Prof

Philip Clarke

Professor In Health Economics

Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

Prof

Philip Clarke

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Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

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A Patient-Level Model to Estimate Lifetime Health Outcomes of Patients With Type 1 Diabetes

Philip Clarke's selected work

ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN POPULATION AGEING RESEARCH (CE17) - MCDONALD (ARC)
Research Grant
Budget 2019 boosts aged care and mental health, and modernises Medicare: health experts re..
NEWS ARTICLE
An Economic Evaluation of Stopping Versus Continuing Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitor Treat..
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EVALUATION OF THE EFFICACY OF LONG TERM CLOSED LOOP INSULIN DELIVERY IN IMPROVING GLYCAEMI..
Research Grant
More Medicare funding goes to wealthy kids: why, and what can we do about it?
NEWS ARTICLE
Life satisfaction, QALYs, and the monetary value of health
Journal article

Philip Clarke's selected work

ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN POPULATION AGEING RESEARCH (CE17) - MCDONALD (ARC)

Research Grant

Budget 2019 boosts aged care and mental health, and modernises Medicare: health experts re..

NEWS ARTICLE

An Economic Evaluation of Stopping Versus Continuing Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitor Treat..

Journal article

EVALUATION OF THE EFFICACY OF LONG TERM CLOSED LOOP INSULIN DELIVERY IN IMPROVING GLYCAEMI..

Research Grant

More Medicare funding goes to wealthy kids: why, and what can we do about it?

NEWS ARTICLE

Life satisfaction, QALYs, and the monetary value of health

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Projects

Displaying the 10 most recent projects by Philip Clarke.

CAN FLASH GLUCOSE MONITORING IMPROVE BLOOD GLUCOSE LEVELS IN INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES?

ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN POPULATION AGEING RESEARCH (CE17) - MCDONALD (ARC)

THE PRETEND TRIAL: A MIXED METHODS STUDY EVALUATING PREFERENCES, FEASIBILITY, AND COSTS OF PERFORMING SHAM SURGERY TRIALS INVOLVING MAJOR SURGICAL PROCEDURES

THE PRETEND TRIAL: A MIXED METHODS STUDY EVALUATING PREFERENCES, FEASIBILITY, AND COSTS OF PERFORMING SHAM SURGERY TRIALS INVOLVING MAJOR SURGICAL PROCEDURES

Randomising patients to receive either an 'active' or a 'sham' (pretend) surgery and comparing the outcomes is the best way to test how effe..

CLOSING THE EVIDENCE-PRACTICE GAP IN TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT: OPTIMISING EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION-MAKING THROUGH A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SURGEON FEEDBACK INTERVENTION

Total knee replacement (TKR) is one of the most successful surgeries for treating knee arthritis. With an ageing population demand for TKR w..

CLOSING THE EVIDENCE-PRACTICE GAP IN TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT: OPTIMISING EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION-MAKING THROUGH A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SURGEON FEEDBACK INTERVENTION

Total knee replacement (TKR) is one of the most successful surgeries for treating knee arthritis. With an ageing population demand for TKR w..

CLOSING THE EVIDENCE-PRACTICE GAP IN TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT: OPTIMISING EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION-MAKING THROUGH A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SURGEON FEEDBACK INTERVENTION

Total knee replacement (TKR) is one of the most successful surgeries for treating knee arthritis. With an ageing population demand for TKR w..

CLOSING THE EVIDENCE-PRACTICE GAP IN TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT: OPTIMISING EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION-MAKING THROUGH A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SURGEON FEEDBACK INTERVENTION

Total knee replacement (TKR) is one of the most successful surgeries for treating knee arthritis. With an ageing population demand for TKR w..

CLOSING THE EVIDENCE-PRACTICE GAP IN TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT: OPTIMISING EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION-MAKING THROUGH A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SURGEON FEEDBACK INTERVENTION

Total knee replacement (TKR) is one of the most successful surgeries for treating knee arthritis. With an ageing population demand for TKR w..

CENTRE FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE IN TOTAL JOINT REPLACEMENT OPTIMISING OUTCOMES, EQUITY, COST EFFECTIVENESS AND PATIENT SELECTION (OPUS)

Joint replacement surgery is one of the most successful surgeries performed in Australia and globally. With an ageing population, demand for..

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Research Grant

7

Research Contracts

1

Internal Research Grant

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Philip Clarke.

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Trends in Ischaemic Heart Disease in Australia, 2001-2015: A Comparison of Urban and Rural Populations

Eng Joo Tan, Andrew Hayen, Philip Clarke, Rod Jackson, Josh Knight, Alison J Hayes

Journal article | 2021 | HEART LUNG AND CIRCULATION

OBJECTIVE: Ischaemic heart disease (IHD) is a major source of disease burden worldwide. Recent trends show incidence is declining ..

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Placebo Surgery Controlled Trials Do They Achieve What They Set Out To Do? A Systematic Review

Samantha Bunzli, Emma Choong, Cade Shadbolt, Laura Wall, Elizabeth Nelson, Chris Schilling, Helen Wilding, L Stefan Lohmander, Zsolt J Balogh, Francesco Paolucci, Philip Clarke, Peter FM Choong, Michelle M Dowsey

Journal article | 2021 | ANNALS OF SURGERY

OBJECTIVE: To explore whether placebo surgery controlled trials achieve what they set out to do by investigating discrepancy betwe..

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Population norms for quality adjusted life years for the United States of America, China, the United Kingdom and Australia

Andrew J Palmer, Julie A Campbell, Barbara de Graaff, Nancy Devlin, Hasnat Ahmad, Philip M Clarke, Mingsheng Chen, Lei Si

Journal article | 2021 | HEALTH ECONOMICS

Health economics uses quality adjusted life years (QALYs) to help healthcare decision makers. However, unlike life expectancy for ..

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Smoking Cessation and Quality of Life: Insights From Analysis of Longitudinal Australian Data, an Application for Economic Evaluations

Foruhar Moayeri, Ya-Seng Arthur Hsueh, David Dunt, Philip Clarke

Journal article | 2021 | VALUE IN HEALTH

OBJECTIVES: A number of studies have shown an association between smoking habit and quality of life, but these have mainly involve..

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THE 5-YEAR HEALTH CARE COSTS OF SEPSIS IN CANCER PATIENTS: RESULTS FROM A POPULATION-BASED CASE-CONTROL MATCHED COHORT

Michelle Tew, Kim Dalziel, Karin Thursky, Murray Krahn, Lusine Abrahamyan, Philip Clarke

Conference Proceedings | 2021 | MEDICAL DECISION MAKING

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The effects of self-assessed health: Dealing with and understanding misclassification bias.

Linkun Chen, Philip M Clarke, Dennis J Petrie, Kevin E Staub

Journal article | 2021 | J Health Econ

Self-assessed health (SAH) is often used in health econometric models as the key explanatory variable or as a control variable. Ho..

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Cost‐Effectiveness of Combination Therapy for Patients With Systemic Sclerosis–Related Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

An Tran‐Duy, Kathleen Morrisroe, Philip Clarke, Wendy Stevens, Susanna Proudman, Joanne Sahhar, Mandana Nikpour

Journal article | 2021 | Journal of the American Heart Association

Background: To evaluate the cost‐effectiveness of combination pulmonary arterial hypertension specific therapy in systemic scleros..

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Lessons from the pandemic on the value of research infrastructure

Laurence SJ Roope, Paolo Candio, Vasiliki Kiparoglou, Helen McShane, Raymond Duch, Philip M Clarke

Journal article | 2021 | HEALTH RESEARCH POLICY AND SYSTEMS

The COVID-19 pandemic has shed a spotlight on the resilience of healthcare systems, and their ability to cope efficiently and effe..

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Public opinion on global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines

Philip M Clarke, Laurence SJ Roope, Peter John Loewen, Jean-Francois Bonnefon, Alessia Melegaro, Jorge Friedman, Mara Violato, Adrian Barnett, Raymond Duch

Journal article | 2021 | NATURE MEDICINE

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Survival, Dependency, and Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients With Ruptured Intracranial Aneurysm: 10-Year Follow-up of the United Kingdom Cohort of the International Subarachnoid Aneurysm Trial

Xinyang Hua, Alastair Gray, Jane Wolstenholme, Philip Clarke, Andrew J Molyneux, Richard SC Kerr, Alison Clarke, Mary Sneade, Oliver Rivero-Arias

Journal article | 2021 | NEUROSURGERY

BACKGROUND: Previous analyses of the International Subarachnoid Aneurysm Trial (ISAT) cohort have reported on clinical outcomes af..

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Keyword Analysis

Evaluation of Health and Support Services

Applied Economics

Clinical Health

Clinical Sciences

Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)

Provision of Health and Support Services

Specific Population Health (excl. Indigenous Health)

Health Services and Systems

Other Economics

News

Displaying the 10 most recent news articles by Philip Clarke.

Budget 2019 boosts aged care and mental health, and modernises Medicare: health experts respond

Stephen Duckett, Hal Swerissen, Ian Hickie, Lesley Russell, Peter Sivey, Philip Clarke

The budget provides some short-term boosts for aged care and mental health but little opportunity for much-needed structural reform. Shutte..

conversation Article

More Medicare funding goes to wealthy kids: why, and what can we do about it?

Kim Dalziel, Harriet Hiscock, Li Huang, Philip Clarke

Medicare exists to ensure all Australians have fair access to health care. from www.shutterstock.comWhen Medicare was in early development,..

conversation Article

Checkmate: top chess players live longer

Philip Clarke, An Tran-Duy, David Smerdon

Chess players live up to 14 years longer than the general population. from www.shutterstock.comIn 2014, a chess competitor collapsed during ..

conversation Article

Improving Australia’s health requires better use of patient information

Philip Clarke, Josh Knight, Xinyang Hua

Australia's policies on preventing heart disease are based on outdated research from the US. from shutterstock.comFifty years after we p..

conversation Article

Why don't we know how many people die in our hospitals?

Philip Clarke, Peter Sivey

It's pretty astounding to know we don't know how many people die in our hospitals. from www.shutterstock.com.auAbout this time last..

January 19, 2017

conversation Article

Heart attack deaths more likely at Christmas

Philip Clarke, Chris Schilling, Josh Knight

Heart attack and stroke deaths are more likely to occur over the Christmas break. from www.shutterstock.com.auChristmas holidays can be a r..

December 22, 2016

conversation Article

Bringing the war home: the rising disability claims of Afghanistan war vets

Philip Clarke

Just over 10% of those who served in Afghanistan now have an accepted war-related disability. Defence Images/Flickr, CC BY-NCThe recent ABC ..

conversation Article

Budget entrée disappoints but PBS reform still on the menu

Philip Clarke

The leaked measures would have benefited consumers and taxpayers, with small imposition on the lucrative bottom lines of pharmacists and the..

conversation Article

Let's vote on it: can we use democracy to fund science?

Adrian Barnett, Nicholas Graves, Philip Clarke

Why not let researchers vote on who should get research funding? Flickr/Keith Ivey, CC BY-NCWe often hear repeated complaints about research..

conversation Article

The right prescription: pharmacy sector in dire need of reform

Philip Clarke

Ownership and location rules ensure that Australia's pharmacy sector is protected from competition. Anders/Flickr, CC BY-NCAmong the mo..

conversation Article

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2015

FASSA - Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

2014

NHMRCF - NHMRC Fellowship

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Professor In Health Economics

Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

Education

PhD

The Australian National University

Master of Economics

University of Sydney

Bachelor of Economics

The University of Newcastle

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0000-0002-7555-5348

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Harvard University

United States

University of Oxford

United Kingdom

University of Auckland

New Zealand