Dr Neil Scott is a medical statistician within the Biostatistics and Health Data Science department.
He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1995 with an MA in Mathematics and has an MSc in Applied Statistics from Napier University. He obtained a PhD from the University of Aberdeen in 2007.
From 1997 to 2001 he worked as a medical statistician in the Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, where he worked on clinical trials and systematic reviews, particularly in surgery.
He joined the Biostatistics and Health Data Science department (originally the Department of Public Health, then the Medical Statistics Team) in 2001, and has collaborated on a large number of medical research projects in a wide variety of clinical areas.
He has an interest in the development and validation of quality-of-life instruments. His PhD project involved using differential item functioning (DIF) analyses to determine whether there were linguistic or cultural differences in responses to the EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire.
He has a major interest in systematic reviews and meta-analysis and has co-authored many systematic reviews including several Cochrane reviews. He is also interested in complex evidence synthesis methodologies, such as network meta-analysis, and is a member of the Aberdeen team critiquing technology assessments for the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE).
He previously acted as a statistical consultant to NHS Grampian staff and is interested in statistical consultancy in general.
He contributes to a variety of teaching activities. He is course co-ordinator for the PU5522 online Applied Statistics course and is a lecturer on the Systematic Reviewing (PU5526) and Evidence Based Health (PU5031) courses.
Laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy compared with second-generation endometrial ablation for heavy menstrual bleeding: the HEALTH RCT
Cooper, K., Breeman, S., Scott, N. W., Scotland, G. S., Hernández, R. A., Clark, T. J., Hawe, J., Hawthorn, R., Phillips, K., Wileman, S. M., McCormack, K., Norrie, J., Bhattacharya, S.
Health Technology Assessment, vol. 23, no. 53, pp. 1-107
Long-term survival and five year hospital resource usage following traumatic brain injury in Scotland from 1997 to 2015: A population-based retrospective cohort study
Do Pharmacy Intervention Reports Adequately Describe Their Interventions? A Template for Intervention Description and Replication Analysis of Reports included in a Systematic Review
de Barra, M., Scott, C., Johnston, M., de Bruin, M., Scott, N., Matheson, C., Bond, C., Watson, M.
de Barra, M., Scott, C. L., Scott, N. W., Johnston, M., de Bruin, M., Nkansah, N., Bond, C. M., Matheson, C. I., Rackow, P., Williams, A. J., Watson, M. C.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, no. 9, CD013102
Clinical response of pigment epithelial detachment associated with neovascular age-related macular degeneration in switching treatment from Ranibizumab to Aflibercept
Tyagi, P., Juma, Z., Hor, Y. K., Scott, N. W., Ionean, A., Santiago, C.
Component network meta-analysis identifies the most effective components of psychological preparation for adults undergoing surgery under general anaesthesia
Freeman, S. C., Scott, N. W., Powell, R., Johnston, M., Sutton, A. J., Cooper, N. J.
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, vol. 98, pp. 105-116
