NICE’s 2008 Methods Guide

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In the spring of 2007, the Centre for Health Technology Evaluation at the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) embarked on a process of updating its Guide to the Methods of Technology Appraisal. The new guide was subsequently published in June 2008.[1] As part of the process, a series of briefing papers was commissioned from the NICE Decision Support Unit (DSU), a network of academics funded by NICE and based at several universities in England. These documents were sought to support the Methodology Working Party, which was responsible for drafting the new guide. They also provided major inputs to a number of workshops held on key methods topics during spring and summer 2007 with invited methodologists and NICE stakeholders. …