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Just had a paper published with Liv Hawksworth and others entitled a methodological review of randomised n-of-1 trials (rdcu.be/dHNVH). It is part of a series of papers on the topic

📣 There's still time to register for our online course How to Understand Statistics in Research 🕐 Tues 4 June - Tues 25 June 2024 (4 half-day sessions, over 4 consecutive weeks) 🔗 buff.ly/4a6NHJb for info or to book your place. 👨‍🏫 Course lead Richard Jacques #statistics

We are currently advertising for an early career researcher with a strong background in statistics/mathematics and an interest in Bayesian statistics and health technology assessment to join us at SCHARR G7, fixed-term until 31 March 2028 jobs.shef.ac.uk/sap/bc/webdynp…

Just had an article published in Statistics in Medicine with James Salsbury,@oakley_je and Lisas Hampson on assurance methods with delayed treatment effect onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/QAKHGXGX…

Had an article published Trials led by Nikki Totton with @HughesDyfrig, Ruth Owen, Ed Waddingham and Prof Jonathan A Cook on benefit risk methods to improve reporting of adverse events rdcu.be/dLIPj

Congrulations to Charlotte Brocklehurst for her award of the Jayne Fountain Scholarship sponsored by Parexel

New paper! Led by one of my PhD students, Akshay Kumar. Use of emergency departments by children and young people following telephone triage: a large database study emj.bmj.com/content/early/…

👉 Read the full paper here: rdcu.be/dVl00 #ClinicalTrials #AdaptiveDesign #MedicalResearch #SampleSize #BMCResearch

I'm presenting work on "Exploring variation in Emergency Department Attendances and Acute Hospital Admissions for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions: A Federated Data Analysis" at #EUSEM2024 this week.

New paper published in Statistical Methods in Medical Research with Yirui Qian, Laura Flight and Stephen Walters Comparison of statistical methods for the analysis of patient-reported outcomes in randomised controlled trials: A simulation study journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

Impact of a national guideline for the management of peripheral arterial disease on revascularization rates in England: interrupted time series analysis | BJS Open | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/bjsopen/articl…

Congratulations to Nikki Totton for passing her PhD on non-inferiority trials with minor revisions. Nikki was supervised by Stephen Walters, Lizzie Coates and myself was examined by Martyn Lewis and Alan Montgomery

Just had a paper published entitled "A review of UK publicly funded non-inferiority trials: is the design more inferior than it should be?" Led by Nikki Totton with Stephen Walters and Elizabeth Coates doi.org/10.1186/s13063…

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Blog: In this study, we aimed to explore differences in non-urgent attendances and urgent attendances in children to ED and determine which children present in this way and when... arc-yh.nihr.ac.uk/resources/blog… CURE

Invitation to a Two-Round Delphi Study on Sample Size Reporting in Trial Grant Applications and Protocols for Adaptive Designs! Calling all researchers! Join our two-round Delphi study to help create guideline for reporting sample size at the planning stage of adaptive design.

New paper and first paper from the ProSec3 study: Estimating the minimum important difference in the ALSFRS-R-instrument in people living with MND tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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Comparison of statistical methods for the analysis of patient-reported outcomes (PROs), particularly the Short-Form 36 (SF-36), in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) using standardised effect size (SES): an empirical analysis hqlo.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…