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 Knee Arthroplasty Trial (KAT): design features, baseline characteristics, and two-year functional outcomes after alternative approaches to knee replacement
The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. American Volume, vol. 91, no. 1, pp. 134-141Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/handle/2164/272
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2106/JBJS.G.01074
Minimal access surgery compared with medical management for chronic gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: UK collaborative randomised trial
British Medical Journal, vol. 337, a2664Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/handle/2164/270
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.a2664
Minimal access surgery compared with medical management for chronic gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: UK collaborative randomised trial
British Medical Journal, vol. 337, a2664Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.a2664
Screening tests for detecting open-angle glaucoma: systematic review and meta-analysis
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, vol. 49, no. 12, pp. 5373-5385Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://www.iovs.org/cgi/content/abstract/49/12/5373
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.07-1501
The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of minimal access surgery amongst people with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: a UK collaborative study. The REFLUX trial
Health Technology Assessment, vol. 12, no. 31Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://hdl.handle.net/2164/264
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3310/hta12310
Recruitment to publicly funded trials: Are surgical trials really different?
Contemporary Clinical Trials, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 631-634Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://hdl.handle.net/2164/257
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cct.2008.02.005
A review of RCTs in four medical journals to assess the use of imputation to overcome missing data in quality of life outcomes
Trials, vol. 9, 51Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-9-51
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/1537/1/Trials%25202008.pdf
Developing the Intervention and Outcome Components of a Proposed Randomised Controlled trial (RCT) of a National Screening Programme for Open Angle Glaucoma (OAG): Medical Research Council funded trial platform study (G0701759): Study protocol
Working Papers: Working PapersA pragmatic randomised, controlled trial of intensive care follow up programmes in improving longer-term outcomes from critical illness: the PRACTICAL study
BMC Health Services Research, vol. 7, 116Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/handle/2164/170
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-7-116
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3819/1/A_pragmatic_andomised.pdf
Effect of multivitamin and multimineral supplementation on cognitive function in men and women aged 65 years and over: A randomised controlled trial
Nutrition Journal, vol. 6, 10Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/handle/2164/150
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-6-10