@streweek.bsky.social
Professor of Health Services Research, Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen; trying to make trials more efficient http://trialforge.org
Picture of Shaun thanking people supporting health and care research in 2025 as part of Red4Research Day 2025.
It's Red4Research Day today!
Thanks to everyone β research participants, patients, professionals, volunteers and regulatory bodies β working together to do health and social care research.
rdforum.nhs.uk/red4research...
#Red4Research
A couple of Studies Within A Trial (SWATs), one results, one a protocol, just out in the journal Trials:
trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
π Stage 2 is LIVE - where YOU get to decide the People's favourite question!
β‘οΈ If you're joining The People's Review for the first time sign-up here: buff.ly/kAuYITA
β‘οΈ If joined us for Stage 1 you can login in directly to Cochrane Crowd here: buff.ly/q0WudTM
The Edinburgh Clinical Trial Management Course flyer, the details on it are available at the link in the post.
The Edinburgh Clinical Trial Management Course, Nov 6th and 7th 2025 in Edinburgh, is now open for bookings:
clinical-research-facility.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-cl...
Weβre bombarded with health advice 24/7. Systematic reviews help cut through the noiseβbut most people donβt know what they are.
π₯ Thatβs where #ThePeoplesReview comes in. Learn about systematic reviews, by doing a systematic review
πhttps://www.thepeoplesreview.ie/join-now
To kick off #MethodologyMonday in May, we bring you a poignant article by the Editors in Chief of the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. They address the βelephant in the roomβ, the upheaval of the global evidence research eco-systems pursued by the US administration.
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
We spoke with @streweek.bsky.social about why so much health research still falls short. Shaun argues that big parts of health research is βbadβ & does not bring the needed value to the evidence-base. Tune in to learn how we can conduct βgoodβ research for our patients ποΈ!
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π» Come along to our next Capacity Strengthening Hub webinar with @tghn-news.bsky.social to hear about experts' experience, general principles and a practical framework for communicating #ClinicalTrials results with participants.
ποΈ 2 June
π 10:00-11:30 BST
π Online
Register now: bit.ly/4k28ALd
A picture of the webpage that you get to at the link. It shows lots of different types of people.
Weβre bombarded with health advice 24/7. π΅βπ« Systematic reviews help cut through the noiseβbut most people donβt know what they are.
π₯ Thatβs where #ThePeoplesReview comes in. Learn about systematic reviews, by doing a systematic review
www.thepeoplesreview.ie
This literature review identified strategies to enhance the racial & ethnic diversity of breast cancer trial populations. It resulted in 8 key strategic themes, which were used to create a new Racial and Minority Growth model.
#MethodologyMonday
Scott & Westwell
orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/17...
A major update to the CONSORT reporting guidance for clinical trials was published last week.
π CONSORT 2025 replaces all previous versions and should be used from now on.
So whatβs new and whatβs different? 1/7
#MethodologyMonday #116
(COI - I am a co-author)
π¨We are thrilled that our protocol has been selected as the article of the month in Research Involvement and Engagement.
Full article here: researchinvolvement.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
#ThePeoplesReview #PoweredByThePublic #ArticleOfTheMonth
We have just created a library of participant information leaflets for trials, over 200, if you are looking for inspiration.
Check out:
www.trialforge.org/excelsior-pi...
The is part of EXCELSIOR, a project ed by Frances Shiely at Cork University.
Many thanks! I hope that you are well, and having the same lovely weather that we are.
03.04.2025 07:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Today has been lovely, a grant was funded, had a couple of very productive and enjoyable meetings, got some stuff off my To Do list and the sun is shining. If a red squirrel came to the bird feeder at tea-time, that really would be the cherry on the top.
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Many thanks to @vcornelius.bsky.social and @gsmaclennan.bsky.social for coming to Cork and sharing their wisdom on clinical trials today.
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Interested in audit and feeback strategies and how they may improve healthcare practice? Then check out the updated Cochrane review on the topic, co-authored by our own Kristin Konnyu:
Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice - Ivers, N - 2025 www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....
πPaperπ’
In their follow-up study in βTolerating bad health researchβ, Shaun Treweek and colleagues conducted risk of bias assessment of 140 UK, Irish and Canadian trials. Despite the bad trials (55%), trials judged to be good increased from 9% to 16%.
trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Tolerating bad health research (part 2):
trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
In summary, after risk of bias reassessment of 140 UK, Irish and Canadian trials, there were still as many bad trials (55%) but trials judged to be good increased from 9% to 16%.
Not very reassuring really.
β Latest issue of @thelancet.bsky.social out today and featuring the TEMPO trial on the cover π
My summary thread here: bsky.app/profile/gjho...
Open access paper here:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The 6 core items of the new risk of bias tool. Also in paper at the link.
Here's a new risk of bias tool for systematic reviews: ROBUST-RCT
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Similar to an older Cochrane risk of bias tool, it looks like something that could actually be used, which is great. The team explicitly aimed to balance simplicity and methodological rigour.
Figure 3 from the paper, which gives the eight themes identified in the review.
Here's an interesting rapid review on strategies to enhance the ethnic diversity of breast cancer clinical drug trials. It gives some trial recruitment and retention recommendations too.
www.academia.edu/2998-7741/1/...
Oddly enough I also submitted a paper today. I will be kind and not say which.
I had all the bits ready bar two sentences and the short cover letter. It still took 1 hour 49 mins. Bonkers. Do they really need all that info at submission?
A new publication on the involvement of ethnic minority people in health and social care research priority setting from around the world.
In summary, very few countries reported the involvement of ethnic minority community members in research priority-setting.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
SAVE THE DATE! The HRB-TMRN, with @mrcnihrtmrp.bsky.social, is delivering a "Roadmap Workshop: A road trip for PPI with Trials Methodology Research" with Derek Stewart & Katherine Cowan. Expressions of Interests will open very soon. Email us at hrb-tmrn@universityofgalway.ie for more information.
13.03.2025 15:14 β π 6 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1
Interested in the GRADE approach? On 28th & 29 April, Prof. Declan Devane, Dr K. M. Saif-Ur-Rahman from ESI & Philipp Kapp of the Freiburg GRADE center host a workshop on the complete guideline development process with GRADE at NUI Merrion Square. More info: evidencesynthesisireland.ie/training/
14.03.2025 10:30 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0New paper exploring measuring #environmental impact of #health interventions - we found diversity in outcomes, measures, & analysis. Limited involvement of interested parties.
Absolutely essential to do better and reach consensus on what's important to measure
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
Do you work in the field of clinical trials?
Please consider taking part in a Aberdeen-led survey that explores the practices of sharing recruitment and/ or retention rates with recruiting sites as a method to improve recruitment and/or retention behaviours.
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