School of Health and Related Research
University of Sheffield, UK

Appointments
Health Economist
Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences
St Paul's Hospital Vancouver

Nick Bansback is currently completing his PhD in health economics and decision sciences at the University of Sheffield, UK under the supervision of Dr John Brazier. He is a health economist at the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences at St Paul's Hospital Vancouver working with Dr Aslam Anis.

Nick's work focuses on informing decisions in health, with much of his work in the area of arthritis. He has developed a number of economic evaluations to inform policy making on new treatment strategies in Rheumatoid Arthritis. His other work focuses on developing methods for valuing health benefits and harms.

Relevant publications:

1. Finckh A, Bansback N, Marra CA, et al. Treatment of very early rheumatoid arthritis with symptomatic therapy, disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs, or biologic agents: a cost-effectiveness analysis.Ann. Intern. Med. 2009;151(9):612-621.
   
2. Nixon RM, Bansback N, Stevens JW, Brennan A, Madan J. Using short-term evidence to predict six-month outcomes in clinical trials of signs and symptoms in rheumatoid arthritis. Pharm Stat. 2009;8(2):150-162.
   
3. Bansback N, Ara R, Ward S, Anis A, Choi HK. Statin therapy in rheumatoid arthritis: a cost-effectiveness and value-of-information analysis. Pharmacoeconomics. 2009;27(1):25-37.
   
4. Bansback N, Harrison M, Brazier J, et al. Health state utility values: A description of their development and application for rheumatic diseases. Arthritis Rheum. 2008;59(7):1018-1026.
   
5. Wailoo AJ, Bansback N, Brennan A, et al. Biologic Drugs for Rheumatoid Arthritis in the Medicare Program. Arthritis Rheum.
   2008;58(4):939-946.
   
6. Bansback N, Marra C, Tsuchiya A, et al. Using the health assessment questionnaire to estimate preference-based single indices in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum. 2007;57(6):963-71.
   
7. Bansback N, Young A, Brennan A, Dixey J. A prognostic model for functional outcome in early rheumatoid arthritis. J Rheumatol.2006;33(8):1503-10.