Welcome to CEDAR

CEDAR is a Centre for Healthcare Evaluation, Device Assessment and Research, which is part of the NHS (Cardiff and Vale University Health Board) and Cardiff University. CEDAR focuses on evidence, research and evaluation involving mainly medical devices, diagnostics, and interventional procedures. We also work on service improvement and redesign projects.

Our expertise lies in the areas of:

• Evidence reviews 
• Clinical trial management
• Evaluation
• Health economics
• Analysis and statistics
• Qualitative research methods
• Patient reported outcome measures

We work with the NHS, academic institutions, commercial sector, publicly funded organisations, and charities.