Abstract
Health technology assessment programme
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HTA on CD
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Call for proposals
Standard call
Research proposals are now sought on the following topics. Please see the Website http://www.hta.ac.uk/funding/standardcalls/topics.shtml for more details.
Primary research (outline proposals)
08/15 Improving children's health through school programmes to prevent aggressive behaviour
08/17 Duration of protection of BCG vaccine - new primary research
08/19 Brief interventions to prevent depression in older people
08/20 An intervention to reduce teenage pregnancy in young women who are ‘looked after’
08/22 Birthing positions in women receiving epidural analgesia
08/23 Body dysmorphic disorder in young people
08/24 Stapled versus conventional surgery for haemorrhoids
08/26 Management of obsessive-compulsive disorder
08/27 Inotropes in preterm infants with low systemic blood flow
08/28 The microbiological diagnosis of infection due to a diabetic foot ulcer
08/29 The use of FDG-PET or PET/CT in the diagnosis of pancreatic malignancy
Evidence synthesis (full proposals)
08/16 Duration of protection of BCG vaccine - updated systematic review and meta-analysis
08/25 Bone anchored hearing aids 08/30 The risk of rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysms
All submissions must reach the HTA offices by 23 April 2008, before 1pm for consideration by the HTA Commissioning Board.
How to apply for the above topics
HTA proposal forms are available for download, along with associated guidance notes, which contain important information about the completion of your application form. Please quote advert reference HTA24.
Queries and problems
If you have a query, please contact: HTA Commissioning Team, Mailpoint 728, Boldrewood, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 7PX, UK. Telephone: +44 23 8059 5621 (24-hour answerphone) Fax: +44 23 8059 5639, Email:
HTA clinical trials
In addition to the standard calls for proposals, the HTA Programme has launched a programme of clinical trials. This new programme will fund clinical trials to assess the effectiveness of technologies within the National Health Service, with a focus on clinical decision-making. Researchers are being invited to submit proposals for pragmatic clinical trials of the sort already funded by the programme, but on topics proposed by the researchers.
For details of all funding opportunities in the HTA Programme, please see http://www.hta.ac.uk/funding
Screening-related monographs already published
Expected publication dates of forthcoming monographs related to screening
