Dr Valerio Benedetto
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Valerio is part of the Synthesis, Economic Evaluation and Decision Science (SEEDS) Group within the Applied Health Research hub, and mainly works on health economic evaluations, economic evidence syntheses and econometrics.
Valerio is an economist and he has worked at the University of Lancashire since 2015, with posts in the Research Support Team and now in the SEEDS Group. He is also a member of the Methodological Innovation, Development, Adaptation and Support (MIDAS) Theme, as part of the Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast (ARC NWC). For MIDAS, Valerio is the Health Economics lead and co-leads the Rapid Conversion of Economic Evaluations (RaCEEs) course.
Valerio has been involved in many projects in diverse disease areas - such as stroke, cancer and frailty - and settings - such as primary and secondary care, nursing education and prisons. His role entails the design and delivery of health economic evaluations, econometric analyses and economic evidence syntheses, and the development of economic components for research grants.
He has worked on projects funded by important research institutions, such as the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and the European Research Council, contributing to produce findings with implications for clinical practice. Examples are the economic and statistical work on:
- Systematic reviews on the analytical methods used to determine the cost-effectiveness of digital health interventions and interventions for people with learning disabilities;
- Cost-effectiveness of diagnostic techniques for the characterisation of pulmonary nodules;
- Evaluating the effectiveness of using Exergames to prevent falls in older adults;
- Modelling the adherence and persistence to new direct oral anticoagulants in treating atrial fibrillation.
Valerio has a varied skillset in decision-analytic and econometric modelling and analysis. He has grown strong scientific publication and grant-capture records, and has contributed to disseminate the projects' findings in national and international conferences.
- ARC NWC Rapid Conversion of Economic Evaluations (RaCEEs) course
- Individual sessions on health economic evaluations, summary and inferential statistics for different modules at the University of Lancashire.
- PhD in Transport Economics and Regulation, University of Leeds, 2016
- MSc Economics, University of York, 2012
- Master's degree in Applied Economics and Economics Policies, University of Ferrara, 2010
- Undergraduate degree in Economics and Accounting, University of Bologna, 2007
- Health economics and modelling
- Health Technology Assessment
- Medical statistics
- Methodological Innovation, Development, Adaptation and Support (MIDAS) Theme
- National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast (NIHR ARC NWC)
Research activities:
- Design and delivery of the health economic evaluations and econometric analyses.
- Evidence synthesis of economic literature (systematic and scoping reviews).
- Preparation of economic components for bids for research funding.
Publications:
- Benedetto, V., Filipe, L., Harris, C., Spencer, J., Hickson, C. and Clegg A. (2023), Analytical frameworks and outcome measures in economic evaluations of digital health interventions: a methodological systematic review. Medical Decision Making. 43(1), pp. 125-138. ID: 44020.
- Gilbert, F.J., Harris, S., Miles, K.A., Weir-McCall, J.R., Qureshi, N.R., Rintoul, R.C., Dizdarevic, S., Pike, L., Sinclair, D., Shah, A., Eaton, R., Clegg, A., Benedetto, V., Hill, J.E., Cook, A., Tzelis, D., Vale, L., Brindle, L., Madden, J., Cozens, K., Little, L.A., Eichhorst, K., Moate, P., McClement, C., Peebles, C., Banerjee, A., Han, S., Poon, F.W., Groves, A.M., Kurban, L., Frew, A.J., Callister, M.E., Crosbie, P., Gleeson, F.V., Karunasaagarar, K., Kankam, O. and George, S. (2022), Dynamic contrast-enhanced CT compared with positron emission tomography CT to characterise solitary pulmonary nodules: the SPUtNIk diagnostic accuracy study and economic modelling. Health Technology Assessment. 26(17). ID: 41365.
- Stanmore, E., Mavroeidi, A., de Jong, L.D., Skelton, D.A., Sutton, C.J., Benedetto, V., Munford, L.A., Wytske, M., Bell, V., Todd, C.J. (2019), The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of strength and balance Exergames to reduce falls risk for people aged 55 years and older in UK assisted living facilities: A multi-centre, cluster randomised controlled trial, BMC Medicine. 17(49), pp. 1-14. ID: 26133.
- Banerjee, A., Benedetto, V., Gichuru, P., Burnell, J., Sotiris, A., Schilling, R., Strain, W.D., Ryan, R., Watkins, C., Marshall, T., Sutton, C. (2019), Adherence and persistence to direct oral anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation: a population-based study, Heart. 106, pp. 119-126. ID: 29866.
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- Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Group
- Methodological Innovation, Development, Adaptation and Support (MIDAS) Group
- National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast (NIHR ARC NWC)
- Synthesis, Economic Evaluation and Decision Science (SEEDS) Group
- Confirming the Mechanism of Motivational Interviewing Therapy after Stroke (COMMITS)
- Use post-operative antibiotics following surgery for patients with mandible fractures (MANTRA)
- Mental health prevention and promotion in general practice settings (MEND)
- Use of the Stroke Patient Concerns Inventory in Stroke Outpatients Clinics (SPaCIS)
- Symptoms, Trajectory, Inequalities and Management: Understanding Long-COVID to Address and Transform Existing Integrated Care Pathways (STIMULATE-ICP)
- Self-monitoring of blood pressure in pre-hypertension to reduce cardiovascular risk (REVERSE)
- IMPROVing Stroke CarE in India (IMPROVISE)
- Global Greening of Prisons: Examining how horticulture programmes impact wellbeing
- SPUtNIk Trial - Accuracy and Cost-Effectiveness of Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Computed Tomography in the Characterisation of Solitary Pulmonary Nodules
- Investigating the Detection of CRYPTogenic stroke (ID-CRYPT)
- Identifying and Improving End of Life Care for Stroke in Hospitals
- The Holistic Needs Assessment in Cancer Care: Identifying Barriers and Facilitators to Implementation
- Adherence and persistence to direct oral anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation
- Economic evaluations alongside trials and using real world evidence conference (2025), Stratford, UK. Abstract co-author and presenter.
- Research at UCLan (2020), Preston, UK. Poster co-author and presenter
- 11th UK Stroke Forum Conference (2016), Liverpool, UK. Poster co-author and presenter
- 4th Conference on the Regulation of Infrastructures (2015), Florence School of Regulation, San Domenico di Fiesole (Florence), Italy. Paper co-author and presenter
- Young Economists' Meeting (2015), Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. Paper co-author and presenter
- 4th White Rose Doctoral Training Centre Economics Conference (2015), University of Leeds, UK. Paper co-author and presenter
Telephone:+44 (0)1772 89 4581
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