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This page features news items, events and courses concerned wholly or partly with CRTs and SW-CRTs which are open for people to attend and might be of interest, as well as details of past events and courses that were once listed here.
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News
Current Developments in Cluster Randomised Trials and Stepped Wedge Designs 2021
This 7th annual event will be held online 15-17 Nov 2021 and will consist of a series of presentations, short talks, discussions and a workshop. Registration will open soon. For more information see the PCTU event page or contact pctu-courses@qmul.ac.uk. Abstracts...
New Stata command for CRT cluster-level analysis
05 November 2020 Planning to use a cluster-level analysis for your CRT? Consider using the new clan Stata command recently released on SSC. The command calculates intervention effect estimates adjusting for individual and cluster level covariates and strata used in...
New publication on using GEE for SW-CRTs
05 November 2020 This article explores how to use GEE in SW-CRTs with a small number of clusters. We find that GEE provide a robust method of analysis and some small sample corrections work well with as few as 12 clusters. Follow this link to read the paper
New blog on stepped wedge trials
A new website devoted to explaining stepped wedge trials in a non-technical fashion has been published
https://steppedwedgehog.blog/
Post-doctoral researcher position on CRTs available in Tours, France
Exciting 18 months post-doc position available in Rours, France to work on time-to-event outcomes in cluster randomized trials.
Date for next CRT meeting announced
London, week commencing 7th June 2021
This annual meeting consists of a series of short talks, poster presentations and discussions and workshops…
A practical guide to Cluster Randomised Trials and Stepped Wedge Design 2020
London 15th June to 19th June 2020
This course is based on the book ‘A Practical Guide to Cluster Randomised Trials in Health Services Research’ by Sandra Eldridge and Sally Kerry…
Third international conference on Stepped Wedge trial design
University of York 16-17 March 2020
An event to share ideas, experience, best practice and challenges for the design, implementation and analysis of the stepped wedge design model…
New publication by Leyrat et al
9 November 2018
Intervention effect estimates in cluster randomized versus individually randomized trials: a meta-epidemiological study …
CONSORT extension for SW-CRTs recently published
9 November 2018
The Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement is a guideline designed to improve the transparency and quality of the reporting of randomised controlled trials …
Events coming up
Current Developments in Cluster Randomised Trials and Stepped Wedge Designs 2021
This 7th annual event will be held online 15-17 Nov 2021 and will consist of a series of presentations, short talks, discussions and a workshop. Registration will open soon. For more information see the PCTU event page or contact pctu-courses@qmul.ac.uk. Abstracts...
Past events
Challenges and applications of Cluster Randomised and Stepped Wedge Trials in a pandemic The Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit at QMUL and Centre for Statistical Methodology at LSHTM are pleased to present a joint webinar: Date: Tuesday 4 May, 2021 Time: 3.00 pm – 5.00...
Online short course on the design and analysis of cluster randomised trials and stepped wedge trials (28 June to 2 July 2021)
Online short course on the design and analysis of cluster randomised trials and stepped wedge trials 28 June to 2 July 2021 Cluster randomised trials and stepped wedge trials are increasingly used to evaluate health and social interventions. They require specific...
Save the Date: May 4th, QMUL webinar on theme – “What use are cluster randomised trials and stepped wedge designs in the COVID pandemic?”. This will consist of a series of presentations looking at the impact of the Covid pandemic on the conduct of cluster trials and how cluster / stepped wedge designed trials may be adapted to collect data during a pandemic. Please look out for further notices for more details.
Current developments in CRTs and SW-CRT designs 2019
London 12-13 November 2019
This annual meeting consists of a series of short talks, poster presentations and discussions and workshops…
Design and Analysis of Cluster Randomised and Stepped Wedge Trials
London 8-12 July 2019
This course will provide a clear understanding of the design and analysis of cluster randomised trials and stepped wedge trials…
A practical guide to Cluster Randomised Trials and Stepped Wedge Design
London 29th April to 3rd May 2019
This course is based on the book ‘A Practical Guide to Cluster Randomised Trials in Health Services Research’ by Sandra Eldridge and Sally Kerry…
Current developments in CRTs and SW-CRT designs 2018
London 21-22 November 2018
This annual meeting consists of a series of short talks, poster presentations and discussions and workshops
Distance learning cluster randomised trials short course
November 2018 to June 2019 A module to understand the key features in the design, analysis and reporting of cluster randomised trials
A practical guide to Cluster Randomised Trials
16th to 20th April 2017
This course is based on the book ‘A Practical Guide to Cluster Randomised Trials in Health Services Research’ by Sandra Eldridge and Sally Kerry
Second international conference on Stepped Wedge trial designs
19th to 20th March 2018
This event aims to bring together practitioners, researchers and methodologists to share ideas, experience, best practice and challenges