Colleges
Loretta Davies
SITU Trials Portfolio Manager (Operational Lead)
I joined the NDORMS department in January 2010 as the TOPKAT Trial Coordinator, a multi-centre NIHR HTA funded study which aims to assess the clinical and cost effectiveness of total or partial knee replacements in patients with medial compartment osteoarthritis.
Prior to this I worked as a physiotherapist with particular interest orthopaedics and exercise rehabilitation in chronic disease and completed an MSc in Applied Sport and Exercise Physiology in 2009.
I am currently studying for a DPhil in Musculoskeletal Sciences at the University of Oxford with a focus on the challenges in the design and conduct of surgical trials
Recent publications
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The challenge of equipoise in trials with a surgical and non-surgical comparison: a qualitative synthesis using meta-ethnography.
Journal article
Davies L. et al, (2021), Trials, 22
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Comparison of the clinical and cost effectiveness of two management strategies (rehabilitation versus surgical reconstruction) for non-acute anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury: study protocol for the ACL SNNAP randomised controlled trial.
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Davies L. et al, (2020), Trials, 21
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Total versus partial knee replacement in patients with medial compartment knee osteoarthritis: the TOPKAT RCT.
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Beard DJ. et al, (2020), Health technol assess, 24, 1 - 98
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The clinical and cost-effectiveness of total versus partial knee replacement in patients with medial compartment osteoarthritis (TOPKAT): 5-year outcomes of a randomised controlled trial.
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Beard DJ. et al, (2019), Lancet, 394, 746 - 756
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Evidence-Based Evaluation of Practice and Innovation in Physical Therapy Using the IDEAL-Physio Framework.
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Beard D. et al, (2018), Phys ther, 98, 108 - 121