The STRIDE project has come up with eight recommendations for trial teams grappling with how to decide which ethnic groups their trial needs. The recommendations came as a result of discussions with panels of public contributors, trialists, health professionals, and others. Some of the key messages [...]

The Trial Steering Committees can seem a bit daunting, but the Trial Methodology Research Network (TMRN) in Ireland is running a 1-day online workshop on 15th May 2023 on what to expect on a Trial Steering Committee. The workshop faculty is superb and will give researcher, [...]

In 2022 we published an article called ‘Getting it wrong most of the time? Comparing trialists’ choice of primary outcome with what patients and health professionals want‘. It looked at the outcomes selected in 44 breast cancer and kidney trials and asked patients and health professionals [...]

Can you help with the development of the INCLUDE Impaired Capacity to Consent Framework by piloting the framework and sharing feedback about how it can be used in practice? Trials involving adults who lack capacity to consent can be challenging. Following on from the NIHR INCLUDE [...]

The journal Research Methods in Medicine & Health Sciences is running a special issue addressing Studies Within A Trial (SWATs) (guest editors Professor Mike Clarke and Dr Adwoa Parker). The aim of this special issue is to promote the use of SWATs and to report key [...]