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A reminder if you want to share your views on a new guideline in development (TRIPOD-AI) for reporting #machinelearning based clinical prediction model studies.👇👇 Send a DM if you want to participate in the Delphi survey. #statstwitter #ml4h #medtwitter #epitwitter

🆕#CuttingEdgeBlog guest post📰 An investigation of sample size calculations in surgical trials Blog🔗 cuttingedgeblog.com/2022/01/05/gue… Based on the paper🔗 academic.oup.com/bjs/advance-ar… #PROMs #SoMe4Surgery #SurgicalResearch

A smartphone app to measure day-to-day changes in hand symptoms Read about the new study by NDORMS Conrad Harrison Jeremy Rodrigues Ryan Trickett Justin Wormald Tom Dobbs, registered at #ISRCTN isrctn.com/ISRCTN19841416

doi.org/10.1177%2F1753… Well done Conrad Harrison, Andrew Clelland and team! More great #psychometrics work through #collaboration in #handsurgery The Pulvertaft Brigitte Scammell 💙💛 Sue Fullilove British Society for Surgery of the Hand BAPRASvoice The Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume)

EMCAT has the potential to transform the way we capture PROMs in hand surgery and beyond! Here's our first proof of concept paper using British Society for Surgery of the Hand registry data. National Institute for Health and Care Research portfolio study underway to test feasibility of the app: isrctn.com/ISRCTN19841416

NEW PAPER in Radiology (led by Rachel Kuo) looking at the diagnostic performance in fracture detection of #artificialintelligence and clinicians --> tinyurl.com/4y4ffnnp with editorial by @epi_rad --> tinyurl.com/3hcfh6a5 #ml4h #statstwitter #mltwitter

‼️Calling all hand surgeons, trainees, therapists, rheumatologists and GPs, please share your opinions on distraction for thumb base OA in the @surgery_trials DISTRACT Survey: reconstructivesurgerytrials.net/distract/

Looking for psychometricans to join our team in Cambridge. You will work on a range of psychometrics problems on the border of industry and academia: deploying CAT tests, gamified testing, using big data as a psychometric test, etc. Happy to chat informally to anyone interested.

Deena Harji Jane Blazeby Marion Campbell Natalie Blencowe Katie Gillies Justin Wormald Marta Penna Sinan Khadhouri Kat Baker 💙 (née Gash) Another BOSTiC, (now BOASTiC) complete. Wonderful delegate cohort once again. Very special faculty, mentors and guest speakers, A1 organisers. A huge thanks to everyone. Surgical trials continue to progress. Bristol (or Aberdeen?) next year. Murat Akkulak The Royal College of Surgeons of England SITU Oxford

Adaptive designs work, and can make trials faster. Great paper by Nick Parsons & an awesome team of clever people for this, will give the community a lot of confidence that these can be done, and are effective. bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Modifying existing #PROMs is an attractive alternative to developing new tools. Rakhshan Kamran, MD, DPhil, MBA et al. used CAT testing to minimise the #PROMs burden in patients with thumb base arthritis. Exciting application of British Society for Surgery of the Hand #handsurgery registry data journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Have you secured your place at BAPRAS Congress 2022? Among the many sessions we have planned for you, during each of the three days of the event, we will be hosting Hunterian Lectures. Find out more about the programme and register soon: bapras.org.uk/professionals/…

"One of the attached excel files had over 700,000 cells of data" Eiko Fried and Robin N. Kok used their right of access under the GDPR to ask Elsevier/RELX what personal data the academic-publisher-turned-data-company holds on them. It was a lot. From May: eiko-fried.com/welcome-to-hot…

🔬 New study by Conrad Harrison et al. provides IRT models for the Oxford hip and knee scores, converting patient responses into continuous scores w/ quantifiable precision. Web apps were developed for efficient score conversion. Here's a breakdown of the findings! (1/n)

A lot of reforms in psych science in the last decade have focused on improving statistical practices (and that's great). But, as the many of us who have re-analyzed a lot of data can tell you: statistics really cannot help you much when your measures are problematic or invalid.

📣 We have spots left for our Structural Equation Modelling (#SEM) in R course! 🗓 4-8 Dec '23 🌐Online via Zoom 🎓Expert-led Book now: psychometrics.cam.ac.uk/events/live-on… #Cambridge #DataScience

HAWAII ACP has received interest across 60 hospitals with 24 centres already up and running!🌎 Take a look at our network map to see if your centre has registered, if NOT there is still time to take part! Full Map: shorturl.at/jAKX9 Registration: shorturl.at/uyBD5

📰Pleased to see first major publication from my PhD in J Bone & Joint Surg providing Item Response Theory models for the Forgotten Joint Score for people undergoing #tkr journals.lww.com/jbjsjournal/ab… Here are some findings! (🧵)

Health-related quality of life in patients with conditions affecting the hand: #metaanalysis ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/bjs/zn… This #metaanalysis aimed to determine health state utility values for electively managed conditions affecting the hand. Pooled health state utility value

Are you involved with or have experience/an interest in osseointegration following amputation? Have your say in the NICE interventional procedures guidance. Consultation open until 24th July. nice.org.uk/guidance/indev…