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Course: Design and Analysis of Randomised Trials
Venue: Department of Social Medicine
Duration: five days
Date: 7th-11th July 2003
Cost: £500
Faculty includes: Sara Brookes, Alan Montgomery, Salma Ayis, Lucy
Brindle, Rona Campbell, Paul Dieppe, Jackie Brown, Shah Ebrahim,
Matthias Egger, Athene Lane, Laurence Moore, Tim Peters, Majorie Weiss
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The course aims to provide an understanding of key issues in the
design, analysis and reporting of clinical trials. The course focuses
on randomised controlled trials used in the evaluation of healthcare
technologies.
Topics to be covered include: the need for clinical trials;
planning issues; pragmatic and explanatory trials; hypothesis testing;
clinical and statistical significance; sample size; randomisation;
cluster randomisation; intention to treat analyses; other complex
designs; multiple outcomes; repeated measures; adjustment for
covariates; subgroup analysis; CONSORT guidelines on trial reporting;
qualitative methods in clinical trials; health economics in the context
of clinical trials
Basic knowledge of Stata is desirable but not essential for the
practical sessions. Students will also be expected to have a knowledge
of statistical methods up to the level of Basic Statistics and an
understanding of research design, up to the level of the Basic
Epidemiological Methods course, which covers cross-sectional, cohort
and case-control studies. There are still a few places left on this
course, which runs from Feb 17th-21st 2003.
All the short courses at the Department of Social Medicine are CME and
PGEA approved. Further information about this and other courses at the
Department of Social Medicine can be found at
www.epi.bris.ac.uk/shortc/shortc.htm or from [log in to unmask]
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Jess Dunton
Department of Social Medicine
University of Bristol
Telephone: 0117 9287221
Please note that: i. if you cancel your place less than two weeks before
a course starts YOU WILL BE CHARGED THE FULL FEE. Those eligible for
free places will be charged a penalty fee of £30
ii. your place on any short course is not secure until EITHER payment is
received OR you have proved to the satisfaction of the Course Supervisor
that you are entitled to a free place
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Jess Dunton
Department of Social Medicine
University of Bristol
Telephone: 0117 9287221
Please note that: i. if you cancel your place less than two weeks before
a course starts YOU WILL BE CHARGED THE FULL FEE. Those eligible for
free places will be charged a penalty fee of £30
ii. your place on any short course is not secure until EITHER payment is
received OR you have proved to the satisfaction of the Course Supervisor
that you are entitled to a free place
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