Professor Alison Avenell
Clinical Chair in Health Services Research
- About
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- Email Address
- a.avenell@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 438164
- Office Address
Health Services Research Unit
3rd Floor Health Sciences Building
Foresterhill
Aberdeen
AB25 2ZD- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
Alison Avenell joined the Unit in 1998, as a Clinical Research Fellow. She was subsequently funded by the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) of the Scottish Government Health Directorates as a Clinical Research Fellow to undertake research in the MRC funded RECORD trial, which examined the effect of calcium and/or vitamin D supplementation in the secondary prevention of osteoporotic fractures. She also led the MAVIS trial which examined the effectiveness of vitamin and mineral supplementation in preventing infections in older people, and helped lead the SIGNET trial of glutamine and selenium supplementation in critical illness. She was a CSO funded Career Scientist and currently has a clinical chair in health services research and is an Honorary Consultant in Clinical Biochemistry, undertaking systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials of treatments for adult obesity, and under-nutrition in clinical practice.
- Research
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Current Research
Current projects
- Evaluating the behavioural intervention, organisational and health economic evidence base for adult obesity management
- REBALANCE
- Systematic reviews of selected nutritional supplementation interventions
Completed projects
- Publications
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Participant withdrawals were unusually distributed in randomized trials with integrity concerns: a statistical investigation
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, vol. 131, pp. 22-29Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.11.012
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Population vitamin D supplementation in UK adults: too much of nothing?
Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB), vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 7-12Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/dtb.2020.000060
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Empirically generated reference proportions for baseline p values from rounded summary statistics
Anaesthesia, vol. 75, no. 12, pp. 1685-1687Contributions to Journals: Letters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.15165
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Text messaging and financial incentives to encourage weight loss in men with obesity: the Game of Stones feasibility RCT
Public Health Research, vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 1-258Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAssessing and Raising Concerns About Duplicate Publication, Authorship Transgressions and Data Errors in a Body of Preclinical Research
Science and Engineering Ethics, vol. 26, pp. 2069-2096Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-019-00152-w
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Incorrect and misleading claims regarding vitamin d
Irish Medical Journal, vol. 113, no. 7, P145Contributions to Journals: Comments and DebatesSodium bicarbonate to improve physical function in patients over 60 years with advanced chronic kidney disease: the BiCARB RCT
Health Technology Assessment, vol. 24, no. 27, pp. 1-120Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3310/hta24270
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14558/1/Witham_et_al_HTA_SodiumBicarbonateTo_VoR.pdf
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A systematic review of UK based long-term non-surgical interventions for people with severe obesity (BMI ≥35kg/m2)
Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 351-372Contributions to Journals: ArticlesConcerns About the Integrity of the Yamaguchi Osteoporosis Prevention Study (YOPS) Report: Am J Med. 2004;117:549-555
American Journal of Medicine, vol. 133, no. 6, pp. e311-e314Contributions to Journals: Letters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2020.02.007
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Clinical and cost-effectiveness of oral sodium bicarbonate therapy for older patients with chronic kidney disease and low-grade acidosis (BiCARB): a pragmatic randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
BMC medicine , vol. 18, 91Contributions to Journals: ArticlesClinical and cost-effectiveness of oral sodium bicarbonate therapy for older patients with chronic kidney disease and low-grade acidosis: The BiCARB randomised controlled trial
Health Technology Assessment, vol. 18, 91Contributions to Journals: ArticlesChallenges of Systematic Reviews of Economic Evaluations: A Review of Recent Reviews and an Obesity Case Study
Pharmacoeconomics, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 259-267Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGame of Stones: feasibility randomised controlled trial of how to engage men with obesity in text message and incentive interventions for weight loss
BMJ Open, vol. 10, no. 2, 032653Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCheck for publication integrity before misconduct
Nature, vol. 577, no. 7789, pp. 167-169Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03959-6
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Evaluating ethics oversight during assessment of research integrity
Research integrity and peer review, vol. 4, 22Contributions to Journals: LettersAn investigation into the impact and implications of published papers from retracted research: systematic search of affected literature
BMJ Open, vol. 9, no. 10, 031909Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCan surgery be avoided in patients with symptomatic gallstone disease and no complications?
The BMJ, vol. 367, no. 8218, l5709Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l5709
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Baseline P value distributions in randomized trials were uniform for continuous but not categorical variables
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, vol. 112, pp. 67-76Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2019.05.006
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Correcting Meta-analyses and Reviews Affected by Retracted Research
JAMA Internal Medicine, vol. 179, no. 7, pp. 1005Contributions to Journals: Comments and DebatesRounding, but not randomization method, non-normality, or correlation, affected baseline P-value distributions in randomized trials
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, vol. 110, pp. 50-62Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.05.017
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13843/1/JCE_Accepted_Manuscript.pdf
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- [ONLINE] Corrigendum
Fractures in Adults After Weight Loss from Bariatric Surgery and Weight Management Programs for Obesity: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Obesity Surgery, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 1327-1342Contributions to Journals: Articles25-Hydroxyvitamin D – Should labs be measuring it?
Annals of Clinical Biochemistry, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 188-189Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0004563218796858
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Quality of reports of investigations of research integrity by academic institutions
Research integrity and peer review, vol. 4, 3Contributions to Journals: ArticlesVitamin D supplementation and musculoskeletal health - Authors' reply
The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 88-89Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-8587(18)30370-X
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The acceptability and feasibility of weight management programmes for adults with severe obesity: A qualitative systematic review
BMJ Open, vol. 9, no. 9, e029473Contributions to Journals: Articles