Posted on 16/06/10 PenTAG paper shortlisted for international prize

A paper by two PenTAG researchers on the use of surrogate outcomes in cost-effectiveness models has been shortlisted for an HTAi award – the Egon Jonsson Award.... Read more

Posted on 07/06/10 Recent grant successes with Wellcome Trust and NIHR

Prof. Chris Hyde and other PenTAG researchers have been successful in two recent competitive grant applications... Read more

About

PenTAG is a vibrant and multidisciplinary research group which specialises in the synthesis of research evidence for informing health policy and practice.

This work spans both ongoing contracts to support national policy-making agencies, and internationally recognised methodological research relevant to evidence synthesis and improving the influence of research on policy-making.

We currently have four major work streams, which fund most of our 20 or so research staff:

health technology assessment (both for NICE, and the NIHR HTA programme)
public health evidence reviews & analyses (supporting NICE Public Health Guidance development)
Cochrane Heart Group systematic reviews and meta-analyses
PenCLAHRC evidence synthesis team

Our methodological research includes

Applying and evaluating new methods of qualitative research synthesis
Developing and evaluating information graphics for decision-making
Developing web-based utility elicitation methods (the Value of Health Panel)
Assessing the use and validation of surrogate outcomes in HTA
Advancing methods for cost-effectiveness analysis

PenTAG is one of a number of research groups within the Institute for Health Services Research, which is part of the Peninsula College of Medicine & Dentistry.