Making a Difference in Health Care Research
The Centre for Statistics in Medicine (Director: Professor Doug Altman) collaborates in health care research, conducts applied statistical research and runs training courses/workshops for both health care workers and statisticians.
Statisticians within the CSM are involved in many
collaborative projects with clinicians and other researchers in Oxford and
further afield, some working across the medical spectrum and others focusing on
cancer. The CSM is part of two UKCRN registered trials units: the Oxford
Clinical Trials Research Unit (OCTRU: specialising in trials in cancer) and the
Oxford Clinical Trials Unit for Mental Illness (OCTUMI). Other statisticians
within the CSM work primarily on a programme of methodological research, in
particular relating to studies of diagnosis and prognosis. The CSM also carries
out a programme of work aiming at improving the reporting of research and hosts
the EQUATOR initiative. Members of all groups within the CSM participate in
training activities.
