Dr Tracey Young BSc (UEA), MSc (Southampton), PhD (Brunel), CStat

HEDS, ScHARR
The University of Sheffield
Regent Court
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
UK

Office: 2012

Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 0837
Fax: (+44) (0)114 272 4095

E-mail: t.a.young@sheffield.ac.uk

Biography

I joined ScHARR in April 2004 and work as a health economist in HEDS. My work in ScHARR has included developing methodology for deriving condition-specific preference based measures from existing quality of life instruments. I have also worked on a number of economic evaluations.

Research interests

My research interests are:

• Methods for measuring uncertainty in economic evaluations
• Methods for developing preference-based measures from existing QOL measures
• Economic evaluations alongside clinical trials
• Censored costs

Teaching interests

My teaching interests lie in Statistical issues in Economic Evaluations, Medical Statistics and Evidence Synthesis and Methods for Developing Preference-Based Measures.

I am interested in supervising Research Students in topics/areas such as methodological issues in economic evaluations and methodology for developing preference-based patient reported outcome measures.

My teaching interests are:

• Deputy Director of HEDS Teaching Fuctional Working Group
• Health Economics
• QALYs, Utilities and outcome measures
• Medical Statistics

Current activities

• Evaluating the effect of educational needs assessment tool (ENAT) focused education on health outcomes in recently diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis patients.
• Economic evaluation of a self administered behavioural intervention following stroke
• Obesity Reduction in South Yorkshire: a Randomised Controlled Trial of Services for Obese Adults (Part of CLAHRC bid)
• Developing and testing methods for deriving preference-based measures of health from condition specific measures (and other patient based measures of outcome)
• Use of generic and condition-specific measures in NICE decision making

Professional activities

• Health Economic advisor for NIHR Yorkshire and Humber RDS
• Learning Events Co-ordinator for NIHR Yorkshire and Humber RDS
• Member of NIHR SDO Commissioning Board

Key publications

• Young TA, Yang Y, Brazier JE, Tsuchiya A (2010) The use of Rasch analysis in reducing a large condition-specific instrument for preference valuation: The case of moving from AQLQ to AQL-5D. Medical Decision Making
• Young T, Rowen D, Brazier JE, Norquist J, Ambegaonkar B, Sazonov V. (2010) Developing preference-based health measures: using Rasch analysis to generate health state values. Quality of Life Research 19; 907-917.
• Hutchinson A, Coster JE, Cooper KL, McIntosh A, Walters SJ, Bath PA, Pearson M, Young TA, Rantell K, Campbell MJ, Ratcliffe J (2010). Comparison of case note review methods for evaluating quality and safety in health care. Health Technology Assessment: 14(10).
• Longworth L, Young T, Buxton MJ, Ratcliffe J, Neuberger J, Burroughs A, Bryan S, CELT Project Team. (2003) Midterm cost-effectiveness of the liver transplantation program of England and Wales for three disease groups. Liver Transplantation. 9(12):1295-307 [Link]
• Young T (2005) Estimating mean total costs in the presence of censoring: a comparative assessment of methods. Pharmacoeconomics; 23(12): 1229-1242.
• Young T, Thompson S (2004) The Importance of Accounting for the Uncertainty of Published Prognostic Model Estimates. IJTAHC 20(4): 481-487