HEDS is part of the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield. We undertake research, teaching, training and consultancy on all aspects of health related decision science, with a particular emphasis on health economics, HTA and evidence synthesis.

Wednesday 30 July 2014

Cochrane Collaboration update

New and updated Cochrane Reviews highlighted on their website this month are:
  • Inhaled corticosteroids in children with persistent asthma: dose-response effects on growth
  • Inhaled corticosteroids in children with persistent asthma: effects on growth
  • Task shifting from doctors to non-doctors for initiation and maintenance of antiretroviral therapy
  • Antimicrobial drugs for treating cholera
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  • Levothyroxine or minimally invasive therapies for benign thyroid nodules
  • Interventions to improve hearing aid use in adult auditory rehabilitation
  • Non-steroidal antiandrogen monotherapy compared with luteinising hormone–releasing hormone agonists or surgical castration monotherapy for advanced prostate cancer
  • Bispectral index for improving anaesthetic delivery and postoperative recovery
  • Oral or parenteral iron supplementation to reduce deferral, iron deficiency and/or anaemia in blood donors
  • Physician anaesthetists versus non-physician providers of anaesthesia for surgical patients
  • Sentinel node assessment for diagnosis of groin lymph node involvement in vulval cancer
  • Interventions to increase influenza vaccination rates of those 60 years and older in the community