Search Results - "Rogers, Chris A"
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Alternative treatments to inhibit VEGF in age-related choroidal neovascularisation: 2-year findings of the IVAN randomised controlled trial
Published in The Lancet (British edition) (12-10-2013)“…Summary Background Bevacizumab has been suggested to have similar effectiveness to ranibizumab for treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration…”
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Increased Mortality, Postoperative Morbidity, and Cost After Red Blood Cell Transfusion in Patients Having Cardiac Surgery
Published in Circulation (New York, N.Y.) (27-11-2007)“…Red blood cell transfusion can both benefit and harm. To inform decisions about transfusion, we aimed to quantify associations of transfusion with clinical…”
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Malperfusion rather than merely timing of operative repair determines early and late outcome in type A aortic dissection
Published in The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery (01-07-2017)“…Abstract Background Although generally better outcomes are reported in patients undergoing early repair of type A aortic dissection, patients who survive the…”
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Impact of video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy versus open lobectomy for lung cancer on recovery assessed using self-reported physical function: VIOLET RCT
Published in Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) (01-12-2022)“…Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death. Surgery remains the main method of managing early-stage disease. Minimal-access video-assisted thoracoscopic…”
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Efficacy of propofol-supplemented cardioplegia on biomarkers of organ injury in patients having cardiac surgery using cardiopulmonary bypass: a statistical analysis plan for the ProMPT-2 randomised controlled trial
Published in Current controlled trials in cardiovascular medicine (29-02-2024)“…The ProMPT-2 trial (Propofol for Myocardial Protection Trial #2) aims to compare the safety and efficacy of low- and high-dose propofol supplementation of the…”
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Emulating the MERINO randomised control trial using data from an observational cohort and trial of rapid diagnostic (BSI-FOO)
Published in PloS one (20-05-2022)“…The aim of this study was to emulate the MERINO trial of piperacillin-tazobactam vs meropenem for the definitive treatment of bloodstream infection (BSI)…”
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Approaches to multiplicity in publicly funded pragmatic randomised controlled trials: a survey of clinical trials units and a rapid review of published trials
Published in BMC medical research methodology (06-02-2022)“…Opinions and practices vary around the issue of performing multiple statistical tests in randomised controlled trials (RCTs). We carried out a study to collate…”
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Conveying Equipoise during Recruitment for Clinical Trials: Qualitative Synthesis of Clinicians' Practices across Six Randomised Controlled Trials
Published in PLoS medicine (18-10-2016)“…Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are essential for evidence-based medicine and increasingly rely on front-line clinicians to recruit eligible patients…”
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Analytical challenges in estimating the effect of exposures that are bounded by follow-up time: experiences from the Blood Stream Infection-Focus on Outcomes study
Published in BMC medical research methodology (30-09-2021)“…To illustrate the challenges of estimating the effect of an exposure that is bounded by duration of follow-up on all-cause 28-day mortality, whilst…”
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The EQ-5D-5L is a valid approach to measure health related quality of life in patients undergoing bariatric surgery
Published in PloS one (18-12-2017)“…Bariatric surgery is considered an effective treatment for individuals with severe and complex obesity. Besides reducing weight and improving obesity related…”
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Integrating expert opinions with clinical trial data to analyse low-powered subgroup analyses: a Bayesian analysis of the VeRDiCT trial
Published in BMC medical research methodology (10-12-2020)“…Typically, subgroup analyses in clinical trials are conducted by comparing the intervention effect in each subgroup by means of an interaction test. However,…”
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Home-monitoring for neovascular age-related macular degeneration in older adults within the UK: the MONARCH diagnostic accuracy study
Published in Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) (01-07-2024)“…Most neovascular age-related macular degeneration treatments involve long-term follow-up of disease activity. Home monitoring would reduce the burden on…”
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A Core Outcome Set for the Benefits and Adverse Events of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery: The BARIACT Project
Published in PLoS medicine (29-11-2016)“…Bariatric and metabolic surgery is used as a treatment for patients with severe and complex obesity. However, there is a need to improve outcome selection and…”
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Using trials of caloric restriction and bariatric surgery to explore the effects of body mass index on the circulating proteome
Published in Scientific reports (29-11-2023)“…Thousands of proteins circulate in the bloodstream; identifying those which associate with weight and intervention-induced weight loss may help explain…”
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Supraglottic airway device versus tracheal intubation in the initial airway management of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: the AIRWAYS-2 cluster RCT
Published in Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) (01-04-2022)“…When a cardiac arrest occurs, cardiopulmonary resuscitation should be started immediately. However, there is limited evidence about the best approach to airway…”
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Strategies to address recruitment to a randomised trial of surgical and non-surgical treatment for cancer: results from a complex recruitment intervention within the Mesothelioma and Radical Surgery 2 (MARS 2) study
Published in BMJ open (16-05-2024)“…ObjectivesRecruiting to randomised trials is often challenging particularly when the intervention arms are markedly different. The Mesothelioma and Radical…”
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Development of a framework to improve the process of recruitment to randomised controlled trials (RCTs): the SEAR (Screened, Eligible, Approached, Randomised) framework
Published in Current controlled trials in cardiovascular medicine (19-01-2018)“…Research has shown that recruitment to trials is a process that stretches from identifying potentially eligible patients, through eligibility assessment, to…”
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An open randomized controlled trial of median sternotomy versus anterolateral left thoracotomy on morbidity and health care resource use in patients having off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery: The Sternotomy Versus Thoracotomy (STET) trial
Published in The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery (01-08-2013)“…Objective Our objective was to compare off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery carried out via a left anterolateral thoracotomy (ThoraCAB) or via a…”
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Working under short timescales to deliver a national trial: a case study of the ComFluCOV trial from a statistician's perspective
Published in Current controlled trials in cardiovascular medicine (23-01-2024)“…In early 2021, the Department of Health and Social Care in the UK called for research on the safety and immunogenicity of concomitant administration of…”
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Delivering COVID-19 vaccine trials at speed: the implementation of a phase IV UK multi-centre randomised controlled trial to determine safety and immunogenicity of COVID-19 vaccines co-administered with seasonal influenza vaccines (ComFluCOV)
Published in Current controlled trials in cardiovascular medicine (11-01-2024)“…In February 2021, the UK Department of Health and Social Care sought evidence on the safety and immunogenicity of COVID-19 and influenza vaccine…”
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