tailieunhanh - Master Thesis Health Sciences: Expert Elicitation to Populate Early Health Economic Models of Medical Diagnostic Devices in Development

To ease the materialization of large projects, the government has created a guarantee enterprise (BUPI) for the project companies to access loans from banks and private financial institutions. One of the newly created state owned enterprises under the Ministry of Finance is the Indonesia Infrastructure Guarantee Fund (IIGF or also known as PT PII Persero) which has the following tasks: providing contingent support for the Government of Indonesia by guaranteeing any contractual risks in relation to government actions; improving the quality of PPP transactions; pushing for a fixed and accountable approach for PPP implementation, with IIGF as the single. | Master Thesis Health Sciences Expert Elicitation to Populate Early Health Economic Models of Medical Diagnostic Devices in Development UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE Master Thesis Health Sciences Expert Elicitation to Populate Early Health Economic Models of Medical Diagnostic Devices in Development Wieke Haakma July 2011 Wieke Haakma Student number 0151963 E-mail Supervisors Prof. Dr. Maarten J. IJzerman Dr. Lotte . Vrijhoef-Steuten Dr. Laura Bojke UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE. I Master Thesis Expert Elicitation to Populate Early Health Economic Models of Medical Diagnostic Devices in Development Page 2 Contents 1. . Early Health Technology . Expert . Diagnostic . Photoacoustic . Research 2. . Expert elicitation techniques .11 . Participating . Behavior and mathematical approach in expert elicitation. 11 . Elicitation of priors in diagnostic . Determination of credible . Representing experts . Bias .13 . . Synthesis . Expert elicitation procedure used in the case study . Objective of the . Sample of . Quantities 3. . Experts experiences with the elicitation questionnaire .21 . Tumor . Impact of tumor . Calibration process analysis .26 . Sensitivity and . Combining tumor characteristics with the expert elicitation . Expected performance of PAM . Possible benefit of PAM II over 4. 5. Master Thesis Expert Elicitation to Populate Early Health Economic Models of Medical Diagnostic Devices in Development Page