Trial Forge on tour: presentations and talks

Trial Forge on tour: presentations and talks 2018

• 31st– NHS Fife lunch time research meeting, Queen Margaret Hospital Dunfermline, UK: ‘Trial recruitment – what do we know and how should we be communicating that information?’ (Talk by Heidi Gardner).

Trial Forge on tour: presentations and talks 2017

• 26th– Policlinique médicale universitaire, Lausanne, Switzerland: ‘Making trials matter: using PRECIS-2 to match trial design to trial intent’ (Talk by Shaun Treweek).

• 15th– King’s Clinical Trial Unit, London, UK: ‘Trial Forge, PRECIS-2 and how to design an efficient trial’ (Talk by Shaun Treweek).
• 20th– Keele Clinical Trials Unit, Keele, UK: ‘Trial Forge, PRECIS-2 and how to design an efficient trial’ (Talk by Shaun Treweek).
• 23rd– University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK: ‘Making it easier to do Studies Within a Trial (SWaT)’ (One-day workshop led by Shaun Treweek with Trial Forge contributions from Adel El Feky, Seonaidh Cotton and Heidi Gardner to a wide range of trial stakeholders).

• 12th– National Institutes of Health, Washington, USA: ‘Making the choice of a relevant comparator’ (Talk by Shaun Treweek).
• 25th– Exeter Clinical Trials Unit, Exeter, UK: ‘‘Trial Forge, PRECIS-2 and how to design an efficient trial’ (Talk by Shaun Treweek).

• 7th– International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference, Liverpool, UK: ‘What do we know from the literature about trial recruitment?’ (Workshop led by Peter Bower (University of Manchester) with Trial Forge related contribution from Shaun Treweek).
• 8th– International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference, Liverpool, UK: ‘Precisely how can this tool help investigators design trials to achieve practical answers to “real world” questions? (Workshop led by Kirsty Loudon (University of Stirling) with Trial Forge related contributions from all but especially Adel El Feky, Heidi Gardner and Shaun Treweek.
• 8th– International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference, Liverpool, UK: ‘Strategies to improve participant recruitment to randomised controlled trials: A systematic review of non-randomised evaluations’ (Poster by Heidi Gardner).
• 8th– International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference, Liverpool, UK: ‘A good use of time and money? A study of how trial data collection effort is distributed across different categories of data.’ (Poster by Gordon Fernie on the Trial Forge DataCat project with Suzanne Breeman, Lynda Constable, Anne Duncan, Heidi Gardner, Kirsteen Goodman , Doris Lanz, Alison McDonald, Emma Ogburn, Natasha Stevens, Marie Valente, Shaun Treweek).
• 19th– Hubs for Trial Methodology Network webinar, UK: ‘Why we should do recruitment and retention projections, and how to use them’ (Talk by Shaun Treweek).
• 26– Cochrane Ireland, Galway, Ireland: ‘We need to talk about primary research: why Cochrane and reviewers should be making more noise about poor quality studies’ (Talk by Shaun Treweek).

• 20th– Grampian Research Ethics Committee Training, Aberdeen, UK: ‘Efficiency in clinical trials’ (Talk by Shaun Treweek).
• 21st– Evidence Live, Oxford, UK: ‘Routinely collected health data (RCD) for randomised controlled trials (RCTs)’ (Workshop led by Lars Hemkens (Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics) with Trial Forge related contribution from Heidi Gardner
• 26th– Oxford MSc course external speaker, Oxford, UK: ‘Making trials more efficient: Trial Forge and how you can help’ (Talk by Shaun Treweek).

• 11th– Health Research Authority, London, UK: ‘Trial Forge: helping to make trials more efficient’ (Talk by Shaun Treweek).

• 15th– shmuFM Radio, Aberdeen, UK: ‘Talking Science’ (Talk and interview with Heidi Gardner).

• 14th– Global Evidence Health Summit, Cape Town, South Africa: ‘The inefficiency of isolation: why evidence providers and evidence synthesisers can break out of their silo’ (Workshop led by Julian Elliot (Monash University) with Trial Forge contribution by Heidi Gardner).
• 14th– Global Evidence Health Summit, Cape Town, South Africa: ‘Perceptions and experiences of participant recruitment to trial: A qualitative interview study with trial stakeholders’ (Poster by Heidi Gardner).
• 14th– Global Evidence Health Summit, Cape Town, South Africa: ‘Strategies to improve participant recruitment to randomised controlled trials: A systematic review of non-randomised evaluations’ (Talk by Heidi Gardner).
• 18th– Global Evidence Health Summit, Cape Town, South Africa: ‘Precisely how can this tool help investigators design trials to achieve practical answers to “real world” questions?’ (Workshop led by Kirsty Loudon (University of Stirling) with input from Shaun Treweek and assistance from Heidi Gardner).

• 5th– MRC Hubs Recruitment Working Group meeting, Liverpool, UK: ‘Update to the Cochrane review of trial recruitment interventions.’ (Talk by Shaun Treweek).
• 5th– MRC Hubs Recruitment Working Group meeting, Liverpool, UK: ‘Strategies to improve participant recruitment to randomised controlled trials: A systematic review of non-randomised evaluations’ (Talk by Heidi Gardner).
• 10th– UK trial Managers’ Network conference, London, UK: ‘Trial Forge: helping to make trials more efficient’ (Talk by Shaun Treweek).
• 25th– Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit, London, UK: ‘The ins and outs of Studies Within A Trial (SWATs) and how they increase the evidence base for trial decision-making’ (Talk by Shaun Treweek).
• 31st– Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit, Birmingham, UK: ‘Trial Forge: helping to make trials more efficient’ (Talk by Shaun Treweek).

• 14th– Clinical Trial Directors’ Meeting, London, UK: ‘What do we know about trial recruitment interventions and how should we present this to people who need to know?’ (Talks by Heidi Gardner and Shaun Treweek).
• 27th– NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre (NETSCC), Southampton, UK: ‘How Trial Forge can help to fill gaps in trial process evidence’ (Talk by Shaun Treweek).
• 30th– Edinburgh Clinical Trial Management Course, Edinburgh, UK: ‘How to make your trial more efficient’ (Talk by Shaun Treweek).
• 30th– National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland: ‘Trial recruitment – from research to reality’ (Workshop by Heidi Gardner).

• 21st– Stroke Research Network meeting, University of Glasgow, UK: ‘Communicating research evidence effectively to improve trial recruitment’ (Talk by Heidi Gardner).