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.

Monday 4 June 2018

Latest Research from HEDS

Our regular monthly trawl for new publications from HEDS in collaboration with colleagues in ScHARR and further afield has reaped a tremendous amount of fresh research. Many of these are currently in press, so you can find much of our work in its open access form via our institutional repository. You can see more of our research here - open access.

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Baxter, S., Johnson, M., Chambers, D., Sutton, A., et al. (2018) The effects of integrated care: a systematic review of UK and international evidence. BMC Health Services Research. [Online] 18 (1). Available from: doi:10.1186/s12913-018-3161-3.

       Carroll, C. & Kaltenthaler, E. (2018) Nature and reporting characteristics of UK health technology assessment systematic reviews. BMC Medical Research Methodology. [Online] 18 (1). Available from: doi:10.1186/s12874-018-0498-6.

       Chambers, D., Cantrell, A., Preston, L., Peasgood, T., et al. (2018) Systematic review of the evidence on housing interventions for ‘housing-vulnerable’ adults and its relationship to wellbeing. [Online]. Available from: https://whatworkswellbeing.org/blog/housing-for-vulnerable-people-what-works/.

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Devlin, N., Brazier, J., Simon Pickard, A. & Stolk, E. (2018) Correction to: 3L, 5L, What the L? A NICE Conundrum (PharmacoEconomics, (2018), 36, 6, (637-640), 10.1007/s40273-018-0622-9). PharmacoEconomics. [Online] 36 (6), 729. Available from: doi:10.1007/s40273-018-0659-9.

Feng, Y., Karimi, M., Hole, A., Tsuchiya, A., et al. (2018) An exploration of the non-iterative time trade off method to value health states. Health Economics. [Online] Available from: doi:10.1002/hec.3773.

Harden, A., Thomas, J., Cargo, M., Harris, J., et al. (2018) Cochrane Qualitative and Implementation Methods Group guidance paper 5: methods for integrating qualitative and implementation evidence within intervention effectiveness reviews. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. [Online] Available from: doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2017.11.029.

Hernandez-Villafuerte, K., Fischer, A. & Latimer, N.R. (n.d.) Challenges And Methodologies In Using Progression Free Survival As a Surrogate For Overall Survival In Oncology. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care.
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       Noyes, J., Booth, A., Cargo, M., Flemming, K., et al. (2018) Cochrane Qualitative and Implementation Methods Group guidance series—paper 1: introduction. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. [Online] Available from: doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2017.09.025.

       Rowen, D.L., Labeit, A., Stevens, K., Elliot, J., et al. (n.d.) Estimating a preference-based single index measuring the quality of life impact of self-management for diabetes. Medical Decision Making.

       Ward, S.E., Richards, P.D., Morgan, J.L., Holmes, G.R., et al. (2018) Omission of surgery in older women with early breast cancer has an adverse impact on breast cancer-specific survival. British Journal of Surgery. [Online] Available from: doi:10.1002/bjs.10885.

Whitehurst, D.G.T., Latimer, N.R., Kagan, A., Palmer, R., et al. (n.d.) Developing accessible, pictorial versions of health-related quality of life instruments suitable for economic evaluation: a report of preliminary studies conducted in Canada and the United Kingdom. PharmacoEconomics - Open.