Do you use systematic reviews? Are you thinking of doing a systematic review? Southampton Health Technology Assessments Centre (SHTAC) at the University of Southampton, invites you to participate in this training day which provides an introductory overvie ...

This course, organised by the York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC), looks at how to design complex search strategies and complements their training on advanced search techniques. As the volume of published research grows it is becoming more challenging ...

Extensive literature searches are the foundation of high quality systematic reviews, health technology assessment (HTA), guideline development and other major projects. Conducting searches to retrieve research evidence from databases and other resources r ...

Economic evaluations are increasingly used as tools to inform decision-makers about the cost-effectiveness of health technologies. Such evaluations are often undertaken during the late stages of the technology development (i.e. around the time of product ...

This training day, organised by the York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC), focusses on the development of economic models specifically in the area of oncology. The sessions will include overviews of the most common methods for modelling treatments for c ...

Health economics evidence is a key element in much health services research and particularly in health technology assessments. Identifying economic evidence to inform such research can involve searches in a range of databases and using a variety of strate ...

This one-day course, organised by the York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC), will provide attendees with a background to Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and their use in the pharmaceutical and public sector with an overview on differences, as well as s ...

This one-day course, organised by the York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC), is aimed at NHS commissioners and providers and private sector organisations who need to understand how to make an economic case for change to the NHS. The training day aims to ...

Indirect treatment comparisons (ITC) and mixed treatment comparisons (MTC), collectively referred to as Network Meta-Analysis (NMA), are increasingly used in health technology assessment. They are statistical techniques to synthesise available direct and ...

The York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC), in association with the Systematic Review Toolbox, are running a workshop at the University of York to provide an overview of selected software tools currently available to support the production of systematic ...