Current Studies
Economic evaluation of kidney allocation schemes for the ATTOM (Access to Transplantation and Transplant Outcome Measures) study
- Principal investigator: John Cairns
- Co-Investigators: Bernadette Li
- Collaborators: ATTOM Committee, NHS Blood and Transplant
- Funder: National Institute for Health Research Programme Grant
Children's health state preferences learnt from animation (CHILDSPLA)
- Principal investigator: John Cairns
- Co-Investigators: Kate Brown and Jo Wray (Great Ormond Street Hospital), Joan Ashworth (RCA)
- Collaborators: Great Ormond Street Hospital, Royal College of Art
- Funder: Medical Research Council
Economic evaluation of SmartTarget: Image-guided Diagnosis and Treatment of Localised Prostate Cancer
- Principal investigator at LSHTM: Jan van der Meulen
- Co-Investigators: Alec Miners, Sarah Willis
- Collaborators: UCLH NHS Foundation Trust, Centre for Medical Image Computing (CMIC) at UCL
- Funder: Health Innovation Challenge Fund (jointly funded by the Wellcome Trust and Department of Health)
Investigation of the governance of NHS Foundation Trusts
- Principal investigator: Pauline Allen, Andrew Hutchings, John Wright and Stuart Anderson
- Co-Investigators: none
- Collaborators: from University of Leeds: Justin Keen, Jean Townsend, Paul Dempster and
Peter Vincent-Jones; from University of York: Andrew Street and Maria Goddard - Funder: NIHR SDO Programme
An ‘On-call’ Facility for International Healthcare Comparisons
International Healthcare Comparisons
- Principal investigator: Dr Ellen Nolte
- Co-Investigators: Prof Nick Mays, Stefanie Ettelt
- Collaborators: Partners in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland.
- Funder: Department of Health, UK
Clinical Effectiveness Unit, a partnership between the LSHTM and the Royal College of Surgeons of England
- Principal investigator: Jan van der Meulen and Nick Black
- Co-Investigators: David Cromwell, Susan Charman, Marielena Trivella
- Collaborators: Royal College if Surgeons of England
- Funder: Royal College of Surgeons of England
The Clinical Effectiveness Unit carries out national studies of the quality of surgical care. All studies involve collaboration between clinicians and methodologists and aim to provide quantitative information on determinants of variation in process and outcome. The Unit undertakes studies on clinical and cost-effectiveness of surgical interventions.
Online International Vaccine Economics and Statistics (OLIVES)
- Principal investigator: Colin Sanderson
- Co-investigators: A Clark
- Collaborators: PAHO through ProVac initiative
- Funder: The Gates Foundation (via ProVac)
Study of the Impact of Salmonella
Study of the Impact of Salmonella
- Principal investigator: Prof Jennifer A Roberts, Professor Laura Rodrigues
- Co-Investigators: Dr Bob Adak, Alastair Cook
- Collaborators: Craig Higgins, Andreia Santos
- Funder: DEFRA (sub-contract from VLA)
Patient reported outcomes in surgery
- Principal investigators: Jan van der Meulen & Nick Black
- Co-Investigators: Jiri Chard
- Collaborators: Royal College of Surgeons of England
- Funder: Department of Health/NHS North West
Based on a literature review of PROMs and subsequent pilot study (of 2500 patients), we are currently engaged in a study of about 30 000 patients undergoing one of four elective operations (hip and knee replacement, hernia repair, varicose vein surgery) in 15 Independent Sector Treatment Centres and about 50 NHS providers. Data are collected from patients before and either 3 or 6 months after surgery. These studies have informed government policy on the mandatory collection of PROMs from April 2009.
Psychometric validation of the Anti-Clot Treatment Scale (ACTS) in venous thromboembolism and atrial fibrillation
- Principal investigator: DL Lamping
- Co-Investigators: S Cano (Inst of Neurology)
- Collaborators: none
- Funder: Bayer HealthCare Pharma
Generation of preference-based indices from DEMQOL and DEMQOL-Proxy for use in economic evaluation
- Principal investigator: S Banerjee (Inst of Psychiatry), J Brazier (Sheffield)
- Co-Investigators: DL Lamping, S Smith, M Knapp, R Howard, T Young
- Collaborators: none
- Funder: NHS Research and Development, Health Technology Assessment Programme
NIHR Pressure Ulcer Programme
- Principal investigator: J Nixon (Leeds)
- Co-Investigators: S Linter, J Hansford, J Brown, DL Lamping, J Keen, C McCabe, A Nelson, M Briggs, E McGinnis, C Dealey, G Worthy
- Collaborators: none
- Funder: National Institute for Health Research Programme Grants
Malawi Outcome Project - Phase I
- Principal investigator: C Lavy
- Co-Investigators: Y Alavi, DL Lamping, S Hartley, S Smith
- Collaborators: none
- Funder: Christian Blind Mission, CURE International
EURO-PREVOB – Consortium for the prevention of obesity through effective nutrition and physical activity action
- Principal investigator: Prof Martin McKee
- Co-Investigators: Dr Joceline Pomerleau, Dr Cecile Knai
- Collaborators: Partners in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Italy, Latvia, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
- Funder: European Commission Framework 6 Programme
AMIEHS – Avoidable mortality in the European Union: towards better indicators for the effectiveness of health systems
- Principal investigator: Dr Ellen Nolte
- Co-Investigators: Prof Martin McKee, Dr Colin Sanderson, Dr Bernadette Khoshaba
- Collaborators: EMC Rotterdam, Netherlands; Uppsala University, Sweden; INSERM France; LögD, Germany; University of Tartu, Estonia; University of Valencia, Spain.
- Funder: European Commission Framework 7 Programme
Barriers to take up of cycling for transport among under-represented groups of adults
- Principal investigator: Judith Green
- Co-investigators: Jessica Datta, Phil Edwards
- Collaborators: TfL, LCC
- Funders: Camden PCT
This is only a selected list of the studies currently undertaken by the Health Services Research Unit. For a more comprehensive list please contact Debby Stanley (Unit Administrator).
