MA, MSc, PhD
Senior Research Fellow
- About
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- Email Address
- n.w.scott@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 437108
- Office Address
- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
Dr Neil Scott is a medical statistician within the Biostatistics and Health Data Science department.
He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1995 with an MA in Mathematics and has an MSc in Applied Statistics from Napier University. He obtained a PhD from the University of Aberdeen in 2007.
From 1997 to 2001 he worked as a medical statistician in the Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, where he worked on clinical trials and systematic reviews, particularly in surgery.
He joined the Biostatistics and Health Data Science department (originally the Department of Public Health, then the Medical Statistics Team) in 2001, and has collaborated on a large number of medical research projects in a wide variety of clinical areas.
He has an interest in the development and validation of quality-of-life instruments. His PhD project involved using differential item functioning (DIF) analyses to determine whether there were linguistic or cultural differences in responses to the EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire.
He has a major interest in systematic reviews and meta-analysis and has co-authored many systematic reviews including several Cochrane reviews. He is also interested in complex evidence synthesis methodologies, such as network meta-analysis, and is a member of the Aberdeen team critiquing technology assessments for the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE).
He previously acted as a statistical consultant to NHS Grampian staff and is interested in statistical consultancy in general.
He contributes to a variety of teaching activities. He is course co-ordinator for the PU5522 online Applied Statistics course and is a lecturer on the Systematic Reviewing (PU5526) and Evidence Based Health (PU5031) courses.
External Memberships
Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS)
- Research
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Research Overview
Neil’s main research interests include:
- Randomised controlled trials, including methods of randomisation
- Systematic reviews and meta-analysis, including individual patient data (IPD) reviews and network meta-analyses
- Health-related quality of life (HRQoL)
- Differential item functioning (DIF) methods
- Methods to assess translations of HRQoL questionnaires
- Case-control studies
- Statistical consultancy
Current PhD opportunity: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/comprehensive-meta-analyses-of-surgical-repair-of-groin-hernia/?p172221
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Applied Health Sciences.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Research Specialisms
- 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.
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Contribution to:
PU5522 Applied Statistics (online) (lecturer and course co-ordinator)
PU5017 Applied Statistics (lecturer and previous course co-ordinator)
PU5526 Systematic Reviewing (lecturer)
PU5031 Evidence-Based Health (online) (lecturer)
SPSS staff course (previous lecturer)
Intermediate Statistics staff course (previous lecturer)
PhD Statistics Course (previous tutor)
Statistical consultancies (NHS and University staff)
Student clinics
- Publications
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Spirometry to manage asthma in children: a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (SPIROMAC)
Trials, vol. 26, 373Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDiversity in core surgical training: Trends between 2012 and 2022
The SurgeonContributions to Journals: ArticlesLong Covid in healthcare workers: longitudinal mixed-methods study
Occupational Medicine, vol. 75, no. 3-4, pp. 171–178Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCould paramedics use the HEART Pathway to identify patients at low-risk of myocardial infarction in the prehospital setting?
American Heart Journal, vol. 271, pp. 182-187Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2024.02.018
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Tailoring CONSORT-SPI to Improve the Reporting of Smoking Cessation Intervention Trials: An expert consensus study
Addiction, vol. 119, no. 2, pp. 225-235Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/add.16340
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Lived experience of work and long COVID in healthcare staff
Occupational Medicine, vol. 74, no. 1, pp. 78–85Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNemolizumab for adults with moderate to severe prurigo nodularis [ID6451]
Commissioned by National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Aberdeen HTA GroupBooks and Reports: Commissioned ReportsNetarsudil-latanoprost for previously treated openangle glaucoma or ocular hypertension [ID1363]: NICE Single Technology Appraisal
Commissioned by National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Aberdeen HTA GroupBooks and Reports: Commissioned ReportsPerformance of a prehospital HEART score in patients with possible myocardial infarction: a prospective evaluation
Emergency Medicine Journal, vol. 40, no. 7, pp. 474-481Contributions to Journals: ArticlesComparing characteristics and outcomes of individuals who participated in a trial versus those that did not
British Pain Society 56th Annual Scientific Meeting, pp. 43Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/20494637231177771
- [ONLINE] Conference Poster