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Shared decision-making is an approach that involves patients and their clinicians in working together to find the right care or treatment for an individual based on what is important to that patient, informed by relevant evidence. It is an important component of the wider field of person-centred care. Despite growing...

In the UK, policy decisions on the adoption of new treatments are informed by a cost-effectiveness analysis over a lifetime time horizon. However, evidence on relative treatment efficacy comes from randomised controlled trials (RCTs) that typically have a follow-up period of only a few years. Mean survival time is a...

For further information, please contact Dr Heather Morgan, h.morgan@abdn.ac.uk or Pawana Sharma, p.sharma@abdn.ac.uk.

For further information, please contact Dr Heather Morgan, h.morgan@abdn.ac.uk or Pawana Sharma, p.sharma@abdn.ac.uk.

Health Improvement Scotland (HIS), Health Services Research Unit (HSRU) and Health Economics Research Unit (HERU) are pleased to announce the 3rd HIS Annual Symposium:  Bringing Evidence Together.  This event will celebrate the launch of the HIS Evidence Directorate and the strategic alliance between HSRU, HERU and HIS. The event is scheduled...

The 22nd Annual Meeting of the United Kingdom Continence Society (UKCS) will take place at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC) from 25 - 27 March 2015.  

The title of this workshop is: Understanding, appraising and reporting systematic reviews that use individual participant data (IPD).   The workshop will take place on Tuesday, February 24th in room 115 (Health Sciences Building) from 12.45.  The workshop will be run by Professor Lesley Stewart (http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/staff/stewart.htm) and her colleague Mark Simmonds (http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/staff/simmonds.html)...

Professor Janet Clarkson, Co-Director DHSRU; Director, Effective Dental Practice Programme, University of Dundee Topic: To be confirmed.

Dr Jane Johnson, who is currently a research fellow at Macquarie University, Australia will be presenting an IAHS seminar entitled  'The vexing nature of conflicts of interest in surgery' in Room 115, HSB, 1pm-2pm on Monday 24th November.  A brief extract of the seminar follows: Abstract: Conflicts of interest arise in surgery...

Monday, 17 November 2014