CAHPS
CAHPS (Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) is AHRQ's family of patient experience surveys, used in US quality reporting and payment.
Encyclopaedia
Explore comprehensive, evidence-informed explanations of key health economics concepts, including their development, application and relationships to other concepts. Published entries are validated through human expert review.
Concepts, entries and ontology terms
A concept page is a published entry on the wiki. Some concepts also have a full encyclopaedia article. The Health Economics Ontology (HEO) holds every concept, including dictionary terms without an article, so it is larger than the list of published pages. The knowledge graph shows how concepts relate to each other.
Calibration
Calibration is the estimation of unobservable or uncertain parameters in a health economic model by adjusting them until model outputs match observed data.
Calibration of Experts
Calibration of Experts scores experts' probability judgements on seed questions with known answers, to weight their views on decision model inputs.
Cancer Burden
Cancer Burden is the toll of cancer on a population, counted as new cases, deaths and disability-adjusted life years, and often valued as economic cost.
Cancer Epidemiology
Cancer Epidemiology studies how often cancer occurs, what causes it and who survives or dies, supplying incidence and survival inputs to economic models.
Cancer Registry
Cancer Registry is an information system holding data on people with cancer, from tumour stage to treatment and survival, used to model survival in HTA.
Cancer Screening
Cancer Screening is testing symptom-free people to find cancer or precancer early, judged economically on deaths prevented against cost and overdiagnosis.
Capability Index Values
Capability index values are preference weights, often from best-worst scaling, that turn ICECAP answers into one score anchored at full and no capability.
Capacity
Capacity is the maximum output, such as patients treated or scans per week, that a health service can sustain with its fixed staff, beds and equipment.
Capacity Management
Capacity management matches existing hospital beds and staff to patient demand by scheduling admissions and discharges, reducing waits and idle beds.
Capacity Planning
Capacity planning estimates the beds, staff, theatre time and equipment a health service needs to meet expected demand to a stated standard of access.
Capacity Utilisation
Capacity utilisation is the share of available health care capacity, such as staffed beds, theatre sessions or scanner time, that is used over a period.
Capital Budget
Capital Budget is a health system's spending limit for long-lived assets such as hospitals, equipment and IT, kept apart from day-to-day running costs.
Capital Cost
Capital Cost is the cost of assets used for over a year, such as buildings and medical equipment, spread over their useful life in economic evaluation.
Capital Rationing
Capital rationing is a budget constraint on investment that leaves too little money to fund every health project with a positive net present value.
Capitation
Capitation is a provider payment method paying a fixed amount per enrolled person per period for a defined package of care, whatever care each person uses.
Capitation Payment
A capitation payment is a fixed sum paid to a health care provider for each enrolled person per month or year for an agreed package, whatever care is used.
CAR-T Therapy
CAR-T Therapy is a one-off cancer treatment made from a patient's own T cells, engineered to attack the cancer; its high price rests on lasting remission.
Cardiac Rehabilitation
Cardiac Rehabilitation is supervised exercise, education and psychological care after a cardiac event; most economic evaluations find it cost-effective.
Cardinal Scaling
Cardinal scaling values health states so that differences between values show strength of preference, as QALYs require; ordinal scales give rank only.