JOINT MEETING OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY PRIMARY HEALTH CARE STUDY GROUP AND THE MEDICAL SECTION
Tuesday 24th February 2009
Royal Statistical Society, Errol St, London
2-5pm
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All welcome. No pre-registration is necessary
TITLE: Recruitment in trials and other well-designed observational studies in primary care
2pm PAUL WALLACE (UK NIHR CRN and UCL)
The role of the NIHR Clinical Research Networks in improving recruitment into trials - a view from primary care
The primary care research network was launched in 2007 as part of the NIHR Clinical Research Networks. It consists of 8 local research networks covering the whole of England. The 8 co-ordinating teams have extensive links with research active primary care sites in their locality, facilitating their delivery of a local portfolio of nationally approved studies. Analyses indicate that 30% of all patients in studies on the NIHR portfolio are currently recruited in primary care.
2.25pm BRENDAN DELANEY (University of Birmingham)
The NIHR National School for Primary Care Research Programme in methodological research relating to recruitment
The NIHR NSPCR has two streams of methodological work relating to study recruitment. Firstly, we have extended funding for the joint US- UK, NIH-funded project 'The electronic Primary Care Research Network (ePCRN)'. Secondly a cross-school team are working to develop a series of observational and randomised studies of factors that may promote successful recruitment. Both of these initiatives involve close working with the NIHR Primary Care Research Network and will be described.
2.50pm FRANK SULLIVAN (University of Dundee)
Meeting the challenge of acute recruitment to Primary Care Trials: the case of Bell's palsy.
In 1993 no grant awarding body would fund a Primary Care factorial trial of steroids and antivirals in Bell's Palsy. In 2007 the trial was published in the NEJM. The elements of the protocol which ensured that sufficient numbers of patients could be referred, randomised and followed up will be described.
3.15pm Tea
3.45pm Discussion in groups
4.30pm Rounding up and conclusion
5pm Close
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