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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The quality of research synthesis in surgery: the case of laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer
Systematic reviews , vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 14Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/2046-4053-1-14
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/2664/1/Martel_2012.pdf
Evidence base for an intervention to maximise uptake of glaucoma testing: a theory-based cross-sectional survey
BMJ Open, vol. 2, no. 2, e000710Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2011-000710
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/2519/1/Prior_2012.pdf
Participation in physical play and leisure: developing a theory- and evidence-based intervention for children with motor impairments
BMC Pediatrics, vol. 11, 100Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2431-11-100
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/2188/1/Kolehmainen_2011.pdf
Choosing appropriate patient-reported outcomes instrument for glaucoma research: a systematic review of vision instruments
Quality of Life Research, vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 1141-1158Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPre-validation methods for developing a patient reported outcome instrument
BMC Medical Research Methodology, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 112Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-11-112
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/2316/1/Prior_2011.pdf
Randomised controlled feasibility trial of an evidence-informed behavioural intervention for obese adults with additional risk factors
PloS ONE, vol. 6, no. 8, e23040Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0023040
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/2187/1/Sniehotta_2011.pdf
Guidance on minimally important clinical difference and trial size is needed
BMJ (Online), vol. 343, no. 7817, d4375Contributions to Journals: Letters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d4375
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Urinary incontinence in men after formal one-to-one pelvic-floor muscle training following radical prostatectomy or transurethral resection of the prostate (MAPS): two parallel randomised controlled trials
The Lancet, vol. 378, no. 9788, pp. 328-337Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60751-4
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/2366/1/Glazener_2011.pdf
Conservative treatment for urinary incontinence in Men After Prostate Surgery (MAPS): two parallel randomised controlled trials
Health Technology Assessment, vol. 15, no. 24, pp. 1-290Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3310/hta15240
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/2649/1/Glazener_2011.pdf
Conservative treatment for urinary incontinence in Men After Prostate Surgery (MAPS): two parallel randomised controlled trials
Health Technology Assessment, vol. 15, no. 24, pp. 1-296Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3310/hta15240
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/2318/1/Glazener_2011.pdf