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Help From Heoro.com: How to Find Economic Models for Bariatric Surgery
At ISPOR DC, we were asked how to find cost-effectiveness studies of bariatric surgery. Here's how to use heoro.com to answer that question.
Published: 29 Jun, 2016 Time to Read: 4 min(s) Read More»Cost-utility Models in Cancer - Geographical Distribution
The heoro.com database can be used to rapidly identify economic models by geographical location. Here, we show the number of studies reporting cost-utility models in cancer by key jurisdictions, and discuss how well the focus of health economic research matches mortality data from each country.
Published: 28 Jun, 2016 Time to Read: 5 min(s) Read More»Help From Heoro: How to Find Indirect Costs of Cancer Care in China
At ISPOR DC, we were asked whether we had any cost and resource use studies from China. Here's how to use heoro.com to find studies reporting indirect costs associated with cancer in China.
Published: 14 Jun, 2016 Time to Read: 3 min(s) Read More»PRO Instruments added to the Heoro.com Database in June 2016
The new heoro.com database launched successfully at ispor dc with an ontology of the 4,250 pro tools identified from more than 22,200 pro study abstracts. In the two weeks since then, we've added another 18 instruments to the ontology.
Published: 14 Jun, 2016 Time to Read: 3 min(s) Read More»Heoro.com PRO Instrument Ontology Has More Than 4,200 Items
The new heoro.com database launched successfully at ISPOR DC last week. We've developed an ontology of the 4,250 PRO tools we identified from more than 22,200 PRO study abstracts in the database.
Published: 30 May, 2016 Time to Read: 3 min(s) Read More»Heoro.com Help: Has EORTC Been Mapped to Utility Values?
At ISPOR DC, we were asked "Has the EORTC tool been mapped to utility values in cancer?" Here's how to use heoro.com to answer that question.
Published: 30 May, 2016 Time to Read: 3 min(s) Read More»Heoro.com Head-to-Head: How Does it Compare to Standard Systematic Reviews?
Heoro.com can save time and money in finding studies on the humanistic and economic burden of disease and economic models of interventions. A frequent question we were asked at ISPOR DC was how well heoro.com compares to systematic reviews conducted from scratch. Here, we investigate...
Published: 30 May, 2016 Time to Read: 5 min(s) Read More»M-Health Monitor: Evidence on Effects of Mobile Health Technology, February 2016
Here, we summarise the studies on the use of mobile health technology (m-Health) that were indexed in PubMed in February 2016.
Published: 04 Mar, 2016 Time to Read: 10 min(s) Read More»Smoking Rates in Great Britain Continue to Fall
Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics have shown that smoking rates have continued to fall in Great Britain, and smokers now consume fewer cigarettes per day.
Published: 22 Feb, 2016 Time to Read: 10 min(s) Read More»M-Health Monitor: Evidence on Effects of Mobile Health Technology, January 2016
Here, we summarise the studies on the use of mobile health technology (m-Health) that were indexed in PubMed in January 2016.
Published: 03 Feb, 2016 Time to Read: 10 min(s) Read More»