MA, MSc, PhD
Senior Research Fellow
- About
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- Email Address
- n.w.scott@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 437108
- Office Address
Medical Statistics Team, Division of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Polwarth Building, Foresterhill, ABERDEEN AB25 2ZD, UK.
- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
Dr Neil Scott 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.
Since joining the Medical Statistics Team (originally part of the Dept of Public Health) in 2001, he 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 detemine 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.
External Memberships
Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS)
- Research
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Research Overview
Neil’s main research interests include:
- Randomised controlled trials, including methods of randomisation
- Systematic reviews and meta-analysis, including individual patient data (IPD) reviews and network meta-analyses
- Health-related quality of life (HRQoL)
- Differential item functioning (DIF) methods
- Methods to assess translations of HRQoL questionnaires
- Case-control studies
- Statistical consultancy
Current PhD opportunity: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/comprehensive-meta-analyses-of-surgical-repair-of-groin-hernia/?p172221
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Applied Health Sciences.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Research Specialisms
- Medical Statistics
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Contribution to:
PU5522 Applied Statistics (online) (lecturer and course co-ordinator)
PU5017 Applied Statistics (lecturer and previous course co-ordinator)
PU5526 Systematic Reviewing (lecturer)
PU5031 Evidence-Based Health (online) (lecturer)
SPSS staff course (previous lecturer)
Intermediate Statistics staff course (previous lecturer)
PhD Statistics Course (previous tutor)
Statistical consultancies (NHS and University staff)
Student clinics
- Publications
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Laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy compared with second-generation endometrial ablation for heavy menstrual bleeding: the HEALTH RCT
Health Technology Assessment, vol. 23, no. 53, pp. 1-107Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3310/hta23530
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13068/1/HTA_REPRT_3030653_VOR.pdf
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Interventions for treating people with symptoms of bladder pain syndrome: A network meta-analysis
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, vol. 2019, no. 5, CD013325.Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLong-term survival and five year hospital resource usage following traumatic brain injury in Scotland from 1997 to 2015: A population-based retrospective cohort study
Injury, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 82-89Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.injury.2018.09.029
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Do Pharmacy Intervention Reports Adequately Describe Their Interventions? A Template for Intervention Description and Replication Analysis of Reports included in a Systematic Review
BMJ Open, vol. 9, no. 12, pp. e025511Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTYRX Absorbable Antibacterial Envelope for preventing infection from cardiac implantable electronic devices.
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)Books and Reports: Commissioned ReportsMedication adherence among patients with Type 2 diabetes: a mixed methods study
PloS ONE, vol. 13, no. 12, 0207583Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe prevalence of sarcopaenia in a vascular surgical patient cohort and its impact on outcome
Surgeon, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 325-332Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surge.2018.03.001
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Pharmacist services for non-hospitalised patients
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, no. 9, CD013102Contributions to Journals: Review articlesClinical response of pigment epithelial detachment associated with neovascular age-related macular degeneration in switching treatment from Ranibizumab to Aflibercept
BMC Ophthalmology, vol. 18, 148Contributions to Journals: ArticlesComponent network meta-analysis identifies the most effective components of psychological preparation for adults undergoing surgery under general anaesthesia
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, vol. 98, pp. 105-116Contributions to Journals: Articles