Thursday 22 January 2015

ScHARRNews - Friday 16th January - Thursday 22nd January 2015

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New projects
ScHARR-TAG have been allocated the following topics by NIHR/NICE:ScHARR-TAG projectsSTA 14/206/02: Pirfenidone for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (review of TA282)HTATAR 14/151/08: The prognostic value of tests and assessment tools in rheumatoid arthritisHTA Scoping report 14/151/09: Strategies for the management of post-menopausal osteoporosis

YESTERDAY

Making a Difference Through Research - Postgraduate research at ScHARR
Making a Difference Through Research - Postgraduate research at ScHARR Eve Ouma, a PhD student in ScHARR, talks about her experiences of being a postgraduate research student at the School of Health and Related Research. From: scharr Views: 18 0 ratings Time: 03:49 More in Education
Making a Difference Through Research - Postgraduate research at ScHARR
Making a Difference Through Research - Postgraduate research at ScHARR Eve Ouma, a PhD student in ScHARR, talks about her experiences of being a postgraduate research student at the School of Health and Related Research. From: scharr Views: 18 0 ratings Time: 03:49 More in Education
Gig Review: Social Media for Researchers event, 19/1/15
Establishing an online presence - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspiresYesterday, myself (@beakbeccroft) and IR's very own Andy Tattersall (@andy_tattersall) presented at "Social Media for Researchers" event, at the Management School, Sheffield.The event was organised by the lovely Sarah Boswell (@sarahboswell1), who had attended a similar event at Sheffield Hallam

JAN 20

Not cost-effective at zero price
NICE DSU published a report assessing technologies that are not cost-effective at a zero price recently.  The abstract is below:Photo by Leo-seta via Flickr CC BY 2.0 "In a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) appraisal of a new drug (pertuzumab) in metastatic breast cancer the appraisal consultation document (ACD) concluded that pertuzumab, when used in accordance with i
Wearable Devices - more hype!
Fierce Medical Devices (FMD) has reported that many U.S considers like to wirelessly monitor personal information such as weight loss rather than their blood pressure.The survey that FMD reports was conducted by A&D Medical and included more than 2000 people. They found that 74% of men in the U.S (aged 55-64 years) and 73% of women (aged 18-34 years) were concerned about their weight.To find o

JAN 19

App Swap Breakfast at TELFest
I co-delivered a one hour App Swap Breakfast as part of the University of Sheffield’s TELFest last week. TELFest is a three day long festival of learning technologies hosted by the Learning Technology team from our Corporate and Information Systems department. The aim of the event is to encourage staff to find out more about the many technologies, in house and otherwise they can use as part of the
How comedy can be used for public health
By John Mooney, University of Sheffield Those working in public health would be the first to concede that our discipline has a bit of an image problem. If we’re not despairing over the societal burden of obesity (step away from those pies), we’re busy contesting the validity of the “J-shaped” curve for alcohol – in which non-drinkers show a statistically higher risk of mortality than moderate drin
HEDS Seminar Series…
…is kicking off again on Friday the 23rd January with Rachael Hunter from UCL, who will be speaking about "The economics of providing health care in prisons – a fiscal fugitive". Rachael is the senior health economist for PRIMENT Clinical Trials Unit at UCL focusing on economic evaluations alongside trials of complex interventions, particularly in mental health, primary care and criminal

JAN 18

Edward Healthcare Supports New Initiatives in Elderly Care at ...
The winners of the 2014 award were Barnsley based firm HMA Digital Marketing and the University of Sheffield's Centre for Assistive Technology and Connected Healthcare (CATCH), for their suite of mobile apps for the ...

JAN 16

Comment: Repeated floggings will put Raif Badawi’s life at risk
Suzanne Mason, Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Sheffield, comments on the short, medium and long term effects that a weekly flogging of 50 lashes is likely to have on an individual.
Comment: How to avoid bogus health information on the web
Andy Tattersall, an information specialist at the University of Sheffield, comments on how to avoid bogus health information on the Internet.
Mobile biometrics - the future?
It is argued that mobile biometrics are becoming a "key human identification platform", changing the way people access business and personal information. Governments and a number of industry companies are using mobile biometrics to process people and goods in financial services more quickly and efficiently. To find out more about this or just to find out what mobile biometrics are, pleas

JAN 15

MALT tools for telehealth adoption and implementation
Overcoming Barriers, Reducing Uncertainty from MALT Project on Vimeo.The MALT study team have recently launched their toolkit of resources for telehealth implementation and adoption. All of the tools are available via the MALT website. Based on findings from the research, the team have produced a series of tools to help overcome the barriers to telehealth adoption and reduce the uncertainty aroun

Wednesday 14 January 2015

ScHARRNews - Thursday 15th January 2015

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A cluster randomized controlled non-inferiority trial of 5-day Dose Adjustment for Normal Eating (DAFNE) training delivered over 1 week versus 5-day DAFNE training delivered over 5 weeks: the DAFNE 5 × 1-day trial
Author(s):Elliott, J. | Rankin, D. | Jacques, R.M. | Lawton, J. | Emery, C.J. | Campbell, M.J. | Dixon, S. | Heller, S.R.Publication year: 2015Journal / Book title: Diabetic MedicineAccess all results for your search in Scopus
Project update: MALT completion and online model
The MALT project looked at barriers to the adoption of telehealth technologies.  There are various strands to the project and now that it is compete, the website has been tidied up and so that all outputs can be easily accessed.  One output is an online economic and financial model…..The model focuses on CHF or COPD and is based around health states defined by numbers of hospitalisations, with the
Activity & fitness wearables vs smartwatches
The Berg Insight report states that the fitness and activity wearables are the largest and most popular type of wearable at present. They say there is a "robust growth" with 19 million wearables sold in 2014 with a staggering annual growth rate of 168.2 million by 2019.Smartwatches are catching up and are expected to overtake the fitness and activity wearables by 2019. What does this mea

YESTERDAY

ScHARR Seminar Series
When: Tue Mar 10, 2015 5:30am to 6:30am  PDTReplaces event originally scheduled for: Tue Mar 10, 2015 5:30am Where: Pemberton Lecture Theatre Event Status: confirmed Event Description: Pablo Monsovais ~ TBC
ScHARR Seminar Series
When: Tue Feb 24, 2015 4:30am to 5:30am  PSTReplaces event originally scheduled for: Tue Feb 24, 2015 4:30am Where: Pemberton Lecture Theatre Event Status: confirmed Event Description: Lukasz Tanajewski ~ Economic evaluation of a general hospital unit for older people with delirium and dementia (TEAM trial): clinical outcomes versus cost-effectiveness
ScHARR Seminar Series
When: Tue Feb 10, 2015 4:30am to 5:30am  PSTReplaces event originally scheduled for: Tue Feb 10, 2015 4:30am Where: Pemberton Lecture Theatre Event Status: confirmed Event Description: Shirley Thomas ~ TBC
ScHARR Seminar Series
When: Tue Jan 13, 2015 4:30am to 5:30am  PSTReplaces event originally scheduled for: Tue Jan 13, 2015 4:30am Where: Pemberton Lecture Theatre Event Status: confirmed Event Description: Ed Wilson ~ How detailed does a piggybacked economic evaluation alongside an RCT need to be? A comparison of relative value of information from different resource use data collection processes in an economic evaluat
John Mooney - The Conversation UK
The Conversation UKJohn MooneyThe Conversation UKPrior to joining the alcohol modelling team in the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), I worked for an MRC funded public health policy research unit in Edinburgh (SCPRHP), where I specialised on obesity prevention and developing ...
Comment: From Hazardous Waists to Talkin’ Bol***ks: how comedy can be used for public health
John Mooney, a Public Health Specialist at the University of Sheffield, comments on how comedy can be used for public health.
John Mooney - The Conversation UK
The Conversation UKJohn MooneyThe Conversation UKWithin ScHARR, I will mainly be working on helping to develop a 'local authority' version of the 'Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model' which will help local public health teams to prioritise local intervention measures around licensing, local advertising ...
Recently published CEAs
Twice each month the CEA Registry Blog lists recently published cost utility studies and associated papers.  From the ones listed this time, here's a few in our areas of research interest:Tanaka E, Inoue E, Hoshi D, et. al. Cost-effectiveness of tocilizumab, a humanized anti-interleukin-6 (IL-6) receptor monoclonal antibody, versus methotrexate in patients with rheumatoid arthritis using real-worl