Ben Wijnen wins Best Article Award NVTAG

Ben Wijnen has won the prize for best 2017 article from the Dutch Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care (NVTAG) for his methodological article entitled “A comparison of the responsiveness of EQ-5D-5L and the QOLIE-31P and mapping of QOLIE-31P to EQ-5D-5L in epilepsy” published in the European Journal of Health Economics, 19(6), 861-870.

“A comparison of the responsiveness of EQ-5D-5L and the QOLIE-31P and mapping of QOLIE-31P to EQ-5D-5L in epilepsy”

The yearly award of the Dutch Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care (NVTAG) is granted for the best article in the field of Health Technology Assessment published in 2017 and is a joined decision by a jury and colleagues present during the symposium of the NVTAG.

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