More about Nancy J. Devlin

Nancy is Director of Research at the Office of Health Economics, London, and visiting professor at the Centre for Health Economics, University of York.  Nancy's current work on EQ-5D includes the development of new Time Trade Off methods of valuation, and the use of EQ-5D in the NHS PROMs programme. 

Recent EQ-5D publications:

Devlin N, Tsuchiya A, Buckingham K, Tilling C. (2010) A uniform Time Trade Off method for states better and worse than dead: feasibility study of the ‘lead time’ approach. Health Economics (forthcoming).

Devlin N, Parkin D, Browne J. (2010) Patient reported outcome measures in the NHS: new methods for analyzing and reporting EQ-5D data. Health Economics (forthcoming)

Devlin N, Appleby J. (2010) Getting the most out of PROMs: putting health outcomes at the heart of NHS decision making. London: King’s Fund.

Parkin D, Rice N, Devlin N. (2010) Statistical analysis of EQ-5D profiles: does the use of value sets bias inference? Medical Decision Making (forthcoming).

Nancy is also active in other areas of health economics. She has published work on a wide range of subjects including cost effectiveness thresholds; analysis of waiting times data; hospital efficiency; and evaluating health sector reforms. She is co-author of a leading UK textbook, Economic Analysis in Health Care.