The West Midlands Health Technology Assessment Collaboration (WMHTAC)
based in the Department of Public Health & Epidemiology at The University
of Birmingham as part of postgraduate educational programme is offering a
number of short courses in health service research methods and health
technology assessment. Below is a brief description of an upcoming short
course that is particularly suitable for people who want to know how to do
a systematic review and/or prepare a health technology assessment. Please
kindly circulate this information to anyone who might be interested within
your organisation.
Course title: Methodological Basis of HTA
Dates: 27th November – 1st December 2006 AND 22nd January – 26 January 2007
Description: This two-week course provides a detailed overview of
methodological basis of undertaking a systematic review/health technology
assessment. Technologies considered include clinical interventions,
diagnostic tests and other types of health technology. Areas that will be
covered include: scoping/focusing of questions, literature searching
methods, publication and related biases, quality assessment of studies,
approaches to data extraction, interpretation of results, data synthesis
and analysis methods including meta-analysis. The course is practically
based and participants will have the opportunity to work with example data
sets including their own, and are expected to produce a protocol for a
systematic review/health technology assessment for a topic of their own
interest with guidance from teaching members.
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Teaching members for this course are primarily drawn from the WMHTAC, who
has substantial experience in preparing health technology assessment
reports for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
(NICE), the West Midlands region and many other organisations. External
speakers are also invited to cover HTA related areas including ‘the fourth
hurdle’, drug regulation and guideline implementation.
Course fee: £1000*/£1500 (*rate for NHS/University
employees only)
Places for the course are limited and will be allocated on the first come
first serve basis.
To register a place for the course, please contact the senior programme co-
ordinator Tricia Henley ([log in to unmask])
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