Professor Craig Ramsay
Director of Health Services Research Unit
- About
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Health Services Research Unit (HSRU)
3rd Floor, Health Sciences Building,
Foresterhill
Aberdeen AB25 2ZDBiography
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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Antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infection: exploring drivers of cognitive effort and factors associated with inappropriate prescribing
Family Practice, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 740–750Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmab030
Male synthetic sling or artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) for men with urodynamic stress incontinenceafter prostate surgery: the MASTER non-inferiority randomised controlled trial
Health Technology AssessmentContributions to Journals: ArticlesEarly detection of neovascular age-related macular degeneration: an economic evaluation based on data from the EDNA study
British Journal of OphthalmologyContributions to Journals: ArticlesDiagnostic Accuracy of Monitoring Tests of Fellow Eyes in Patients with Unilateral Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Early Detection of Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration Study
OphthalmologyContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ophtha.2021.07.025
Patient and public involvement in numerical aspects of trials (PoINT): exploring patient and public partners experiences and identifying stakeholder priorities
Trials, vol. 22, 499Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDeveloping a core outcome set for periodontal trials
PloS ONE, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. e0254123Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSelective Caries Removal in Permanent Teeth (SCRiPT) for the treatment of deep carious lesions: a randomised controlled clinical trial in primary care
BMC Oral Health, vol. 21, 336Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHave you had bleeding from your gums?: Self-report to Identify giNGival inflammation (The SING diagnostic accuracy and diagnostic model development study)
Journal of Journal of Clinical Periodontology, vol. 48, no. 7, pp. 919-928Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpe.13455
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/16648/1/goulao_etal_have_you_had_VOR.pdf
The Value of Preventative Dental Care: A Discrete-Choice Experiment
Journal of Dental Research, vol. 100, no. 7, pp. 723-730Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0022034521989943
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/16739/1/Boyers_etal_JDR_The_Value_Of_VoR.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Twitter communication of the UK public on dental health and care during a COVID lockdown: "My kingdom for a dentist"
Community Dental Health, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 1-7Contributions to Journals: Articles