The use of state space models and their inference is illustrated using the package SsfPack for Ox. After a rather long introduction that explains the use of SsfPack and many of its functions, four case-studies illustrate the practical implementation of the software to real world problems through...

Ageing and technological change play a major role in the governance of healthcare resources, with cohorts living longer and consuming increasing amounts of intensive, previously unavailable treatments. Equity of access to pharmaceutical treatment on the basis of clinical need alone remains the...

The primary objective of this study was to derive cost comparators for the fourteen Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) classes of drugs at first level, based on age-sex related weightings. It was hoped to develop an accurate method of analysing prescribing patterns in general practice and to...