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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‘Better’ clinical decisions do not necessarily require more time to make
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, vol. 82, pp. 173–174Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEffectiveness of open and arthroscopic rotator cuff repair (UKUFF): a randomized controlled trial
The Bone & Joint Journal, vol. 99-B, no. 1, pp. 107-115Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1302/0301-620X.99B1.BJJ-2016-0424.R1
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/9861/2/UKUFF_Manuscript_final_submitted.docx
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/9861/1/Figure_1_Trial_Profile.docx
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/9861/3/Figure_2_Mean_and_95_25_CI_of_Oxford_Shoulder_Score_across_time_.docx
Early lens extraction with intraocular lens implantation for the treatment of primary angle closure glaucoma: An economic evaluation based on data from the EAGLE trial
BMJ Open, vol. 7, no. 1, e013254Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013254
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/8141/1/e013254.full_1_.pdf
Costs, quality of life and cost-effectiveness of arthroscopic and open repair for rotator cuff tears: an economic evaluation alongside the UKUFF trial
The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British volume , vol. 98-B, no. 12, pp. 1648–1655Contributions to Journals: ArticlesReporting and dealing with missing quality of life data in RCTs: has the picture changed in the last decade?
Quality of Life Research, vol. 25, no. 12, pp. 2977-2983Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSupporting genetics in primary care: investigating how theory can inform professional education
EJHG : European journal of human genetics : the official journal of the European Society of Human Genetics. , vol. 24, no. 11, pp. 1541-1546Contributions to Journals: ArticlesROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomized studies of interventions
BMJ, vol. 355, i4919Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i4919
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/8085/1/bmj.i4919.full.pdf
Effectiveness of early lens extraction for the treatment of primary angle-closure glaucoma (EAGLE): a randomised controlled trial
The Lancet, vol. 388, no. 10052, pp. 1389-1397Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAn Audit and Feedback Intervention for Reducing Antibiotic Prescribing in General Dental Practice: The RAPiD Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial
PLoS Medicine, vol. 13, no. 8, e1002115Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002115
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/7458/1/Elouafkaoui2016.pdf
A randomised controlled trial comparing laparoscopic cholecystectomy with observation/conservative management for preventing recurrent symptoms and complications in adults with uncomplicated symptomatic gallstones. (C-Gall trial)
International Surgical Congress of the Association-of-Surgeons-of-Great-Britain-and-Ireland, pp. 195-196Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.10266