Dear all,
See below details of our next exciting meeting in March 2006.
This meeting is open to anyone and there's no need to book.
Best wishes and seasons greetings
Sandra
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE STUDY GROUP programme
22nd March 2005
Royal Statistical Society, Errol St, London
2-5pm
Unpacking complex interventions
MIKE CAMPBELL (Sheffield University)
Complexity and complex interventions
Complexity theory purports to explain emergent phenonema from systems which have
feedback. Complex interventions in health may have feedback - for example in a
trial to educate people with diabetes about diet the intervention may be
modified depending on the knowledge level of the participants. The talk will
discuss modelling as a preliminary to aid in the design of complex
interventions.
PAT YUDKIN (Oxford University)
Deconstructing complex interventions
Whether complex interventions can be properly evaluated in randomised controlled trials is much debated. Based on an analysis of recent trials in UK primary care, we propose a novel approach to characterising the components of complex interventions that may improve trial design and reporting.
TIM HOLT (Warwick University)
Educational programmes for improving blood glucose control in insulin treated diabetes
Advising and supporting insulin treated patients in self-monitoring of blood glucose, to produce appropriate behavioural responses such as adjustment of insulin doses and dietary intake is an increasingly important issue. Because self-monitoring is a patient-centred activity that carries the risk of worsening rather than improving control, and requires a degree of intuitive skill, measuring the success of educational programmes is a difficult research problem, to be explored in this presentation.
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