tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45873594070491924162024-03-14T09:09:06.427+00:00Health Economics and Decision Science (HEDS) BlogHEDShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03987703278167355847noreply@blogger.comBlogger1617125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587359407049192416.post-31232352014622983232022-12-14T10:06:00.003+00:002022-12-14T10:06:54.243+00:00Last Post - Farewell<p><span style="font-family: arial;">After 12 years, more than 1600 and over 522,000 page views form 167 different countries, the HEDS Blog is closing down. We have decided to concentrate our efforts on other platforms such as Twitter, our webinars and our podcasts. Read further on to find out where you can follow us. <br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxzeAWnNz0MkSMA-PPY0m6xo-hEVtO1PRp_9k6EEzNOK3hZI5s1pUhOschcEsnqnsfGdlekiABaeFE9NkYbZ1Af4YfDrEeEBv6tDpro1c9B6_128AKGso9jejsbZ5XDIAqSfg3LqGVOhGi-fSMKqAtKXWY0dWBrQuDxgZTiA1w3_9BPK5IJgzA56_A/s397/regent%20court%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="ScHARR - Regent Court" border="0" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="397" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxzeAWnNz0MkSMA-PPY0m6xo-hEVtO1PRp_9k6EEzNOK3hZI5s1pUhOschcEsnqnsfGdlekiABaeFE9NkYbZ1Af4YfDrEeEBv6tDpro1c9B6_128AKGso9jejsbZ5XDIAqSfg3LqGVOhGi-fSMKqAtKXWY0dWBrQuDxgZTiA1w3_9BPK5IJgzA56_A/w355-h200/regent%20court%20(1).jpg" width="355" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Regent Court (the home of the HEDS Blog) </span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">So while it was fun while it lasted – except for the threat
of legal action in relation to one post about one particularly ludicrous
cost-effectiveness model that will remain nameless (unless you buy me a drink
at ISPOR) – we shall bid you all farewell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Except North Dakota, from where nobody has yet to log on. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Blog will remain to signpost people to our other
platforms, but it will not be updated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It shall slowly crumble, And on the pedestal these words appear:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:<br />
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/ScHARRHEDS" target="_blank">HEDS on Twitter</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/ScHARRSheffield" target="_blank">ScHARR on Twitter</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Listen and subscribe to our <a href="https://player.sheffield.ac.uk/series/scharr-communicable-research-podcast" target="_blank">Communicable Research podcasts</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Watch our <a href="https://digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/channel/ScHARR%2BMini%2BMaster%2BClasses%2Bin%2BHealth%2BResearch/181471491" target="_blank">Mini Master Class in Health Research Webinars</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">Stay up to date with news from <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/news" target="_blank">ScHARR and HEDS</a></span></p>Andy Tattersallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14930708174863561344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587359407049192416.post-80648175851555437462022-11-28T13:28:00.004+00:002022-11-28T13:28:47.814+00:00Job vacacy at ScHARR - Research Programme Coordinator<p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">The Health Economics and Decision Science (HEDS) Section</span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: small;"> are currently advertising for a <b>Research Programme Coordinator </b></span><span color="windowtext" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;">to the </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) funded Decision Support Unit (DSU) and The Policy Research Unit in Economic Evaluation of Health and Social Care Interventions (EEPRU).</span></p><p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivzcOPe5n8E5lAqxW21LjQsJ-nofxJvc4x3CHe30LQOXSdPiG2vj3HkParNJSqXL3DWlS7z7gCB7UOHRtufTbI5zaxKiqfbi8vpzEdD4zR0YZ-ns2FWBHQodBxJSvKTivFZrnt0YboaFFwwmlPjSGVehsxrfc87GiajRTX5RSaxqNaBcM5oK-q8bcZ/s320/Regent%20Court.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="320" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivzcOPe5n8E5lAqxW21LjQsJ-nofxJvc4x3CHe30LQOXSdPiG2vj3HkParNJSqXL3DWlS7z7gCB7UOHRtufTbI5zaxKiqfbi8vpzEdD4zR0YZ-ns2FWBHQodBxJSvKTivFZrnt0YboaFFwwmlPjSGVehsxrfc87GiajRTX5RSaxqNaBcM5oK-q8bcZ/s1600/Regent%20Court.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ScHARR, Regent Court</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Job Reference Number: UOS035392</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Contract Type: Fixed-term for 28 months</b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Working Pattern: Part-time, working 24.5 hours per week, days of working to be agreed</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Faculty: Faculty of Medicine</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Department: Health Economics and Decision Science (HEDS)</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR)</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Salary: Grade 6: £28,762 - £33,314 per annum pro-rata. Potential to progress to</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>£36,386 per annum through sustained exceptional contribution</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Closing Date: 5th December 2022</b></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><p><b> <br /></b></p><p><b><span face="arial, sans-serif">The vacancy and ATJ can be found </span>can be found<a href="https://jobs.shef.ac.uk/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/hrrcf_a_posting_apply?PARAM=cG9zdF9pbnN0X2d1aWQ9NjM3N0M5QjVBNzUxMDU4QUUxMDAwMDAwQUMxRTg4NzgmY2FuZF90eXBlPUVYVA%3D%3D&sap-client=400&sap-language=EN&sap-accessibility=X&sap-ep-themeroot=%2FSAP%2FPUBLIC%2FBC%2FUR%2Fuos#" target="_blank"> <span style="color: #1155cc;">here</span>.</a></b></p><p></p></div>Sonia Rizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17361560982490235916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587359407049192416.post-19322143442784790832022-11-14T11:03:00.002+00:002022-11-14T11:03:28.069+00:00Job Vacancy at ScHARR - Research Associate / Research Fellow<p><span style="font-family: arial;">We are currently advertising for a Research Associate or a Research Fellow with a strong background in statistics and/or econometrics, preferably in the area of causal inference, with an interest in evaluating the efficacy and comparative effectiveness of care technologies/services. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFVSPkklM5mnOYu0VWUNgVissCWGiFLUWWo-GL3xN4NKS6bBKyQqm3z0B2JA6F7yOmCcLQcjFvkKJa2WQI9fOA-RL1dhSs6_RAMGeBoEv6E0b6awOEJJsQqub3DMR2Nbm8IqMxh5GMdr4Ct46oi6JFoBBtmMyHw4VDP_Bd6486He78U_UawOpR17NH/s320/Regent%20Court.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="320" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFVSPkklM5mnOYu0VWUNgVissCWGiFLUWWo-GL3xN4NKS6bBKyQqm3z0B2JA6F7yOmCcLQcjFvkKJa2WQI9fOA-RL1dhSs6_RAMGeBoEv6E0b6awOEJJsQqub3DMR2Nbm8IqMxh5GMdr4Ct46oi6JFoBBtmMyHw4VDP_Bd6486He78U_UawOpR17NH/s1600/Regent%20Court.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Regent Court, the home of ScHARR</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Reference Number: UOS035218</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Salary: Grade 7 / Grade 8</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Details: Full-time and fixed-term for 2 years</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Closing Date: Wednesday 30 November 2022 </span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The vacancy and ATJ <a href="https://jobs.shef.ac.uk/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/hrrcf_a_posting_apply?PARAM=cG9zdF9pbnN0X2d1aWQ9NjM2OUM2QzMyRDBEMjgxRUUxMDAwMDAwQUMxRTg4NzgmY2FuZF90eXBlPUVYVA%3d%3d&sap-client=400&sap-language=EN&sap-accessibility=X&sap-ep-themeroot=%2fSAP%2fPUBLIC%2fBC%2fUR%2fuos#" target="_blank">can be found here</a>.</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) is looking to recruit an early or mid-career </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">researcher with strong background in statistics and/or econometrics, preferably in the area of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">causal inference, with an interest in evaluating the efficacy and comparative effectiveness of care </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">technologies/services, to join the Health Economic and Decision Science (HEDS) section.</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">You will mainly work in conjunction with the ScHARR Knowledge Exchange (KE) team, providing </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">support in the development of non-randomised study designs and associated analyses for the </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">evaluation of care technologies or services. You will also provide statistical and/or econometric </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">support to multi-disciplinary teams as part of other HEDS research and consultancy projects. Work </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">will include the evaluation of new care technologies or services, usually within non-randomised study </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">designs with a focus on the efficacy and/or comparative effectiveness of the care technology. These </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">evaluations could be supported through the use of primary data collection or reliant on existing ‘realworld data’ (RWD) sources.</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">You should be familiar with methods for estimating comparative effectiveness using nonrandomised data, such as those methods detailed within NICE Technical Support Document 17: </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2022-02/TSD17-DSU-Observational-data-FINAL.pdf">https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2022-02/TSD17-DSU-Observational-data-FINAL.pdf</a></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">You will be encouraged to develop your own methodological research interests that are </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;">complementary to those within HEDS and help contribute to Masters level teaching and supervision.</span></p>Sonia Rizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17361560982490235916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587359407049192416.post-60178837701475880832022-11-04T15:20:00.003+00:002022-11-04T15:20:46.217+00:00The Autumn/Winter 2022 issue of the HEDS Newsletter is out!<p>The newsletter you've all been waiting for! </p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkqZqvWvDCRdqkWmcCfYy74Bq_ZlByo0Z_NSXYme4FMbfmXdSjWT5qrrUv1foaTzLEcvQ-ZB9lcDOrONnIK0w1-gN98Tmuoqtz0yGsMpnAWrYdFvTIy82bxc4XL0iFBApVnGMKvbFDqdqO53Z1XINb2nxgy66a8t-WvWq0jkMI-S2TGx8dyOKkBHzw/s3280/Newsletter%20cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3280" data-original-width="2291" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkqZqvWvDCRdqkWmcCfYy74Bq_ZlByo0Z_NSXYme4FMbfmXdSjWT5qrrUv1foaTzLEcvQ-ZB9lcDOrONnIK0w1-gN98Tmuoqtz0yGsMpnAWrYdFvTIy82bxc4XL0iFBApVnGMKvbFDqdqO53Z1XINb2nxgy66a8t-WvWq0jkMI-S2TGx8dyOKkBHzw/s320/Newsletter%20cover.jpg" width="224" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">HEDS Newsletter Autumn/Winter 2022</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>The Autumn/Winter 2022 issue of the HEDS Newsletter is now available and includes:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>International development of a new measure of Health and Wellbeing,</li><li>HEDS hosts the 100th Health Economists' Study Group (HESG) meeting,</li><li>A new framework to identify quality of mental healthcare,</li><li>And the latest publications by HEDS staff </li></ul><p></p><p>Read it online <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WI8qCdp-S0w8WSnMSe8ZH25uiLUrbQPg/view" target="_blank">here</a></p>Sonia Rizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17361560982490235916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587359407049192416.post-75045767457862176002022-11-04T12:26:00.003+00:002022-11-04T12:26:24.815+00:00Latest HEDS Publications - August to October 2022<span id="docs-internal-guid-e6d8a923-7fff-9b27-e040-208696e26870"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial;">Here is our regular monthly trawl for new publications from HEDS in collaboration with colleagues in ScHARR and further afield. Many of these are currently in press, you can find much of our work in its open access form via our institutional repository. Find them </span><a href="https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/view/iau/Sheffield=2EHRR.html" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: arial; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hnynn Si, P.E., Gair, R., Barnes, T., Dunn, L., Lee, S., Ariss, S., Walters, S.J., Wilkie, M. and Fotheringham, J., 2022. Symptom burden according to dialysis day of the week in three times a week haemodialysis patients. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PloS one</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">17</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(9), </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274599" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0563c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274599</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mayland, C. R., Sunderland, K. A., Cooper, M., Taylor, P., Powell, P. A., Zeigler, L. & Fraser, L. K. (2022). Measuring quality of dying, death and end-of-life care for children and young people: A scoping review of available tools. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Palliative medicine</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">36</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(8), 1186-1206.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://doi-org.sheffield.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/02692163221105599" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0563c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://doi-org.sheffield.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/02692163221105599</span></a></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gray, Laura A., Penny R. Breeze, and Elizabeth A. Williams. "BMI trajectories, morbidity, and mortality in England: a two‐step approach to estimating consequences of changes in BMI." </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Obesity</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 30.9 (2022): 1898-1907. </span><a href="https://doi-org.sheffield.idm.oclc.org/10.1002/oby.23510" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://doi-org.sheffield.idm.oclc.org/10.1002/oby.23510</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beyer, F.R., Kenny, R.P., Johnson, E., Caldwell, D.M., Garnett, C., Rice, S., Simpson, J., Angus, C., Craig, D., Hickman, M. and Michie, S., 2022. 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Know your tuberculosis epidemic–Is it time to add Mycobacterium tuberculosis immunoreactivity back into global surveillance?. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PLOS Global Public Health</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(10), p.e0001208. </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001208" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001208</span></a></p><br /><br /><br /></span>Sonia Rizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17361560982490235916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587359407049192416.post-160046192533437912022-10-18T13:01:00.001+01:002022-10-18T13:01:08.943+01:00Job vacancy - Research Assistant/Research Associate<p>We are currently advertising for a Research Assistant/Associate who will work on applied and methodological research projects relating to interventions for obesity and prevention of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. </p><p><br /></p><p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQIEvdzIdRhkqA5jBfU98Z7MSsX353vl6D40hpv4vnvn3s6Gh6xCWJ1IJGkYEB1bQaX-VPJ1mCHb-Ni49274FOXzqrwm-Ur-zvPQROZDVtiEZEIVSTu88EHcEO-aB-cBhUktYbu61NKqIjlIoFcmGnA1CWNayXj85SqS8WCvEdp2dPbGTsFGMh0Kqf/s397/Regent%20Court.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="397" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQIEvdzIdRhkqA5jBfU98Z7MSsX353vl6D40hpv4vnvn3s6Gh6xCWJ1IJGkYEB1bQaX-VPJ1mCHb-Ni49274FOXzqrwm-Ur-zvPQROZDVtiEZEIVSTu88EHcEO-aB-cBhUktYbu61NKqIjlIoFcmGnA1CWNayXj85SqS8WCvEdp2dPbGTsFGMh0Kqf/s320/Regent%20Court.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ScHARR, Regent Court</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div><b>Job Reference Number:</b> UOS034891</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Job Title:</b> Research Assistant/Research Associate</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Contract Type:</b> Fixed-term for 2 years</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Faculty:</b> Faculty of Medicine</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Department</b>: Health Economics and Decision Science (HEDS), School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Salary:</b> Grade 6: £28,762 - £33,314 per annum pro-rata. Potential to progress to</div><div>£36,386 per annum through sustained exceptional contribution.</div><div>Grade 7: £35,333 - £43,414 per annum pro-rata. Potential to progress to</div><div>£47,423 per annum through sustained exceptional contribution.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Closing Date:</b> 26th October 2022</div><div><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white;"><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span face="arial, sans-serif">The vacancy and ATJ can be found </span>can be found <a href="https://jobs.shef.ac.uk/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/hrrcf_a_posting_apply?PARAM=cG9zdF9pbnN0X2d1aWQ9NjM0NUU2RDBCODIyMjgxRkUxMDAwMDAwQUMxRTg4NzgmY2FuZF90eXBlPUVYVA%3d%3d&sap-client=400&sap-language=EN&sap-accessibility=X&sap-ep-themeroot=%2fSAP%2fPUBLIC%2fBC%2fUR%2fuos#" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">here</span><span face="arial, sans-serif">. </span></a></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have an exciting opportunity in the Health Economics and Decision Science (HEDS) section in the School of Health and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Related Research (ScHARR)) to join the team at the forefront of development of public health economic modelling and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">microsimulation.</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a Research Assistant/Associate in Health Economic Modelling, you will work on applied and methodological research </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">projects relating to interventions for obesity and prevention of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition to working to develop quantitative analyses of obesity interventions, you will contribute to the writing of research </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and consultancy proposals, and to the dissemination of research findings in peer-reviewed publications, at conferences and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to non-academic audiences, as well as to the development and delivery of Masters level teaching, supervision of postgraduate </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">students and the provision of other types of training.</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ideally you should have a track record of publication in peer-reviewed journals and conference presentation. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You should have a Masters Degree or equivalent in a numerate subject, for example, mathematics, operational research, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">statistics or economics.</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are committed to enabling our employees to work in a hybrid model with flexibility over when, where and how to achieve </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the required outputs, in discussion with your manager.</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are committed to exploring flexible working opportunities which benefit the individual and University. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We’re one of the best not-for-profit organisations to work for in the UK. The University’s Total Reward Package includes a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">competitive salary, a generous Pension Scheme and annual leave entitlement, as well as access to a range of learning and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">development courses to support your personal and professional development.</span></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">teaching and student experience.</span></p></div>Sonia Rizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17361560982490235916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587359407049192416.post-18746386141505278132022-09-08T10:16:00.000+01:002022-09-08T10:16:55.167+01:00The ‘wheelchair example’ – why it should be dropped from EQ-5D valuation tasks<h2 style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nancy Devlin Nancy Devlin, Clara Mukuria, Philip Powell, Tessa Peasgood</span></div></h2><p style="text-align: left;">The EQ Valuation Technology (EQ-VT) protocol has been widely used in the valuation of EuroQol instruments, including in over 25 national EQ-5D-5L value sets and, in an adapted form, the valuation of EQ-5D-Y-3L. Adapted versions of it are also currently being used for the valuation of EQ Health and Wellbeing (EQ-HWB). The depth of experience with using EQ-VT means that it represents a mature technology.</p><p>However, as with any scientific endeavour, there is scope to strengthen existing approaches. The EuroQol Group is open to ideas about improving methods and is committed to transparency about the pros and cons of its valuation approaches.</p><p>In this blog post, we set out the case for dropping one aspect of the EQ-VT: the ‘wheelchair example’. The catalyst to this post was a detailed discussion of EQ-VT with members of the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Public Involvement Programme in January 2022. Members were individually interviewed using the EQ-VT, followed by an individual debrief interview, group debrief, and finally a focus group discussion about valuation, as part of ongoing work on the EQ-HWB.</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1mjWi76rdYPBGcJm0qiE5ej_3810wqgiM7wM6BFabIy5gCkS3VbMnv2hmoaCwsXwAxiDUUnCOPdSYvZLZgAb2Vm0TUeBJt95xluGi4KrNMbdKNjVX7ggtekzc9QPsuYD2SEMUImDukIS3i_sExivSqH0Tdqta1rzBtSkoLa_tWRTmE-R5BqgN6S0o/s800/4610457832_7920d42ee6_c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="800" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1mjWi76rdYPBGcJm0qiE5ej_3810wqgiM7wM6BFabIy5gCkS3VbMnv2hmoaCwsXwAxiDUUnCOPdSYvZLZgAb2Vm0TUeBJt95xluGi4KrNMbdKNjVX7ggtekzc9QPsuYD2SEMUImDukIS3i_sExivSqH0Tdqta1rzBtSkoLa_tWRTmE-R5BqgN6S0o/w431-h288/4610457832_7920d42ee6_c.jpg" width="431" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/artbystevejohnson/4610457832/in/photolist-82pNuh-2nB1jag-frneuw-3tMbdR-pt29e-6YEDY-PWzhbq-6CiZ7c-5UTQz4-UAuEEf-7bdPvo-PZjWzv-PZsQKD-on5mcp-2kCe5M-7HqVgD-6r5kjy-2RXjGY-w737xL-88K4Pw-WNqFWN-8C9NXr-dhhhju-UAv9LW-a3Z5jS-ogdeTm-GShF3a-UEaP7Z-2iBL5Vz-nvbXfE-UsEhe6-wisYw-jqDSzD-a3UFQR-7G7CB2-NBgpPi-7UygfP-4PVkVP-a3UGcF-83ZHy-2iBMdBq-7xf8iC-eA9q7E-2htrrf3-UEb484-R1fM5H-2iwToZC-2iBKRi9-9mdzcR-c498pb" target="_blank">Photo: handicap sign by Steve Johnson (flickr)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><b>What is the ‘wheelchair example’?</b></p><p>The ‘wheelchair example’ is a warm-up task, used at the start of EQ-VT interviews with respondents. Its role is to introduce the time trade-off (TTO) tasks to be used in the interviews to elicit the stated preferences of respondents about health states described by a given instrument. In order to focus on the explanation of how TTO works, the initial state provided as an illustrative example is ‘in a wheelchair’, which is introduced as “you have problems with mobility which mean that you require a wheelchair”, rather than a state described by the generic descriptive system. The rationale for the choice of ‘in a wheelchair’ in this warm-up task is that it can be readily imagined by everyone. To our knowledge, the wheelchair example and how it is perceived by respondents has never been systematically evaluated. The wheelchair example has been included as part of EQ-VT from early in the methodological work which underpins its development and its use in Version 1 of the protocol.</p><p>Stolk et al (2019) note that, in Version 1, interviewers were supposed to use the wheelchair example to demonstrate the TTO tasks for states both better and worse than dead, but that “this was easy to forget and difficult to do”. In Version 2 of the protocol, the wheelchair example is accompanied by an additional task. After completing the TTO task for the wheelchair example, if living in a wheelchair was considered ‘better than dead’, respondents are asked to imagine a state ‘much worse than being in a wheelchair’, in order to move to the part of the evaluation space < 0 (and vice versa, if the respondent values living in a wheelchair as ‘worse than dead’, they are asked to imagine a state better than being in a wheelchair).</p><p>The time spent by interviewers on the practice wheelchair example is an indicator of interviewer quality included in the quality control (QC) process.</p><p><b>What is the problem with using the wheelchair example?</b></p><p>There are at least three reasons why using the wheelchair example is problematic.</p><p>It does not describe a health state.</p><p>Wheelchair users often identify as disabled, which may or may not be caused by or accompanied by health problems. Being in a wheelchair is not a health state. Moreover, the focus on describing the state with respect to their use of a wheelchair throws the focus onto the role of the wheelchair as a means of supporting and adapting to their physical impairment. This is not helpful as an example, as it directly contradicts what we ask people to do in the valuation tasks following the warm-up i.e., to consider a health state, ignoring any interventions which might be used to modify that state.</p><p>It is ableist.</p><p>Ableism is defined as discrimination and social prejudice against disabled people or people who are perceived to be disabled. Ableism characterises people as defined by their disabilities and inferior to the non-disabled (Linton, 1998). In the discussions which our research team undertook with members of the NICE Public Involvement Programme, and in the EQ-VT interviews which were undertaken with them individually beforehand, concerns about the wheelchair example were expressed in strong terms.</p><p>In the group discussion on 25th January 2022, one participant stated:</p><p>“I’m one of the people that found the initial example not good. I feel whichever condition you choose, but certainly being in a wheelchair is right up there, it feels like you’re making the assumption that people in wheelchairs feel that’s a bad thing which they don’t necessarily, and I just think you have to be very careful with things like that because we shouldn’t make assumptions.”</p><p>Other participants agreed with this view, with a second participant commenting:</p><p>“I agree wholeheartedly [with participant] around using the wheelchair perspective because I’m also a wheelchair user and I don’t necessarily find that as a restrictive thing on the quality or nature of my life.”</p><p>These views were echoed in the focus group discussions on 27th January 2022, with the first participant recapitulating the point:</p><p>“You chose mobility yourselves for your example for that first trade-off… life in a wheelchair or life as a healthy person and I think that does reflect an idea about losing mobility or being in a wheelchair as some terrible thing. I think there is a society view like that which I think a large section of the disabled community would disagree with it.”</p><p>These comments came from multiple participants, in both the individual debriefing as well as the focus groups. For example, in the individual debriefing, a participant noted</p><p>“I think it’s quite ableist actually. I don’t think it gives a positive message about disability… Obviously, you’d have to be mentally ill to say I’d prefer to live 10 years in a wheelchair than 10 years of good health, but I don’t really want to start saying I’d trade in three years, because what I am saying about people who live in wheelchairs? I’m saying things that I don’t want to say.”</p><p>The use of the wheelchair example reflects researchers’ judgement about people in wheelchairs having a lower quality of life than those not in wheelchairs and implicitly propagates this message to respondents. Even if this is a widely held view in society, it is offensive to those with disabilities, who represent an important part of the societies whose preferences and views we seek to take into account in such studies. It is also viewed as ableist by those who are aware of or work in disability issues. Thus, its use as the warm-up example may reflect poorly on the researchers who use it and the otherwise respected organisations that recommend its use. Given the challenging nature of the TTO tasks, which include the request to imagine living in very poor health states and reflect upon death, it is important that all participants are treated with care and compassion.</p><p>It may not be fit for purpose in other ways</p><p>For the wheelchair example to work as a warm-up task, requiring the use of a wheelchair has to be universally considered to involve impaired quality of life. If people with lived experience of wheelchair use do not share that view, the wheelchair example is not fit for purpose with an important segment of the general public whose views are being sought.</p><p>There may be further issues related to the wheelchair example which impact its practical usefulness as a warm-up task. For example, Shabasy et al (2022), reporting on the use of EQ-VT in Egypt, noted that</p><p>“In Egypt and many other developing countries, independent living in a wheelchair is challenging due to unequipped public transportation and lack of wheelchair-friendly infrastructure like ramps and elevators in most buildings, which may have prompted most participants to decide that living in a wheelchair was a fate worse than death… Thus, the use of the ‘wheelchair example’ as the initial cTTO example was not acceptable for most of the participants.”</p><p>For these reasons, the researchers replaced the wheelchair example with ‘migraine’.</p><p><b>Is there an alternative?</b></p><p>As Shabasy et al (2022) have shown, there are other states or short one-sentence vignettes which could be used to replace the wheelchair example. These avoid the issues noted above, while providing examples of states which respondents can just as readily imagine. For example, it would be possible to simply ask respondents to imagine that they have some degree of pain (which is something all people have experienced and is universally regarded as being associated with a decrease in health-related quality of life). Not mentioning a specific condition or disability removes the possibility of the example being seen by respondents as marginalising or promoting a particular negative value judgment relating to that condition, which may not resonate with all respondents. It reduces the possibility that preconceptions about the named example influence subsequent valuations.</p><p>There are likely to be issues with any example that is used, but these are mainly issues of how specific the description is and how that affects how different people imagine and conceptualise the state. This is of less importance, given the purpose of the warm-up task is simply to introduce people to TTO and the tasks for states better than dead and worse than dead. One potential issue that may require exploration is whether the choice of state in the warm-up task exerts a framing effect on subsequent tasks (e.g., whether a focus on mobility or pain affects the valuation of states containing those problems). This could readily be addressed as a methodological add-on in future studies, and, if true, may already be a problem that exists with the wheelchair example (i.e., by focusing respondents on mobility issues).</p><p><b>Conclusion</b></p><p>The wheelchair example is a long-standing feature of EQ-VT valuation studies, and researchers using it (including us) have such familiarity with its use that we are guilty of having stopped questioning its inclusion. However, the feedback we have received from the NICE Public Involvement Programme Panel members raises issues, which we believe should prompt serious reflection. There is an opportunity to explore alternatives to the ‘wheelchair example’, which provide just as good a basis for these warm-up tasks. The data from the wheelchair example do not form part of the valuation results reported from studies. This means that the loss of comparability from shifting from ‘in a wheelchair’ to a different example state in future valuation research should be of minimal consequence, though this requires testing. We have recommended that the EuroQol Group consider this issue, and identify the steps needed to explore it, as soon as possible.</p><p>Kindly reposted with permission by <a href="https://aheblog.com/2022/09/06/the-wheelchair-example-why-it-should-be-dropped-from-eq-5d-valuation-tasks/" target="_blank">the AHE Blog</a></p>Sonia Rizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17361560982490235916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587359407049192416.post-43300551273421426322022-09-06T11:13:00.000+01:002022-09-06T11:13:04.150+01:00Why the NHS recommends Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL-10) for use in Community Mental Health services<span id="docs-internal-guid-87e28238-7fff-05dc-edca-6da016cb7fe7"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are tools (usually in a questionnaire format) that help to assess an individual’s mental health and wellbeing needs and measure change. Measuring outcomes can help clinicians and services better understand the impact of 1:1 interventions; ensure services are meeting the needs of different service users</span><span style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">; </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and monitor and improve effectiveness, efficiency and quality of the service offered to its service users.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is important as it helps to understand the benefit and impact people receive from their mental health services</span><span style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_ZURNIEQBpIt9t-cD4jh-mFfMxT7cLA6nwuYDiWu8qycJwB-nonefmX5j1zhES918t0v-uWYbTaDgyVDMgeFTq9uSN5OwmVllc3zhqhoG-x4bKPSOirQsU4V2oDpgIo98yelLeR2RzdMOVmBll21fGZF7DzP4RWqpiS_N4eLJw0jH8hVCAbgkef0d/s1309/ReQoL_Front_Page.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="663" data-original-width="1309" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_ZURNIEQBpIt9t-cD4jh-mFfMxT7cLA6nwuYDiWu8qycJwB-nonefmX5j1zhES918t0v-uWYbTaDgyVDMgeFTq9uSN5OwmVllc3zhqhoG-x4bKPSOirQsU4V2oDpgIo98yelLeR2RzdMOVmBll21fGZF7DzP4RWqpiS_N4eLJw0jH8hVCAbgkef0d/w403-h182/ReQoL_Front_Page.jpg" width="403" /></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">In October 2021, NHS England and NHS Improvement established a task and finish group to look at a consistent approach to outcome measurement and recommend which PROMs should be used across CMH services for adults, including older adults, with severe mental illness. The group looked at a large number of PROMs and assessed against agreed selection criteria which included acceptability; validity; reliability; interoperability; and burden.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The group recommended the use of three PROMs, including Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL-10). ReQoL-10 was chosen because:</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is recovery focused</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and can be used to assess the key recovery domains of connectedness, hope, identity, meaning and empowerment (CHIME) for people with different mental health conditions. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was co-produced and tested with over 6,000 service users. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It provides an understanding of the factors contributing to service user’s own personal recovery </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nationally, it can be used to benchmark and build evidence and demonstrate good quality. </span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The other PROMs recommended by the group were Goal Based Outcomes (GBO) and DIALOG. Each fulfils a different purpose and it is not expected that all three will be used at the same time and by the same care professional. The goal is for services to start embedding at least one of three PROMs in their systems in 22/23 with the aim of embedding all three in CMH services by the end of 23/24.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nationally, there will be an analysis of the data through the</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS) along with the development of supporting resources. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The ReQoL-10 questionnaire has been developed into a visualisation tool which can now be accessed online </span><a href="https://reqol-visualisation-tool.group.shef.ac.uk/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://reqol-visualisation-tool.group.shef.ac.uk/</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Further resources can be accessed here: </span><a href="https://www.reqol.org.uk/p/overview.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.reqol.org.uk/p/overview.html</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS51g2G7TSo1_hYPoE7JcegDqN2j9jY9sleWY7TqRY9KTcgGdwW5okVT1jLn5OFKPNU16mn30pGg0gi0SAka7meHG-W7NjJL5kJxJ-CwsjAIZZYej09VRMWE3Ie9VGxqJDm3hHiG95klvbI7AFPVyvx8nshV352EbclobJ2qdltLbEj2oSIykLHQDY/s1676/ReQoL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="1676" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS51g2G7TSo1_hYPoE7JcegDqN2j9jY9sleWY7TqRY9KTcgGdwW5okVT1jLn5OFKPNU16mn30pGg0gi0SAka7meHG-W7NjJL5kJxJ-CwsjAIZZYej09VRMWE3Ie9VGxqJDm3hHiG95klvbI7AFPVyvx8nshV352EbclobJ2qdltLbEj2oSIykLHQDY/w449-h175/ReQoL.jpg" width="449" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the aims of the YH ARC Health Economics, Evaluation and Equality Theme has been to support NHS Trusts to meaningfully implement the data in the NHS to improve health outcomes for patients with mental health conditions through the implementation and use of the ReQoL. </span><p></p></span></span><div><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This blog was written by Dr Lizzie Taylor Buck and Amanda Lane, </span><span style="color: #4472c4; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Health Economics, Evaluation and Equality theme</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yorkshire and Humber ARC.</span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; 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vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div>Sonia Rizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17361560982490235916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587359407049192416.post-14628439410569747782022-08-16T12:00:00.018+01:002022-08-16T12:00:00.177+01:00Data collection for the UK EQ-5D-5L valuation study to start in October 2022<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Data collection for the UK EQ-5D-5L valuation study to start in October 2022</span></h2><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Data
collection for this key study to generate a UK value set for the EQ-5D-5L is
due to start in October and will involve 1,200 interviews conducted in a
representative sample of people living in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland
and Wales.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQU8F6BBldjv8vIgqHHl6UXNtTNNL-uv0nTWy4Wbr5L_FQDaF_XVIWfmARjObksAM7CPlyuqE7k_iSLTtJymrdi8uJBvY9rl1SD138u4_nhkWFQI1RN4ZqBXNUXP9tI_vIFkJMGEvja1ev-CBP9YeH5INkspZdiheWo0oDSHbD0ZM4JdzqRGKfuz_Y/s284/cheese-kaai-eq5d-logo-004.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="EuroQol EQ-5D logo" border="0" data-original-height="74" data-original-width="284" height="79" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQU8F6BBldjv8vIgqHHl6UXNtTNNL-uv0nTWy4Wbr5L_FQDaF_XVIWfmARjObksAM7CPlyuqE7k_iSLTtJymrdi8uJBvY9rl1SD138u4_nhkWFQI1RN4ZqBXNUXP9tI_vIFkJMGEvja1ev-CBP9YeH5INkspZdiheWo0oDSHbD0ZM4JdzqRGKfuz_Y/w306-h79/cheese-kaai-eq5d-logo-004.gif" width="306" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">https://euroqol.org/</td></tr></tbody></table></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; tab-stops: 21.3pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The launch
of the new EQ-5D-5L valuation study for the United Kingdom was delayed due to
the global COVID-19 pandemic. However, during this period extensive
methodological work has been undertaken in preparation for the study. The study
team has worked closely with the Steering Group, the EuroQol EQ-VT support
team, and the Quality Control (QC) team (see the </span><a href="https://euroqol.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/New-UK-EQ-5D-5L-valuation-study-Governance-v1-06FEB2020.pdf"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">study
governance document</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> for an explanation of the various teams) on
how to reliably and safely collect interview data in light of COVID-19. The
study team have also conducted an equivalence study, in which two modes of
administration of the EQ-VT TTO interviews were compared: interview by videoconference
vs the regular face-to-face interview. The results from this study demonstrate
that video interviews are feasible and acceptable <span style="mso-comment-continuation: 2;"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953622005330" target="_blank">with</a></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> both interviewing
modes generating good-quality data. To make the study inclusive and maximise
sample representativeness, both modes will be used in the UK valuation study,
with respondents able to choose the one they prefer. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; tab-stops: 21.3pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The study
team is led by Professor Donna Rowen from ScHARR at the University of Sheffield
and comprises six institutions. <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For a listing
of the full study team and more details about the study and its governance
please go to the UK EQ-5D-5L valuation study </span><a href="https://euroqol.org/eq-5d-instruments/eq-5d-5l-about/valuation-standard-value-sets/new-uk-eq-5d-5l-valuation-study_blog/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Blog</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> on the EuroQol website. </span>The study
proposal and statistical analysis plan have been approved for funding by
EuroQol’s Executive Committee and signed off by the study’s Steering Group. The
protocol and statistical analysis plan were informed by a systematic review of
published papers generating international EQ-5D-5L <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35829931/" target="_blank">value sets</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; tab-stops: 21.3pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOxaX3CzdUijEPG9mmkQhWtS8LrKOjvKqIHRRF-FcQzIQIYrSKUwNgoVI4J5OMuvn-jtN10XPrOby1NPeOJDSqAM-_A41N--j-rvuaqD--PaFYRQYK65b_S--NfNoSFcpsQ9RJ-svvzrkTzFwp7DS1mddVznyEZ7RM581HARJlLXzGfOdEh2oHZHYf/s180/Donna%20Rowen.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Professor Donna Rowen" border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOxaX3CzdUijEPG9mmkQhWtS8LrKOjvKqIHRRF-FcQzIQIYrSKUwNgoVI4J5OMuvn-jtN10XPrOby1NPeOJDSqAM-_A41N--j-rvuaqD--PaFYRQYK65b_S--NfNoSFcpsQ9RJ-svvzrkTzFwp7DS1mddVznyEZ7RM581HARJlLXzGfOdEh2oHZHYf/s16000/Donna%20Rowen.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Professor Donna Rowen</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Professor
Donna Rowen said “After facing delays due to COVID-19 and undertaking a large
amount of preparatory and methodological work to inform the study, the study
team are very excited to be starting this important study.”<o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; tab-stops: 21.3pt;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US">NICE’s current position on EQ-5D-5L valuation in
England:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;"> Prior to the
completion and publication of the new valuation study, the interim position in
England regarding the use of the EQ-5D-5L for companies, academic groups, and
others preparing evidence submissions for NICE remains in place and can be
viewed in Section 4.3.16 of the new NICE health technology evaluations manual on
their </span><a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/process/pmg36/chapter/introduction-to-health-technology-evaluation" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">website</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; tab-stops: 21.3pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Steering Group:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> The Steering Group comprises representatives from the National
Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Department of Health and
Social Care, NHS England, the EuroQol Research Foundation, and academic
experts. The list of members can be found on the EuroQol </span><a href="https://euroqol.org/eq-5d-instruments/eq-5d-5l-about/valuation-standard-value-sets/new-uk-eq-5d-5l-valuation-study_blog/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Blog.</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; tab-stops: 21.3pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">About valuation studies:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> The new valuation study will provide a UK value set for the EQ-5D-5L.
The value set will provide values (weights) for EQ-5D-5L health state
descriptions according to the preferences of the UK general population. These
are used in the calculation of quality adjusted life years (QALYs) that inform
economic evaluations of healthcare interventions. An overview of the EQ-5D-5L
value sets internationally is available on the EuroQol website </span><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-89289-0"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">here.</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">About EuroQol:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> The EuroQol Research Foundation is funding the study,
and is a not-for-profit organization.</span> Their mission is to to improve decisions about health and health care throughout the world by supporting, initiating and performing scientific research and development of instruments, such as EQ-5D-5L, with the widest possible applicability for the measurement and valuation of health<span lang="EN-NZ" style="background: rgb(247, 248, 248) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #005779; line-height: 107%;">.</span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For further information please visit their <a href="https://euroqol.org/eq-5d-instruments/" style="mso-comment-date: 20220726T1610; mso-comment-reference: DR_4;" target="_blank">website</a>.</span></span></p><div style="mso-element: comment-list;"><div style="mso-element: comment;"><div class="msocomtxt" id="_com_4" language="JavaScript">
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</div>Andy Tattersallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14930708174863561344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587359407049192416.post-38639043823029467742022-08-03T14:31:00.006+01:002022-08-03T14:31:53.325+01:00 New HEDS Discussion Paper - Value-adaptive clinical trial designs for efficient delivery of research – actions, opportunities and challenges for publicly funded trials<p><span style="font-family: arial;">New HEDS Discussion Paper - Value-adaptive clinical trial designs for efficient delivery of research – actions, opportunities and challenges for publicly funded trials</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Dr Laura Flight is the lead author on a new published HEDS Discussion Paper; 'Value-adaptive clinical trial designs for efficient delivery of research – actions, opportunities and challenges for publicly funded trials'</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAX4V6yrSQEgzSfVCp5c3l74fWDFoktV-zOun3RAH9CVAjA5XPyt_7Qwh6BmXAEmDSHnjSUymPUder5bOoWUIvcGIqND-RtTbpoZCwX2k0MsJRNLVjkiNCjc8RUyJHJqQTi-Cmt_IwQwzESlS9rleY3i3CPjAfZwS7GzQqlgEEap9EIzLMkOJzpHK7/s784/HEDS%20DP.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="Image of HEDS Discussion Paper pre print" border="0" data-original-height="586" data-original-width="784" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAX4V6yrSQEgzSfVCp5c3l74fWDFoktV-zOun3RAH9CVAjA5XPyt_7Qwh6BmXAEmDSHnjSUymPUder5bOoWUIvcGIqND-RtTbpoZCwX2k0MsJRNLVjkiNCjc8RUyJHJqQTi-Cmt_IwQwzESlS9rleY3i3CPjAfZwS7GzQqlgEEap9EIzLMkOJzpHK7/w411-h307/HEDS%20DP.png" width="411" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">HEDS Discussion Paper Series</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Abstract</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Value-adaptive designs are a set of emerging methods for efficient clinical trial design that aim to maximise expected population health for the money being spent. They involve adaptive data collection processes that consider the costs of research, the expected value of information from data collection, and the health technology assessment decisions around cost-effectiveness. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This topic is important to clinicians practising in publicly funded healthcare systems as they rely on evidence-based treatment strategies that have been shown to be effective in comparison to alternative interventions. Therefore, more efficient, and accurate research studies potentially offered by value-adaptive designs can feed into real decisions and implementation in the care provided by the National Health Service (NHS). Doing so offers the potential to save research costs, to bring the better technology to patients sooner, and to reduce the number of patients randomised into the trial. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In this article, we review these emerging methodologies, summarise recent methodological advances, and assess the opportunities they offer for improving the efficiency of publicly funded trials. We also discuss the steps that might be taken by funders, clinicians, trial teams, the public and healthcare decision makers to successfully deploy these methods.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Download the publication via our <a href="https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/189321/" target="_blank">White Rose Open Access Repository</a></span></p><p><a href="https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/view/iau/Sheffield=2EHCM=2EWP.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">HEDS Discussion Paper Series</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/laura-flight" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">Dr Laura Flight</span></a></p><p><br /></p>Andy Tattersallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14930708174863561344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587359407049192416.post-72315277021020817332022-07-25T10:12:00.003+01:002022-07-25T10:12:58.087+01:00Job Vacancies - Research Assistants<p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">We are currently advertising for two <b>Research Assistants </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">to join the Health Economics and Decision Science (HEDS) Section to provide support on a range of applied policy and methodological research.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQIEvdzIdRhkqA5jBfU98Z7MSsX353vl6D40hpv4vnvn3s6Gh6xCWJ1IJGkYEB1bQaX-VPJ1mCHb-Ni49274FOXzqrwm-Ur-zvPQROZDVtiEZEIVSTu88EHcEO-aB-cBhUktYbu61NKqIjlIoFcmGnA1CWNayXj85SqS8WCvEdp2dPbGTsFGMh0Kqf/s397/Regent%20Court.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="397" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQIEvdzIdRhkqA5jBfU98Z7MSsX353vl6D40hpv4vnvn3s6Gh6xCWJ1IJGkYEB1bQaX-VPJ1mCHb-Ni49274FOXzqrwm-Ur-zvPQROZDVtiEZEIVSTu88EHcEO-aB-cBhUktYbu61NKqIjlIoFcmGnA1CWNayXj85SqS8WCvEdp2dPbGTsFGMh0Kqf/s320/Regent%20Court.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ScHARR, Regent Court</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Reference Number</b>: </span>UOS033854<br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Salary:</b> Grade 6</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>Details:</b> Part-time (</span>17.5 hours per week)<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> and fixed-term until September 2024</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Closing Date: </span>3 August<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> 2022 </span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The vacancy and ATJ can be found </span>can be found <a href="https://jobs.shef.ac.uk/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/hrrcf_a_posting_apply?PARAM=cG9zdF9pbnN0X2d1aWQ9NjJENkMxQzI2QTUzMjg0QkUxMDAwMDAwQUMxRTg4NzgmY2FuZF90eXBlPUVYVA%3D%3D&sap-client=400&sap-language=EN&sap-accessibility=X&sap-ep-themeroot=%2FSAP%2FPUBLIC%2FBC%2FUR%2Fuos#" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">here</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">. </span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><p>You will work within the Health Economics and Decision Science (HEDS) Section
(www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/sections/heds) as part of a multidisciplinary team providing support to health
economics/decision modelling research staff on a range of applied policy and methodological
research with a particular focus on cost-effectiveness of healthcare and public health
interventions. </p><p><br />The work will involve contribution and support to a range of projects funded by
research grants and knowledge exchange consultancy. The projects involve designing and
undertaking health economic, statistical, and epidemiological modelling based analyses for policy
appraisal. The work is for a wide range of decision makers. The funders/customers include the
Department of Health and Social Care and related agencies, major UK research councils such as
NIHR. Local NHS and government organisations and commercial organisations.
Analysis of complex datasets and design of health economic models are key activities, as is
methodological development to support cost-effectiveness analysis. Approaches used within the
projects include decision analytic modelling (e.g. Markov and discrete event simulations),
optimisation techniques, and econometrics and multivariate statistical analyses. </p><p><br />You will provide
support to senior health economists and modellers, contribute to the design of evaluations,
undertake supervised analyses and contribute to peer-reviewed reports, journals and conference
presentations. The successful applicant will also contribute to writing research and consultancy
tenders. You will also contribute to the Section’s teaching responsibilities by delivering tutorials.
A graduate qualification in a numerate subject (e.g. statistics, economics, operational research,
mathematics, or quantitative applied sciences or social sciences) is essential and a post-graduate
qualification or equivalent experience is desirable. </p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;">This post is designed to undertake project work half-time and at the same time undertake parttime education on our Masters in Health Economics and Decision Modelling (http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/prospective_students/masters/hedm).
There is also the option for a candidate who is already fully qualified in Health Economic Modelling
to take the role part-time without undertaking the MSc. </div><p></p></div>Sonia Rizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17361560982490235916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587359407049192416.post-44340855141685516202022-07-18T10:02:00.002+01:002022-07-18T10:02:42.439+01:00Fully-funded Wellcome PhD Studentship - Starting September 2022<p>We are currently advertising <b>one fully-funded studentship</b> to join our Wellcome Doctoral Training Centre in Public Health Economics and Decision Science in <b>September 2022</b>. </p><p>This is a rapid recruitment process and is separate to our annual recruitment round (which will run later in the year as normal). It is only open to UK or Irish applicants who are eligible for home tuition fees. </p><p>The Wellcome DTC it is an exciting cohort-based four-year programme that provides students with a unique experience including masters modules, research attachments, and opportunities to question senior scientists and public health leaders. It provides a fully-funded four-year studentship including:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Tuitions fees</li><li>A tax-free living costs stipend at the generous <a href="https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/schemes/four-year-phd-programmes-studentships-basic-scientists" target="_blank">Wellcome rates</a></li><li>An extremely generous research training and support grant of £53,500</li><li>Transition funding to support the student's next steps post-PhD of at least £36,160</li></ul><p></p><p>For more information about the programme, please see <a href="https://pheds-dtc.ac.uk/" target="_blank">our website</a> and the <a href="https://www.findaphd.com/phds/program/fully-funded-phd-scholarship-available-in-the-wellcome-doctoral-training-centre-for-public-health-economics-and-decision-science-pheds/?i348p2860" target="_blank">FindAPhD advert</a>. The deadline for applications is midnight on Friday 29th July. Interviews will take place on 8th and 9th August. </p><div><br /></div>Sonia Rizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17361560982490235916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587359407049192416.post-82294273618189581832022-06-21T13:01:00.001+01:002022-06-21T13:01:47.764+01:00The Spring/Summer 2022 issue of the HEDS Newsletter is out!<p>The newsletter you've all been waiting for! The Spring/Summer 2022 issue of the HEDS Newsletter is now available and includes:</p><p><br /></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>International development of a new measure of Health and Wellbeing,</li><li>HEDS hosts the 100th Health Economists' Study Group (HESG) meeting,</li><li>A new framework to identify quality of mental healthcare,</li><li>And the latest publications by HEDS staff </li></ul><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Cxew8_KzVUvuS7FoeKy9xYABO9OmxzqQ/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Read it online here</a></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5xyrxkwWg8Mr3kHiyT-_xi6MMZeO2AZ0waWmOVKuLhqD3EshB4Rsa2mAZM84YoKa9bJO0NBGEV9QWi9z51y8bCxQcQkTNz-_dNCcAmU5_30XEXOzuMmlM-yWKawqjCfmlfuj4D_fO7VwU6-tBt8iSg1P93bALCtXliKzID38uVn_Q38bfgLkVbL2I/s820/HEDS.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="HEDS Newsletter 17.1" border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="595" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5xyrxkwWg8Mr3kHiyT-_xi6MMZeO2AZ0waWmOVKuLhqD3EshB4Rsa2mAZM84YoKa9bJO0NBGEV9QWi9z51y8bCxQcQkTNz-_dNCcAmU5_30XEXOzuMmlM-yWKawqjCfmlfuj4D_fO7VwU6-tBt8iSg1P93bALCtXliKzID38uVn_Q38bfgLkVbL2I/w232-h320/HEDS.PNG" title="HEDS Newsletter 17.1" width="232" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">HEDS Newsletter 17.1<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><p></p>Sonia Rizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17361560982490235916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587359407049192416.post-20497558177763548242022-06-09T11:26:00.001+01:002022-06-09T11:26:51.237+01:00Two Job Vacancies at ScHARR - Research Assistants<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: small;">We are currently advertising for two <b>Research Assistants </b></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">to join the Health Economics and Decision Science (HEDS) Section as part of the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group (SARG).</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">** Closing date Monday 27th June **</span></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDFO4bohLiiGTldHGG6-1wMr8Mi9rehhoHWi-Zc1C29raiZsv9rqA16EmWFr6u_WdYSUtDYrJI5yNJeQmQPlqWJqrBgVHXMJkdOEb6E8ncOFroNHyEPy8k7-S2CC-FOlaDR0DFPaqiRSA9RgOaaZ6SlDIGk6d9dw4PpKB_xQlGbiHl_VJwwZ4enyQ8/s397/Regent%20Court.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="397" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDFO4bohLiiGTldHGG6-1wMr8Mi9rehhoHWi-Zc1C29raiZsv9rqA16EmWFr6u_WdYSUtDYrJI5yNJeQmQPlqWJqrBgVHXMJkdOEb6E8ncOFroNHyEPy8k7-S2CC-FOlaDR0DFPaqiRSA9RgOaaZ6SlDIGk6d9dw4PpKB_xQlGbiHl_VJwwZ4enyQ8/w411-h231/Regent%20Court.jpg" width="411" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">ScHARR, Regent Court</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br /></span><p></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Are you interested in working for a world top 100 University?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">We have an exciting opportunity in the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) to join the Health Economics and Decision Science (HEDS) Section as part of the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group (SARG). You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing support to health economics/decision modelling research staff on a range of applied policy and methodological research with a particular focus on the effects of alcohol and of tobacco.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The post is funded as part of the UK Prevention Research programme:- Shaping public health policies to reduce inequalities and harm (SPECTRUM). The projects involve designing and undertaking health economic, statistical, and epidemiological modelling-based analyses for policy appraisal.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Analysis of complex datasets and design of health economic models are key activities, as is methodological development to support the policy appraisal process. You will also contribute to writing research and consultancy tenders, and contribute to the Section’s teaching responsibilities by delivering tutorials.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">You will have a graduate qualification in a numerate subject (e.g. statistics, economics, operational research, mathematics, or quantitative applied sciences or social sciences). A post-graduate qualification or equivalent experience is desirable.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">This post is designed to undertake project work half-time and at the same time undertake parttime education on our </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Masters in Health Economics and Decision Modelling (with an option for a candidate who is already fully qualified to take the role part-time without undertaking the MSc). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Reference Number</b>: </span>UOS033256</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><div><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><div><b>Contract Type</b>: Fixed-term for 2 years, 26 September 2022 - 25 September 2024</div><div><b>Working Pattern</b>: Part-time: working 17.5 hours per week, working pattern to be agreed.</div><div><b>Faculty</b>: Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health</div><div><b>Department</b>: School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR)</div><div><b>Salary</b>: Grade 6</div><div><span face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Closing Date</b>: </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Monday </span>27 June 2022</div><div><br /></div><div>The vacancy and ATJ <a href="https://jobs.shef.ac.uk/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/hrrcf_a_posting_apply?PARAM=cG9zdF9pbnN0X2d1aWQ9NjI5RDYyRDlGRkY2MjgyMkUxMDAwMDAwQUMxRTg4NzgmY2FuZF90eXBlPUVYVA%3d%3d&sap-client=400&sap-language=EN&sap-accessibility=X&sap-ep-themeroot=%2fSAP%2fPUBLIC%2fBC%2fUR%2fuos#" target="_blank">can be found here</a>.</div></span></div></div>Sonia Rizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17361560982490235916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587359407049192416.post-8410579027730569782022-04-26T15:33:00.001+01:002022-04-26T15:33:23.194+01:00ScHARR ONLINE COURSE Systematic Approaches to Searching for Evidence (NEW)<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"> <span style="color: #333333;">ONLINE course: Tuesday, 28th June AND Tuesday, 12th July 2022 </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;">(1 day course over 2 x half days)</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/short-courses/faculty-of-medicine-dentistry-and-health/scharr-short-course-unit/systematic-approaches-to-searching-for-evidence" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">BOOK NOW</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This interactive online course will cover the key principles of searching for published and unpublished evidence in a systematic, transparent way. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We will look at turning a research idea into a viable, structured search question; scoping the literature; choosing sources; developing effective strategies and documenting your searches so they can be reproduced. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The course will draw on ScHARR’s decades of experience at the forefront of evidence synthesis, in addition to highlighting the latest available search tools and emerging techniques from the relevant methodological literature.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><b>The programme will be as follows:</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">Preliminary session: an exclusive pre-recorded video lecture by <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/andrew-booth" target="_blank">Professor Andrew Booth</a>, lead author of Systematic Approaches to a Successful Literature Review, 3rd edition (Sage, 2021).</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><b>Session 1 (28th June) will look at:</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">the role of the literature search in the evidence review process;</span></li><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">scoping the literature and choosing sources</span></li><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">matching your search approach to the a particular review method</span></li><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">turning a research question into a search strategy</span></li></ul><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><b>PLEASE NOTE: Delegates will be given a search task to complete in their own time and submit within 7 days (please allow approximately 1 hour for this)</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><b style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Session 2 (12th July) will look at:</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">Common pitfalls of searching (including feedback on search task)</span></li><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">Reporting searches</span></li><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">Beyond the “big bang” search - complementary and iterative methods, and when to use them</span></li><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">Emerging techniques</span></li><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">Knowing when to stop</span></li></ul><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><b>Who will benefit from the course?:</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">Anyone with an interest in conducting or supporting systematic reviews or similar evidence synthesis projects, especially:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">Postgraduate students</span></li><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">Early career researchers</span></li><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">Librarians and Information Specialists</span></li></ul><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">We will draw on examples not just from health but also from evidence synthesis in the social sciences and public policy.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/modules/systematic-approaches-searching-evidence-new" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">For more information visit the course webpage</a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><b style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">Course faculty:</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><b>ScHARR Information Science Research</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfzj-yEV7k3cTnPmcM-L5NyVnrNs2TAwiZc9NvLRjBDvubgJrJdyiDIPT8E4A1Pmy4jAISlLtPzfoDRtsBqF7NsdHu3Fj1XQMR6wkaZRmObOZQ8gzWbdHwwvVm6Xeydpv54TMMYhNEZZ90TKDuE8Us-iA6jTNL4_4-HlJm_CuHPHP38m15_fmiGcbf/s180/Marl%20Clowes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; font-family: arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfzj-yEV7k3cTnPmcM-L5NyVnrNs2TAwiZc9NvLRjBDvubgJrJdyiDIPT8E4A1Pmy4jAISlLtPzfoDRtsBqF7NsdHu3Fj1XQMR6wkaZRmObOZQ8gzWbdHwwvVm6Xeydpv54TMMYhNEZZ90TKDuE8Us-iA6jTNL4_4-HlJm_CuHPHP38m15_fmiGcbf/s1600/Marl%20Clowes.jpg" width="180" /></a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"> <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/mark-clowes" target="_blank">Mark Clowes</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/angie-rees" target="_blank">Angie Rees</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKqI1ankj5B9OhBi3yNriUEdQ0nrcCbdHYYl0ksMJuTbLj85Lrco6rjrs7FmhYQoVIpG9Kr9l7xnkfhUD4aAZ8ranBqJ6o5kwlCcBmETg1D72Qf4dmMI-4pmyf1A338RXuJFth1gwPub1P1tmvzsa9aNGJr3O-YY4St62iJ9H6_QvEUGTeTCbX-HRO/s180/Anthea%20Sutton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKqI1ankj5B9OhBi3yNriUEdQ0nrcCbdHYYl0ksMJuTbLj85Lrco6rjrs7FmhYQoVIpG9Kr9l7xnkfhUD4aAZ8ranBqJ6o5kwlCcBmETg1D72Qf4dmMI-4pmyf1A338RXuJFth1gwPub1P1tmvzsa9aNGJr3O-YY4St62iJ9H6_QvEUGTeTCbX-HRO/s1600/Anthea%20Sutton.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/anthea-sutton" target="_blank">Anthea Sutton</a></span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><a href="https://onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/short-courses/faculty-of-medicine-dentistry-and-health/scharr-short-course-unit/systematic-approaches-to-searching-for-evidence" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">BOOK NOW</span></a></p></div>Sonia Rizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17361560982490235916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587359407049192416.post-38485049896087200132022-04-25T10:00:00.013+01:002022-04-25T10:00:00.209+01:00ScHARR ONLINE Course - Communicating your research using social media, video, podcasts, blogs and infographics<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">Tuesday, 24th & Wednesday, 25th May 2022 (2-3 half day sessions) </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/short-courses/faculty-of-medicine-dentistry-and-health/scharr-short-course-unit/a-complete-guide-to-communicating-your-research-using-social-media-video-podcasts-blogs-and-infog" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">Book now</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGvJjDb96UwUwAwYIB53LA33ahERRg4jRuScsKzRL7tAOd-MFnSUfsqfZkmFqbJn-yB73xbbFrsMJeKZPfGplLHZz3T5duWNcM5cSxSZlE6s8bC-kC3LLPOQ87WvlbZF53wjthsdbDJtzQWNM6V4RrZcU9nP45mv6Dy2FEfferIxLbXd6_8I3Uh5Kp/s4800/Social%20media%20workshop.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="4800" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGvJjDb96UwUwAwYIB53LA33ahERRg4jRuScsKzRL7tAOd-MFnSUfsqfZkmFqbJn-yB73xbbFrsMJeKZPfGplLHZz3T5duWNcM5cSxSZlE6s8bC-kC3LLPOQ87WvlbZF53wjthsdbDJtzQWNM6V4RrZcU9nP45mv6Dy2FEfferIxLbXd6_8I3Uh5Kp/w426-h239/Social%20media%20workshop.png" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; text-align: left;">Communicating your research has never been more important in this ever changing digital world. This two half day course (with optional third half day) will guide you through the practical ways in which you can effectively disseminate your research outputs to wider audiences.</span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Who will benefit from this course?</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Researchers</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Masters and PhD students</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Research support staff and managers</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Library and information professionals</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Communications and marketing professionals</span></li></ul><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: arial;">Course schedule</b></p><div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Session 1: 1pm - 4pm</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">How research is changing in the 21st Century</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Social networks - What they are and which ones should you join</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Managing your reputation online</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Maximising Twitter’s potential as a research communication platform </span></li></ul></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Session 2: 9:30am - 12:30pm</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Creating research communication podcasts</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Creating infographics and eye-catching posters</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Getting visual - tools to help you turn a piece of research into a video presentation, screencast or animation.</span></li></ul></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Session 3: 1:30pm - 4:30pm (Optional extra)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Research blogging and working with the media - how to turn a piece of research into a blog/media article</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Altmetrics and alternative indicators of scholarly interest</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Creating a campaign and putting it together</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">1% increments to enhance your research communications</span></li></ul></div></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/short-courses/faculty-of-medicine-dentistry-and-health/scharr-short-course-unit/a-complete-guide-to-communicating-your-research-using-social-media-video-podcasts-blogs-and-infog" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">Book now</span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Course Faculty:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/andy-tattersall" target="_blank">Andy Tattersall</a>, Jisc Social Media Superstar in UK Higher Education for 2017</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">If you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact ScHARR <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/short-courses" target="_blank">Short Course Unit </a>via email at scharr-scu@sheffield.ac.uk.</span></div><p></p>Sonia Rizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17361560982490235916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587359407049192416.post-49310565208351912352022-04-05T11:54:00.004+01:002022-04-05T11:56:25.065+01:00Job vacancy at ScHARR - Research Associate or a Research Fellow in Health Economics and Decision Modelling<p style="text-align: left;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: small;">Fancy working in a world-class research department? Well look no further as we have a vacancy for a </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">Research Associate or a Research Fellow in Health Economics and Decision Modelling. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWc09dz7gbiQuWEAUIPf4eyJ8icjs5g8Hqz9Oz73Sv98ESTyTRFS8sVrHaZ0bBXIli7-6WRkAMiXeK74cSFu0a50ZZSVAWLKi9wmpvMWfVbvpSjcoo6ZlTk_KpPkUUW8BXndNm5NBfSPZ-G781vIXM1Wfb3X_vS2wsU5EW4OFLjP_WVQI4loRdi9A8/s397/regent%20court%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="397" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWc09dz7gbiQuWEAUIPf4eyJ8icjs5g8Hqz9Oz73Sv98ESTyTRFS8sVrHaZ0bBXIli7-6WRkAMiXeK74cSFu0a50ZZSVAWLKi9wmpvMWfVbvpSjcoo6ZlTk_KpPkUUW8BXndNm5NBfSPZ-G781vIXM1Wfb3X_vS2wsU5EW4OFLjP_WVQI4loRdi9A8/w445-h250/regent%20court%20(1).jpg" width="445" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ScHARR @ Regent Court</td></tr></tbody></table><br />You will support research and consultancy programmes in the Section of Health Economics and
Decision Science (HEDS). The work will be focused on applied cost-effectiveness analysis and
health economic modelling working on a range of projects and with a range of consultancy and
research funders including NHS organisations, government bodies and agencies, healthcare and
pharmaceutical companies, both nationally and internationally. The mix of work will be
determined both by the needs of those work programmes and the expertise and interests of the
successful candidate. <p></p><p style="text-align: left;">You will contribute to the writing of research and consultancy proposals and conduct analyses as
part of a broad portfolio of studies. We would expect those appointed to Research Fellow to lead
proposals. You may also develop methodological work and provide associated training on those
methods. You will disseminate findings in peer-reviewed journals and contribute to/ ensure wider
impact with decision makers. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Applicants should have research experience in health economics and decision modelling. A track
record of publication in peer-reviewed journals and conference presentation is desirable
(essential for Research Fellow). You should expect to develop existing methodological research
interests, complementary to those within HEDS. You will also contribute to the development and
delivery of Masters level teaching, supervision of postgraduate students and the provision of other
types of training. You should have a Masters Degree or equivalent in a numerate subject, for
example, mathematics, operational research, statistics or economics.</p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Reference Number</b>: </span> UOS032523<br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><div><span face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Salary:</b> Grade 7/8</span></div><div><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Details:</b> Full-time and fixed-term for 2 years </span></div><div><span face="arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Closing Date:</b> Thursday 28 April 2022 </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face="arial, sans-serif">The vacancy and About The Job can be found <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://jobs.shef.ac.uk/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/hrrcf_a_posting_apply?PARAM%3DcG9zdF9pbnN0X2d1aWQ9NjI0M0I0M0M0NTAyMjgzMEUxMDAwMDAwQUMxRTg4NzgmY2FuZF90eXBlPUVYVA%253d%253d%26sap-client%3D400%26sap-language%3DEN%26sap-accessibility%3DX%26sap-ep-themeroot%3D%252fSAP%252fPUBLIC%252fBC%252fUR%252fuos%23&source=gmail&ust=1649240541069000&usg=AOvVaw1Ob7YUc14GsUiayatotahu" href="https://jobs.shef.ac.uk/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/hrrcf_a_posting_apply?PARAM=cG9zdF9pbnN0X2d1aWQ9NjI0M0I0M0M0NTAyMjgzMEUxMDAwMDAwQUMxRTg4NzgmY2FuZF90eXBlPUVYVA%3d%3d&sap-client=400&sap-language=EN&sap-accessibility=X&sap-ep-themeroot=%2fSAP%2fPUBLIC%2fBC%2fUR%2fuos#" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div></div>Sonia Rizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17361560982490235916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587359407049192416.post-11843888923170539352022-03-31T13:26:00.002+01:002022-03-31T13:28:03.404+01:00ScHARR ONLINE course - Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis <p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial;">The aim of this popular and intensive course is to provide participants with an introduction to methods for conducting systematic reviews and meta-analysis in health care.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/17ngU8yFoBI" width="320" youtube-src-id="17ngU8yFoBI"></iframe></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sessions will be delivered by ScHARR staff experienced in systematic review methods and health technology assessment. The course will be interactive and practical, with delivery of sessions based on lectures and individual and small group practical exercises.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><b style="font-family: arial;">When?</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Monday 25th April (pm), Tuesday 26th April (am and pm), Tuesday 3rd May (am and pm) and Wednesday 4th May (pm). Specific times to be confirmed</span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">The course comprises live online sessions, plus a series of short, self-directed exercises to be undertaken in addition to the live sessions.</span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><b style="font-family: arial;">Who will benefit from the course?</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">The course is suitable for researchers who require an introduction to methods for conducting systematic reviews in health care, and professionals who need to develop the ability to interpret and asses the quality of systematic reviews. The course is also suitable for:</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><ul><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">Clinicians wanting to undertake their own systematic review</span></li><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">PhD students with a significant review component to their thesis</span></li><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">Members of academic systematic review teams</span></li><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">Pharmaceutical companies and consultancies requiring an understanding of review methods</span></li></ul><p></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">No previous knowledge of systematic reviews or meta-analysis is assumed.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">This course is relevant to anyone involved in systematic reviews. If you are specifically interested in qualitative evidence synthesis only, please see our ESQUIRE course.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><b>Learning outcomes:</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">By the end of this course participants should be able to:</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"></p><ul><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">identify the key stages of the systematic review process</span></li><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">define a review question and understand how to develop a review protocol</span></li><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">describe methods for identifying sources of evidence for systematic reviews</span></li><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">develop a search strategy to identify relevant studies for a specific review question and understand how to conduct a literature search</span></li><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">apply inclusion criteria to identify relevant studies</span></li><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">undertake critical appraisal of evidence using standardised quality checklists</span></li><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">develop a data extraction form and extract relevant outcomes from reported studies</span></li><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">select appropriate methods of evidence synthesis and be able to describe and summarise key results</span></li><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">be familiar with statistical methods for analysis of quantitative data</span></li><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">explore the use of meta-analysis in data synthesis using computer software (RevMan)</span></li><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">understand potential sources of heterogeneity between included studies</span></li><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">be familiar with good practice in reporting of systematic reviews</span></li><li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">critically appraise a systematic review.</span></li></ul></blockquote><h3><span style="font-family: arial;">Faculty</span></h3><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4eMNM3ZQiw0KxmSj5RLZ16xTwb0xciYcUfLs_9j6tJP5e8-NdAcPgSAzrQr2u1Wyg8g1vUUPA0Ugl2iOqRagkzsZgt5VU1E3bmq_1OSA9MviQ3TqOa4-OULKusF7TDFjeR3FCR4KpbybST6oIro4wj1zzFADOc95doI6tcCJqUCYtjRRo9LVcO5Rg/s200/Andrew-B-website.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="142" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4eMNM3ZQiw0KxmSj5RLZ16xTwb0xciYcUfLs_9j6tJP5e8-NdAcPgSAzrQr2u1Wyg8g1vUUPA0Ugl2iOqRagkzsZgt5VU1E3bmq_1OSA9MviQ3TqOa4-OULKusF7TDFjeR3FCR4KpbybST6oIro4wj1zzFADOc95doI6tcCJqUCYtjRRo9LVcO5Rg/w172-h242/Andrew-B-website.jpg" width="172" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/andrew-booth" target="_blank">Professor Andrew Booth</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOdiX66ZEme1ez_qvcEPpY81TakUA_Nx5RcBGaxL0OUubqwHodEH3ra9pBJk-2vgKxe0twXlKHRKJPwPE8Z5sTwyQarZMXtp-yctrUe7bAPALI15Yt1YrcH5OiY3rG_HKrppADULKGUk9NJhOepsYrcQVzO5GIkO7Qx4oqg5V9BFLJE3ZNhTDPMtOD/s246/marrissa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="180" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOdiX66ZEme1ez_qvcEPpY81TakUA_Nx5RcBGaxL0OUubqwHodEH3ra9pBJk-2vgKxe0twXlKHRKJPwPE8Z5sTwyQarZMXtp-yctrUe7bAPALI15Yt1YrcH5OiY3rG_HKrppADULKGUk9NJhOepsYrcQVzO5GIkO7Qx4oqg5V9BFLJE3ZNhTDPMtOD/w174-h238/marrissa.jpg" width="174" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marrissa Martyn-St James</td></tr></tbody></table></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">Other members of ScHARR staff to be confirmed</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; max-width: 75ch; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">For more details and to book your place visit <a href="https://onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/short-courses/faculty-of-medicine-dentistry-and-health/scharr-short-course-unit/systematic-reviews-and-metaanalysis" target="_blank">this page</a></span></p><br />Sonia Rizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17361560982490235916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587359407049192416.post-33704305490703357602022-03-31T13:10:00.002+01:002022-03-31T13:10:25.808+01:00Job vacancy at ScHARR - Research Associate in Statistics<p>Come join us at <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/about" target="_blank">ScHARR</a>! We have a job opportunity in <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/about#HEDS" target="_blank">HEDS</a> for a Research Associate with a strong background in statistics/mathematics and an interest in Bayesian statistics and health technology assessment. </p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv5OSflGibqKkZnNMmFE_B9oulo8Hoemor9wSRQuGds0bM-HBzNDLTZpmZkCfNgjOO_qh_PZqwgqQGnaOLzZtq7Aaso_93aqIjeiSofG1YKD_FWFg2Dsso0zJM265NOvrBFaIKtKiCduEuCqfhEsze7B8p6eq-B2HlUsMwbUh5t0jySlYT5yigMrKR/s1504/regent%20court.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="846" data-original-width="1504" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv5OSflGibqKkZnNMmFE_B9oulo8Hoemor9wSRQuGds0bM-HBzNDLTZpmZkCfNgjOO_qh_PZqwgqQGnaOLzZtq7Aaso_93aqIjeiSofG1YKD_FWFg2Dsso0zJM265NOvrBFaIKtKiCduEuCqfhEsze7B8p6eq-B2HlUsMwbUh5t0jySlYT5yigMrKR/w397-h223/regent%20court.jpg" width="397" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Regent Court, home of ScHARR</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p>Reference Number: UOS032508</p><p>Salary: Grade 7</p><p>Details: Full-time and fixed-term until 31 March 2027</p><p>Closing Date: Sunday 1 May 2022 </p><p>The vacancy and ATJ can be found <a href="https://jobs.shef.ac.uk/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/hrrcf_a_posting_apply?PARAM=cG9zdF9pbnN0X2d1aWQ9NjI0MzRBQjAzMTc0MjgxRUUxMDAwMDAwQUMxRTg4NzgmY2FuZF90eXBlPUVYVA%3d%3d&sap-client=400&sap-language=EN&sap-accessibility=X&sap-ep-themeroot=%2fSAP%2fPUBLIC%2fBC%2fUR%2fuos#" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>To find out what makes the University of Sheffield a remarkable place to work, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LblLk18zmo" target="_blank">watch this short film</a> and follow <a href="https://twitter.com/sheffielduni?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank">@sheffielduni</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/shefunijobs?lang=en" target="_blank">@ShefUniJobs</a> on Twitter for more information.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Sonia Rizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17361560982490235916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587359407049192416.post-85497992606107014102022-03-17T13:41:00.000+00:002022-03-17T13:41:07.526+00:00Introduction to 'R' ONLINE Course: Wednesday, 23rd March 2022<h2 style="text-align: center;"> Introduction to 'R' ONLINE Course<br />Wednesday 23rd March 2022, 9.30am - 4pm</h2><h2 style="text-align: center;"><br />**PLACES STILL AVAILABLE**<br /><a href="https://onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/short-courses/faculty-of-medicine-dentistry-and-health/scharr-short-course-unit" target="_blank">BOOK NOW</a></h2><p style="text-align: left;">This one-day course provides a basic introduction to, and overview of the use of the free statistical software, R, which includes:</p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>working with the RStudio interface</li><li>understanding different types and classes of objects</li><li>importing data, basic manipulation and summary statistics</li><li>linear regression</li></ul><p style="text-align: left;">Who will benefit from the course?</p><p style="text-align: left;">This course is aimed at individuals with little or no experience in R. The course is delivered in tutorial format, with short periods of demonstration followed by practical activities and time for questions. Those with previous experience with Excel VBA, STATA, SPSS and other software may find they progress faster than others, but no prior knowledge is expected. Similarly, a basic knowledge of statistics is advantageous, but not essential.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Objectives:</p><p style="text-align: left;">After this course you should be able to:</p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>know the benefits and limitations of R</li><li>navigate RStudio</li><li>import and manipulate different types of data in R</li><li>write scripts to allow for replication of analysis</li><li>summarise & plot data, plot results from a simple linear regression</li><li>know where to find further information.</li></ul><p></p><div style="text-align: left;">Cost:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The fee for this ONLINE delivered course is £199. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><br /></div><div>If you are a member of ScHARR Staff or a ScHARR Student please contact Karen Holden at scharr-scu@sheffield.ac.uk in the first instance, to confirm your eligibility and details of how to book at the reduced rate of £149.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://onlineshop.shef.ac.uk/short-courses/faculty-of-medicine-dentistry-and-health/scharr-short-course-unit" target="_blank">BOOK HERE</a></div></div><p style="text-align: left;"> Faculty:</p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWMNHHFsm5Zri4_UCsc9gS8YunEvTxk8MKVGEdRzdnPOmv2KW7WE08hXUBi_POmOPCaxNv6NLLnaURZR6x1Hdp9P7bdvIWYBhB_ncRQmIaYADlArJsPupO78VyNCF8rBiB_WJH51jTkuQJzeXS00AS2tRtz2G02Exb0uhAYjxzRHiv1nL2lJxtN3GN=s180" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><img alt="Sarah Bates is a Research Associate in Health Economics and Decision Science and the course leader" border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWMNHHFsm5Zri4_UCsc9gS8YunEvTxk8MKVGEdRzdnPOmv2KW7WE08hXUBi_POmOPCaxNv6NLLnaURZR6x1Hdp9P7bdvIWYBhB_ncRQmIaYADlArJsPupO78VyNCF8rBiB_WJH51jTkuQJzeXS00AS2tRtz2G02Exb0uhAYjxzRHiv1nL2lJxtN3GN=w190-h190" title="Sarah Bates is a Research Associate in Health Economics and Decision Science and the course leader" width="190" /></a></div><br />The course leader, Sarah Bates is a Research Associate in Health Economics and Decision Science<p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTQcWfX4QbiYgVpc3vU36nO7vCpZkdDWK55tNt4ctvglwrbJ0psHFXkSgubLRN1PZZgS4rCi01GME8PX4aon8u6mRkMavjtZab1EKuhTBG4xj-RUkKSjhkS28xYnRr4gKjdwx4YNqKw9XSZ_3hiB8L2csAStiMpjeaSrX7msGTjuv4tDsP1wKWgxfE=s180" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTQcWfX4QbiYgVpc3vU36nO7vCpZkdDWK55tNt4ctvglwrbJ0psHFXkSgubLRN1PZZgS4rCi01GME8PX4aon8u6mRkMavjtZab1EKuhTBG4xj-RUkKSjhkS28xYnRr4gKjdwx4YNqKw9XSZ_3hiB8L2csAStiMpjeaSrX7msGTjuv4tDsP1wKWgxfE=w164-h174" width="164" /></a></div><br />Robert Smith is a PhD candidate at the Wellcome Trust Doctoral Training Centre for Public Health, Economics and Decision Science<p></p>Sonia Rizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17361560982490235916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587359407049192416.post-48243244473519669602022-03-03T13:20:00.006+00:002022-03-03T13:20:53.130+00:00HESG2022 - Summer Conference - Sheffield 22nd - 24th June <p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: #fafafa; 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margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sheffield.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D3a386dfbcc21d8a9f9183deb5%26id%3D71982d0a49%26e%3D2028999b88&source=gmail&ust=1646392166613000&usg=AOvVaw0f-O0PMuwUEZBhnLGO1fzz" href="https://sheffield.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3a386dfbcc21d8a9f9183deb5&id=71982d0a49&e=2028999b88" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><strong>Register here</strong></a> to book your place at the 100th Health Economists' Study Group (HESG) meeting, hosted by <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sheffield.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D3a386dfbcc21d8a9f9183deb5%26id%3D654bbd0c55%26e%3D2028999b88&source=gmail&ust=1646392166613000&usg=AOvVaw2DFSb0syf277eTzo_sDsCF" href="https://sheffield.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3a386dfbcc21d8a9f9183deb5&id=654bbd0c55&e=2028999b88" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">ScHARR</a> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sheffield.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D3a386dfbcc21d8a9f9183deb5%26id%3D3510016271%26e%3D2028999b88&source=gmail&ust=1646392166613000&usg=AOvVaw3eAsifqn9hkXy52b2H0Zkk" href="https://sheffield.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3a386dfbcc21d8a9f9183deb5&id=3510016271&e=2028999b88" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">HEDS </a>on Wednesday 22nd to Friday 24th June 2022. Early bird rates are available until <strong>Saturday 30th April.</strong> <br /><br />We are delighted to announce that we will be holding an ECR workshop, <strong>'Introduction to Machine Learning for Causal Inference'</strong>, on the morning of Wednesday 22nd June, for ECRs attending the conference. <br /><br />The conference will be held at the Best Western Plus The Quays Hotel on Sheffield's historic Victoria Quays. Further details can be found on our <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sheffield.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D3a386dfbcc21d8a9f9183deb5%26id%3D3865ca79d7%26e%3D2028999b88&source=gmail&ust=1646392166613000&usg=AOvVaw0QI4q8wG4PBcgNKp4iXn0N" href="https://sheffield.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3a386dfbcc21d8a9f9183deb5&id=3865ca79d7&e=2028999b88" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">conference webpage</a>, which is updated regularly. <br /><br />If you have any questions, please contact us at <br /><a href="mailto:hesg-summer-2022@sheffield.ac.uk" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">hesg-summer-2022@sheffield.ac.<wbr></wbr>uk</a> <br /><br />We look forward to welcoming you to Sheffield this summer! <br /><br />HESG Conference Planning Committee<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sheffield.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D3a386dfbcc21d8a9f9183deb5%26id%3D9211c85f5a%26e%3D2028999b88&source=gmail&ust=1646392166613000&usg=AOvVaw1xLVWG-IHiWGAWnFbbNQSl" href="https://sheffield.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3a386dfbcc21d8a9f9183deb5&id=9211c85f5a&e=2028999b88" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">@HESG2022Shef</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Sonia Rizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17361560982490235916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587359407049192416.post-63763879459582343502022-02-25T09:33:00.002+00:002022-02-25T09:33:23.788+00:00<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Neue Plak", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Extending the QALY beyond health – the EQ-HWB (Health and well-being)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Neue Plak", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Professor John Brazier</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4_fYRno7qIUEcuwuiWNxA5P_xtO0wKzGwHPs1Izl-n7fDel7km12F1vUDgGHnkffyQUrks7UimT7HKd8qEKGoLCgeUr8b6gwgIJTx3X7HFEnvURMILFZYBHmgWDHx15sle_j6dHF-PUuinlha4iMvWtJFc335zVLd8ILpdBTz7GneIhvd_aivz-Aa=s800" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="800" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4_fYRno7qIUEcuwuiWNxA5P_xtO0wKzGwHPs1Izl-n7fDel7km12F1vUDgGHnkffyQUrks7UimT7HKd8qEKGoLCgeUr8b6gwgIJTx3X7HFEnvURMILFZYBHmgWDHx15sle_j6dHF-PUuinlha4iMvWtJFc335zVLd8ILpdBTz7GneIhvd_aivz-Aa=w419-h165" width="419" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #39364f; font-family: "Neue Plak", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.9333px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.5px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.9333px;">Join us online for a monthly online masterclass by one of our health research experts based in The School of Health and Related Research</span></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #39364f; font-family: "Neue Plak", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.9333px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.5px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #39364f; font-family: "Neue Plak", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.9333px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.5px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;">Join the live session by clicking the link below</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #39364f; font-family: "Neue Plak", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.9333px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.5px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/fbae374ad6ed4eeea1ed792b69c" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/fbae374ad6ed4eeea1ed792b69c</a></span></p><div class="g-group l-mar-bot-6 l-sm-mar-bot-4" style="background-color: white; color: #39364f; font-family: "Neue Plak", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><div class="structured-content g-cell g-cell-10-12 g-cell-md-1-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 15px; vertical-align: top; width: 560px;"><div class="has-user-generated-content" data-automation="about-this-event-sc" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="structured-content-rich-text structured-content__module l-align-left l-mar-vert-6 l-sm-mar-vert-4 text-body-medium" style="line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><p style="color: #6f7287; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px;">Abstract<br /></span>Measures for estimating Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) (e.g. EQ-5D, SF-6D) attempt to capture the health of patients but miss broader wellbeing considerations such as autonomy and relationships that are important to patients and users of social care. Furthermore these measures do not consider the impact on carers’ quality of life. This limitation of existing measures led to the joint MRC and Euroqol Research Foundation funded Extending the QALY (E-QALY) project.<br />On behalf of the E-QALY team, John Brazier will describe the idea for a new and broader measure of health and wellbeing (i.e. why it was needed) for use in health and social care, some of the conceptual issues encountered and how they were approached in a large international programme of work. He will also present the mixed methods empirical work to develop the new measure called the EQ Health and WellbeingTM (EQ-HWB). Please come along and join in the discussion about the empirical research and the policy questions this new measure raises.<br /><span style="font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px;">Bio<br /></span>John Brazier is a Professor of Health Economics in the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield. He was the first Director of the Economic Evaluation Policy Research Unit (EEPRU) which is a joint Sheffield and York Unit funded by the Department of Health in England to undertake applied and methodological research to inform health policy in England. Professor Brazier is currently a NIHR Senior Investigator (Emeritus).<br />Professor Brazier has more than 25 years’ experience of conducting economic evaluations of health care interventions for policy makers and has published over 200 peered reviewed papers. His special interest is in the measurement and valuation of health for economic evaluation where he has published widely.<br />Perhaps best known for his work in developing a preference-based measure of health for the SF-36 (SF-6D), but with colleagues he has further developed and extended these methods to a number of specific condition including measures in asthma, cancer, overactive bladder, diabetes, mental health, dementia and epilepsy.<br /><a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/john-e-brazier" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/john-e-brazier<br /></a><a href="https://twitter.com/profjohnbrazier" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">John Brazier on Twitter</a></p><p style="color: #6f7287; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;"><a href="https://twitter.com/profjohnbrazier" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"></a></p></div></div></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #39364f; font-family: "Neue Plak", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.9333px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.5px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: start;"></span></p><div class="g-group l-lg-mar-bot-6 l-md-mar-bot-4 l-pad-bot-6" style="background-color: white; color: #39364f; font-family: "Neue Plak", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 30px;"><div class="g-cell g-cell-10-12 g-cell-md-12-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-size: 0.933333rem; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 15px; vertical-align: top; width: 560px;"></div></div>Sonia Rizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17361560982490235916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587359407049192416.post-20162123994573679152022-02-23T09:00:00.001+00:002022-02-23T09:00:00.177+00:00 The QALY at 50: One story many voices<p><span style="font-family: arial;">ScHARR colleagues Professor Aki Tsuchiya and Dr Ruth Wong have collaborated on a paper that explores the impact and celebrates two seminal papers that shaped early QALY development.</span></p><h2 class="section-title u-h3 u-margin-l-top u-margin-xs-bottom" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.333 !important; margin-bottom: 8px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Highlights from the paper</span></h2><div id="abssec0015" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2e2e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p id="abspara0025" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;"></p><dl class="list" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><dt class="list-label" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; float: left; margin: 0px 2px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">•</span></dt><dd class="list-description" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><p id="p0010" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Two seminal papers from North America define the QALY we know today.</span></p></dd><dt class="list-label" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; float: left; margin: 0px 2px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">•</span></dt><dd class="list-description" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><p id="p0015" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Systematic searches identified 716 papers citing both these seminal papers.</span></p></dd><dt class="list-label" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; float: left; margin: 0px 2px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">•</span></dt><dd class="list-description" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><p id="p0020" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Co-citation analysis and visualisations highlight a range of methodological topics.</span></p></dd><dt class="list-label" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; float: left; margin: 0px 2px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">•</span></dt><dd class="list-description" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><p id="p0025" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Behavioural theories are shown to inform research into how we get the numbers.</span></p></dd><dt class="list-label" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; float: left; margin: 0px 2px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">•</span></dt><dd class="list-description" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><p id="p0030" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Research is also needed on what the numbers mean and what aspects to incorporate.</span></p></dd></dl><p style="font-family: NexusSerif, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, STIXGeneral, "Cambria Math", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Microsoft Sans Serif", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Arial Unicode MS", serif; font-size: 18px;"></p></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spencer, A., Rivero-Arias, O., Wong, R., Tsuchiya, A., Bleichrodt, H., Edward, R. T., & Clarke, P. (2021). The QALY at 50: One story many voices. <i>Social Science & Medicine</i>, 114653.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114653&source=gmail&ust=1645520400282000&usg=AOvVaw2A0VtXJaya0xljQYljQEQo" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114653" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.<wbr></wbr>socscimed.2021.114653</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;">There's also an accompanying interview of George Torrance, the father (or one of the fathers) of the QALY:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Short clip: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/jeWdkrvLO6Q&source=gmail&ust=1645520400282000&usg=AOvVaw1IXAUSUp_otmKydwNU9Wtp" href="https://youtu.be/jeWdkrvLO6Q" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/jeWdkrvLO6Q</a><br />The main recording: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/NBcyOfkSGfs&source=gmail&ust=1645520400282000&usg=AOvVaw1Pm5mWL1PniXshrwkUCGT2" href="https://youtu.be/NBcyOfkSGfs" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/NBcyOfkSGfs</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="362" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NBcyOfkSGfs" width="435" youtube-src-id="NBcyOfkSGfs"></iframe></div><br /><div><br /></div></div>Andy Tattersallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14930708174863561344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587359407049192416.post-8631840966950630012022-02-10T10:00:00.032+00:002022-02-23T09:27:32.006+00:00DSU work for the Update to the NICE Technology Appraisals Methods Guide (2022)<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicPLsxHXyKiQxCHZyyjKZ30mqc_VoRE0vcDUkD95oDzNha3g2CuSRlBhPCVh5yxhOtEye1eYscCmI3O6EDTo5dmFHboKPWeamigFDBpdxQZmTBlC67mdA_OjgoBXsQ9lEblyFEG0CbaDFPPsOOKJISeJQ6j7Lz8t6h9BkOXCOJGfP6r_PAxZJTwMMiTw=s1193" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="254" data-original-width="1193" height="99" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicPLsxHXyKiQxCHZyyjKZ30mqc_VoRE0vcDUkD95oDzNha3g2CuSRlBhPCVh5yxhOtEye1eYscCmI3O6EDTo5dmFHboKPWeamigFDBpdxQZmTBlC67mdA_OjgoBXsQ9lEblyFEG0CbaDFPPsOOKJISeJQ6j7Lz8t6h9BkOXCOJGfP6r_PAxZJTwMMiTw=w470-h99" width="470" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 21pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">NICE
has published the update to the </span><a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/process/pmg36/chapter/introduction-to-health-technology-evaluation"><span style="color: #007acc;">Guide to the Methods of
Technology Appraisal.</span></a><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 21pt;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The
following projects, which have contributed to the process, were initiated by
NICE and conducted by the DSU.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://nicedsu.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/methods-development/cost-minimisation" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007acc;">The use of cost
minimisation analysis for the appraisal of health technologies</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://nicedsu.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/methods-development/modelling-carer-health-related-quality-of-life" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007acc;">Modelling
carer health-related quality of life</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://nicedsu.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/methods-development/mapping-eq-5d-5l-to-3l" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007acc;">Mapping
EQ-5D-5L to 3L</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://nicedsu.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/methods-development/chte2020-sources-and-synthesis-of-evidence" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007acc;">CHTE2020
Sources and Synthesis of Evidence</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://nicedsu.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/methods-development/mapping-for-technology-appraisals" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007acc;">Mapping
for Technology Appraisals</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://nicedsu.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/methods-development/chte2020-qualitative-evidence" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007acc;">CHTE2020
Qualitative Evidence</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://nicedsu.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/methods-development/measuring-health-related-quality-of-life" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007acc;">MVH
related QoL when sufficient data is not directly observed</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://nicedsu.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/methods-development/utility-values-in-children" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007acc;">Utility
values in children</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="https://nicedsu.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/methods-development/future-unrelated-costs" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007acc;">Future
unrelated costs</span></a></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><u style="color: #007acc;"><a href="https://nicedsu.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/methods-development/estimating-eq-5d-by-age-and-sex-for-the-uk"><span style="color: #007acc;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Estimating EQ-5D by Age and Sex for the UK</span></span></a></u></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: arial;">ScHARR staff members involved
in this work included:-<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<div style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/allan-wailoo" style="color: #3d85c6;">Allan Wailoo<br /></a><a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/andrew-booth" style="color: #3d85c6;">Andrew Booth<br /></a><a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/becky-pennington" style="color: #3d85c6;">Becky Pennington<br /></a><a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/pgr-students/ben-kearns" style="color: #3d85c6;">Ben Kearns<br /></a><a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/donna-rowen"><span lang="IT"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Donna Rowen</span><br /></span></a><a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/john-e-brazier" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span lang="IT"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">John Brazier</span><br /></span></a><a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/monica-hernandez-alava" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Monica Hernandez</span><br /></a><a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/ruth-wong"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Ruth Wong</span><br /></a><a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/simon-dixon"><span lang="IT"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Simon Dixon</span><br /></span></a><a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/stephen-pudney"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Stephen Pudney</span><br /></a><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> <br /></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">and former ScHARR staff
member Alison Scope.</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: arial;">For
further <b>methods work</b> undertaken by the DSU, please visit:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="color: #2e75b6; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://nicedsu.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/methods-development"><span style="color: #2e75b6; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">http://nicedsu.org.uk/methods-development/</span></span></a></span><span style="color: #2e75b6; font-family: Merriweather; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #2E75B6; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">To sign up to the <b>DSU mailing list</b>, please
complete the short form on the website:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #2e75b6; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://nicedsu.org.uk/"><span style="color: #2e75b6; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">http://nicedsu.org.uk/</span></span></a></span><span style="color: #2e75b6; font-family: Merriweather; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #2E75B6; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent5; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></p></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h1>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4587359407049192416.post-28015091554006140752022-01-27T12:53:00.000+00:002022-01-27T12:53:38.270+00:00Unlocking linked real-world data presents opportunities to improve public health<p><em style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">The COVID-19 pandemic has surfaced the potential and risks of linked real world datasets to accelerate and produce new improvements in public health.</em></p><p><em style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">In this post, <a href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/01/26/unlocking-linked-real-world-data-presents-opportunities-to-improve-public-health/" target="_blank">originally published by LSE</a>, <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/matthew-franklin" target="_blank">Matthew Franklin</a>, Dan Howden, <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/suzanne-mason" target="_blank">Suzanne Mason</a>, <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/tony-stone" target="_blank">Tony Stone</a> and Monica Jones outline the opportunities and challenges of using real world data as part of the 'Unlocking data to inform public health policy and practice' project.</em></p><p><em style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">Highlighting the ethical and practical challenges of accessing this data, they argue that investing in and developing trust across those involved in the formation of real world data is critical to its effective use</em></p><p><em style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"><br /></em></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAjkMPsjTN4oIdwcaxA0Yh7UQXomsRNqcuhQiKWHtswNMoxRgWthoqHubXKcOe3qAzHvFdcUHmmpdfSPlQWMo9_i-nbQvi606N7DRTGGwvA80Sr7PJbQdUOGDxAMFSpJjV4rGOETOHu1EAtanD4HXdHWhOT78JTMcY-f1_PiyRU46BEFjBoHabO0xQ=s800" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAjkMPsjTN4oIdwcaxA0Yh7UQXomsRNqcuhQiKWHtswNMoxRgWthoqHubXKcOe3qAzHvFdcUHmmpdfSPlQWMo9_i-nbQvi606N7DRTGGwvA80Sr7PJbQdUOGDxAMFSpJjV4rGOETOHu1EAtanD4HXdHWhOT78JTMcY-f1_PiyRU46BEFjBoHabO0xQ=w400-h268" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/30478819@N08/50660588941/in/photolist-2mEGTZe-2m1eatV-2mEGTVw-2kauASg-2m1gx73-2kbGL72-2kL4M3a-2iFJzGd-2iHuaov-2kbCWHh-2kXNCox-2ignznL-2jQCsxy-2jcuNUd-2kRXupa-2kzCjPy-2kJtWsX-2kL5g39-2kN7UZa-2kbD2ad-2kbH9XZ-2kbHat8-2m99WsL-2iYA2P5-2kqwQz8-2jajLcY-2iNfUWk-2m4N6AP-2mJ4Sig-2mJ3CYa-2mAZ2ps-2mAULK6-2mAULJ9-2mCxJyx-2mAZ2oW-2j2WSgr-2kbGGkK-2iXRizn-2kL5eJ7-2kL5eMU-2kL4Lcn-2m9dBBE-2m9f82f-2kSVw1t-2kSTTjs-2jA4iHD-2m5NfK5-2mHYwKY-2mJ86K7-2m8CpiH"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Photo from Flickr: Marco Verch Professional Photographer (CC by 2.0)</span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><em style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"><br /></em></p>Sonia Rizzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17361560982490235916noreply@blogger.com