Oliver Rivero-Arias

MSc DPhil

Associate Professor in Health Economics

Senior Health Economist at NPEU

Oliver Rivero-Arias is the Senior Health Economist at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit having previously held appointments at the Health Economics Research Centre (HERC), University of Oxford during the period 2002-2013. His main research interest concerns the evaluation of cost-effectiveness methodology and the conduct of applied economic studies in the perinatal and maternal health area. He has been involved in the evaluation of methods to handle missing data in cost-effectiveness analysis, the economic implications of cost-effectiveness analysis alongside multinational clinical trials, the development of algorithms to map available data into quality of life measures, and the valuation of health for decision-making. He is actively involved in teaching and postgraduate supervision, and was an associate editor of BMC Medical Research Methodology during 2011-2015.

Recent publications

Multiple imputation for patient reported outcome measures in randomised controlled trials: advantages and disadvantages of imputing at the item, subscale or composite score level.
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Rombach I. et al, (2018), BMC Med Res Methodol, 18
Prophylactic antibiotics for the prevention of infection following operative vaginal delivery (ANODE): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.
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Knight M. et al, (2018), Trials, 19
Hypothermia for perinatal asphyxia: trial-based resource use and costs at 6-7 years.
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Rivero-Arias O. et al, (2018), Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed
Hypothermia for perinatal asphyxia: trial-based quality of life at 6-7 years.
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Campbell H. et al, (2018), Arch Dis Child, 103, 654 - 659
Comparison of statistical approaches for analyzing incomplete longitudinal patient-reported outcome data in randomized controlled trials
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Rombach I. et al, (2018), Patient Related Outcome Measures

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