🎓 Registration open! Join Leeds CTRU’s Masterclass in the Design and Conduct of Complex Intervention Evaluations. 🗓️ Jan 26th, Feb 2nd & 9th 2026 💷 £475 early bird, £525 thereafter 👉 Register here - tinyurl.com/43ufm5yr

📣 New paper published❗️ 🫘We know kidney function declines with age, increasing risk of harm of many medicines 💊 📉 We showed that providing feedback to primary care on prescribing in reduced kidney function is both feasible and acceptable 😀… [1/2] 📖 Read more here 👇 doi.org/10.1093/famp...

🙋 New paper alert! 📣 🤔 How do you define a Learning Health System? We argue that the definition should include integrated rigorous effectiveness evaluations as a criterion👇 @au-primarycareuol.bsky.social @wy-icb-research.bsky.social @bethancopsey.bsky.social @complexleedsctru.bsky.social

Art Exhibition by Stroke Survivor and Academic Unit for Ageing and Stroke Research Participant Kicks off in Bradford @auasresearch.bsky.social @drandyclegg.bsky.social @drjessjohansson.bsky.social @louisabu.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/2538365...

If Ted Chiang, a truly superb creative writer (also; a background in compsci), is happy using the gym robot analogy to explain why using chatbots at university is antithetical to the purpose you're paying money and forgoing paid work to be there then I'm fortified in my view it's a good one.

Improving the design of staggered implementation cluster randomised trials qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/earl...

Tomorrow isn’t just International Clinical Trials Day. Keep your eyes peeled for the launch of our strategy for 2025 – 2030! #UKCTUNetwork #CTUNetworkStrategy

Many processes from industry are not appropriate or overkill for an academic setting, but we can and should be doing better than we currently are. Our paper tries to give practical advice on how you can improve your scientific workflow, without being a coding guru. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

This week saw the publication of SPIRIT 2025, a major update to the international SPIRIT Statement which provides guidance on what should be included in a trial protocol. 1/6 #MethodologyMonday #117

Such a great milestone to have completed recruitment to the FReSH START trial! I'm so proud to have been a part of such an amazing team ⭐

In #ClinicalTrials, estimands are a way to describe the research question, helping stakeholders understand and interpret trial results. Watch this video to learn how using estimands can help doctors and patients make better treatment decisions.▶️👇 buff.ly/LbUEgca #StatsSky #MedSky

New publication commenting on approaches to understand the meaningfulness of treatment effects on endpoints based on clinical outcome assessments (COAs). Sorting out "between-group difference," "meaningful within-group change," and more. rdcu.be/eg5x7 1/5 Summary to follow...

🚀 Exciting News! 🚀 Interested in or leading a clinical trial? Want to be the best Chief Investigator you can be? This updated course is for you! tinyurl.com/HTBAGCI #ClinicalTrials #CITraining @leedsctru.bsky.social @amandafarrin.bsky.social

🚀New Resource: Scaling Innovations in Primary Care Learn how tailored strategies can improve care for patients with multiple long-term conditions. Key lessons from implementing four interventions nationally. @socscihealth.bsky.social @nihrarcs.bsky.social #MLTC arc-em.nihr.ac.uk/arc-store-re...

🎉Fantastic to see our update to the Cochrane review on Audit and Feedback in healthcare published! So much work went into this huge project by a worldwide team, expertly led by Noah Ivers 👏 A must read for anyone wanting to improve the quality of healthcare 👇 www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

It’s hard when studies don’t work out as planned. It’s even harder when they have to close. But there’s still a lot to learn when they do. Great to see MODULATE in print: www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hta/publishe...

REDCap's in-built reporting ability is very limited, as I discovered a few weeks ago. Using the API to read data into R and create your own reports is the exact solution I came to, glad to see others posting about it!

Join this Mental Health Implementation (MHIN)-led webinar to hear about how Parent-Led #CBT, an effective treatment for childhood anxiety, can be implemented in school settings. arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/events-train...

Useful information for getting the most out of your appointments as a patient 👇

Follow @freshstart-uk.bsky.social for all updates from our @leedsctru.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social programme grant. We've just moved over to this platform 🙂

Looks like this might be worth a read: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Writing a grant application and thinking about how to improve your dissemination section? Use the link below to download a guide to disseminating your research #GuiDiR @complexleedsctru.bsky.social

Consider what to report about your rehabilitation intervention? Here's a newly published TIDieR Rehab checklist bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1...

Do you work w people w aphasia & other neurological conditions? #SLT #aphasia #SLP Considered peer befriending to support long-term psychosocial needs? 🤝 We are doing 🌐online training in Feb. Join from anywhere in the world 🗺️ ➡️ Sign up here: www.city.ac.uk/prospective-...

If you are a statistician who undertakes forensic analyses of IPD for journals (misconduct cases) and would like to lend your expertise to (and take some ownership of) a project to develop a protocol for this purpose (INSPECT-IPD), then contact me!

Stata users: if you want to make ‘kmunicate’-style Kaplan–Meier graphs, I’ve just released a Stata package on GitHub. To get it: . net from raw.githubusercontent.com/tpmorris/kmu... User feedback welcome! 1/

New @IASP_MESISIG webinar alert. Join us on January 29, 2025 Wed 2:30 PM EST to learn about Enhancing Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity In Pain Research. We have excellent speakers and it will be a great session. Register here: www.pathlms.com/iasp/webinar...

We're running our annual online Masterclass in Complex Interventions Evaluations over 3 days in January and February. Come and learn from our expert team of complex interventions trialists at @leedsctru.bsky.social Register now to reserve your place. Deadline 24 Jan. Link below 👇

With the approaching the start of the holidays please remember that HOW to ‘switch off’ is your thing. There’s no manual. Whatever suits you. Checking emails is not a crime during this time but it’s good practice -if you email back- to schedule sending for when the holiday is over.

Great thread on estimands. Loved the point "why the funny word?". Our discussions led by @suziecro.bsky.social found patient partners agree with @richardhooper.bsky.social : bit.ly/4gyqhQS

Are you interested in enhancing the trustworthiness of research in pain (or health generally). Our ENTRUST-PE White Paper is a good long read on this osf.io/preprints/os...

Prof Tash Lannin delivers an exceptional talk on the development of the #promote trial, supporting collaboration between clinicians & researchers in embedding evidence & changes into practice @natashalannin.bsky.social #uksf24

Prof Amanda Farrin on the future of trial design & need for platform designs; faster, cheaper, sooner evidence available for practice. Challenging design but very much needed across acute and life after stroke #uksf24 @amandafarrin.bsky.social

Innovative trials in stroke showcased by @amandafarrin.bsky.social today at #UKSF24

Looking for people to join our stakeholder group to develop a core outcomes set for trials of interventions designed to treat/prevent psychological problems post-stroke! You may have spotted this slide in @amandafarrin.bsky.social's talk at #uksf24 this morning...

'The implementation of current Health Research Authority approval processes for low risk staff research has the potential to use more NHS organisational resources than the research study itself.' The governance burdens of research highlighted. bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....