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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Clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of cholecystectomy compared with observation/conservative management for preventing recurrent symptoms and complications in adults presenting with uncomplicated symptomatic gallstones or cholecystitis: a systematic review and economic evaluation
Health Technology Assessment, vol. 18, no. 55, pp. 1-102Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3310/hta18550
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/4180/1/Brazzelli_2014.pdf
The use of segmented regression in analysing interrupted time series studies: an example in pre-hospital ambulance care
Implementation Science, vol. 9, 77Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-9-77
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3325/1/Taljaard_2014.pdf
Use of methods for specifying the target difference in randomised controlled trial sample size calculations: Two surveys of trialists' practice
Clinical Trials, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 300-308Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1740774514521907
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3324/1/Cook_2014.pdf
Methods for specifying the target difference in a randomised controlled trial: the Difference ELicitation in TriAls (DELTA) systematic review
PLoS Medicine, vol. 11, no. 5, e1001645Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001645
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3280/1/Hislop_2014.pdf
Assessing methods to specify the target difference for a randomised controlled trial: DELTA (Difference ELicitation in TriAls) review
Health Technology Assessment, vol. 18, no. 28, pp. v-xxii, 1-175Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3310/hta18280
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3320/1/Cook_2014.pdf
Protocol for the United Kingdom Rotator Cuff Study (UKUFF): a randomised controlled trial of open and arthroscopic rotator cuff repair
Bone & Joint Research, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 155-160Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1302/2046-3758.35.2000270
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3315/1/Carr_2014.pdf
Evaluating an audit and feedback intervention for reducing antibiotic prescribing behaviour in general dental practice (the RAPiD trial): a partial factorial cluster randomised trial protocol
Implementation Science, vol. 9, 50Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-9-50
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3314/1/Prior_2014.pdf
Variation of clinical outcomes used in glaucoma randomised controlled trials: a systematic review
British Journal of Ophthalmology, vol. 98, no. 4, pp. 464-468Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2013-304323
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/4033/1/Ismail_2014.pdf
Is it worthwhile to conduct a randomized controlled trial of glaucoma screening in the United Kingdom?
Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 42-51Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1355819613499748
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3796/1/Burr_2014.pdf
Determining information for inclusion in a decision-support intervention for clinical trial participation: A modified Delphi approach
Clinical Trials, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 967-976Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1740774513508339
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/4133/1/Gillies_2013.pdf