Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
Experience of involving children and young people in an evidence synthesis project designed to overcome data scarcity
Posted on Thursday 4 December 2025
CRD Research Fellow Ruth Walker has recently submitted her National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) funded Doctoral Fellowship project where she applied evidence synthesis methods to combine and reanalyse antiemetic research in paediatric cancer, with the aim of overcoming data scarcity within this area, and improving understanding of which interventions work best and for whom. She has involved children, young people and their families throughout and shares her experience of this.
Research priorities in supportive care for children and young people with cancer
Posted on Monday 1 December 2025
The Candlelighters Supportive Care Research Centre (CSCRC), a £1 million partnership launched two years ago between the Yorkshire-based children’s cancer charity Candlelighters and the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD), is leading the drive to improve the experience and outcomes of children undergoing cancer treatment.
What is the best treatment for progressive vision loss in people with diabetes?
Posted on Wednesday 25 June 2025
Senior Research Fellow Dr. Mark Simmonds led a team at CRD, in collaboration with colleagues from across the UK, to conduct an individual participant data systematic review and economic evaluation of anti-VEGF therapies for the management of diabetic retinopathy. The study was funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) and has been published in the NIHR Journals Library and Value in Health journal.
Can evidence from studies in adults improve our understanding of treatment effects in children?
Posted on Monday 14 April 2025
CRD Research Fellow Ruth Walker presented her poster "Can adult evidence improve our understanding of treatment effect in children?" at the 2025 Children and Young People's Cancer Association (CCLG) conference in Birmingham.
Professor Bob Phillips recognised in the 2025 Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Awards
Posted on Wednesday 9 April 2025
Prof Bob Phillips of CRD has been awarded a prestigious 2025 Members Award for his work developing, leading and editing the Archimedes section of the Archives of Disease in Childhood (ADC), the official journal of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH).
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