TORCH Project: Enhancing Health Technology Assessments for Children
The TORCH project is an international initiative aimed at improving how the benefits of medicines for children are evaluated. Health agencies worldwide guide government decisions on funding medicines based on their safety, effectiveness, and efficiency. While assessing a medicine's impact on adult quality of life is well-established, doing so for children poses unique challenges.
TORCH is developing new tools to better measure and include children's health outcomes in these evaluations. This includes creating methods to incorporate results from various quality of life measures into economic assessments, addressing the need for a more comprehensive approach. By doing so, TORCH aims to provide policymakers with stronger evidence on the effectiveness of paediatric medicines, ensuring children's health needs are accurately represented in decision-making processes. The project will engage a wide range of stakeholders through workshops, ensuring the tools developed meet both policy makers' and researchers' needs.
Project lead / contact:
Stavros Petrou — Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
Website:
Tools to measure and value health change in children (TORCH) — Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
ARC theme: Novel Methods to Aid and Evaluate Implementation
Who we're working with
- Australian National University
(Full list of investigators and collaborators available at: Team - Torch)
ARC OxTV Associated Project
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