3 February 2021
\n \n \n \nHealth outcomes during the first wave of COVID-19 in Catalonia, Spain, have been described in detail in a study published by Nature Communications.
\n \n\n \n \n10 August 2020
\n \n \n \nAn international cohort of OHDSI collaborators obtain a grant from the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator to lead an effort to compare the effectiveness of treatments, including corticosteroids such as dexamethasone, under current evaluation for COVID-19 across an international observational data network.
\n \n\n \n \n2 April 2020
\n \n \n \nOver 300 international researchers from the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) community studied data from almost 1 million patients. They declared hydroxychloroquine safe for short-term use, but urge caution in using it in combination with azithromycin.
\n \n\n \n \n13 June 2019
\n \n \n \n... Spend a day at a science festival talking to children!\r\n\r\nPatricia Logullo talks about her experience at Cheltenham Science Festival.
\n \n\n \n \n5 June 2019
\n \n \n \nA new study by researchers at NDORMS, University of Oxford now published in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage found that the average lifetime risk of needing further surgery following knee and hip replacement \u2013 revision surgery \u2013 was around 5% after knee replacement and 8% after hip replacement, with neither body mass index (BMI, combining an individual's height and weight) or smoking having any meaningful effect on these risks.
\n \n\n \n \n16 May 2019
\n \n \n \nThe Centre for Statistics in Medicine (CSM) has been awarded \u00a32.5m by Cancer Research UK to advance a programme of work for research on research, developing crucial methodology and key guidelines for excellent medical research.
\n \n\n \n \n23 April 2019
\n \n \n \n\n \n \n1 February 2019
\n \n \n \nNew research published in the Cochrane Library today provides strong evidence that falls in people over sixty-years old can be prevented by exercise programmes.
\n \n\n \n \n22 November 2018
\n \n \n \nProfessor Daniel Prieto-Alhambra of NDORMS will lead a work package on the generation of evidence from European wide observational data as part of a new Innovative Medicines Initiative project, the European Health Data & Evidence Network (EHDEN).
\n \n\n \n \n6 November 2018
\n \n \n \nNew guidance published yesterday by a team led by NDORMS Associate Professor Jonathan Cook will help researchers recruit the right number of people for clinical trials and answer key research questions.
\n \n\n \n \n6 November 2018
\n \n \n \nPatients arriving at hospital emergency departments with acute ankle sprains can expect more timely advice and follow-up care in future after researchers in Oxford developed a new tool that will aid clinical decisions on treatment.
\n \n\n \n \n16 October 2018
\n \n \n \nUK health and social care costs due to muscle weakness amount to around \u00a32.5 billion according to a new study carried out at the University of Oxford and the University of Southampton.
\n \n\n \n \n26 September 2018
\n \n \n \nThe EQUATOR Network Education and Training Manager, Caroline Struthers received the Cochrane-REWARD Prize from the hands of Sir Iain Chalmers during the gala dinner of the Cochrane Colloquium in Edinburgh, this Monday 17 September.
\n \n\n \n \n5 June 2018
\n \n \n \nDoug Altman did nothing short of forever changing the fields of statistics and medical research. With that, he touched the lives of thousands, if not millions of people worldwide\u2026 a handful more than those who will miss him.
\n \n\n \n \n4 January 2018
\n \n \n \nThe Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit celebrates five years of running and supporting excellent clinical trials that benefit patients and improve healthcare.
\n \n\n \n \n7 August 2017
\n \n \n \nUsama Ali, medical statistician at the Centre for Statistics in Medicine (CSM) wowed the crowd at the Royal Statistical Society\u2019s (RSS) 2017 Young Statisticians Meeting, winning best presentation for his work preventing falls in hospitals.
\n \n\n \n \n30 June 2017
\n \n \n \nUK statisticians and trialists reach out to the clinical trial community in an awareness-raising paper published this week as a first step in changing practice. They promote the use of adaptive designs in early-phase clinical trials to improve trial efficiency, which will benefit patients.
\n \n\n \n \n24 May 2017
\n \n \n \nWe take great pride in announcing that the EQUATOR Network has won the Council for Science Editors\u2019 2017 Award for Meritorious Achievement.
\n \n\n \n \n19 May 2017
\n \n \n \nInternational Clinical Trials Day helps to raise awareness of clinical trials and recognises everyone involved in and affected by trials \u2013 researchers, clinicians, statisticians, patient participants, funders and the wider public.
\n \n\n \n \n8 May 2017
\n \n \n \nCelebrating 20 years of excellence with Doug Altman and welcoming the future.
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