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This message posted on behalf of a subscriber. If interested, please replyu to: Rebecca Warburton at [log in to unmask] cheers Douglas Badenoch Programme Manager for Communication and Education ----------------------------------------------------------- NHS R&D Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine University of Oxford NDM, Level 5, The John Radcliffe Headington, Oxford, OX3 9DU United Kingdom ----------------------------------------------------------- Tel: +44 1865 221321 Email: [log in to unmask] Fax: +44 1865 222901 WWW: http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 23:27:19 -0800 From: "Rebecca Warburton, Ph.D." <[log in to unmask]> Message: The following distance-learning opportunity may be of interest to list members. Please feel free to forward this message to non-subscribers. INTRODUCING A NEW LEARNING RESOURCE FOR HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT. Where can busy health care professionals and managers learn about health technology assessment (HTA), without ever leaving home? Now there's a distance-learning course developed jointly by the University of Victoria and the British Columbia Health Research Foundation (British Columbia, Canada). This innovative course offers "lectures" at a secure website, letting you study where and when you have time. Submit assignments and receive instructor comments by email. Complete a project in your area of interest, with expert guidance and assistance. Extensive use will be made of Internet and other resources for health technology assessment. Learn where to find the evidence you need, when you need it. Based on the experience of some of the world's leading authorities in HTA, participants will learn how to: - interpret and understand HTA information; - plan and conduct HTA studies; and - use the Internet as a research tool for HTA; all without having to leave work or incur the travel and living expences normally associated with this type of professional development. Subjects covered include: 1. the language of technology assessment and health services research, from basic to advanced concepts, with definitions and examples; 2. the stages in the technology life cycle, the moving target problem, the technology assessment iterative loop; 3. practical issues of health service study rigour and validity: selection bias, randomization and other control methods, meta-analysis, ethical issues; 4. economic evaluation: assessing costs and effects, measuring quality of life, discounting, sensitivity analysis, equity considerations; 5. sources of unbiased information, on the Internet and elsewhere, including Cochrane and other systematic reviews, and MEDLINE search methods; 6. the pitfalls of relying on vendor information; how to critique and supplement it; and 7. the use of health technology assessment to support evidence-based medicine and evidence-based health care system management. Full information is available at: http://hta.uvic.ca "Overview" - overview of the site "Course Units" - descriptions of each unit, plus full text sample unit "Contact Information" - how to request more information "How to Register" - registration instructions Regards, Rebecca Warburton, Ph.D. Health Economist HTA on the Net Instructor School of Health Information Science University of Victoria phone (250) 721-8066 email [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%