Dear all,
Apologies for cross-posting. Please see below details of the next RSS primary health care study group meeting. This meeting is open to anyone and there is no need to book.
Best wishes
Sandra
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE STUDY GROUP programme
Unpacking complex interventions
22nd March 2006Royal Statistical Society, Errol St, London
2-5pm
2pm 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.
2.25pm 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.
2.50pm 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.
3.15pm Tea
3.45pm Discussion in groups
4.30pm Rounding up and conclusion
5pm Close
Sandra Eldridge
Centre for Health Sciences
Queen Mary, University of London
2 Newark Street
Whitechapel
E1 2AT
telephone: 020 7882 2519
fax: 020 7882 2552
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