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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Long Covid in healthcare workers: longitudinal mixed-methods study
Occupational MedicineContributions to Journals: ArticlesCould paramedics use the HEART Pathway to identify patients at low-risk of myocardial infarction in the prehospital setting?
American Heart Journal, vol. 271, pp. 182-187Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2024.02.018
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Tailoring CONSORT-SPI to Improve the Reporting of Smoking Cessation Intervention Trials: An expert consensus study
Addiction, vol. 119, no. 2, pp. 225-235Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLived experience of work and long COVID in healthcare staff
Occupational Medicine, vol. 74, no. 1, pp. 78–85Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPerformance of a prehospital HEART score in patients with possible myocardial infarction: a prospective evaluation
Emergency Medicine Journal, vol. 40, no. 7, pp. 474-481Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2022-213003
Comparing characteristics and outcomes of individuals who participated in a trial versus those that did not
British Pain Society 56th Annual Scientific Meeting, pp. 43Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/20494637231177771
- [ONLINE] Conference Poster
The Effect of Macular Hole Duration on Surgical Outcomes: An Individual Participant Data Study of Randomized Controlled Trials
Ophthalmology, vol. 130, no. 2, pp. 152-163Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSkin cancer in essential thrombocythaemia and polycythaemia vera patients treated with hydroxycarbamide
eJHaem, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 1305-1309Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMesh fixation techniques for inguinal hernia repair: an overview of systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials
Hernia, vol. 26, pp. 973–987Contributions to Journals: ArticlesOpen versus laparoscopic repair of inguinal hernia: an overview of systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials
Surgical Endoscopy, vol. 36, pp. 4685–4700Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAxicabtagene ciloleucel for treating relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma after one systemic therapy
London: Evidence Review Group report in support of NICE STA Programme. London: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. 128 pagesBooks and Reports: Commissioned ReportsReducing asthma attacks in children using exhaled nitric oxide (RAACENO) as a biomarker to inform treatment strategy: a multicentre, parallel, randomised, controlled, phase 3 trial
The Lancet. Respiratory medicine, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 584-592Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTreatment guided by fractional exhaled nitric oxide in addition to standard care in 6- to 15-year-olds with asthma: the RAACENO RCT
Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation, vol. 9, no. 4Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEmergency General Surgery: Impact of Distance and Rurality on Mortality
BJS Open, vol. 6, no. 2, zrac032Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPredictors of recruitment and retention in randomised controlled trials of behavioural smoking cessation interventions: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis
Addiction, vol. 117, no. 2, pp. 299-311Contributions to Journals: ArticlesRisk of Recurrent Stillbirth in Subsequent Pregnancies
Obstetrics and Gynecology, vol. 139, no. 1, pp. 31-40Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCould High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin Testing Rule Out Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Prehospital Setting?
Journal of the American College of Cardiology, vol. 78, no. 23, pp. 2392-2394Contributions to Journals: Letters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.10.004
Cross-cultural differences and psychometric properties of the Japanese Actions and Feelings Questionnaire (J-AFQ)
Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 12, 722108Contributions to Journals: ArticlesReproductive pattern of parous women and the risk of cancer in later life
Cancers, vol. 13, no. 15, 3731Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPalforzia for treating peanut allergy
London: Evidence Review Group report in support of NICE STA Programme. London: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. 125 pagesBooks and Reports: Commissioned ReportsMaintaining musculoskeletal health using a behavioural therapy approach: a population-based randomised controlled trial (the MAmMOTH Study)
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, vol. 80, no. 7, pp. 903-911Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-219091
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15446/5/Macfarlane_et_al_ARD_MaintainingMusculoskeletalHealth_AAM.pdf
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15446/2/AAM_suppFig_data.pdf
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15446/3/AAM_supp_data_tables.pdf
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15446/4/Macfarlane_etal_ARD_Maintaining_Musculoskeletal_Health_VoR.pdf
Emergency general surgery: Impact of hospital and surgeon admission case volume on mortality
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery, vol. 90, no. 6, pp. 996-1002Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/TA.0000000000003128
The Ambulance Cardiac Chest Pain Evaluation in Scotland Study (ACCESS): A Prospective Cohort Study
Annals of Emergency Medicine, vol. 77, no. 6, pp. 575-588Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe data we have: Pregnancy and birth related data collection in Australia, Canada, Europe and the USA – A web-based survey of practice
International Journal of Population Data Science, vol. 6, no. 1, 1378Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v6i1.1378
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/16103/1/Lamont_etal_the_data_we_have_VOR.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Screen detection is a survival predictor independent of pathological grade in colorectal cancer: A prospective cohort study
The Surgeon, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 20-26Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surge.2020.02.004
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus