By Prof Shaun Treweek & Colleagues – We do randomised trials to improve healthcare decisions, decisions that may have a lasting influence on people’s health. Every day the public, patients, healthcare professionals and policymakers make decisions about healthcare, their own or that of others. Randomised trials can help to make those decisions more informed. [Read […]
Jeremy Taylor, NIHR Director for Public Voice, NIHR Centre for Engagement and Dissemination, discusses how COVID-19 has brought clinical trials to the forefront and outlines recent work done by the Centre on improving the experience of those participating in clinical trials. Suddenly everyone is talking about clinical trials. COVID-19 has raised their public profile and
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Date: 24 March 2020 By Derek Stewart – Patient Representative & MRC-NIHR-TMRP PPI Lead Trials Methodology Research (1) is about looking at the way health research is carried out – i.e. improving the tools and trade of research practice. It is carried out by researchers often referred to as Methodologists. These types of studies differ from doing
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Date: 17 Ocober 2019 By Andrew Worrall – Patient Partner with the PRioRiTy II research study Members of the HSRU team attended the International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference (ICTMC) in Brighton last week. It was a fantastic conference with ubiquitous examples of world leading methodological research being presented. Three of the HSRU team in attendance
Date: 28 May 2019 By Sarah Chapman – Knowledge Broker – Cochrane UK School children in Ireland have run and presented their own randomised trials in the innovative START competition. Here’s what they achieved and why this matters. If you’ve ever taken part in a clinical trial, I hope you were told very clearly what
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Date: 12 March 2019 By Dr Heidi Gardner #trialretention Randomised clinical trials are the gold standard method for gathering evidence about health and care interventions. That said, randomised trials are not perfect, and many of them run into issues through the process of trial design and delivery. Participants are central to the successful completion of trials;
By: Holly McGrath, Dept. of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College Cork. I heard about the HRB-TMRN Summer Scholarship from research staff in the School of Public Health in UCC. There is a career development aspect to the BSc in Public Health, and I had expressed to the lecturers that I had an interest in
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Dr David O Riordan, Senior Pharmacovigilance Officer, at the HRB Clinical Research Facility, Cork blogs about his experience of attending the HRB-TMRN 4th Trial Methodology Symposium in Galway, October 2018. For the past number of years, the HRB-TMRN have hosted an annual symposium that offers delegates from the four corners of Ireland and beyond an
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I’ve been in Birmingham today for the final consensus meeting of the PRioRiTy II project, so I thought I’d write a quick blog post before dinner so that you can find out a bit more about the process of research prioritisation. I’ve spoken on this blog before about the first PRioRiTy project, which was a
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Sandra Galvin, Programme Manager for the Health Research Board –Trial Methodology Research Network (HRB-TMRN), blogs about the START competition that challenges children in Ireland’s primary schools to become trialists, and Professor of Health Services Research Shaun Treweek, one of this year’s judges, reflects on what they achieved. Every day, both adults and children are bombarded
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