Director of Health Services Research Unit
- About
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- Email Address
- c.r.ramsay@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 438142
- Office Address
Health Services Research Unit (HSRU)
3rd Floor, Health Sciences Building,
Foresterhill
Aberdeen AB25 2ZD- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
I am Director of the Health Services Research Unit and Professor of Health Care Evaluation. I also direct the Aberdeen Health Technology Assessment Group, which is the only academic centre in Scotland responsible for providing technology assessment reports for the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
I have wide ranging research interests in health services research with expertise in service improvement research, surgical trial evaluation, and quasi-experimental study designs and as statistical editor for the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care group I have led the worldwide development of systematic review methodology for interrupted time series designs. I serve on several national and international committees and was an inaugural member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland.
Qualifications
- BSc Mathematics and statistics1993 - University of Edinburgh
- PGDip Information Systems1994 - Edinburgh Napier University
- PhD Public Health2000 - University of Aberdeen
- Research
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Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Nutrition and Health, Dentistry.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Research Specialisms
- Healthcare Science
- Medical Statistics
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Supervision
My current supervision areas are: Nutrition and Health, Dentistry.
I provide PhD supervisory support for full or part-time PhD students. Some recent examples include:- Complex designs in randomised clinical trials – a case study in dentistry - Beatriz Goulao
- Interrupted times series (ITS) evaluation - Jemma Hudson
- What are the personal, clinical and social impacts of longer waiting times? A multi-methods study - Elisabeth Kirchner
- Optimising the responsible use of antibiotics - Shazia Yousuf
Funding and Grants
In terms of research grant awards, I have personally been involved as chief investigator or principal applicant on a portfolio of national and international studies generating in excess of £30 million, with £20 million in the last 5 years. The projects include a mix of large scale international trials and methodological studies funded from a variety of sources – all the studies are healthcare policy relevant and of national or international significance.
- Publications
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Evaluation of clinical guidelines for the management of end-stage renal disease in Europe: the EU BIOMED 1 Study
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, vol. 15, pp. 1394-1398Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSymptomatic outcome following laparoscopic anterior partial fundoplication: follow-up of a series of 200 patients
Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, vol. 45, pp. 363-365Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNeonatal examination and screening trial (NEST): a randomised, controlled, switchback trial of alternative policies for low risk infants
British Medical Journal, vol. 318, no. 7184, pp. 627-631Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.318.7184.627
Linking Community Health Index and Scottish Morbidity Records for neonates: the Grampian experience.
Health Bulletin, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 70-75Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Comparing outcomes in renal replacement therapy: how should we correct for case mix?
American Journal of Kidney Diseases, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 473-8Contributions to Journals: Articles