A-ordningen, and we thus obtain information on the use of health services and participation in the workforce.
Projects we are working on:
1. We have performed health economic analyses of NOR-DRUM and NOR-GOUT.
2. Several master's students from the Department of Health Management and Health Economics at UiO have written their master's theses in health economics using data from NOR-ECON and associated projects. The topics for these theses have, for example, been the health economics of the use of vaccines in people with arthritis, or the health economics of exercise as a treatment for spondyloarthritis.
WHO CAN JOIN?
Data for NOR-ECON comes from randomized studies or is drawn from NPR and Statistics Norway; it is not a project that one can apply for participation in.
WHAT DOES THE STUDY INVOLVE?
Data for NOR-ECON comes from randomized studies or is drawn from NPR and Statistics Norway; it is not a project that one can apply for participation in.