• Bowater, R. J., Bridge, L. J. and Lilford, R. J.  (2008).  "The relationship between progression-free and post-progression survival in treating four types of metastatic cancer".  Cancer Letters, Vol. 262, No. 1, pp. 48-53.
• Bridgelal Ram, M., Campling, N. (nee Browne), Grocott, P. and Weir, H.  (2008).  "A methodology for a structured survey of the healthcare literature related to medical device users".  Evaluation, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 49-73. (Jan 2008).
• Bridgelal Ram, M., Grocott, P. R. and Weir, H. C. M.  (2008).  "Issues and challenges of involving users in medical device development".  Health Expectations, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 63-71. (March 2008).
• Brown, A., Eatock, J., Dixon, D., Meenan, B. J. and Anderson, J  (2008).  "Quality and Continuous Improvement in Medical Device Manufacturing".  The TQM Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 6, pp.541-555 (Dec 2008).
• Brown, A., Meenan, B. J., Dixon, D., Young, T. P. and Brennan, M.  (2008).  "Application of the Experience Curve to Price Trends in Medical Devices: Implications for Product Development and Marketing Strategies".  Journal of Medical Marketing, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 241-255.
• FitzGibbon, F., Meenan, B. J., Brown, A. and Dixon, D.  (2008).  "User Perspectives of Cardiac Marker Point-of-Care Testing for Hospital based Chest pain Diagnosis’. Point of Care:".  The Journal of Near Patient Testing & Technology, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 47-53.
• Garg L., McClean S. I., Meenan B. J. and Millard P. H.  (2008).  "Non-homogeneous Markov Models for Sequential Pattern Mining of Healthcare Data".  IMA journal of Management Mathematics
• Johal, S. S., Oliver, P., and Williams, H. C.  (2008).  "Better decision-making for evaluating new medical device projects – a real options approach".  Journal of Medical Marketing, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 101-112.
• Martin J. L., Norris B. J., Murphy E. and Crowe J. A.  (2008).  "Medical device development: The challenge for ergonomics".  Applied Ergonomics, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 271-283.
• Scott, M. A., Christopher, P. C., Cowie, M. R. and Buxton، M. J.  (2008).  "Cost-consequences analysis of natriuretic peptide assays to refute symptomatic heart failure in primary care".  British Journal of Cardiology, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp.199-204.
• Shah, S. G. S. and Robinson, I.  (2008).  "Medical device technologies: Who is the user".  International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management,, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 181-197.
• Steuten, L., Vallejo-Torres, L., Young, T., Buxton, M.  (2008).  "Transferability of economic evaluations of medical technologies – Exemplar of a new technology used in orthopaedic surgery".  Expert Review of Medical Devices, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 329-336.
• Vallejo-Torres, L., Steuten, L. M. G., Buxton, M. J., Girling, A. J., Lilford, R.J. and Young, T.  (2008).  "Integrating Health Economics Modelling in the Product Development Cycle of Medical Devices: a Bayesian approach".  International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 459–464 (Oct 2008).
• Young, T. P. and McClean, S. I.  (2008).  "A critical look at Lean Thinking in healthcare".  Quality & Safety in Health Care., 17 (5):382-386.

Conference Papers published in 2008

• Brown, A., Dixon, D., Eatock, J., Meenan, B. J., Young, T.P.  (2008).  "A Survey of success factors in new product development in the medical devices industry".  IEEE International Engineering Management Conference – Europe 2008, 28th – 30th June, Estoril, Portugal.
• Brown, C.  (2008).  "Should the UK Government's deep cleaning of hospitals programme be evaluated?".  Improving Patient Safety 2008: From Safe Design to Safe Practice, 16-18 July 2008, Cambridge, UK. Oral presentation.
• Chahal, K. and Eldabi, T.  (2008).  "System dynamics and discrete event simulation: A meta-comparison".  OR Society SW08 proceedings 2008, 1 -2 April 2008, Worcestershire UK. pp189-199.
• Chahal, K. and Eldabi, T.  (2008).  "Applicability of Hybrid Simulation to different modes of Governance in UK Healthcare".  7 -9 December 2008, Miami Florida, USA.
• Chahal, K. and Eldabi, T.  (2008).  "Which is more appropriate: A multi-perspective comparison between system dynamics and discrete event simulation".  Proceedings of EMCIS 2008, 25-26 May 2008.
• Craven, M.P., Davey, S.M., Meenan, B.J.P. and Crowe J.A.P.  (2008).  "The NICE Interventional Procedures Programme - How much evidence is adequate?".  V Annual Conference of the International Society for Health Technology Assessment (HTAi), 6-9 July 2008, Montreal, Canada [Poster].
• Crowe J.A., Martin J.L. and Murphy E.  (2008).  "The role of users during the development and value assessment of new medical technology".  V Annual Conference of the International Society for Health Technology Assessment (HTAi), 6-9 July 2008, Montreal, Canada [Oral presentation].
• FitzGibbon, F.  (2008).  "Addressing country differences in the point of care diagnostic market. What industry needs to know about the Northern Ireland healthcare sector".  Market Access for Point of Care Diagnostics, Post-Conference Workshop, 15 May 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• FitzGibbon, F., Meenan, B.J., Brown,A., Dixon, D.  (2008).  "User perspectives of cardiac marker point-of-care testing for hospital-based chest pain diagnosis".  Market Access for Point of Care Diagnostics: Post-Conference Workshop, 15 May 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Fitzgibbon, F., Robinson, S., McCulloch, D., Meenan, B. and Dixon, D.  (2008).  "Is the full potential of Point-of-Care Testing for heart disease diagnosis realised? A comparison of an existing with an alternative model of diagnosis".  V Annual Conference of the International Society for Health Technology Assessment (HTAi), 6-9 July 2008, Montréal, Canada [Poster].
• Garg, L. and McClean, S. I.  (2008).  "Is management science doing enough to improve healthcare?".  World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET), July 2008. Vol 30, pp 76-80.
• Garg, L., McClean, S. I., Meenan, B. J. and Millard, P. H.  (2008).  "Healthcare resource planning using a discrete time Markov model".  Annual Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland 2008 (CASI-2008), July 16, 2008, Dublin, Ireland. p12.
• Garg, L., McClean, S. I., Meenan, B. J., and Millard, P. H.  (2008).  "Optimal control of patient admissions to satisfy resource restrictions".  21st IEEE international Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems 2008 (CBMS'08), June 17 - 19, 2008. Jyväskylä, Finland. pp. 512-517.
• Garg, L., McClean, S. I., Meenan, B. J., and Millard, P. H.  (2008).  "Admission scheduling and resource planning using non-homogeneous markov model based patient pathways".  HSCM-2008, March 18-20, 2008. Portrush. Northern Ireland. p22.
• Girling, A. and Lilford, R.  (2008).  "HTA in the commercial development cycle for new devices: the role of early- and late-stage models".  V Annual Conference of the International Society for Health Technology Assessment (HTAi), 6-9 July 2008, Montreal, Canada [Oral presentation].
• Laiou, E., Clutton-Brock T.H., Brown, C.A., Lilford, R.J.  (2008).  "The Management of Life Threatening Illness (MOLTI) course: an efficacy assessment on the SimMan".  AMEE 2008, 30 August - 3 September 2008, Prague, Czech Republic. Short communication.
• McClean, S. I., Garg, L., Barton, M. and Millard, P. H.  (2008).  "Using non-homogeneous markov systems to model stroke disease".  HSCM-2008, March 18-20, 2008. Portrush, Northern Ireland. p30.
• McClean, S., Papadapoulou, A., Tsaklidis, G., Garg, L., Barton, M. and Millard, P.  (2008).  "Evaluating strategies using non-homogeneous Markov and semi-Markov Systems".  2008 International Workshop on Applied Probability (IWAP-2008), July 4-6, 2008, Compiegne, France.
• Osvalder, A. L. and Shah, S. G. S.  (2008).  "Who is driving the wheelchair? Interactive HTA to improve usability of medical equipment".  Enlightened Development and Informed Decision Making for Medical Devices to Improve User Access - Preconference workshop. V Annual Conference of the International Society for Health Technology Assessment (HTAi), 6-9 July 2008, Montreal, Canada.
• Shah, S.G.S. and Robinson, I.  (2008).  "Patient influence in HTA process: A model of stakeholders and their interactions".  V Annual Conference of the International Society for Health Technology Assessment (HTAi), 6-9 July 2008, Montreal, Canada [Poster].
• Shah, S.G.S., Meier, P. and Robinson, I.  (2008).  "A framework for users’ involvement in the development and evaluation of innovative medical devices: A case study".  V Annual Conference of the International Society for Health Technology Assessment (HTAi), 6-9 July 2008, Montreal, Canada [Poster].
• Steuten, L.M.G.  (2008).  "Economic evaluation of healthcare innovations: how to move from believe to proof?".  Annual Conference ZONMW & Trimbos Institutes, January 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Steuten, L.M.G. and Buxton, M.J.B.  (2008).  "Economic evaluation of safety improvements in healthcare - Which health and non-health attributes of safety are considered most important by healthcare decision-makers?".  V Annual Conference of the International Society for Health Technology Assessment (HTAi), 6-9 July 2008, Montréal, Canada [Poster].
• Steuten, L.M.G., Janssen- Boyne, J., Gorgels, T., Vrijhoef, H.J.M.  (2008).  "Feasibility and impact of a homebased telemonitoring system (Health Buddy®) to support case- and self-management for adults with chronic heart failure - Results from a multi-site study in the Netherlands".  V Annual Conference of the International Society for Health Technology Assessment (HTAi), 6-9 July 2008, Montréal, Canada [Oral presentation].
• Vallejo-Torres, L., Steuten, L., Parkinson, B., Girling, A., Buxton, M.  (2008).  "Integrating health economics modelling in the oroduct development cycle of medical devices: a Bayesian approach".  V Annual Conference of the International Society for Health Technology Assessment (HTAi), 6-9 July 2008, Montreal, Canada [Oral presentation].

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