GENERAL INFO
Program, planning and general info

LECTURE SLIDES
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4a
Week 4b
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9 and 10a
Week 10b
Week 10c and 11Week 12
Week 13

CLASS MATERIALS
Week 1
Week 4
Week 5a
Week 5b
Week 6
Week 8
Week 10
Quizzes week 13
Week 14

LAB MATERIALS
Week 2

WEEKLY RECOMMENDED MATERIALS FOR READING

Week 1 Lipsitz, L. A. (2012). Understanding Health Care as a Complex System: The Foundation for Unintended Consequences. JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 308(3), 243–244.

Week 1 Freeman, R. (1998) Competition in context: the politics of health care reform in Europe, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 10(5), 395-401.

Week 1 Watts, J.J., Segal, L. (2009) Market failure, policy failure and other distortions in chronic disease markets, BMC Health Services Research 2009, 9:102.

Week 1 Hengl, T. and Gould, M., 2002. Rules of thumb for writing research articles.
Week 2 Arah, O. A., Klazinga, N. S., Delnoij, D. M. J., Ten Asbroek, A. H. A., Custers, T. (2003) Conceptual frameworks for health systems performance: a quest for effectiveness, quality, and improvement, International Journal for Quality in Health Care,15 (5), 377-398.
Week 2 chapter 2 of: Mossialos, E., Dixon, A., Figueras, J., Kutzin, J. (2002) Funding health care: options for Europe, European Observatory on Health Care Systems.
Week 2 Helderman, J.-K., Bevan, G., France, G. (2012) The rise of the regulatory state in health care: a comparative analysis of The Netherlands, England and Italy, Health Economics, Policy and Law, 7 (1), 103-124.
Week 3 Barros, P. P., Machado, S. R., Simões, J. (2011) Portugal: Health System Review. In Health Systems in Transition, vol. 13, n.º 14.
Week 4 Overview version of the report Langenbrunner, J.C., O'Duagherty, S., Cashin, C.S. (2009) Designing and Implementing Health Care Provider Payment Systems: How-to Manuals, World Bank and the United States Agency for International Development.
Week 4 Langenbrunner, J.C., O'Duagherty, S., Cashin, C.S. (2009) Designing and Implementing Health Care Provider Payment Systems: How-to Manuals, World Bank and the United States Agency for International Development.
Week 4 Chapter 2 from Busse, R., Geissler, A., Quentin, W., Wiley, M. (eds.) (2011) Diagnosis-Related Groups in Europe: Moving towards transparency, efficiency and quality in hospitals, Maidenhead: Open University Press and WHO Regional Office for Europe.

Week 5 Thomas, S., Hodge, W., & Malvankar-Mehta, M. (2015). The Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Teleglaucoma Screening Device. PLoS ONE, 10(9), e0137913. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137913.

Week 5 Mealing S, Woods B, Hawkins N, et al (2016) Cost-effectiveness of implantable cardiac devices in patients with systolic heart failure, Heart Published Online First: 13 July 2016. doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2015-308883

Week 5 Drummond, M. et al. (2009) Economic Evaluation for Devices and Drugs—Same or Different?, Value in Health, 12 (4), 402 – 404.

Week 5 Whitehead, S.J., Ali, S. (2010) Health Outcomes in Economic Evaluation: the QALY and Utilities, British Medical Bulletin, 96: 5–21.

Week 5 Phillips, C., Thomson, G. (2009) What is a QALY? Hayward Medical Communications.

Week 5 Ferreira LN1, Ferreira PL, Pereira LN, Brazier J, Rowen D. (2010) A Portuguese value set for the SF-6D, Value in Health, 13(5), 624-30.
Week 6 Guyatt, G., Jaeschke, R., Wilson, M.C., Montori, V.M., Richardson, W.S. What is Evidence-Based Medicine?
Week 6 Sackett,  D.L.,  Rosenberg,  W.M.C.,  Gray,  J.A.M.,  Haynes,  R.B.,  Richardson,  W.S.  (1996). Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn’t. BMJ, 312, 71-72.
Week 7 Thomas, K.G., Thomas, M.R., York, E.B., Schultz, H.J., Dupras, D.M. (1999). Applying Evidence to Clinical Decisions: case study of a patient with posible pulmonary embolus. Seminars in Medical Practice, 2(3), 15-20. 
Week 7 Franchovich, J., Longhurst, C.A., Sutherland, S.M. (2011). Evidence-Based Medicine in the EMR Era. N Engl J Med, 365(19), 1758-1759
Week 7 Grimes, D.A., Schulz, K.F. (2002). An overview of clinical research: the lay of the land. Lancet, 359, 57-61.
Week 7 Ried, K. (2006). Interpreting and understanding meta-analysis graphs – a practical guide. Australian Family Physician, 35(8), 635-638.
Week 7 Roque, A., Carneiro, A.V. (2005). Tipos de Estudos Clínicos. Rev Port Cardiol, 24(12), 1539-1556.Week 8 Moreira, F.R. (2003) Linear programming applied to healthcare problems, Einstein, 1, 105-9.Week 8 Cardoso, T., Oliveira, M.D., Barbosa-Póvoa, A., Nickel, S. (2016). Moving towards an equitable long-term care network: A multi-objective and multi-period planning approach. Omega 58: 69-85.Week 8 Mestre, A.M., Oliveira, M.D., Barbosa-Póvoa, A. (2012). Organizing hospitals into networks: a hierarchical and multiservice model to define location, supply and referrals in planned hospital systems. OR Spectrum 34: 319-348.Week 8 Arnolds, I.V., Nickel, S. (2013). Multi-period layout planning for hospital wards. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 47: 220-237.Week 8 Beaulieu, H., Ferland, J.A., Gendron, B., Michelon, P. (2000). A mathematical programming approach for scheduling physicians in the emergency room. Health Care Management Science 3: 193-200.
Week 9 Kuntz K, Sainfort F, Butler M, et al. (2013) Decision and Simulation Modeling in Systematic Reviews, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US).
Week 9 Sanchez, L.A. (2008) Pharmacoeconomics: Principles, Methods, and Applications, in DiPiro et al. (Ed.) Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach, 8e, McGraw-Hill.
Week 10 Bindels, J., Cox, K., Abma, T.A., van Schayck, O.C.P., Widdershoven, G. (2015) Implementing care programmes for frail older people: A project management perspective, Health Policy, 119, 9–16.
Week 10 Oliveira, M.D., Rodrigues, T., Bana e Costa, C.A., Sá, A.B. (2012) Prioritizing Health Care Interventions: A Multicriteria Resource Allocation Model to Inform the Choice of Community Care Programmes. In E. Tanfani and A. Testi (Editors) Advanced Decision Making Methods applied to Health Care. Springer. Pg. 141-154.
Week 11 Astolfi, R., L. Lorenzoni and J. Oderkirk (2012), “A Comparative Analysis of Health Forecasting Methods”, OECD Health Working Papers, No. 59, OECD Publishing.Week 12 Lebowitz P. (2003). Schedule the short procedure first to improve OR efficiency, AORN Journal, 78(4), 651-659.Week 12 Marcon, E., Dexter, F. (2006). Impact of surgical sequencing on post anesthesia care unit staffing, Health Care Management Science, 9, 87-98.Week 12 Marques, I., Captivo, M.E., Pato, M.V. (2012). An integer programming approach to elective surgery scheduling – Analysis and comparison based on a real case, OR Spectrum, 34, 407-427.Week 12 van Oostrum J.M., Van Houdenhoven M., Hurink J.L., Hans E.W., Wullink G., Kazemier G. (2008). A Master Surgical Scheduling approach for cyclic scheduling in operating room departments, OR Spectrum, 30(2), 355-374.Week 12 Kelle, P., Woosley, J., Schneider, H. (2012). Pharmaceutical supply chain specifics and inventory solutions for a hospital case, Operation Research for Health Care, 1, 54-63.Week 12 Narayana, S.A., Pati, R.K., Vrat, P. (2014). Managerial research on the pharmaceutical supply chain – A critical review and some insights for future directions, Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management, 20, 18-40.Week 12 de Vries, J., Huijsman, R. (2011) Supply chain management in health services: an overview, Supply Chain Management, 16(3) 159-165.
Week 13 Smith et al. (2008) Performance measurement for health system improvement: experiences, challenges and prospects, World Health Organization.
Week 13 Gupta, D (2013) Queueing Models for Healthcare Operations, In B.T. Denton (ed.), Handbook of Healthcare Operations Management: Methods and Applications, International Series in Operations Research & Management Science 184.
Week 14 Henschke, C., et al. (2015) Taxonomy of Medical Devices in the Logic of Health Technology Assessment, Int J Technol Assess Health Care, 31(5), 324-330.


EVALUATION INFO (note that there are changes to the programme of the course and does the topics included for the exam will change this year)
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