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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Unit of analysis errors should be clarified in meta-analyses
British Medical Journal, vol. 326, no. 7385, pp. 397-397Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.326.7385.397
Effects of mailed dissemination of the Royal College of Radiologists' guidelines on general practitioner referrals for radiography: a time series analysis
Clinical Radiology, vol. 57, no. 7, pp. 575-578Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1053/crad.2001.0894
Mass media interventions: effects on health services utilisation
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, no. 1, CD000389Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD000389
Assessing the learning curve effect in health technologies - Lessons from the nonclinical literature
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, vol. 18, pp. 110Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAssessing the learning curve effect in health technologies: lessons from the non-clinical literature
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 1-10Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe method of minimization for allocation to clinical trials: a review
Controlled Clinical Trials, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 662-674Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0197-2456(02)00242-8
Epidemiological methods
Studying the organization and delivery of the health services: Research methods. Fulop, N., Allen, P. (eds.). Taylor & Francis, pp. 56-72, 16 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersStatistical assessment of the learning curves of health technologies
Health Technology Assessment, vol. 5, no. 12, pp. 1-99Contributions to Journals: ArticlesReducing the rates of inappropriate labour induction
Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 164, no. 8, pp. 1128-1129Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAssessment of the learning curve in health technologies - A systematic review
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, vol. 16, pp. 1095-1108Contributions to Journals: Literature Reviews