
Jon Deeks FMedSci
@deeksj
Biostatistician trying to work out the best ways of evaluating medical tests. Views expressed are my own and do not necessarily reflect my employer or funders.
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https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/applied-health/deeks-jon.aspx 18-02-2012 22:34:45
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It’s a great time to be a Medical Statistician at Uni of Birmingham as we have over 60 of us working in the Clinical Trials Units Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit Birmingham Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit our Test and Prediction team, ARC and BRC @UoB_IAHR. It’s exciting having so much statistical brain power in the same place. #medstats

It's officially launched!!! Cochrane's brand-new #CochraneDTAHandbook 🌟 Was an absolute delight to support Jon Deeks FMedSci Patrick Bossuyt Yemisi Takwoingi & Mariska Leeflang on this! More details cochrane.org/news/introduci… CochraneTestAccuracy



A lot of love went into this new #CochraneDTAHandbook! Was such a delight to support Jon Deeks FMedSci, Patrick Bossuyt, Yemisi Takwoingi & Mariska Leeflang - read our launch Editorial on why it’s such a great addition for Cochrane & the wider field 👇





There is an opportunity for a researcher to join our team to sort the patient information and use of self-tests. Funded by Science and Innovation at Cancer Research UK here at Uni of Birmingham in our institute @UoB_IAHR


Pre-conference courses on Tuesday 16th An Introduction to Diagnostic Tests and Studies of Diagnostic Tests - Jon Deeks FMedSci, Alice Sitch, and Yemisi Takwoingi An Introduction to Risk Prediction Models & Sample Size Calculations for Development & Validation Richard Riley (R²)


Link here to the Royal Statistical Society Series A report from the RSS Working Group on Diagnostic Tests. It includes the RSS recommendations to update how we should evaluate and regulate IVD diagnostic tests - and ensure their studies and findings are transparent. doi.org/10.1093/jrsssa…


7th MEMTAB conference April 2025 Uni of Birmingham Methods for Evaluating Models,Tests And Biomarkers Important for those developing, evaluating and using tests - whether patients clinicians, test developers and methodologists uobevents.eventsair.com/memtab-2025/ Call for Abstract open