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ReviewApplied health economics and health policy2021

A Review of Web-Based Tools for Value-of-Information Analysis.

Haitham Tuffaha, Claire Rothery, Natalia Kunst, Chris Jackson, Mark Strong, Stephen Birch

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Review in Applied health economics and health policy, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. A Pragmatic Bayesian Adaptive Trial Design Based on the Value of Information: The Value-Driven Adaptive Design.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Haitham TuffahaCentre for the Business and Economics of Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4067, Australia. h.tuffaha@uq.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0003-2993-3480
Claire RotheryCentre for Health Economics, University of York, York, UK.
Natalia KunstDepartment of Health Management and Health Economics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Chris JacksonMedical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Mark StrongSchool for Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Stephen BirchCentre for the Business and Economics of Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4067, Australia.

Funding

Medical Research Council G0601721Medical Research Council MC_UU_00002/11National Health and Medical Research Council GNT1121232
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Value-of-information analysis (VOI) is a decision-theoretic approach that is used to inform reimbursement decisions, optimise trial design and set research priorities. The application of VOI analysis for informing policy decisions in practice has been limited due, in part, to the perceived complexity associated with the calculation of VOI measures. Recent efforts have resulted in the development of efficient methods to estimate VOI measures and the development of user-friendly web-based tools to facilitate VOI calculations. We review the existing web-based tools including Sheffield Accelerated Value of Information (SAVI), the web interface to the BCEA (Bayesian Cost-Effectiveness Analysis) R package (BCEAweb), Rapid Assessment of Need for Evidence (RANE), and Value of Information for Cardiovascular Trials and Other Comparative Research (VICTOR). We describe what each tool is designed to do, the inputs they require, and the outputs they produce. Finally, we discuss how tools for VOI calculations might be improved in the future to facilitate the use of VOI analysis in practice.

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Delivery of Health CareInternetBayes TheoremCost-Benefit AnalysisHumans

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PMID34046866
PMCPMC7613968

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