Director (CHaRT)
- About
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- Email Address
- g.maclennan@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 438147
- Office Address
Health Services Research Unit
2nd Floor Health Sciences Building
Foresterhill
Aberdeen
AB25 2ZD- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
I am currently Professor of Medical Statistics and the Director of the Centre for Health Care Randomised Trials (CHaRT) which is the Clinical Trials Unit embedded within the Health Services Research Unit. My overarching research interest is in designing fair tests of health care treatments and policies, with a specifc interest in evaluating surgical and complex interventions. I'm also interested in improving the design, conduct, and analysis and reporting of clinical trials through the development and application of methodological research to clinical trials from CHaRT.
My undergrad degree is in Mathematics from the University of Aberdeen, graduating in 1997. After a year training as a Mathematics teacher I joined the Unit in September 1998 as a statistician. I studied part-time for an MSc in Applied Statistics with Sheffield Hallam University, graduating in 2004. In 2008 I was appointed Senior Statistican, and in 2016 was I Interim Programme Director for the Health Care Assessment Programme, until being appointment as CHaRT Director in April 2017.
Qualifications
- BSc Mathematics1997 - University of Aberdeen
- MSc Applied Statistics2004 - Sheffield Hallam University
- Research
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Research Overview
The application of statistical methods to clinical trials. Recent example is JCE paper available here on using instrumental variables in a surgery trial to address non-compliance. Collaborators were Jonathan Cook (Oxford), Tom Palmer (Lancaster), and Richard Emesley (Manchester).
Research on making trials more efficient, collaborating with Trial Forge.
Current Research
A complete list of the CHaRT RCT portolio is available by clicking here
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
I teach on our MPH course module PU5031: EVIDENCE-BASED HEALTH.
- Publications
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Paper-based and web-based intervention modeling experiments identified the same predictors of general practitioners' antibiotic-prescribing behavior
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 296-304Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2013.09.015
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3326/1/Treweek_2013.pdf
Advance telephone calls ahead of reminder questionnaires increase response rate in non-responders compared to questionnaire reminders only: The RECORD phone trial
Trials, vol. 15, 13Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-15-13
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3092/1/MacLennan_2013.pdf
Nitrites in Acute Myocardial Infarction
Circulation, vol. 128, no. 24, pp. 2705Contributions to Journals: AbstractsClinical stakeholders' opinions on the use of selective decontamination of the digestive tract in critically ill patients in intensive care units: an international Delphi study
Critical Care, vol. 17, no. 6, R266Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/cc13096
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3090/1/Cuthbertson_2013.pdf
Systematic Review of Adrenalectomy and Lymph Node Dissection in Locally Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma
European Urology, vol. 64, no. 5, pp. 799-810Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2013.04.033
Calcium supplements and cancer risk: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
British Journal of Nutrition, vol. 110, no. 8, pp. 1384-1393Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114513001050
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3207/1/Bristow_2013.pdf
Effect of day and time of admission on mortality in an intensive care unit
Journal of the Intensive Care Society, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 294-298Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/175114371301400405
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Management of the open abdomen: A national study of clinical outcome and safety of negative pressure wound therapy
Annals of Surgery, vol. 257, no. 6, pp. 1154-1159Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/SLA.0b013e31828b8bc8
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Authors' reply - Assessing catheter-associated urinary tract infection
The Lancet, vol. 381, no. 9877, pp. 1536Contributions to Journals: Letters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60974-5
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Protocol: does sodium nitrite administration reduce ischaemia-reperfusion injury in patients presenting with acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction? Nitrites in acute myocardial infarction (NIAMI)
Journal of translational medicine, vol. 11, 116Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1479-5876-11-116
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3089/1/Siddiqi_2013.pdf