Short Course 2025 | Clinical Evidence for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Instructor: Pedro Saramago
Join the Clinical Evidence for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis online short course with Pedro Saramago and learn how to use evidence to inform decision-analytic models. Discover the most commonly used measures of risk and of relative treatment effect, the basics of survival analysis and of quantitative evidence synthesis, and how outputs of these are used to populate economic models. Pedro will dive into the principles and assumptions of network meta-analysis and of population adjusted indirect comparisons methods, providing practical examples, and how these are being currently used in health technology assessment.
Date: 24 June 2025
Time: 17:00–20:00 (WET – Lisbon time)
Format: Online
Language: English
Session structure
- Deriving input model parameters: from rates to probabilities, relative effective measures and transition probabilities
- Introduction to survival analysis for cost-effectiveness modelling
- Introduction to meta-analysis and indirect treatment comparisons
- Brief introduction to population adjusted indirect comparison methods (matching adjusted and simulated treatment comparisons)
- Common challenges of quantitative evidence synthesis for healthcare decision making
About the Instructor
Pedro Saramago is a Senior Scientist at Evidera and a member of the Board of APES since 2025. He holds a degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Lisbon, a Master’s in Health Economics and a PhD in Economics from the University of York.
Pedro began his professional career as a biostatistician at the National Association of Pharmacies in 2004 and later worked at Exigo Consultores. From 2008 to 2025, he held various academic positions at the Centre for Health Economics (CHE), University of York, culminating in his role as Associate Professor/Senior Health Economist.
Pedro was a member of CATS/INFARMED from 2015 to 2025 and served on its Executive Committee from 2023. He is also a member of the NICE HTA Committee in the UK since 2021.
With broad expertise in evidence synthesis and economic modelling, Pedro brings academic rigour and practical insights to the challenges of evaluating clinical evidence for decision-making.
References:
Briggs, A, Sculpher, MJ and Claxton, K. Decision Modelling for Health Economic Evaluation. Oxford University Press, 2006.
Drummond, MF, Sculpher, MJ, Claxton, K, Stoddart, GL & Torrance, GW. Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes. (4th ed.) Oxford University Press, 2015.
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