1.2
Health services research
Keywords
Health services research, health inequalities, systematic
reviews, health economics, medical statistics
Expertise
Even with the best technologies and medicines in the
world, health and wellbeing of patients will not really
improve unless patients can access good quality, effective
and cost-effective healthcare services. The University of
Liverpool looks at the processes, services, structures and
infrastructure that all add up to the ‘healthcare system’.
What effect do these factors have on healthcare delivery
and its clinical effectiveness? How can these factors be
addressed to improve health and wellbeing?
Our research programme uses a wide variety of
methodologies, from laboratory-based experimentation to
quantitative and qualitative approaches, from ethnography
and epidemiology to randomised controlled trials (RCTs),
economic evaluation and mixed methods.
Areas of expertise include:
•
Understanding and addressing complexity in primary
care, researching mixed methods into complex
interventions and exploring technology applications
and innovation
•
Mixed methods exploration of psychosocial aspects
of palliative and end-of-life care
•
Socio-economic factors in health, illness and
wellbeing
•
Oral health research from laboratory studies,
to clinical trials and systematic reviews to promote,
sustain and protect oral health
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Health economics and medical statistics
•
Health technology assessment.
Capabilities and facilities
•
Evidence synthesis, systematic reviews and health
economic modelling
•
Health and safety systematic reviews
•
In vitro
and
in sit
u modelling
•
Randomised clinical trials.
Relevant centres and groups
•
Liverpool Health Inequalities Research Institute
•
Liverpool Reviews and Implementation Group (LRiG)
The Liverpool Reviews and Implementation Group
(
LRiG) is a multidisciplinary group that has expertise
in clinical effectiveness, systematic reviews, health
economics, economic modelling, social policy,
epidemiology and psychology. The group conducts
technology assessment reviews, commissioned by
the health technology assessment programme on
behalf of the National Institute for Health and Clinical
Excellence (NICE). It is one of nine independent
review groups from around the UK used by NICE.
In addition, LRiG has well-established links and
works collaboratively with academic units within and
beyond the University of Liverpool and with local,
national and international clinical and health
technology assessment networks.
Health & Wellbeing
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Also see:
Health & Wellbeing
–
7.
Clinical trials and evidence
synthesis
,
page 41
Health & Wellbeing
–
10.
Health, policy and ethics, page 46
Society & Culture
–
5.
Cultures and health, page 172
1.3
Health economics
Keywords
Health economics, health economic modelling,
systematic reviews, clinical trials
Expertise
We are dedicated to understanding and promoting the
best possible health outcomes with available resources
through the evaluation of the costs and benefits of
healthcare interventions. We perform these evaluations
in collaboration with local and national health services,
the pharmaceutical industry and other organisations to
support their healthcare decision making.
The University’s Liverpool Health Economics Group
has multidisciplinary expertise in health economics,
modelling, statistics, health services research, and
systematic reviews. Future plans include the development
of a modelling platform; collaboration on the use of health
economics alongside clinical trial, research into end-of-life
care; the continued provision of health economics
support to assist with local and national priority setting;
and the expansion of an educational programme to
provide health economics expertise.
Capabilities and facilities
•
Economic modelling
•
Health services research
•
Health economics for decision making
•
Health economics in clinical trials
•
Independent advice and consultancy.
Relevant centres and groups
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CR-UK Liverpool Cancer Trials Unit
•
Liverpool Health Economics Group.
For further information
on all our specialist
centres, facilities and
laboratories
go to page
179
