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Projects
A list of current research projects being undertaken by the Clinical Effectiveness Unit. Includes the UK Liver Transplant Audit.
Major Projects
National Audit of Oesophago-gastric Cancer
This audit started on 01 October 2006 and is being carried out in partnership with the Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons and the British Society of Gastroenterology, and the National Clinical Audit Support Programme of the Health and Social Care Information Centre. The audit is funded by the Healthcare Commission.
National Mastectomy and Breast Reconstruction Audit
This audit started on 01 January 2007 and was carried out in partnership with the Association of Breast Surgery at the British Association of Surgical Oncology, the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons, and the Health and Social Care Information Centre. The audit was funded by the Healthcare Commission.
This is a registry of all children born with cleft lips and palates in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, their treatment and the outcomes. The CEU has been the host of this database since April 2005. CRANE is funded by NHS - Specialist Commissioners.
Patient Outcomes in Surgery Audit
The CEU has undertaken an audit of elective surgical treatment (hip and knee replacement, hernia repair or varicose surgery) comparing outcomes reported by patients treated in Independent Sector Treatment Centres or in NHS providers. The audit started in October 2007 and was funded by the Department of Health and the North West Strategic Health Authority. The final report will be published in October 2011.
UK & Ireland Liver Transplant Audit and the UK Intrathoracic Transplant Audit
These audits are carried out in collaboration with UK Transplant. They accrue and validate data from all transplant centres in the UK and Ireland since 1994 and 1995, respectively. The CEU is responsible for the analysis and interpretation of the data on post-transplant outcome for each participating centre stratified for major risk factors. The audits are funded by the NHS National Commissioning Group for Highly Specialised Services.
Hospital Episode Statistics
The CEU holds a full copy of the HES database linked with mortality data from the Office for National Statistics. A number of studies are being carried out to assess the usefulness of HES data to evaluate quality of care and health care performance. One particular project is looking at the value of the HES data for recertification and to support the measurement of outcomes across disease pathways. This includes carrying out case studies in a number of speciality areas to determine its suitability at measuring individual performance as well as assessing the quality of the database.
