Dr Ruth Thomas

Dr Ruth Thomas
Dr Ruth Thomas
Dr Ruth Thomas

BSc (Health Sciences), PhD

Advanced Research Fellow

About
Email Address
r.e.thomas@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 438172
Office Address

Centre for Healthcare Randomised Trials (CHaRT) Health Services Research Unit University of Aberdeen 3rd Floor, Health Sciences Building Foresterhill Aberdeen AB25 2ZD

School/Department
School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition

Biography

I am currently a Research Manager for the Centre Healthcare Randomised Trials (CHaRT), a fully registered UK Clinical Research Collaboration Clinical Trials Unit with an internationally recognised expertise in the design, conduct, analysis and reporting of multicentre trials.  I joined the Unit in 1993.  I completed my PhD in the Unit in 2002 and went on to take up a Wellcome Trust Training Fellowship in Health Services Research which I completed in 2006. I am a Health Services Researcher experienced in a range of HSR methods including systematic reviews, pragmatic RCTs (simple and complex), and other evaluative designs. I have previously worked on a series of "knowledge translation" evaluations ie getting evidence into clinical practice, involving complex rigorous designs.  

Research

Funding and Grants

NIHR HS&DR 15/136/07 Multiple Symptoms Study 3: pragmatic trial of a community based clinic for patients with persistent (medically unexplained) physical symptoms. Start date: 1st February 2018 (42 months) Value: £1,193,035

NIHR HTA (13/152/02) The clinical and cost effectiveness of surgical interventions for stones in the lower pole calyces of the kidney: the PUrE RCT - Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy (PNL), Flexible Ureterorenoscopy (FURS) and Extracorporeal Shockwave Lithotripsy (ESWL) for lower pole calyceal kidney stones. Start date: 1st December 2015. (60 months). Value: £1,877,148.56.

Chief Scientists Office of the Scottish Government CZH/4/945 – Multiple Symptoms Study 2. A feasibility study to manualise, teach and demonstrate the delivery of the Symptoms Clinic intervention Start date: April 2014 (12 months). Value: £139,962.

NIHR HTA (10/137/01). Therapeutic Interventions for Stones of the Ureter (TISU): a multicentre randomised controlled trial of extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy, as first treatment option, compared with direct progression to ureteroscopic retrieval, for ureteric stones. Start date: 1st March 2013 (48 months). Value: £1,426,755.

NIHR HTA (08/71/01) SUSPEND: Use of drug therapy in the management of symptomatic ureteric stones in hospitalised adults: a multi centre placebo randomised trial. Start date: 1st June 2010 (42 months extended to 53 months). Value: £1,585,180 (+ 132,732).

NIHR HTA (07/47/01). The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of different surveillance mammography regimes after the treatment of primary breast cancer. Start date: 1st June 2008. Value: £239,474.

 

Publications

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  • View point: Disseminating and implementing guidelines: how feasible is it?

    Whitty, P., Thomas, R. E.
    Clinical Governance, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 8-10
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Cluster randomized trial of a guideline-based open access urological investigation service

    Thomas, R. E., Mollison, J. A., McClinton, S., McIntosh, E., Repper, J.
    Family Practice, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 646-654
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Interrupted time series designs in health technology assessment: lessons from two systematic reviews of behavior change strategies

    Ramsay, C. R., Matowe, L., Grilli, R., Grimshaw, J. M., Thomas, R. E.
    International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 613-623
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Educational and organizational interventions to improve the management of depression in primary care. A systematic review

    Gilbody, S., Whitty, P., Thomas, R. E.
    JAMA, vol. 289, no. 23, pp. 3145-3151
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Guideline dissemination and implementation strategies: a systematic review of effectiveness and efficiency

    Thomas, R. E., MacLennan, G. S., Fraser, C. M., Ramsay, C. R., Vale, L. D., Whitty, P., Eccles, M., Matowe, L., Shirran, E. A.
    Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, vol. 57, no. 9 Suppl 1
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Improving the detection and management of depression in primary care

    Gilbody, S. M., Whitty, P. M., Thomas, R. E.
    Quality & safety in health care, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 149-155
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Unit of analysis errors should be clarified in meta-analyses

    Thomas, R. E., Ramsay, C. R., McAuley, L.
    British Medical Journal, vol. 326, no. 7385, pp. 397-397
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Changing physicians' behavior: what works and thoughts on getting more things to work

    Eccles, M. P., Walker, A. E., Thomas, R. E.
    Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 237-243
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Changing provider behaviour: an overview of systematic reviews of interventions to promote implementation of research findings by healthcare professionals

    Shirran, E. A., Thomas, R. E., Mowatt, G., Fraser, C. M., Bero, L.
    Getting Research Findings into Practice. Haines, A., Donald, A. (eds.). 2nd edition. BMJ Publishing, pp. 29-67, 38 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Changing provider behavior: an overview of systematic reviews of interventions

    Grimshaw, J. M., Shirran, L., Thomas, R., Mowatt, G., Fraser, C., Bero, L., Grilli, R., Harvey, E., Oxman, A., O'Brien, M. A.
    Medical Care, vol. 39, no. 8 Suppl 2, pp. 2-45
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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