CREST Resources

CREST has developed a number of resources to assist the CTGs to incorporate health economic and pharmacoeconomic analyses into trial protocols, as well as to build capacity for health economics within the CTGs.

Workshop recordings and training videos

CTG members can access recordings of previous workshops and webinars. We encourage members to attend workshops and webinars where possible to ensure you get the latest knowledge. Topics currently available include: 

  • Understanding health economics in cancer research 
  • Health Economics in Cancer Research - a consumer's guide 
  • Preferences in Cancer Trials - what choices can tell us about value 
  • Using Medicare data in cancer trials - webinar series

  • Health Technology Assessment (HTA) - webinar series 

    Note: you will be directed to a form prior to accessing the videos. You will need to select your CTG and what video series you'd like to view. 

Access to the videos

Checklists, factsheets and templates 

To aid the CTGs in developing a protocol to include an economic evaluation alongside a clinical trial, a standard proforma has been developed. This proforma includes key issues for consideration, key questions and options, essential data items, identification of data sources, ethics requirements for collection of economics data, and standard forms for data collection from a range of sources.

Checklists

Health economics essentials 

Data and calculations

Collecting the data

Over the years, CREST has provided advice on the choice and development of questions to collect resource use (cost) and outcomes data from clinical trials. The advice provided has been summarised, in a de-identified manner, into a proforma document (in Excel) that contains example questions on collecting information within clinical trials on the following:

  1. Treatment use and follow-up services (including medical and diagnostic services use) 
  2. Hospital services use 
  3. Treatment of adverse events 
  4. Patient-reported outcomes (PROs): quality of life and other PROs 
  5. Demographic information 

Download the Excel workbook

Data and calculations factsheets

Command files

Frequently Asked Questions

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FAQs

Useful links

Other health economics and health services research associations

Health-related links

Data and methods

Journals and newsletters

Government sector

Information about health and health care in Australia

Research funding bodies

Useful journal articles

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.