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
Medical Statistics Team, Division of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Polwarth Building, Foresterhill, ABERDEEN AB25 2ZD, UK.
- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
Dr Neil Scott 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.
Since joining the Medical Statistics Team (originally part of the Dept of Public Health) in 2001, he 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 detemine 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
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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Laparoscopic techniques versus open techniques for inguinal hernia repair
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, no. Issue 1Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD001785
Repair of groin hernia with synthetic mesh: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Annals of Surgery, vol. 235, no. 3, pp. 322-332Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/00000658-2002030
Five-year follow-up of patients undergoing laparoscopic or open groin hernia repair
Annals of Surgery, vol. 235, no. 3, pp. 333-337Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/00000658-200203000-00004
Laparoscopic versus open groin hernia repair: meta-analysis of randomised trials based on individual patient data.
Hernia, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 2-10Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10029-002-0050-8
Open mesh versus non-mesh for groin hernia repair
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, no. Issue 4Contributions to Journals: ArticlesOpen mesh versus non-mesh for repair of femoral and inguinal hernia
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, no. 4, CD002197Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD002197
Open mesh versus non-mesh repair of groin hernia: meta-analysis of randomised trials based on individual patient data.
Hernia, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 130-136Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10029-002-0073-1
The 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
Cost-utility analysis of open versus laparoscopic groin hernia repair: results from a multicentre randomized clinical trial
British Journal of Surgery, vol. 88, no. 5, pp. 653-661Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2168.2001.01768.x
Evaluating new technologies for surgical repair of inguinal hernia - a Concerted Action based on European randomised controlled trials. Final report of the EU Hernia Trialists Collaboration to the to the EU Biomed 2 Programme
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