We are pleased to be supporting this lecture by the Cardiff Scientific Society, through our FLSW Event Support scheme. The lecture will be delivered by Professor Hywel Williams, University of Nottingham.
Abstract
‘In 2009, Chalmers and Glasziou suggested that up to 85% of medical research is wasteful. Much as we might like to think that research waste does not occur in dermatology, the truth is that a lot of our clinical research is done without any form of prioritisation that takes existing research into account. Studies are often poorly designed, and many are not reported at all or reported in a biased and unusable way. In this talk, I shall suggest some solutions to the pernicious problem of research waste by highlighting some of our work at the Centre of Evidence-Based Dermatology. These solutions include mapping existing evidence, prioritising research questions that are important to patients through priority setting partnerships, promoting prospective registration of research protocols to prevent cheating, developing core outcome sets so that studies can be compared and combined, working with methodologists to ensure robust study design, publishing 100% of planned research and making sure that clinically relevant results are disseminated effectively to a community of research users. Reducing research waste is everyone’s business that includes clinicians, nurses, methodologists and patients.’
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