We lead the health economics component of health technology assessments undertaken across the IAHS. These include our NIHR funded Technology Assessment Reviews (TARs) work, other NIHR funded and externally funded trials and cohort studies of new and existing interventions. The research is generally multidisciplinary and undertaken in collaboration with research groups in the University of Aberdeen and external centres of excellence.
Current Projects
| Aberdeen Belfast Evidence Collaboration - NIHR Evidence Synthesis Group |
| HERU are part of the Aberdeen Belfast Evidence Collaboration (ABEC) which brings together experts in health and social care research from the University of Aberdeen and Queen's University Belfast to form an NIHR funded Evidence Synthesis Group with aim of addressing knowledge gaps or a specific need identified by NIHR Evidence Synthesis Programme stakeholders across healthcare, public health and social care. |
| HERU contact: Graham Scotland and Rodolfo Hernández |
| Link: NIHR Evidence Synthesis Groups |
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| TARs - NIHR Technology Assessment Reviews |
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The University of Aberdeen, through the Aberdeen Health Technologies Assessment (HTA) Group, are one of the independent centres with an NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) Technology Assessment Reviews (TARs) contract to review evidence for the development of technology appraisals guidance. The Aberdeen HTA Group is a multidisciplinary team from HERU, the Health Services Research Unit (HSRU) and Medical Statistics. Under the TARs contract the Aberdeen HTA Group synthesise evidence on the clinical and cost-effectiveness of health technologies and provide information to support the development of healthcare policy by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and other NHS and governmental organisations. The group also develop and refine methods of HTA. The Aberdeen HTA Group have held a TARs contract since 2001. The contract has been renewed for the 2022-26 period and individual projects are ongoing. |
| HERU contact: Graham Scotland and Dwayne Boyers |
| Link: NIHR Evidence Synthesis Programme |
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Recently Completed Projects
| i-TRAC - In-home Tracking of glaucoma: Reliability, Acceptability, and Cost. Digital technologies for home monitoring glaucoma: a feasibility study |
| HERU contact: Rodolfo Hernández |
| Link: NIHR Award 129248 |
| TESTES - Effects and safety of testosterone in Men with low testosterone levels: an evidence synthesis and economic evaluation |
| HERU contact: Rodolfo Hernández |
| Link: NIHR Award 17/68/01 |