Thrilled to share our new paper, now published in BMC HSR. This work suggests that emergency care facilities across the country now experience 'winter' levels of demand and pressure all year round. Thanks to co-authors & @arc-yharc.bsky.social, @hdruk.bsky.social! #UEC #NHS #WinterPressure

Winter all year round in urgent and emergency care: a large retrospective analysis of routinely collected NHS data across England, 2021–2022 - BMC Health Services Research

BMC Health Services Research - ‘Winter pressures’ in urgent and emergency care (UEC) are widely accepted but have had little empirical attention. Amidst annually increasing demand for...

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In exciting news, our recent paper as part of the @arc-yharc.bsky.social has been featured in an editorial! It's great that our message around the role of triaging in managing demand for urgent and emergency care is being emphasised. #NHS #UEC #ResearchImpact #NIHR #EmergencyMedicine #PatientFlow

Accuracy on the line: the NHS triage system in context

Crowding in emergency departments (EDs) is a familiar problem across health systems around the world. In most countries, the vast majority of paediatric emergency care is delivered in general EDs rath...

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Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 10mo ago

AI companies: The future of humanoid robots is here Humanoid robot:

This does not scare me, for I laugh in the face of arbitrary thresholds.

Paola Tellaroli@tellarpao.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Happy Halloween weekend to fellow scientists, #stats!

We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?

Happily, we've had faster progress with another recent paper, just published! We use #CUREd data to show quite dramatic differences in how clinical & non-clinical NHS 111 staff handle calls about children: adc.bmj.com/content/earl... #NHS111 #BMJ #NHS @scharr-msg.bsky.social @arc-yharc.bsky.social

Clinical advisors at NHS 111 improve accuracy for paediatric patients and their advice is more reliably followed: a retrospective observational cohort study

Objective To determine whether National Health Service (NHS) 111 advice regarding paediatric patients given by clinically trained health advisors (CHAs) is, as previously found for adult patients, les...

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I've had a revised article sitting on the editor's desk at BMC Health Services Research, following really positive first reviews, for over 4 months. I can't get more than a stock response from editors. Anyone else in same position? Help, please?! @springernature.com

The first 12 months of our project evaluating same-day emergency care (SDEC) is nearly over. You can read about how the project is progressing on our website: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac... @fohsheffield.bsky.social @scharr-msg.bsky.social @arc-yharc.bsky.social #SDEC #NHS #NIHR

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12 hour waits for a bed in the ED used to be a red line, never to be crossed. Now it is a just a part of life in ED. For every 72 patients waiting 8-12 hours in ED there will be one excess death. This is still unnacceptable. @rcem.bsky.social #resuscitateemergencycare rcem.ac.uk/almost-300-d...

New paper published in Statistical Methods in Medical Research: Comparison of statistical methods for the analysis of patient-reported outcomes in randomised controlled trials: A simulation study journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

My colleagues @beckiesimpson.bsky.social, @richardjacques.bsky.social and I had fun at #EUSEM, though we are statisticians out of water among ED clinicians! We presented our work with NHS routine data: understanding avoidable admissions, winter pressures, and advisor skill-set & NHS111 performance.

A question for the #CausalInference community: best ways to include fairly generic measures of frailty and comorbidities (probably as a count) in a causal #DAG? #statsky #episky

Working with Taylor & Francis is simply unethical by this point. It’s unfortunately difficult to have AI use revoked from existing contracts but at least try, complain, if you have a book with them. And otherwise do not even consider.

My first... er, post(?) on here is a delightful one! Our new paper, a review of adaptive clinical trials and how their sample sizes are calculated and reported is live at BMC Medical Research Methodology. Unfortunately my fellow authors are not here yet.... #statsky #adaptivedesigns #clinicaltrials