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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Using the literature to quantify the learning curve: A case study
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 255-260Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266462307080178
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The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of screening for open angle glaucoma: A systematic review and economic evaluation
Health Technology Assessment, vol. 11, no. 41, pp. 1-190Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://hdl.handle.net/2164/174
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3310/hta11410
Using the literature to quantify the learning curve: A case study
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 255-260Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://hdl.handle.net/2164/145
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266462307070341
The Trial Protocol Tool: the PRACTIHC software tool that supported the writing of protocols for pragmatic randomized controlled trials
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, vol. 59, no. 11, pp. 1127-1133Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2005.12.019
The effects of reference pricing and other drug pricing policies
Regulatory Rapporteur, vol. 3, no. 10, pp. 2-8Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEffect of enhanced feedback and brief educational reminder messages on laboratory test requesting in primary care: a cluster randomised trial
The Lancet, vol. 367, no. 9527, pp. 1990-1996Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPharmaeutical policies: effects of reference pricing, other pricing, and purchasing policies
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, no. 2, CD005979Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD005979
A comparison of imputation methods for trial data collected by reminder. 2006 International Society for Quality of Life reserach meeting abstracts
Quality of Life ResearchContributions to Journals: ArticlesSystematic review of the antimicrobial drug prescribing in hospitals
Emerging Infectious Diseases, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 211-216Contributions to Journals: ArticlesInterventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices for hospital inpatients
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, no. 4, CD003543Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD003543.pub2