Some consider assessment in terms of a systematic way of gathering and evaluating information within educational system and particularly higher education. Since, the term ‘’assessment’’ refers and relates to administrative processes, this paper has shed light some consideration on how it can benefit the members of department and program. Program assessment ultimately emphasizes on direction for...

hav We are proud to present this special issue of Value in Health: Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research in Latin America. We resent a combination of plenary summaries presented at the nternational Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Reearch (ISPOR) Second Latin America Conference held in Brazil uring September 2009, and original research studies conucted in our region. We think this co...

Many promising biomarkers for stratifying individuals at risk of developing a chronic disease or subsequent complications have been identified. Research into the potential cost-effectiveness of applying these biomarkers in actual clinical settings has however been lacking. Investors and analysts may improve their venture decision making should they have indicative estimates of the potential cos...

The time trade-off (TTO) valuation technique is widely used to determine utility values of health outcomes to inform quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) calculations for use in economic evaluation. Protocols for implementing TTO vary in aspects such as the trade-off framework, iteration procedure and its administration model and method, training of respondents and interviewers, and quality contro...

BACKGROUND EASY-Care Two step Older people Screening (EASY-Care TOS) is a stepped approach to identify frail older people at risk for negative health outcomes in primary care, and makes use of General Practitioners' (GPs) readily-available information. We aimed to determine the predictive value of EASY-Care TOS for negative health outcomes within the year from assessment. METHODS A total of 5...

Assessment efforts in higher education have evolved as a response to demands by external forces such as legislative and accrediting bodies asking for better accountability evidence.1 Further, an executive order required all federally approved accrediting organizations to include evidence of institutional outcomes in their criteria for accreditation.2 This mandate requested that each program des...

this study aims at evaluating the completeness of the content of the ecological part in environmental impact assessments (eias) and environmental impact statements (eiss) on content review basis. the requirements of the ecological content as stated in the of five sets of thai’s eia guidelines, namely the specific guidelines for power plants, industrial projects, dams and harbors and the gene...