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Scotland 'Bold and Brave'? Conditions for Creating a Coherent National Healthcare Quality Strategy
On 16th February the Unit co-hosted with the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh a seminar on the lessons to be learned from the distinctive and widely-acclaimed approach to healthcare quality in Scotland over the last 30 years.
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Director of Health Services Research Unit
A unique opportunity has arisen to lead the Health Services Research Unit (HSRU) within the 51cg.
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No smoke without fire?
Researchers at the 51cg have been working together to consider the pros and cons of e-cigarettes.
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SHARE - Making Health Information Easier to Understand
How best to present research information about treatments to patients the public is being explored by researchers at the Health Services Research Unit at the 51cg, together with researchers from Norway, Spain and Chile.
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Professor Lorna McKee's Cologne visit for launch of Health Literacy in the Workplace 2015 - 2018
Lorna McKee has just returned from an interesting trip to the German Sport University Cologne furthering the collaboration with Professor Holger Pfaff of the Institute of Medical Sociology, Health Services Research and Rehabilitation Science (IMVR).
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Visit from Tomas Pantoja, Associate Professor of Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
We welcome Tomas Pantoja to the Unit for a week from Nov 30th. He is a family physician and Associate Professor at the Department of Family Medicine of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile where he participates in teaching activities for family medicine residents in evidence-based health care and research...
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Visit by Associate Professor Andrew Grey from University of Auckland, New Zealand
Alison Avenell and Graeme MacLennan, from HSRU, have collaborative research links with Mark Bolland, Andrew Grey, Ian Reid and Greg Gamble from the Department of Medicine, University of Auckland. Areas of research interest include the effect of calcium and or/vitamin D on cardiovascular disease, cancer, osteoporotic fractures and mortality.
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Participation in the AUA Study Tour - Marion Malcolm
Marion Malcolm (Unit Business Manager) is participating in the 2015 AUA study tour to Belgium and the Netherlands, taking place in early November.
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Collaboration with the American University of Beirut continues
Dr Andrea Darzi from the American University of Beirut has spent a month in the Unit working with Shaun Treweek, Graeme MacLennan, Beatriz Goulao and Cynthia Fraser on a Cochrane review of methods used to handle missing data in randomised trials. The review is now registered with Cochrane and...
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How should health information be presented to the public?
Health and health research are often in the news. Sometimes the information made in these reports is accurate but often it can be hard to understand, and sometimes wrong.