Research on using patient questionnaires to find out what palliative care patients want and how they are experiencing their treatment and care will start at the Primary Care Unit’s Palliative and End of Life Care Research group this month, thanks to a grant from Marie Curie. Patient questionnaires to collect patient-centred outcome measures can help […]
Risk Prediction Models for Kidney Cancer: findings from our systematic review
In this blog, Dr Hannah Harrison, NIHR Systematic Review Methods Fellow at the Prevention Group, introduces research on approaches to screening for kidney cancer. Hannah and her colleagues looked at the usefulness of mathematical models predicting the likelihood of an individual developing kidney cancer in a recently conducted systematic review, published on 14 July 2020 […]
New report: citizen science can make systematic reviews faster and more efficient
Joining forces with diverse groups of people can help produce high-quality systematic reviews more quickly and efficiently, according to a new report from THIS Institute. Citizen science: crowdsourcing for systematic reviews looks at how people can contribute their expertise to scientific studies using new online platforms – even if they don’t think of themselves as researchers […]
Little known about impact of widely prescribed diabetes drug, metformin, on cardiovascular disease
Metformin is the most-prescribed oral medication to lower blood glucose worldwide. But research findings about its association with cardiovascular disease, the most costly complication of type 2 diabetes, remain sparse and difficult to interpret. A new meta-analysis of research on the effect of metformin on cardiovascular outcomes in diabetes patients shows that metformin monotherapy appears […]