Clinical Trials Methodology

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]