CREST: Cancer Research Economic Support Team
Key Objective: CREST has been established at CHERE to develop resources to assist the Australian Cancer Collaborative Clinical Trials Groups in the incorporation of health and pharmaco-economic analyses into trial protocols, as well as to build capacity within the Trials Groups in health economics
A website has been set up to support CREST (www.chere.uts.edu.au/crest). The main focus of the work in 2011 has been on liaising and communicating with Groups to establish clear expectations, providing high quality and timely advice to individual Trials Groups and researchers and developing a range of resources for Groups, including Factsheets and a Protocol Audit Tool. Capacity building is a key component of the services which will be available from CREST, and will be provided using both formal and informal learning opportunities and strategies. These will include conducting a range of workshops for Trial Group members, providing the opportunity for Trials Group members to undertake short term placements or secondments at CHERE to work on issues relevant to specific trials and to general issues of trial design and economic evaluation and horizon scanning through work with individual groups, monitoring of key journals and methodological papers, and through national and international links, to identify and disseminate to groups advice on methodological issues common across cancer collaborative trial groups, as well as issues of international harmonization of evidence requirements for economic evaluation. Four workshops will be delivered in 2011.
Funding source
Cancer Australia
CHERE staff
Rosalie Viney, Marion Haas, Kees van Gool, Stephen Goodall, Jody Church, Paula Cronin, Jane Hall, Patsy Kenny, Stephanie Knox, Richard Norman, Bonny Parkinson, Alison Pearce
Collaborators
Sallie Pearson1, Preeyaporn Srasuebkul1
1. Integrated Cancer Research, Lowy Cancer Centre, University of NSW
