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Tim Pickles

@picklestim.bsky.social

Research Fellow in Statistics and Deputy Director of Statistics | Centre for Trials Research, Cardiff University | Patient Reported Outcome Measures | Psychometrics | Rasch measurement theory | Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity

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Reflections on my Doctoral Fellowship and Next Steps Award journey with Dr Tim Pickles
YouTube video by #ResearchWalesFaculty TV Reflections on my Doctoral Fellowship and Next Steps Award journey with Dr Tim Pickles

@picklestim.bsky.social reflects on his journey through a Doctoral Fellowship and Next Steps Awardβ€”and how it's shaped his research career.

πŸ”— youtu.be/eYV3HUcZehc

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07.08.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is just the start. There is more refinement to come and more research I need to do.

30.07.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Skin cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide. What is the current evidence for skin cancer prevention and how to best use sunscreens?

Read the full guidance or check out this visual summary #BMJInfographic
www.bmj.com/content/390/...

28.07.2025 12:06 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5
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Fantastic way to sign off my PhD @cardiffuni.bsky.social in the @ctrcardiffuni.bsky.social, and lovely to graduate with my friend and colleague Mandy Lau #CardiffGrad

17.07.2025 01:11 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Front cover of European Burn Journal, Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2025, showing a hand on skin that is recovering after a burn

Front cover of European Burn Journal, Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2025, showing a hand on skin that is recovering after a burn

Front cover of European Burn Journal for CARe Burn Scales! Congratulations Catrin Griffiths Ella Guest @dianaharcourt.bsky.social πŸ₯³
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www.mdpi.com/2673-1991/6/2
doi.org/10.3390/ebj6...

08.07.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Validity and contributions to pain from the central aspects ... : PAIN Reports is. Objectives: Given the different pathophysiology of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an inflammatory polyarthritis, this cross-sectional study assessed CAP's psychometric properties and its associatio...

Great to have this published in @painreports.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1097/PR9....
Congratulation Stephanie Smith and team. I was happy to provide further CAP-RA data for analyses as part of the SOCRATES data collection funded by
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@ctrcardiffuni.bsky.social

08.07.2025 08:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Faculty webinar: Reflections on my Doctoral Fellowship and Next Steps Award journey with Dr Tim Pickles

πŸ“ Discover how funding shapes research careers!

Dr Tim Pickles reflects on his Health and Care Research Wales awards + next steps at a free webinar on Tues 15 July 2025. πŸŽ―πŸ‘¨β€πŸ«

πŸ”— healthandcareresearchwales.org/about/events...

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03.07.2025 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you to my excellent supervisors, clinical colleagues and PPI contributors Mike Horton, Karl Bang Christensen, Rhiannon Phillips, David Gillespie, Neil Mo, Janice Davies, Susan Campbell and Ernest Choy. And thank you to my colleagues at @ctrcardiffuni.bsky.social

09.06.2025 07:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Patient Reported Outcome Measures for Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity: a systematic review following COSMIN guidelines Background The current standard of care in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) requires regular assessment of disease activity (DA). All standard RA DA measurement instruments require joint counts to be underta...

- Adding to the result from my systematic review doi.org/10.1136/rmdo... no legacy RA DA PROMs have evidence of good measurement properties.

09.06.2025 07:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I found:
- the construct of RA Disease Activity can be measured using items from the Pain, Tenderness and swelling, Physical functioning, Disease Activity and Stiffness domains;
- General health and Disease activity items are not interchangeable within the Patient Global Assessment domain;

09.06.2025 07:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Excited to share the second published article from my PhD funded by @researchwales.bsky.social on Patient Reported Outcome Measures for Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity.
doi.org/10.1093/rheu...

09.06.2025 07:26 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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