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The Young Statisticians' Section of The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Highland Local Group are pleased to introduce an exciting new annual symposium for 'Young Researchers using Statistics' (YRS).

Presentations will be held on hot topics in Evidence Synthesis and in Clinical Trials.

Registration is now open for the HSRU Conference taking place on 7 June 2016 at King’s College Conference Centre.  The theme of the conference is “Hot topics in Health Services Research” which will include a celebration of the life and work of Professor Adrian Grant.  HSRU Conference Programme Confirmed speakers include:  Sir Iain...

Montreal, Quebec, Canada - May 15-18, 2016 2016 marks another successful year for HSRU and CHaRT's recognition and international standing in clinical trials. This year we will be organising and presenting an Invited Session (a panel of four talks) as well as individual oral and poster presentations.

Eye movements: A window into hidden expertise Matt Stainer and Ben Tatler, Active Vision Lab, University of Aberdeen and Ken Scott-Brown, Abertay University

Sandwiches 12:30 for 12:45 workshop start - please register your place with Andrea Fraser (andrea.fraser@abdn.ac.uk) Work, family and wellbeing in a digital age: Experimenting with visual methods

This workshop will involve interactive, group-based activities that focus on how teams work together to identify, process and synthesise both quantitative and qualitative evidence when undertaking a mixed methods systematic review. This workshop will be of interest to systematic reviewers and those who use systematic reviews. Previous experience of explicitly doing mixed...

Shared decision-making is an approach that involves patients and their clinicians in working together to find the right care or treatment for an individual based on what is important to that patient, informed by relevant evidence. It is an important component of the wider field of person-centred care. Despite growing...

In the UK, policy decisions on the adoption of new treatments are informed by a cost-effectiveness analysis over a lifetime time horizon. However, evidence on relative treatment efficacy comes from randomised controlled trials (RCTs) that typically have a follow-up period of only a few years. Mean survival time is a...

For further information, please contact Dr Heather Morgan, h.morgan@abdn.ac.uk or Pawana Sharma, p.sharma@abdn.ac.uk.