Richard Jacques

SDEC - news_Jones_et_al_review_Sept_2025 In June 2025, some of our colleagues at the University of Sheffield published an insightful review. They reviewed what evidence there was about how SDEC services have affected the delivery of urgent a...

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We've written a new blog. The blog reviews a recent publication by one of our colleagues that discusses what we might already know about the performance of SDECs.

You can read the blog on our website:

sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

ℹ️ Upcoming work:

WP3a will involve observations of SDEC services around the country, and interviews with patients and staff.

Our plans have been developed through discussions with patients, stakeholders, hospitals, and research support networks. We will submit our plans for ethical review soon.

3️⃣In time for the beginning of our third work package, we'll be welcoming two new qualitative researchers to the team.

Both researchers will support Professor Fiona Sampson with observations of SDEC services around the country, and interviews with patients and staff.

2️⃣We spent the summer surveying type-1 EDs in England, asking about their SDEC services.

We are grateful to the kind and patient staff who took the time to complete our online survey.

We are now busy processing the responses to find a meaningful and helpful way to classify SDEC services.

1️⃣ We now have the data needed for the first national evaluation of SDEC services in England

WP2a is a study describing trends in health outcomes over time and between hospitals. WP2b is a cost-consequential study describing the policy-level effect of SDEC services on policy outcomes and NHS costs.

SDEC Latest project news

The first 12 months of our project evaluating same-day emergency care (SDEC) is nearly over.

You can read about how the project is progressing on our website:

sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

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How is missing data handled in cluster randomized controlled trials? A review of trials published in the NIHR Journals Library 1997–2024

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Comparison of statistical methods for the analysis of patient-reported outcomes (PROs), particularly the Short-Form 36 (SF-36), in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) using standardised effect size (S... Background The Short-Form 36 (SF-36), a widely used patient-reported outcome (PRO), is a questionnaire completed by patients measuring health outcomes in clinical trials. The PRO scores can be discret...

Comparison of statistical methods for the analysis of patient-reported outcomes (PROs), particularly the Short-Form 36 (SF-36), in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) using standardised effect size (SES): an empirical analysis

hqlo.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

The 'Reducing Avoidable Admissions in Acute Hospital Care: The role and impact of Same Day Emergency Care Services' project website is now live.

Find out about our research at: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

@sheffielduni.bsky.social @fohsheffield.bsky.social @arc-yharc.bsky.social

The first output from the Same Day Emergency Care project.

A rapid evidence review of same-day emergency-care services (SDECs), comparing definitions, descriptions and actual use: Protocol

doi.org/10.15131/she...

Invitation to a Two-Round Delphi Study on Sample Size Reporting in Trial Grant Applications and Protocols for Adaptive Designs!

Click the link below to participate 👏:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Or directly contact: qzhang104@sheffield.ac.uk.

Please add me, thanks.

In Nov I started my first NIHR funded research project as Chief Investigator.

Over the next 30 months, I'll be working with a fantastic team to investigate the impact of Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) services on acute hospital admissions and discharge.

fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR16...

Bookings are open for our online short course How to Understand Statistics in Research

Thursday 1st May - Thursday 22nd May 2025 (4 half-day sessions, over 4 consecutive weeks)

Course lead: @richardjacques.bsky.social

For more information see:
www.sheffield.ac.uk/smph/modules...

How often are children attending the emergency department for a non-urgent attendance? - ARC In this study, we aimed to explore differences in non-urgent attendances and urgent attendances in children to ED and determine which children present in this way and when.

New @arc-yharc.bsky.social blog by @beckiesimpson.bsky.social on "How often are children attending the emergency department for a non-urgent attendance?"

arc-yh.nihr.ac.uk/resources/bl...

The cost-effectiveness of using waking salivary cortisol in the diagnosis of adrenal sufficiency

eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/219103/

New paper published in Statistical Methods in Medical Research:

Comparison of statistical methods for the analysis of patient-reported outcomes in randomised controlled trials: A simulation study

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

My colleagues @beckiesimpson.bsky.social, @richardjacques.bsky.social and I had fun at
#EUSEM, though we are statisticians out of water among ED clinicians! We presented our work with NHS routine data: understanding avoidable admissions, winter pressures, and advisor skill-set & NHS111 performance.