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Challenges in cluster randomised trials
We are delighted that Professor Sandra Eldridge, Queen Mary University of London, has agreed to host the next workshop in our 2014 series, which has looked at ‘Translational health services research’, ‘Pragmatic trials’ and ‘Research into policy and policy into practice’.
Sandra is a medical statistician who has worked in primary health care research for the past 20 years. Her doctorate was in cluster randomised trials and she has published extensively in this field. She also has interests in complex interventions (often evaluated in cluster randomised trials) particularly their design, and pilot and feasibility studies. She has been involved in over 30 pragmatic clinical trials, many cluster randomised. In 2012 she wrote a book entitled "A practical guide to cluster randomised trials" together with Sally Kerry. She has been joint lead of the Centre for Primary Care and Public Health at Barts and The London School of Medicine and dentistry since 2007, is joint lead for the Barts and The London arm of Research Design Service London, and director of the UK registered and NIHR funded Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit that currently has 40 pragmatic trials in its portfolio.
We look forward to welcoming Professor Eldridge to the Unit to facilitate a workshop entitled Challenges in cluster randomised trials, and to exploring some of the methodological issues she has outlined below:
Cluster randomised are more challenging to design, conduct and analyse than individually randomised trials. Some examples of this are the need to account for the clustered design in the sample size and analysis; avoiding bias that can occur because of the way participants are identified and recruited or the way outcomes are measured; how to handle consent and other ethical issues; how to deal with missing values in analysis. In this workshop we will look at some of these issues and how they have been handled in recent trials.
If you would like to attend, please register your interest with Sophie Halpin (sophie.halpin@abdn.ac.uk).
For more information please contact:
Heather Morgan (h.morgan@abdn.ac.uk) or Pawana Sharma (p.sharma@abdn.ac.uk)
- Speaker
- Prof. Sandra Eldridge
- Hosted by
- Heather Morgan and Pawana Sharma
- Venue
- Health Sciences Building, room 115