Liz Stokes
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Liz Stokes
BSc MSc DPhil
Senior Researcher
Liz’s research interests lie in economic evaluation and particularly in costing within economic evaluations.
She has worked on many cost-effectiveness analyses alongside randomised controlled trials in areas such as blood transfusion, and cardiac and thoracic surgery, and has used decision modelling to assess the cost-effectiveness of additional tests to guide treatment decisions for several cardiac populations.
Liz completed a doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford in 2016 on the costs and cost-effectiveness of transfusion management strategies in cardiac surgery. She is a Research Advisor for the Research Design Service - South Central.
Liz joined the Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) in November 2009, having worked at Keele University (2001-2007) and Liverpool John Moores University (2008-2009) and in this time completed an MSc in Medical Statistics at the University of Leicester.
Recent publications
Gabapentin as an adjunct to multimodal pain regimens in surgical patients: the GAP placebo-controlled RCT and economic evaluation.
Journal article
Baos S. et al, (2026), Health Technol Assess, 30, 1 - 144
Gabapentin for Pain Management after Major Surgery: A Placebo-controlled, Double-blinded, Randomized Clinical Trial (the GAP Study).
Journal article
Baos S. et al, (2025), Anesthesiology, 143, 851 - 861
Optimum diagnostic pathway and pathologic confirmation rate of early stage lung cancer: Results from the VIOLET randomised controlled trial.
Journal article
Harris RA. et al, (2025), Lung Cancer, 199
Extended pleurectomy decortication and chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone for pleural mesothelioma (MARS 2): a phase 3 randomised controlled trial.
Journal article
Lim E. et al, (2024), Lancet Respir Med, 12, 457 - 466