The authors are grateful to Lara Kemp for her secretarial support. The authors would also like to thank the members of the specialist committee assembled to support this assessment: Dr Andrew Davenport (Royal Free Hospital, London), Dr Simon Roe (Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust), Dr Elizabeth Lindley (St James’s University Hospital), Dr Wesley Hayes (Great Ormond Street Hospital), Ms Joanne Prince (Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), Mr Nick McAleer (Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust), Dr Kay Tyerman (Leeds General Infirmary), Dr Graham Woodrow (St James’s University Hospital) and Mr Paul Taylor (lay specialist committee member). The Health Services Research Unit, Health Economics Research Unit and Institute of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen are all core funded by the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health Directorates.
Contributions of authors
Graham Scotland (Senior Research Fellow) developed the economic model and conducted the economic evaluation.
Moira Cruickshank (Research Fellow) reviewed and summarised the evidence on the clinical effectiveness of the bioimpedance devices.
Elisabet Jacobsen (Research Assistant) reviewed the evidence on the cost-effectiveness of the bioimpedance devices and contributed to the economic evaluation under the supervision of Graham Scotland (Senior Health Economist).
David Cooper (Research Fellow) double-checked the data extracted from the included randomised studies and conducted all statistical analyses.
Cynthia Fraser (Senior Information Specialist) developed and ran the literature searches and provided information support.
Michal Shimonovich (Research Assistant) contributed to the data extraction process and to the assessment of the risk of bias of included studies with assistance from Moira Cruickshank (Research Fellow) and from Miriam Brazzelli (Senior Research Fellow).
Angharad Marks (Clinician Scientist & Honorary Consultant Nephrologist) provided expert advice on the clinical aspects of this assessment.
Miriam Brazzelli (Senior Research Fellow) oversaw and co-ordinated all aspects of this assessment.
All authors contributed to the writing of this report and approved its final version.
Data sharing statement
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Disclaimers
This report presents independent research funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The views and opinions expressed by authors in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the NHS, the NIHR, NETSCC, the HTA programme or the Department of Health. If there are verbatim quotations included in this publication the views and opinions expressed by the interviewees are those of the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect those of the authors, those of the NHS, the NIHR, NETSCC, the HTA programme or the Department of Health.
