Bethan Copsey

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Creatinine clearance, reduced kidney function, and optimizing prescribing safety through practice feedback: a mixed methods study AbstractBackground. Kidney function declines with age, increasing risk of harm from raised blood levels of many medicines. Prescribing is often inappropria

📣 New paper published❗️

🫘We know kidney function declines with age, increasing risk of harm of many medicines 💊

📉 We showed that providing feedback to primary care on prescribing in reduced kidney function is both feasible and acceptable 😀… [1/2]

📖 Read more here 👇

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🙋 New paper alert! 📣
🤔 How do you define a Learning Health System?
We argue that the definition should include integrated rigorous effectiveness evaluations as a criterion👇
@au-primarycareuol.bsky.social @wy-icb-research.bsky.social @bethancopsey.bsky.social @complexleedsctru.bsky.social

Stroke survivor's artwork shines light on the road to recovery Stroke survivor Mark Chappell from Skipton is using his new art exhibition to highlight the challenges and recovery journey after a stroke

Art Exhibition by Stroke Survivor and Academic Unit for Ageing and Stroke Research Participant Kicks off in Bradford
@auasresearch.bsky.social @drandyclegg.bsky.social @drjessjohansson.bsky.social @louisabu.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social

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If Ted Chiang, a truly superb creative writer (also; a background in compsci), is happy using the gym robot analogy to explain why using chatbots at university is antithetical to the purpose you're paying money and forgoing paid work to be there then I'm fortified in my view it's a good one.

Grand rounds in methodology: improving the design of staggered implementation cluster randomised trials The stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial is a popular design in implementation and health services research. All clusters, such as clinics or hospitals, start in the control state, and gradually swi...

Improving the design of staggered implementation cluster randomised trials qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/earl...

Tomorrow isn’t just International Clinical Trials Day.

Keep your eyes peeled for the launch of our strategy for 2025 – 2030!

#UKCTUNetwork #CTUNetworkStrategy

Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience - Communications Psychology Programming is essential for modern research in neuroscience and psychology, but it can quickly become a source of frustration and error. This Primer introduces ten practical principles guiding resear...

Many processes from industry are not appropriate or overkill for an academic setting, but we can and should be doing better than we currently are.

Our paper tries to give practical advice on how you can improve your scientific workflow, without being a coding guru.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

This week saw the publication of SPIRIT 2025, a major update to the international SPIRIT Statement which provides guidance on what should be included in a trial protocol. 1/6
#MethodologyMonday #117

Such a great milestone to have completed recruitment to the FReSH START trial! I'm so proud to have been a part of such an amazing team ⭐

What are estimands? Estimands are a way of describing the research question in a clinical trial. They can help doctors, patients, policymakers and other stakeholders understand ...

In #ClinicalTrials, estimands are a way to describe the research question, helping stakeholders understand and interpret trial results.

Watch this video to learn how using estimands can help doctors and patients make better treatment decisions.▶️👇
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New publication commenting on approaches to understand the meaningfulness of treatment effects on endpoints based on clinical outcome assessments (COAs). Sorting out "between-group difference," "meaningful within-group change," and more.

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1/5 Summary to follow...

Flyer advertising a training course on How to be a great chief investigator for clinical trials. Find out more via the following link https://tinyurl.com/HTBAGCI

🚀 Exciting News! 🚀

Interested in or leading a clinical trial?

Want to be the best Chief Investigator you can be?

This updated course is for you!

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#ClinicalTrials #CITraining

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Learning points from scaling up of innovations for multiple long-term conditions in Primary Care This infographic presents key learnings and strategies for scaling innovations in primary care for patients with multiple long term conditions (MLT

🚀New Resource: Scaling Innovations in Primary Care

Learn how tailored strategies can improve care for patients with multiple long-term conditions.

Key lessons from implementing four interventions nationally.
@socscihealth.bsky.social @nihrarcs.bsky.social #MLTC

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Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice - Ivers, N - 2025 | Cochrane Library Select your preferred language for Cochrane reviews and other content. Sections without translation will be in English.

🎉Fantastic to see our update to the Cochrane review on Audit and Feedback in healthcare published!
So much work went into this huge project by a worldwide team, expertly led by Noah Ivers 👏
A must read for anyone wanting to improve the quality of healthcare 👇
www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

Screenshot of the linked Quarto website, with input checkboxes to change different conditions for a regression model that predicts economic performance based on US political party, with a reported p-value

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :(

So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

It’s hard when studies don’t work out as planned. It’s even harder when they have to close. But there’s still a lot to learn when they do. Great to see MODULATE in print: www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hta/publishe...

REDCap's in-built reporting ability is very limited, as I discovered a few weeks ago.

Using the API to read data into R and create your own reports is the exact solution I came to, glad to see others posting about it!

Text on a blue background reads: 'Webinar: Implementing Parent-Led Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (PL-CBT) in a school setting This webinar will draw on the experiences of a pilot programme in the East of England that trained school staff to deliver PL-CBT, an effective treatment for childhood anxiety. The 'Working on Worries' programme has had positive outcomes for parents and children, as well as providing practical guidance about how to implement PL-CBT in schools. Weds 26 March, 12-1pm' There is a photos of a child and parent working together.

Join this Mental Health Implementation (MHIN)-led webinar to hear about how Parent-Led #CBT, an effective treatment for childhood anxiety, can be implemented in school settings.

arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/events-train...

Useful information for getting the most out of your appointments as a patient 👇

Amy Grove PhD on LinkedIn: Implementation Science Masterclasses 2025 140 people tuned in to listen to me talk about Implementation Science yesterday at the University of Birmingham It was a great conversation - magic bullets…

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Follow @freshstart-uk.bsky.social for all updates from our @leedsctru.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social programme grant. We've just moved over to this platform 🙂

Common statistical errors in systematic reviews: A tutorial The aim of this article is to present the most common statistical errors in meta-analyses included in systematic reviews; these are confusing standard deviation and standard error, using heterogeneit...

Looks like this might be worth a read:

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Writing a grant application and thinking about how to improve your dissemination section? Use the link below to download a guide to disseminating your research #GuiDiR @complexleedsctru.bsky.social

Consider what to report about your rehabilitation intervention? Here's a newly published TIDieR Rehab checklist
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Do you work w people w aphasia & other neurological conditions? #SLT #aphasia #SLP

Considered peer befriending to support long-term psychosocial needs? 🤝

We are doing 🌐online training in Feb. Join from anywhere in the world 🗺️

➡️ Sign up here: www.city.ac.uk/prospective-...

If you are a statistician who undertakes forensic analyses of IPD for journals (misconduct cases) and would like to lend your expertise to (and take some ownership of) a project to develop a protocol for this purpose (INSPECT-IPD), then contact me!

A vanilla KMunicate-style Kaplan–Meier graph from {kmunicate}. Key is the extended risk table showing the status of participants over time.

Stata users: if you want to make ‘kmunicate’-style Kaplan–Meier graphs, I’ve just released a Stata package on GitHub.

To get it:
. net from raw.githubusercontent.com/tpmorris/kmu...
User feedback welcome!
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Enhancing Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity In Pain Research | IASP This webinar is being produced by the International Association for the Study of Pain's Methodology, Evidence Synthesis, and...

New @IASP_MESISIG webinar alert. Join us on January 29, 2025 Wed 2:30 PM EST to learn about Enhancing Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity In Pain Research. We have excellent speakers and it will be a great session. Register here: www.pathlms.com/iasp/webinar...

We're running our annual online Masterclass in Complex Interventions Evaluations over 3 days in January and February.

Come and learn from our expert team of complex interventions trialists at @leedsctru.bsky.social

Register now to reserve your place. Deadline 24 Jan.
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