Please find details of a meeting organised by the MRC-funded Hubs (North West Hub and the ConDuCT Hub) for Trials Methodology Research on ‘Core Outcome Sets for Clinical Trials’ to be held in Liverpool on 19th January 2010.
The meeting has two aims:
1) To raise awareness of the advantages of core outcome sets for later phase clinical trials.
2) To consider what has and has not impeded the implementation of core outcome sets in practice.
and will be of interest to clinicians, consumers, regulators, policy makers, trialists, statisticians, ethicists and health economists.
Core Outcome Sets for Clinical Trials
Tuesday 19th January 2010
Liverpool Medical Institution
Please register (no charge) at [log in to unmask]
http://www.liv.ac.uk/nwhtmr/index.htm
Programme
10:00 Registration and coffee/tea
10:30 Welcome
Professor Paula Williamson and Professor Jane Blazeby
10:40 The what and why of core outcome sets
Professor Mike Clarke, UK Cochrane Centre
11:10 The OMERACT project – methodology and implementation
Professor Peter Tugwell, University of Ottawa
11:40 Paediatric asthma
Dr Ian Sinha, MCRN/North West Hub PhD student
12:10 Lunch
1:00 Cancer surgery
Dr Angus McNair, ConDuCT Hub PhD student
1:30 Small group discussion and feedback
2:30 Discussion
3:00 Close and refreshments
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