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.

Tuesday 12 December 2017

Latest Publications from HEDS in November

Our regular monthly trawl for new publications from HEDS in collaboration with colleagues in ScHARR and further afield never fails to discover fresh research. Many of these are currently in press and you can find much of our work in its open access form via our institutional repository. Tuck in here


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Alshreef, A. and Wailoo, A. J. (2017) ‘Haemorrhoidal Artery Ligation Procedure For The Treatment of Symptomatic Grade II–III Heamorrhoids: A Trial-Based And Long-Term Model-Based Economic Evaluation’, In Value in Health, Elsevier.

van Baal, P., Morton, A., Brouwer, W., Meltzer, D. and Davis, S. (2017) ‘Should cost effectiveness analyses for NICE always consider future unrelated medical costs?’, BMJ, England, vol. 359, no. j5096 [Online]. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29127081.

Burns, J., Polus, S., Brereton, L., Chilcott, J., Ward, S. E., Pfadenhauer, L. M. and Rehfuess, E. A. (n.d.) ‘Looking beyond the forest: using harvest plots, gap analysis and expert consultations to assess effectiveness, engage stakeholders and inform policy’, Research Synthesis Methods.

Carlton, J., Griffiths, H. and Mazzone, P. (n.d.) ‘BIOS Screening Audit report 2015-2016’, [Online]. Available at: https://sheffield.figshare.com/articles/BIOS_Screening_Audit_report_2015-2016/5532910.

Comans, T. A., Nguyen, K. H., Mulhern, B., Corlis, M., Li, L., Welch, A., Kurrle, S., Rowen, D. L., Moyle, W., Kularatna, S. and Ratcliffe, J. (n.d.) ‘Developing a dementia-specific preference-based quality of life measure (AD-5D) in Australia: Valuation study protocol’, BMJ Open, BMJ Journals.

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Cooper, C., Booth, A., Britten, N. and Garside, R. (2017) ‘A comparison of results of empirical studies of supplementary search techniques and recommendations in review methodology handbooks: a methodological review.’, Systematic Reviews, BioMed Central, vol. 6, no. 1 [Online]. Available at: https://systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13643-017-0625-1.

Fotheringham, J., Barnes, T., Dunn, L., Lee, S., Ariss, S., Young, T., Walters, S. J., Laboi, P., Henwood, A., Gair, R. and Wilkie, M. (2017) ‘Rationale and design for SHAREHD: a quality improvement collaborative to scale up Shared Haemodialysis Care for patients on centre based haemodialysis.’, BMC Nephrology, England, vol. 18, no. 1, p. 335 [Online]. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29178891.

Hernandez, M. and pudney, S. (n.d.) ‘EQ5DMAP: a command for mapping between EQ-5D-3L and EQ-5D-5L’, The Stata journal, StataCorp.

Latimer, N. R., White, I. R., Abrams, K. R. and Sieburt, U. (2017) Causal inference for long-term survival in randomised trials with treatment switching: Should re-censoring be applied when estimating counterfactual survival times?, vol. 17.09.

Meier, P., Brennan, A., Angus, C. and Holmes, J. (2017) ‘Minimum unit pricing for alcohol clears final legal hurdle in Scotland.’, BMJ, England, vol. 359, no. j5372 [Online]. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29162561.

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Pollard, D., Goodacre, S., Stevenson, M. and Fuller, G. (2017) ‘10 Decision analysis modelling of diagnostic strategies for suspected pulmonary embolism in pregnancy: the DiPEP economic evaluation.’, In Emergency Medicine Journal, England, vol. 34, no. 12, pp. A867–A868 [Online]. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29170307.

Wailoo, A., Hock, E. S., Stevenson, M., Martyn-St James, M., Rawdin, A., Simpson, E., Wong, R., Dracup, N., Scott, D. L. and Young, A. (2017) ‘The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of treat-to-target strategies in rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review and cost-effectiveness analysis.’, Health Technology Assessment, England, vol. 21, no. 71, pp. 1–258 [Online]. Available at:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29206093.