Dr Jemma Hudson

Biography

Jemma Hudson joined the unit as a statistician in 2014. Previously, Jemma graduated in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Liverpool in 2012 and obtained an MSc in Statistics at Lancaster University in 2013. Her current role involves working on randomised control trials and evidence synthesis projects. She completed her PhD in Applied Health Sciences at the University of Aberdeen in 2023. The PhD focused on interrupted time series evaluation and in particular what design and analysis approaches are being used in the healthcare and how are they reported. She also looked at what methods should be used when analysing an interrupted time series.

Current Research

Current trials

C-GALL - A randomised controlled trial comparing the clinical effectiveness andcost-effectiveness of laparoscopic cholecystectomy compared with observation/ conservative management for preventing recurrent symptoms and complications in adults with uncomplicated symptomatic gallstones

GAPS -  Graduated compression as an Adjunct to Pharmacoprophylaxis in Surgery

KAT - Knee Arthroplasty Trial

MAPS - Managing Adolescent first episode Psychosis: a feasibility Study

TAGS- Treatment of Advanced Glaucoma Study.  A multicentre randomised controlled trial comparing primary medical treatment with primary trabeculectomy for people with newly diagnosed advanced glaucoma.

TOPKAT - Total or Partial Knee Arthroplasty Trial

UK REBOA - A randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness, of Resuscitative Endovascular Ballon Occlussion of the Aorta (REBOA) for trauma

Completed trials

eTHoS- Trial comparing stapled haemorrhoidopexy with traditional excisional surgery for haemorrhoidal disease

FOCUS - Focusing on Clozapine Unresponsive Symptoms

GOT-IT- A pragmatic group sequential placebo controlled randomised trial to determine the effectiveness of Glyceryl trinitrate for retained placenta

Current Knowledge Synthesis projects

TestES - Testosterone Effects and Safety in Men with Low Testosterone levels (TestES Consortium): An evidence synthesis (including an individual participant data meta-analysis) and economic evaluation

Completed Knowledge Synthesis projects

ESTER - The Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Surgical Treatments for womEn with stRess urinary incontinence: an evidence synthesis, evaluation and discrete choice experiment (ESTER)

Other projects

EPOC - Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Review Group