Data and technology for cancer care
Tamsin Nash is beginning the third year of her Clinical Research Training Fellow in TRACC programme at the University of Edinburgh. Her research explores socioeconomic and ethnic disparities in the quality of cancer care. But what do we mean by “quality of care” – how is it actually defined within health systems, and what metrics […]
A new population-based study led by our PhD student, Glasgow-based neurologist Emanuela Molinari has found that people who survive cancer diagnosed before the age of 40 face a sustained higher risk of mental health problems for many years after treatment. Published in Psycho-Oncology, the study used linked NHS records from the Lothian region of Scotland […]
We believe that independance and transparency are a central requirement for the valid generation of Real World Evidence. This special issue of Value in Health highlights some of the issues. https://www.valueinhealthjournal.com/issue/S1098301520X00118
A national population administrative secondary care data linkage study People who are nearing the end of life are high users of hospital services. The absolute cost to providers and its value is uncertain. There is a need to identify which groups of people spend a lot of time in hospital so that care can be […]
Edinburgh Cancer Centre Oncology Specialty Registrar Ashley Horne @AshHorne1983 used data visualisation to demonstrate the power of Scottish prescribing data for complex treatment sequencing in metastatic breast cancer at the 2019 European Society of Medical Oncology annual conference. Full poster: ESMO_2019_Optimized
