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Karl Claxton is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom and has contributed significantly to research intersecting economics, health professions, and health policy. Their main fields of study encompass Economics, Econometrics and Finance as well as Health Professions, with substantial work in key subfields including Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Health, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Their research focuses primarily on topics such as Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, and Quality of Life; Global Health Care Issues; Healthcare Policy and Management; Healthcare cost, quality, and practices; Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy; Health disparities and outcomes; and Economic and Environmental Valuation.

Karl Claxton has published extensively in several academic venues, frequently contributing to Medical Decision Making and Health Economics, each accounting for six publications. They have also published multiple papers in Gates Open Research, BMJ Open, and Applied Health Economics and Health Policy.

Their recent published papers include:

  • Developing a reference protocol for structured expert elicitation in health-care decision-making: a mixed-methods study (2021, Health Technology Assessment)
  • What next after GDP-based cost-effectiveness thresholds? (2020, Gates Open Research)
  • Is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure? A cross-sectional study of the impact of English public health grant on mortality and morbidity (2020, BMJ Open)
  • Bayesian Econometric Modelling of Observational Data for Cost-effectiveness Analysis: Establishing the Value of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy in the Healing of Open Surgical Wounds (2020, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society))
  • How Effective is Marginal Healthcare Expenditure? New Evidence from England for 2003/04 to 2012/13 (2021, Applied Health Economics and Health Policy)

Karl Claxton frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their notable co-authors include James Lomas, Francesco Longo, Jessica Ochalek, Stephen Martin, and Mark Sculpher. Collaboration with these scholars spans numerous works, demonstrating active engagement in research networks related to health economics and policy.

Best Publications

  • Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes

    Michael F. Drummond;Mark J. Sculpher;Karl Claxton;Greg L. Stoddart

  • Decision Modelling for Health Economic Evaluation

    Andrew Briggs;Karl Claxton;Mark J Sculpher

  • Representing uncertainty: the role of cost-effectiveness acceptability curves.

    Elisabeth Fenwick;Karl Claxton;Mark Sculpher

  • The irrelevance of inference: a decision-making approach to the stochastic evaluation of health care technologies.

    Karl Claxton

  • The NICE cost-effectiveness threshold: what it is and what that means.

    Christopher McCabe;Karl Claxton;Anthony J Culyer;Anthony J Culyer

  • Methods for the estimation of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence cost-effectiveness threshold

    Karl Philip Claxton;Stephen Martin;Marta O Soares;Nigel Rice

  • Country-level cost effectiveness thresholds: initial estimates and the need for further research

    Beth Woods;Paul Revill;Mark Sculpher;Karl Claxton

  • Review of guidelines for good practice in decision-analytic modelling in health technology assessment

    Z Philips;L Ginnelly;M Sculpher;K Claxton

  • Good Practice Guidelines for Decision-Analytic Modelling in Health Technology Assessment: A Review and Consolidation of Quality Assessment

    Zoë Philips;Laura Bojke;Mark Sculpher;Karl Claxton

  • Probabilistic sensitivity analysis for NICE technology assessment: not an optional extra

    Karl Claxton;Mark Sculpher;Chris McCabe;Andrew Briggs

  • A rational framework for decision making by the National Institute For Clinical Excellence (NICE)

    Karl Claxton;Mark Sculpher;Michael Drummond

  • An economic approach to clinical trial design and research priority‐setting

    Karl Claxton;John Posnett

  • Whither trial-based economic evaluation for health care decision making?

    Mark J. Sculpher;Karl Claxton;Mike Drummond;Chris McCabe

  • Methods for assessing the cost-effectiveness of public health interventions: key challenges and recommendations.

    Helen Weatherly;Michael Drummond;Karl Claxton;Richard Cookson

  • Using value of information analysis to prioritise health research: some lessons from recent UK experience.

    Karl P Claxton;Mark J Sculpher

  • The International Decision Support Initiative Reference Case for Economic Evaluation: An Aid to Thought.

    Thomas Wilkinson;Mark J. Sculpher;Karl Claxton;Paul Revill

  • A pilot study on the use of decision theory and value of information analysis as part of the NHS Health Technology Assessment programme

    K Claxton;L Ginnelly;M Sculpher;Z Philips

  • Expected value of sample information calculations in medical decision modeling.

    A. E. Ades;G. Lu;K. Claxton

  • Discounting in Economic Evaluations

    Arthur E. Attema;Werner B. F. Brouwer;Karl Claxton

  • Estimating health opportunity costs in low-income and middle-income countries: a novel approach and evidence from cross-country data.

    Jessica Ochalek;James Lomas;Karl Claxton

  • Assessing quality in decision analytic cost-effectiveness models. A suggested framework and example of application.

    Mark Sculpher;Elisabeth Fenwick;Karl Claxton

  • Unrelated Future Costs and Unrelated Future Benefits: Reflections on NICE Guide to the Methods of Technology Appraisal

    Alec Morton;Amanda I Adler;David Bell;Andrew Briggs

Frequent Co-Authors

John Brazier
John Brazier University of Sheffield
Richard Cookson
Richard Cookson University of York
Michael Drummond
Michael Drummond University of York
Marc Suhrcke
Marc Suhrcke University of York
Yot Teerawattananon
Yot Teerawattananon Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program
Alan Brennan
Alan Brennan University of Sheffield
Jennifer Roberts
Jennifer Roberts University of Sheffield
Jan W. de Leeuw
Jan W. de Leeuw International Soil Reference and Information Centre
Diana M. Gibb
Diana M. Gibb University College London
Eike Luedeling
Eike Luedeling University of Bonn

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