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Research type: |
Primary Research (e.g. trial) |
Title (lead author) etc: |
North of England and Scotland Study of Tonsillectomy and Adeno-tonsillectomy in Children (NESSTAC) : a pragmatic randomised controlled trial with a parallel non-randomised preference study (Lock) 190 pages, Volume 14, number 13 |
DOI |
10.3310/hta14130 |
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Headline: |
Study comparing surgical and medical management of recurrent sore throat in children found some evidence to suggest that children undergoing surgery tended to have slightly better outcomes. The health of all children with recurrent sore throat improved over time, irrespective of which treatment they received |
This report should be referenced as follows: |
Lock C, Wilson J, Steen N, Eccles M, Mason H, Carrie S, et al. North of England and Scotland Study of Tonsillectomy and Adeno-tonsillectomy in Children (NESSTAC) : a pragmatic randomised controlled trial with a parallel non-randomised preference study. Health Technol Assess 2010;14(13). |
Project ref: |
99/20/03 |
Original project title: |
North of England study of tonsillectomy and adeno-tonsillectomy in children (NESSTAC) |
Chief Investigator: |
Professor John Bond, Prof of Social Gerontology and Hlth Servces Resrch, Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University |
Start Date: |
September 2001 |
Date of publication in HTA journal series |
March 2010 |
Cost: |
£783,686 |
MeSH* index primary terms: |
PHARYNGITIS Q-surgery; TONSILLECTOMY Q-methods (* = Medical Subject Headings) |
MeSH* index secondary terms: |
HUMAN; COST-BENEFIT-ANALYSIS; RECURRENCE; COMPARATIVE-STUDY; CHILD-PRESCHOOL; CHILD; ADOLESCENCE; RANDOMIZED-CONTROLLED-TRIAL; CLINICAL-TRIAL; QUALITY-OF-LIFE; RISK-FACTORS; COHORT-STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; PROSPECTIVE-STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP-STUDIES (* = Medical Subject Headings) |
ISRCTN* number: | ISRCTN 47891548 (*International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number) URL of this project on the Controlled Trials Website: http://www.controlled-trials.com/ISRCTN47891548 |
NRR* number, if applicable: |
N0484104333 (*National Research Register) The National Research Register was a public database of ongoing and recently completed research projects funded by, or of interest to, the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS). It is now an archive of projects from early 2000 to September 2007. Search the NRR archive. |
Project Protocol: |
Project protocol (pdf format, 236 kbytes) |
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107 (Figures relate to the previous calendar month) |
URL of this page: |
http://www.hta.ac.uk/1212 |
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