Clinical Trials Methodology

Earlier this year HRB joined the global fight against COVID-19. In cooperation with the Irish Research Council (IRC) and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), HRB launched a rapid response mechanism [...]

Date: 09 October 2020 Publication of the results of the 100th JLA research Priority Setting Partnership (PSP) provides an opportunity for me to look back on my involvement with the James Lind [...]

By Prof Shaun Treweek & Colleagues –  We do randomised trials to improve healthcare decisions, decisions that may have a lasting influence on people’s health. Every day the public, [...]

Jeremy Taylor, NIHR Director for Public Voice, NIHR Centre for Engagement and Dissemination, discusses how COVID-19 has brought clinical trials to the forefront and outlines recent work done by [...]

Date: 24 March 2020 By Derek Stewart – Patient Representative & MRC-NIHR-TMRP PPI Lead Trials Methodology Research (1) is about looking at the way health research is carried out – i.e. [...]

Date: 17 Ocober 2019 By Andrew Worrall – Patient Partner with the PRioRiTy II research study Members of the HSRU team attended the International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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, [...]