Reminder of next week's RSS meeting:
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Date: Wednesday 10th May at 5pm
Location: Epidemiology Seminar Room, Centre for Health Sciences Research (CHSR), 4th Floor, Neuadd Meirionydd, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff. Tea will be served from 4.30pm on the 3rd floor, Dept. of General Practice.
Nicky Best (Dept of Epidemiology & Public Health, Imperial College London)
The inquiring mind of the statistician - the Bristol and Shipman cases
Abstract
In this talk, I will discuss some of the statistical work I was involved in for the Bristol Royal Infirmary and Shipman Inquiries. In both cases, we used routine data sources to provide statistical evidence of unusual performance. This poses a number of statistical issues such as how to account for multiple sources of random and systematic variation in the data, and how to formally define 'unusual performance'. For the Shipman Inquiry, we also investigated the feasibility of establishing a prospective system for monitoring mortality rates in General Practice using routine data. This talk aims to present these issues and our findings in a (reasonably!) non-technical manner.
Directions: Please email me for directions to the hospital ([log in to unmask]). The Centre for Health Sciences Research can be found as number 121 on the map.
Parking is available in the long stay multi-storey car park. Map: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/locations/maps/heathpark/index.html
Rebecca Cannings-John
Statistician
Department of General Practice
Centre for Health Sciences Research
Cardiff University
3rd Floor, Neuadd Meirionnydd
Heath Park
Cardiff CF14 4YS
Tel: 029 2068 7150
Fax: 029 2068 7219
www.uwcm.ac.uk/study/medicine/general_practice
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