Clinical Chair in Health Services Research
- About
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- Email Address
- a.avenell@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 438164
- Office Address
Health Services Research Unit
3rd Floor Health Sciences Building
Foresterhill
Aberdeen
AB25 2ZD- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
Alison Avenell joined the Unit in 1998, as a Clinical Research Fellow. She was subsequently funded by the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) of the Scottish Government Health Directorates as a Clinical Research Fellow to undertake research in the MRC funded RECORD trial, which examined the effect of calcium and/or vitamin D supplementation in the secondary prevention of osteoporotic fractures. She also led the MAVIS trial which examined the effectiveness of vitamin and mineral supplementation in preventing infections in older people, and helped lead the SIGNET trial of glutamine and selenium supplementation in critical illness. She was a CSO funded Career Scientist and currently has a clinical chair in health services research and is an Honorary Consultant in Clinical Biochemistry, undertaking systematic reviews and randomised controlled trials of treatments for adult obesity, and under-nutrition in clinical practice.
- Research
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Current Research
Current projects
- Evaluating the behavioural intervention, organisational and health economic evidence base for adult obesity management
- REBALANCE
- Systematic reviews of selected nutritional supplementation interventions
Completed projects
- Publications
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Activin type I receptor polymorphisms and body composition in older individuals with sarcopenia – analyses from the LACE randomised controlled trial
PloS ONEContributions to Journals: ArticlesACE I/D genotype associates with strength in sarcopenic men but not with response to ACE inhibitor therapy in older adults with sarcopenia: Results from the LACE trial
PloS ONEContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292402
Protocol for the development of a tool (INSPECT-SR) to identify problematic randomised controlled trials in systematic reviews of health interventions
Working Papers: Preprint Papers- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.21.23295626
Letter to the editor: Validity of tests for publication integrity
International Journal of Gynecology & ObstetricsContributions to Journals: Letters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ijgo.15182
Responses to concerns raised about publications don’t address the concerns raised
British Journal of Pain, vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 426-427Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe effect of weight loss interventions for obesity on fertility and pregnancy outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, vol. 161, no. 2, pp. 335-342Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLaparoscopic cholecystectomy versus conservative management for adults with uncomplicated symptomatic gallstones: the C-GALL RCT
Health and Social Care Delivery ResearchContributions to Journals: ArticlesAnalysis of cluster randomised trials as if they were individually randomised
The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 75Contributions to Journals: Comments and DebatesDistributions of baseline categorical variables were different from the expected distributions in randomized trials with integrity concerns
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, vol. 154, pp. 117-124Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.12.018
Designing financial incentives for health behaviour change: a mixed-methods case study of weight loss in men with obesity
Journal of Public HealthContributions to Journals: Articles