RSS PRIMARY HEALTH CARE STUDY GROUP meeting
Monday 3rd July 2006
Royal Statistical Society, Errol St, London
2-5pm
(directions http://www.rss.org.uk/about/direction.html)
No pre-registration is necessary
What is appropriate evidence for improving primary care?
JONATHAN MANT (University of Birmingham)
Transfer of Evidence into Primary Care
The long term management of many diseases is performed in primary care, yet
the evidence on which clinical guidelines and treatment is based is often
largely derived from studies carried out in secondary care settings. Does
this matter? Examples from the field of stroke prevention, including blood
pressure control after stroke, and management and identification of atrial
fibrillation will be discussed.
GENE FEDER (Queen Mary, University of London)
What do primary care guideline developers want from research and what do
they get?
I will discuss the kind of research evidence that guideline developers
search for to formulate recommendations to primary care clinicians: large
well designed pragmatic trials with participants representing primary care
patients including ethnic and social diversity and co-morbidity plus trial
or cohort data that allows risk stratification and ascription of
differential benefit to subgroups of patients. I will give examples of the
gap between this ideal and reality.
Third speaker to be confirmed
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