Children can do randomised trials – START competition 2019
Date: 28 May 2019 By Sarah Chapman – Knowledge Broker – Cochrane UK School children in Ireland have run and presented their own randomised trials in the innovative START competition. [...]
Prioritising the research agenda for retention of participants in clinical trials: PRioRiTy II announces its results – Dr Heidi Gardner
Date: 12 March 2019 By Dr Heidi Gardner #trialretention Randomised clinical trials are the gold standard method for gathering evidence about health and care interventions. That said, randomised [...]
Getting into trials research: a summer student’s experience
By: Holly McGrath, Dept. of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College Cork. I heard about the HRB-TMRN Summer Scholarship from research staff in the School of Public Health in UCC. [...]
My experience of attending the HRB TMRN 4th Trial Methodology Symposium in Galway
Dr David O Riordan, Senior Pharmacovigilance Officer, at the HRB Clinical Research Facility, Cork blogs about his experience of attending the HRB-TMRN 4th Trial Methodology Symposium in Galway, [...]
Prioritising the Research Agenda for Trial Retention
I’ve been in Birmingham today for the final consensus meeting of the PRioRiTy II project, so I thought I’d write a quick blog post before dinner so that you can find out a bit more about the [...]
Schools Teaching Awareness of Randomised Trials (START). Can understanding trials really be child’s play?
Sandra Galvin, Programme Manager for the Health Research Board –Trial Methodology Research Network (HRB-TMRN), blogs about the START competition that challenges children in Ireland’s primary [...]
Good Trials need Good Maths!
Clinical trials are described as the gold standard way to test treatments with patients or healthy volunteers. We look at key aspects such as the safety of treatments, their effectiveness to [...]
