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ESMI
University of Exeter Medical School
South Cloisters
St Luke's Campus
Heavitree Road
Exeter
EX1 2LU
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1392 726056/57
Email: esmi@exeter.ac.uk
ESMI
ESMI – Evidence Synthesis & Modelling for Health Improvement - is a vibrant and multidisciplinary research group which specialises in the synthesis of research evidence for health policy and practice.
The research of our teams spans systematic reviews and mathematical modelling to estimate the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, implementation and acceptability of treatments, health services and public health programmes.
About us
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Workstreams
Publications
Staff
Events
Other HTA groups
Systematic review resources
- Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research (EQUATOR network)
- Health and social care information centre
- Cochrane Handbook
- The Cochrane Collaboration
- International prospective register of systematic reviews (Prospero)
- CRD's Guidance for Undertaking Systematic Reviews in Health Care (pdf)
- RAMESES project (realist and meta-narrative review resources)
- Realist Hive (blog and realist resources)
- Cochrane Diagnostic Test Accuracy (DTA) Working Group
- Cochrane DTA Handbook
- QUADAS tool
- Test and Prediction Group (TAP)
Research funders
- National Institute of Health Research (NIHR)
- Research Councils UK
- Wellcome Trust
- Research for Patient Benefit
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Health Technology Assessment
- Health and Social Care Delivery Research Programme
Policy think tanks
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- The King's Fund
- The Nuffield Trust
- The Commonwealth Fund
- The James Lind Alliance
Health economics (iHEA, HESG, CHE, HEDS)
- University of York Centre for Health Economics
- International Health Economics Association (iHEA)
- Health Economics Study Group
- Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi)
- International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR)
- Society of Medical Decision Making
- Health Economics at the University of Bristol
- Health Economics and Decision Science, Sheffield
- Evers critical appraisal checklist
- CHEERS checklist for reporting Economic evaluations
Other research groups
- ScHaRR
- University of York Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
- The European Centre for Environment and Human Health
- NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South West Peninsula (PenARC)
- The Peninsula Collaboration for Health Operational Research and Data Science (PenCHORD)
- Modelling and Simulation in Health Care network