Assoc Prof Duncan Mortimer - Researcher Profile

Biography

Duncan works in the Faculty of Business & Economics at Monash University as a Senior Research Fellow.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2008

MASTER OF ECONOMICS (HONOURS)

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2001

POST-GRADUATE DIPLOMA-HEALTH ECONOMICS &EVALUATION

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1997

BACHELOR OF ECONOMICS

Institution: Adelaide University

Year awarded: 1996

Publications

Books

Mortimer, D., 2000, Moist Wound Dressings and Pressure Relieving Surfaces. Working Paper 104, CHPE, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Richardson, J., Segal, L., Watts, J., Carter, R.A., Mortimer, D., Peacock, S., Robertson, I.K., 1999, Working Paper 100 The Reform of Public Hospital Funding in Australia Submission to the Senate Inquiry into Public Hospital Funding, Centre for Health Program Evaluation, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Richardson, J., Olsen, J.A., Hawthorne, G., Mortimer, D., Smith, R.S., 1999, Working Paper 96 The Measurement and Valuation of Utility Based Quality of Life Recommendations from a Review of the Literature, Centre for Health Program Evaluation, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Richardson, J., Olsen, J.A., Hawthorne, G., Mortimer, D., Smith, R.S., 1999, Working Paper 97 The Measurement and Valuation of Quality of Life in Economic Evaluation An Introduction and Overview of Issues and Options, Centre for Health Program Evalaution, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Olsen, J.A., Richardson, J., Mortimer, D., 1998, Priority setting in the Public Health Service: results of an Australian survey, Centre for Health Program Evaluation, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Journal Articles

O'Neil, A., Stevenson, C., Williams, E., Mortimer, D., Oldenburg, B., Sanderson, K., 2013, The health-related quality of life burden of co-morbid cardiovascular disease and major depressive disorder in Australia: findings from a population-based, cross-sectional study, Quality Of Life Research [P], vol 22, Springer, Netherlands, pp. 37-44.

Mortimer, D.S., Peacock, S.J., 2012, Social welfare and the Affordable Care Act: Is it ever optimal to set aside comparative cost?, Social Science and Medicine [P], vol 75, issue 7, Pergamon, Kidlington Oxford UK, pp. 1156-1162.

Mortimer, D., Li, J., Watts, J., Harris, A., 2011, Breaking up is hard to do: The economic impact of provisional funding contingent upon evidence development, Health Economics, Policy and Law [P], vol 6, issue 4, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, pp. 509-527.

Segal, L., Dalziel, K., Mortimer, D., 2010, Fixing the game: Are between-silo differences in funding arrangements handicapping some interventions and giving others a head-start?, Health Economics [P], vol 19, issue 4, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, UK, pp. 449-465.

McKenzie, J., O'Connor, D., Page, M., Mortimer, D., French, S., Walker, B., Keating, J., Grimshaw, J., Michie, S., Francis, J., Green, S., 2010, Improving the care for people with acute low-back pain by allied health professionals (the ALIGN trial): A cluster randomised trial protocol, Implementation Science [P], vol 5, issue 86, BioMed Central Ltd, UK, pp. 1-17.

Mortimer, D., 2010, Reorienting programme budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA) towards disinvestment, BMC Health Services Research [E], vol 10, issue 288, BioMed Central Ltd, UK, pp. 1-10.

Mortimer, D.S., Segal, L., Sturm, J.W., 2009, Can we derive an 'exchange rate' between descriptive and preference-based outcome measures for stroke? Results from the transfer to utility (TTU) technique, Health and Quality of Life Outcomes [P], vol 7, issue 33, BioMed Central Ltd, UK, pp. 1-19.

Harris, A.H., Mortimer, D.S., 2009, Funding illness prevention and health promotion in Australia: A way forward, Australia and New Zealand Health Policy [P], vol 6, issue 25, BioMed Central Ltd, UK, pp. 1-4.

Mortimer, D.S., Segal, L., 2008, Comparing the incomparable? A systematic review of competing techniques for converting descriptive measures of health status into QALY-weights, Medical Decision Making: An International Journal, vol 28, issue 1, Sage Science Press (US), United States, pp. 66-89.

Hawthorne, G., Densley, K., Pallant, J.F., Mortimer, D.S., Segal, L., 2008, Deriving utility scores from the SF-36 health instrument using Rasch analysis, Quality of Life Research, vol 17, issue 9, Springer Netherlands, Netherlands, pp. 1183-1193.

McKenzie, J.E., French, S.D., O'Connor, D.A., Grimshaw, J.M., Mortimer, D.S., Michie, S., Francis, J., Spike, N.A., Schattner, P., Kent, P.M., Buchbinder, R., Green, S.E., 2008, IMPLEmenting a clinical practice guideline for acute low back pain evidence-based manageMENT in general practice (IMPLEMENT): Cluster randomised controlled trial study protocol, Implementation Science, vol 3, issue 11, BioMed Central, UK, pp. 1-12.

Mortimer, D.S., Segal, L., 2008, Is the value of a life or life-year saved context specific? Further evidence from a discrete choice experiment, Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, vol 6, issue 8, BioMed Central Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 1-15.

Mortimer, D.S., 2008, Modelling downstream effects in the presence of technological change, PharmacoEconomics, vol 26, issue 12, Adis International Ltd., New Zealand, pp. 991-1003.

Mortimer, D.S., French, S.D., McKenzie, J.E., O'Connor, D.A., Green, S.E., 2008, Protocol for economic evaluation alongside the IMPLEMENT cluster randomised controlled trial, Implementation Science, vol 3, issue 12, BioMed Central Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 1-9.

Dalziel, K.M., Segal, L., Mortimer, D.S., 2008, Review of Australian health economic evaluation - 245 interventions: What can we say about cost effectiveness?, Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, vol 6, issue 9, BioMed Central Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 1-12.

Mortimer, D.S., Segal, L., Hawthorne, G., Harris, A.H., 2007, Item-based versus subscale-based mappings from the SF-36 to a preference-based quality of life measure, Value in Health, vol 10, issue 5, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc, United States, pp. 398-407.

Hollingsworth, B.P., Harris, A.H., Mortimer, D.S., 2007, The cost effectiveness of intracyctoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, vol 24, issue 12, Springer New York LLC, United States, pp. 571-577.

Segal, L., Mortimer, D.S., 2006, A population-based model for priority setting across the care continuum and across modalities, Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, vol 4, issue 6, BioMed Central Ltd, London UK, pp. 1-9.

Mortimer, D.S., French, S.D., 2006, Can dissenting findings regarding the comparative effectiveness of ICSI and IVF be explained by a learning curve?, Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, vol 23, issue 1, Springer New York LLC, New York USA, pp. 33-36.

Richardson, J.R.J., Peacock, S.J., Mortimer, D.S., 2006, Does an increase in the doctor supply reduce medical fees? An econometric analysis of medical fees across Australia, Applied Economics, vol 38, issue 3, Routledge, UK, pp. 253-266.

Mortimer, D.S., Segal, L., 2006, Economic evaluation of interventions for problem drinking and alcohol dependence: Do within-family external effects make a difference, Alcohol & Alcoholism, vol 41, issue 1, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 92-98.

Mortimer, D.S., Kelly, J., 2006, Economic evaluation of the Good Life Club intervention for diabetes self-management, Australian Journal of Primary Health, vol 12, issue 1, La Trobe University, Australian Institute for Primary Care, Bundoora Vic Australia, pp. 91-100.

Mortimer, D.S., 2006, The value of thinly spread QALYs, PharmacoEconomics, vol 24, issue 9, Adis International Ltd, New Zealand, pp. 845-853.

Mortimer, D.S., Segal, L., 2005, Economic evaluation of interventions for problem drinking and alcohol dependence: cost per QALY estimates, Alcohol & Alcoholism, vol 40, issue 6, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 549-555.

Mortimer, D.S., 2005, On the relevance of personal characteristics in setting health priorities: A comment on Olsen, Richardson, Dolan and Menzel (2003), Social Science & Medicine, vol 60, issue 8, Pergamon, UK, pp. 1661-1666.

Other

Georgeff, M., Hilton, J., Piterman, L., Chapman, C., Segal, L., Paterson, M., Schattner, P., Jones, K., Adaji, A., Mortimer, D., Dunning, T., Costa, B., Fitzgerald, K., Rasmussen, B., Sweeny, K., 2011, CDM-Net - A broadband health network for transforming chronic disease management: Final report, Precedence Healthcare, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-192.

Mortimer, D.S., 2002, Competing methods for efficiency measurement: A systematic review of direct DEA vs SFA/DFA comparisons, Centre for Health Program Evaluation, West Heidelberg Vic Australia, pp. 1-19.

Peacock, S.J., Mortimer, D.S., Harris, A.H., Carter, R., Richardson, J.R.J., 2001, An economic analysis of proposed changes to the conformity assessment of medical devices, Centre for Health Program Evaluation, West Heidelberg Vic Australia, pp. 1-195.

Peacock, S., Mortimer, D., Harris, A., Carter, R.A., Richardson, J., 2000, An Economics Analysis of Proposed Changes to the Conformity Assessment of Medical Devices - Working Paper 107, CHPE Working Paper Series, First Edition, CHPE, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Economics of sleep health in quadriplegia.

Supervisors:

Mortimer, D (Main), Lorgelly, P (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The economics of complementary & alternative medicine (CAM).

Supervisors:

Mortimer, D (Main).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The impact of sector wide approaches (SWAPs) on health financing and resource allocation in developing countries .

Supervisors:

Mortimer, D (Main), Johnston, D (Associate).