PUIC Road: Review of effectiveness and cost effectiveness – Main report 24th June 2009 INTERVENTIONS TO PREVENT UNINTENTIONAL INJURY IN CHILDREN ON THE ROAD Report 1: Systematic reviews of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of road and street design-based interventions aimed at reducing unintentional injuries in children COMMISSIONED BY: NICE Centre for Public Health Excellence PRODUCED BY: Peninsula Technology Assessment Group (PenTAG), Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth. AUTHORS: Kate Ashton, Associate Research Fellow, PenTAG Tiffany Moxham, Information Specialist, PenTAG Julie Frier, Specialist Registrar in Public Health, PenTAG Gabriel Rogers, Research Fellow, PenTAG Ruth Garside, Senior Research Fellow, PenTAG Rob Anderson, Senior Lecturer, PenTAG CORRESPONDENCE TO: Kate Ashton PenTAG, Noy Scott House, Barrack Road, Exeter, EX2 5DW
[email protected] PUIC on the Road: Review of effectiveness About the Peninsula Technology Assessment Group (PenTAG) The Peninsula Technology Assessment Group is part of the Institute of Health Service Research at the Peninsula Medical School. PenTAG was established in 2000 and carries out independent Health Technology Assessments for the UK HTA Programme, systematic reviews and economic analyses for the NICE (Technology Appraisal and Centre for Public Health Excellence) and systematic reviews as part of the Cochrane Collaboration Heart Group, as well as for other local and national decision-makers. The group is multi- disciplinary and draws on individuals’ backgrounds in public health, health services research, computing and decision analysis, systematic reviewing, statistics and health economics. The Peninsula Medical School is a school within the Universities of Plymouth and Exeter. The Institute of Health Research is made up of discrete but methodologically related research groups, among which Health Technology Assessment is a strong and recurring theme.