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Warwick Evidence publishes article on hip replacement in BMJ

Tue, 10 Mar 2015 10:04:22 GMT

"Setting benchmark revision rates for total hip replacement: analysis of registry evidence" has now been published on the BMJ website and can be found here:

http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h756

Amy Grove awarded a WBS scholarship to attend the Behavioural Science Group Summer School on Medical and Ethical Decision Making 7 July-10 July 2015, Venice

Mon, 23 Feb 2015 09:08:30 GMT

The school will feature a series of lectures by distinguished economists, health scientists and psychologists who made significant contributions to the field. The lectures will cover various economic, health and psychological theories, as well as, aspects of decision-making, including ambiguity, learning, probabilistic choice, rank dependence, smart heuristics, unawareness, and their applications to health policy development and to clinical care of individuals.

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wbs/subjects/bsci-old/events/summerschool2015/

Congratulations to Warwick Evidence for publishing another HTA Journal article

Thu, 05 Feb 2015 08:52:22 GMT

“Total hip replacement and surface replacement for the treatment of pain and disability resulting from end-stage arthritis of the hip (review of technology appraisal guidance 2 and 44): systematic review and economic evaluation” has now been fully published in the HTA journal on the NIHR Journals Library website and can be downloaded here:

http://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hta/volume-19/issue-10#abstract

Congratulations to Ejaz Cheema & Paul Sutcliffe on their new publication

Tue, 20 Jan 2015 14:03:29 GMT

'The impact of interventions by pharmacists in community pharmacies on control of hypertension: a sytematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials' Published in British Pharmacological Society (BPS).

Aileen Clarke was highly commended

Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:06:39 GMT

Highly commended: Aileen Clarke (Health Sciences, Warwick Medical School); Paul Johnson (IMC, Wawick Manufacturing Group)

Amy Grove awarded BMJ Open School Prize

Tue, 20 Jan 2015 12:04:36 GMT

The IHI Open School and British Medical Journal have offered Amy Grove Scholarship funding to attend the 2015 International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare, taking place April 21-24, 2015 in London.

PET job vacancies

Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:38:59 GMT

Please find below the links to two job vacancies within the PET Unit:

Senior Research Fellow (Senior Systematic Reviewer), Warwick Evidence. http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AJL537/senior-research-fellow-senior-systematic-reviewer/
Senior Research Fellow within the newly established Evidence-based Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Control (EDDEC) team, which is a collaboration between Warwick Evidence and Public Health England. http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AJI429/senior-research-fellow-75104-084/

Congratulations to Angelique Mavrodaris for being awarded the Sam Ramaiah Award

Wed, 04 Jun 2014 08:12:02 GMT

Congratulations to Angelique Mavrodaris, who has been awared the Sam Ramaiah Award. This award will be presented to Angelique during the Faculty of Public Health Annual Conference, which takes place in Manchester in July 2014. For more details on the Sam Ramaiah Award, please see http://www.fph.org.uk/sam_ramaiah_award .

Professor Aileen Clarke writes a blog for Nuffield Trust on hospital readmissions

Thu, 10 Apr 2014 08:18:02 GMT

Nuffield Trust Blog 'I have to readmit, it's getting better' by Guest Blogger Professor Aileen Clarke.

http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/blog/i-have-readmit-its-getting-better

Congratulations to Warwick Evidence for having their response to a recent paper on the mortality of the recipients of hip replacements published on BMJ online

Fri, 07 Feb 2014 15:49:20 GMT

Kandala NB, Connock M, Pulikottil-Jacob R, Mistry H, Sutcliffe P, Costa M, Clarke A. ‘Response to two recent BMJ papers on mortality of recipients of hip replacements’. BMJ2013;347:f6549. Published 31 January 2014.