National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme research funding and UK burden of disease

National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme research funding and UK burden of disease

BACKGROUND HTA Programme funding is governed by the need for evidence and scientific quality, reflecting funding of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) by the NHS. The need criterion incorporates covering the spectrum of diseases, but also taking account of research supported by other funders. This study compared the NIHR HTA Programme portfolio of research with the UK burden of d...

Returns on Research Funded Under the NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme: Economic Analysis and Case Studies.

The Department of Health (England) requested that RAND Europe conduct an economic analysis of the impact of the HTA Programme. This article describes the results of that work, which consisted of analysis of the potential economic benefits of a sample of HTA funded studies and comparison to programme costs, supplemented by a set of short case studies exploring the impacts of the HTA Programme on...

The National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) for Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland (LNR): a programme protocol

BACKGROUND In October 2008, the National Institute for Health Research launched nine new research projects to develop and investigate methods of translating research evidence into practice. Given the title Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC), all involve collaboration between one or more universities and the local health service, but they are adopting diff...

NSFC Health Research Funding and Burden of Disease in China

BACKGROUND Allocation of health research funds among diseases has never been evaluated in China. This study aimed to examine the relationship between disease-specific funding levels of National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the main governmental resource for health research in China, and burden of disease. METHODS Funding magnitudes for 53 diseases or conditions were obtained fro...

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