Dear all
Our last meeting and short AGM is this Wednesday. Directions etc are on
the website.
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MANCHESTER LOCAL GROUP
Wednesday, 11 June, 4.30pm for 5pm (tea at 4.30pm).
Brief AGM before the start of the talk.
Room E36, John Dalton Building (opposite BBC)
NOTE slight change of room.
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GRAHAM DUNN (University of Manchester)
"The challenge of patient choice and non-adherence to treatment in RCTs of
counselling and psychotherapy"
The talk will start with a short and relatively non-technical review of
recent statistical ideas on the analysis and interpretation of results of
RCTs in which there might be non-adherence to allocated treatment. This
involves the use of potential outcomes (counterfactuals) in the definition
and estimation of treatment effects. The ideas will be illustrated using
data from the ODIN trial (BMJ 321, 1450-4, 2000). I will then move on to
discuss how such methods might help us to evaluate the potential of
partially- randomised 'patient preference' designs and to compare them
with other, possibly more promising, alternatives."
John Logsdon
Secretary
RSS Manchester Local Group
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http://www.rss-manchester.org
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