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Mireille Goetghebeur presented at the Conference on the Dimensions of Appropriateness in Health Care. November 11, 2011, Milan, Italy.
BioMedCom presented at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 14th Annual European Congress, November 5-8, 2011, Madrid, Spain.
- Validating a multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) framework for health care decision making.
Lieferink M, van Til J, Groothuis-Oudshoorn,K, Goetghebeur M, Dolan J
BioMedCom presented at International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 14th Annual European Congress, November 5-8, 2011, Madrid, Spain.
- Stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation: inappropriate anticoagulation and poor INR control.
Evers T, O’Neil WM, Ogilvie IM, Welner SA, Lip GYH
BioMedCom presented at International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 14th Annual European Congress, November 5-8, 2011, Madrid, Spain.
- A common road map for rational clinical and policy decisionmaking: application of the MCDA-based EVIDEM framework to growth hormone use in patients with Prader-Willi syndrome.
Tony M, Goetghebeur MM, Khoury H, Wagner M, Deal CL, Battista R
Issue Panels – Session I
Sunday, November 6, 2011
International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 14th Annual European Congress, November 5-8, 2011, Madrid, Spain.
- Multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA): a common road map from drug development to regulatory and reimbursement decisions?
Moderator: Ron Goeree MA
Panelists: Bruno Flamion MD, PhD, Carole Longson PhD, Mireille Goetghebeur PhD
BioMedCom presented at the Annual Meeting of Care Continuum Alliance, The Forum 11, September 7-9, 2011, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- Canadian Healthcare: Delivery & Opportunities for Collaboration
Welner S, Smofsky A, Hobson C
Aida Guindo and Nataly Tanios, stagières with BioMedCom, both graduated this year from the University of Montreal with Masters degrees. Aida completed her graduate studies in the field of Drug Development, focus on Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR), and Nataly in the field of Drug Development.
- Mireille Goetghebeur spoke about the EVIDEM framework at the Institute of Medicine, Workshop on Country Level Decisionmaking for Chronic Diseases, on "Lessons learned from a Multicriteria Decision Analysis Framework", which took place in Washington, DC from July 19-21, 2011.
BMC exhibited at the ISPOR 2011 annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. It was a successful conference with visits from many of our clients and colleagues.
The winner of the iPad2 raffle was Florian Turk from Novartis AG.
We thoroughly enjoyed the Crabfest while overlooking the beautiful Inner Habour.
Monika Wagner had a podium presentation titled Systematic Review of Guidelines for Health Economic Evaluations and presented a poster titled Which Criteria are used in Healthcare Decisionmaking and Priority Setting? A Literature Review for an International Survey of Decisionmakers.
- Systematic review of guidelines for health economic evaluations.
Melnyk P, Wagner M, Dourdin N, Rindress D - Which criteria are used in healthcare decisionmaking and priority setting? a literature review for an international survey of decisionmakers.
Guindo LA, Wagner M, Baltussen R, Rindress D, Van Til J, Kind P, Goetghebeur MM
Bill O’Neil presented a poster titled Comparative Effectiveness of Banked Donor Milk for Premature Infants: Efficiency of a Milk Bank Model Integrated in a Blood Bank.
- Comparative effectiveness of banked donor milk for premature infants: efficiency of a milk bank model integrated in a blood bank setting.
Richer E, Dourdin N, Goetghebeur MM
BioMedCom presented at CAPT 2011 Annual Conference, April 17-19, 2011, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
BioMedCom presented at CAPT 2011 Annual Conference, April 17-19, 2011, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- Decisionmaking for rare diseases: developing evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for growth hormone therapy in Prader-Willi syndrome using the EVIDEM framework.
Tony M, Goetghebeur MM, Khoury H, Wagner M, Battista R, Deal CL
BioMedCom presented at CAPT 2011 Annual Conference, April 17-19, 2011, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- Systematic review to assess the quality of published health economic evaluations.
Dourdin N, Wagner M, Melnyk P and Rindress D
BioMedCom presented at Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, 2011 Annual meeting, April 3-5, 2011, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada.
- Implementing a milk bank in the province of Quebec: from evidence to practice.
Dourdin N, Richer E, Goetghebeur MM
BioMedCom presented at Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, 2011 Annual meeting, April 3-5, 2011, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada.
- Adapting the EVIDEM framework to support the development of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines: A case study of growth hormone therapy in Prader-Willi syndrome.
Tony M, Goetghebeur MM, Wagner M, Khoury H, Battista R, Deal CL
Symposium – panel
Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, 2011 Annual meeting, April 3-5, 2011, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada.
- How Can Decision Makers Consider Other Factors in Decision Making: Multi-Criteria to Maximize Opportunities to Bring Evidence Into Practice.
Panelists: Mireille Goetghebeur, Ron Goeree, Janet Martin, Paule Poulin
Moderator: Tammy Clifford