Reviewing Services for the Public Sector
YHEC offers a range of reviewing services including scoping reviews and rapid evidence reviews, through to systematic reviews. We also undertake reviews to identify research gaps and to inform the conduct of larger projects or implementation decisions.
YHEC has expertise in undertaking reviews and economic evaluations of a range of healthcare interventions, including:
- Pharmaceuticals
- Medical Devices
- Diagnostic Technologies
- Surgical Procedures
- Public Health Interventions
We have an experienced multidisciplinary team of consultants and associates to support our reviews including systematic reviewers, health economists, information specialists, qualitative researchers and statisticians. YHEC has established resources and procedures to streamline the production of reviews. YHEC has undertaken reviews for a wide range of clients including the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), European Centre for Disease Control, the Treasury and NHS organisations.
As well as preparing reviews we can also provide review appraisals or critiques, and can assist with developing a review question.
YHEC staff are also active in the development of review methods and publish regularly in key journals in the field such as the International Journal of Technology Assessment in Healthcare and the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.
Some of our recent publications are:
Brush J, Boyd K, Chapell F, Crawford F, Dozier M, Fenwick E, Glanville JM, McIntosh H, Renehan A, Weller D, Dunlop M. The Value of FDG Positron Emission Tomography/Computerised Tomography (PET/CT) in Pre-Operative Staging of Colorectal Cancer: A Systematic Review and Economic Evaluation Health Technology Assessment 2011; 15: 1-191.  Bending MW, Trueman P, Lowson KV, Pilgrim H, Tappenden P, Chilcott J & Tappenden J.. Estimating the direct costs of bowel cancer services provided by the National Health Service in England International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 2010; 26(4): 362-369. Bending MW, Beale S, Hutton J. An economic analysis of workplace interventions that promote physical activity PHIAC Report, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence 2008; April. Muszbek N, Thompson MM, Soong CV, Hutton J, Brasseur P, van Sambeek MRHM. Systematic review of utilities in abdominal aortic aneurysm European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery 2008; 36(3): 283-289. Brown P, Brunnhuber K, Chalkidou K, Chalmers I, Clarke M, Fenton M, Forbes C, Glanville J, Hicks NJ, Moody J, Twaddle S, Timimi H, Young P. How to formulate research recommendations BMJ 2006; 333: 804-6.
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