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Design and use of questionnaires: a review of best practice applicable to surveys of health service staff and patients
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Summaries are available from the NCCHTA website (see opposite). NHS R&D HTA ProgrammeT he NHS R&D Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme was set up in 1993 to ensure that high-quality research information on the costs, effectiveness and broader impact of health technologies is produced in the most efficient way for those who use, manage and provide care in the NHS.Initially, six HTA panels (pharmaceuticals, acute sector, primary and community care, diagnostics and imaging, population screening, methodology) helped to set the research priorities for the HTA Programme.However, during the past few years there have been a number of changes in and around NHS R&D, such as the establishment of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the creation of three new research programmes: Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO); New and Emerging Applications of Technology (NEAT); and the Methodology Programme.Although the National Coordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment (NCCHTA) commissions research on behalf of the Methodology Programme, it is the Methodology Group that now considers and advises the Methodology Programme Director on the best research projects to pursue.
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- Authors
- McColl, E., Jacoby, A., Thomas, L., Soutter, J., Bamford, C., Steen, N., Thomas, R., Harvey, E., Garratt, A., & Bond, J.
- Venue
- Health Technology Assessment
- Published
- 2001
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 31
- Pages
- 1-256
- ISSN
- 1366-5278 (ISSN-L)
- 2046-4924
- OpenAlex
- W1964749510
- Cited by
- 788
- References
- 201
- FWCI
- 51.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
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