THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY
Oxford Local Group Joint Meeting
with
University of Oxford, Department of Primary Health Care
Dr Victor Aguirre
Statistics Dept, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
"Some issues on Self Monitoring of Chronic Diseases using Statistical Tools"
1pm Monday 29th June 2009 (Tea available at 12.30pm)
Rosemary Rue Building (Teaching rooms A & B),
Old Road Campus, Roosevelt Drive,
Headington, Oxford
All Welcome
Abstract
Chronic diseases represent an increasing proportion of the problems that the health sector in modern societies has to deal with. Monitoring is necessary to determine changes in these conditions - improvement, deterioration, or control - which give rise to diverse statistical issues. For example, it has been shown that patient self-monitoring and self-management upon evidence of danger can lead to better outcomes (e.g. self-monitoring of oral anticoagulants). This leads naturally to the use of statistical tools for monitoring in order to have control on the risks associated with incorrect actions. From the above consideration two issues appear: first whether the rules used to detect an anomaly are user friendly, and second if the measurement system is providing useful data for monitoring and not just noise. In this talk we propose to use zone charts to deal with the first issue and repeatability and reproducibility studies for the second one.
For details on how to get to Old Road Campus, please visit http://www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/contact and click on "How to find us".
RSS Oxford group committee members for 2009 are: Doug Altman, Sarah Darby, Jemma Hopewell (secretary), Steffen Lauritzen (chair),
Paul McGale, Bent Nielsen (treasurer), Maria Quigley, Trevor Ringrose, Andrew Roddam.
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