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Core Outcome Measures in Effectiveness Trials

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Come and join us for the next @MRCNIHRTMRP COS subgroup meeting on Thur 7th May, 3-4pm GMT to hear talks on the development and uptake of core outcome sets from Lara Chapman and @lennyvasanthan.

If you would like to attend please email Dr Susanna Dodd, [email protected].

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@ictmc2026 @MRCNIHRTMRP Oh yes, and we’re now on LinkedIn where we are posting news. Follow us there if you are too?

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@ictmc2026 @MRCNIHRTMRP The COMET team’s been quiet here but we’ve been busy. Busy writing abstracts for ICTMC (there’s an Outcomes theme!). Busy joining the WHO Global Clinical Trials Forum. Busy presenting at ISPOR in a session with NICE and Pfizer. See you at ICTMC?

[Lenny Vasanthan @lennyvasanthan]

Grateful for the opportunity to present about "Core Outcome Sets in Physiotherapy" at Society of Indian Physiotherapists conference in Vadodara, India 2025. @COMETinitiative @prw_paula @MRCTMRPDTP

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Progress on standardising definitions for disease activity and survival outcomes in the CORMAC COS 👏👏👏

https://t.co/SfsmtFIFv3

@Beccajfish @CR_UK @renehan_andrew

[Paula Williamson FMedSci @prw_paula]

@OMERACT @WHO @COMETinitiative looking forward to working with our Red Hat Group collaborators and @WHO to push on with improving outcomes measured in clinical trials.

[National Institute for Health and Care Research @NIHRresearch]

Today we've launched a new requirement that all applicants must demonstrate how their research will address existing inequalities in health and social care as a condition of funding. Applicants will now be required to show how inclusion is being built into all stages of the research lifecycle. https://t.co/765hxygjRD

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@prw_paula @MRCNIHRTMRP @Lisa_k_fox @GilliesKatie @UKCTUNetwork @UKTMN @livuni_LCTC Evidence growing that trial-specific patient assessments are a carbon hotspot. The role here offers opportunity to promote COS as mitigation to reduce environmental impact. Application deadline 5th December.

[Paula Williamson FMedSci @prw_paula]

📢 Job Alert!
Research Associate in Trials Methodology for @MRCNIHRTMRP Greener Trials (ref: 087374). Collaboration with @Lisa_k_fox and @GilliesKatie , starting March 2025.

https://t.co/E5YYzOW8A7

@UKCTUNetwork @UKTMN @COMETinitiative @livuni_LCTC

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@info_TGHN @prw_paula @WHO @JeremyFarrar @vaseemoorthy @MRCNIHRTMRP @MRCTMRPDTP

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@info_TGHN @prw_paula @WHO @JeremyFarrar @vaseemoorthy Hear directly about the WHO guidance for clinical trials. Includes “Use of standardized core outcome sets…. should be considered for all trials, to enable the results of studies being compared, contrasted and combined (for example, in later meta-analyses) as appropriate” 👏

[Declan Devane @decdevane]

📢 Come work with me @UniOfGalway Research Fellow role developing Core Outcome Set for antiviral treatments in respiratory infections 🦠
Lead stakeholder engagement, systematic reviews & consensus development
Home to @hrbtmrn @EvidSynthIRL
Apply by Nov 13: https://t.co/LL0aBZVn5n

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✨Publication Alert 🚨

What is the #carbonfootprint of academic #clinicaltrials? A study of hotspots in 10 trials.

@DiabetesCTN @MRCNIHRTMRP @UCDClinRes #TrialsMethodology

https://t.co/ObFTTMYT1T

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@MRCTMRPDTP @MRCNIHRTMRP Take a listen, whether you are just starting off in clinical trials or whether you’ve been there for a while - there’s definitely something for everyone! Congrats to Ella and Georgiana who have put this together 👏 @MRCNIHRTMRP @MRCTMRPDTP @prw_paula

[Eleanor Mitchell @eleanor_mitch]

@UKCTUNetwork @hrbtmrn @MRCNIHRTMRP @NIHRresearch @UKTMN @NIHRStatistics @NIHRSPHR @Mais_iflaifel @prw_paula What I should have added, of course, is that knowledge of these priorities by others is vital: institutions, employers, funders, healthcare professionals. Anyone working in health & care research. Methodologists are crucial to the research landscape so should be supported.

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@cosmic__project @LivUni @LivUniISMIB Congratulations from all at COMET Christopher! 👏👏👏

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The @cosmic__project has been completed & we are awaiting publication of the final results!

In the meantime, the PI, Dr Christopher Millward, supervised by Profs Jenkinson, Marson, and Williamson @COMETinitiative passed his PhD viva without corrections @LivUni @LivUniISMIB.

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PIONEER consortium planning to overcome some of the challenges in future big data projects through the widespread use of COS:

https://t.co/KKN273LpPM

@ProstatePioneer

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@KnlAvery @ictmc2024 Love this idea Kerry!