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Shaun Treweek

@streweek.bsky.social
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Professor of Health Services Research, Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen; trying to make trials more efficient trialforge.org

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Shaun Treweek @streweek.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Informative trials: 55 interviewees from 16 countries gave a wide range of insights on what makes a trial informative and useful. Issues around design featured highly, but so did the need for a qualified trial statistician, along with early patient partnerships. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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U-CARE @u-care.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Our U-CARE Venue 2025 film is here! 🎬 Catch highlights from this year’s conference, themed ‘Smarter Science – How can we conduct high-quality healthcare research more efficiently?’ Watch the 1-minute video, featuring Shaun Treweek ✨ @streweek.bsky.social #UCAREVenue2025 #UCARE
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Shaun Treweek @streweek.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
A fully funded, equity-related PhD on offer at the U-CARE, Uppsala Trial Forge Centre, Sweden: lnkd.in/eW_HhtKm The PhD is about working with clinical trial and population register datasets related to equity, diversity, and inclusion. Deadline is 29th Dec 2025. @u-care.bsky.social
A screenshot of the website linked to from the LinkedIn post.
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Trials Change Lives @trialschangelives.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
5/5 We are long over due it being time to act to answer Doug Altman's call from 31 years ago for "less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons". www.bmj.com/content/308/... trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... @streweek.bsky.social
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Education @ Edinburgh CRF @eduedinburghcrf.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Don't miss out on your chance to attend this years #Edinburgh #ClinicalTrial Management Course on 06 & 07 Nov 2025- Register here edin.ac/3RGb0mB #ECTMC25 @streweek.bsky.social @bleedingstroke.bsky.social @ace-aberdeen.bsky.social @merrij.bsky.social
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Shaun Treweek @streweek.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
From 1st Jan 2026 the journal Trials will mandate that authors present information about the age, sex, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and geographical location of expected and actual participants in their protocols and trial results. trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Who is in your trial? Improving the reporting of participant characteristics in trial protocols and results - Trials
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Aberdeen Centre for Evaluation (formerly HSRU) @ace-aberdeen.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
📣 Our @streweek.bsky.social is lead author on an editorial in #Trials outlining a new mandate in the journal - mandating the reporting of six key participant characteristics in any protocol/trial report submitted to Trials on or after 1st Jan 2026. 1/2 trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Shaun Treweek @streweek.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I'm unsure. But evaluating what we do seems sensible. And perhaps we should bundle things a bit more in SWATs so that we evaluate a broader strategy rather than a single component of strategy, sometimes at least.
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Shaun Treweek @streweek.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
From 1st Jan 2026, the journal Trials will mandate reporting of (at least) six participant characteristics for both protocols and reports of trial results. Read more in the editorial: trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... @ukcrc-ctu.org.uk @ecrin.bsky.social
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Who is in your trial? Improving the reporting of participant characteristics in trial protocols and results - Trials
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Shaun Treweek @streweek.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
It's Red4Research Day today! Thanks to everyone – research participants, patients, professionals, volunteers and regulatory bodies – working together to do health and social care research. rdforum.nhs.uk/red4research... #Red4Research
Picture of Shaun thanking people supporting health and care research in 2025 as part of Red4Research Day 2025.
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Shaun Treweek @streweek.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
A couple of Studies Within A Trial (SWATs), one results, one a protocol, just out in the journal Trials: trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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The People's Review @thepeoplesreview.ie · 20/05/2025
🎉 Stage 2 is LIVE - where YOU get to decide the People's favourite question! ➡️ If you're joining The People's Review for the first time sign-up here: buff.ly/kAuYITA ➡️ If joined us for Stage 1 you can login in directly to Cochrane Crowd here: buff.ly/q0WudTM
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Shaun Treweek @streweek.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The Edinburgh Clinical Trial Management Course, Nov 6th and 7th 2025 in Edinburgh, is now open for bookings: clinical-research-facility.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-cl...
The Edinburgh Clinical Trial Management Course flyer, the details on it are available at the link in the post.
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Shaun Treweek @streweek.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
We’re bombarded with health advice 24/7. Systematic reviews help cut through the noise—but most people don’t know what they are. 💥 That’s where #ThePeoplesReview comes in. Learn about systematic reviews, by doing a systematic review 🔗https://www.thepeoplesreview.ie/join-now
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SENSITISE (Inclusive clinical trials education) @sensitise-eu.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
To kick off #MethodologyMonday in May, we bring you a poignant article by the Editors in Chief of the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. They address the “elephant in the room”, the upheaval of the global evidence research eco-systems pursued by the US administration. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
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dysphagia matters @dysphagiamatters.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
We spoke with @streweek.bsky.social about why so much health research still falls short. Shaun argues that big parts of health research is “bad” & does not bring the needed value to the evidence-base. Tune in to learn how we can conduct “good” research for our patients 🎙️!
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UCL Innovative Clinical Trials Unit @innovative-ctu.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
💻 Come along to our next Capacity Strengthening Hub webinar with @tghn-news.bsky.social to hear about experts' experience, general principles and a practical framework for communicating #ClinicalTrials results with participants. 🗓️ 2 June 🕙 10:00-11:30 BST 📍 Online Register now: bit.ly/4k28ALd
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Shaun Treweek @streweek.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
We’re bombarded with health advice 24/7. 😵‍💫 Systematic reviews help cut through the noise—but most people don’t know what they are. 💥 That’s where #ThePeoplesReview comes in. Learn about systematic reviews, by doing a systematic review www.thepeoplesreview.ie
A picture of the webpage that you get to at the link.  It shows lots of different types of people.
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SENSITISE (Inclusive clinical trials education) @sensitise-eu.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
This literature review identified strategies to enhance the racial & ethnic diversity of breast cancer trial populations. It resulted in 8 key strategic themes, which were used to create a new Racial and Minority Growth model. #MethodologyMonday Scott & Westwell orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/17...
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Marion Campbell @marionkcampbell.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
A major update to the CONSORT reporting guidance for clinical trials was published last week. 📌 CONSORT 2025 replaces all previous versions and should be used from now on. So what’s new and what’s different? 1/7 #MethodologyMonday #116 (COI - I am a co-author)
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The People's Review @thepeoplesreview.ie · 14/04/2025
🚨We are thrilled that our protocol has been selected as the article of the month in Research Involvement and Engagement. Full article here: researchinvolvement.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #ThePeoplesReview #PoweredByThePublic #ArticleOfTheMonth
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trialforge.bsky.social @trialforge.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
We have just created a library of participant information leaflets for trials, over 200, if you are looking for inspiration. Check out: www.trialforge.org/excelsior-pi... The is part of EXCELSIOR, a project ed by Frances Shiely at Cork University.
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Shaun Treweek @streweek.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Many thanks! I hope that you are well, and having the same lovely weather that we are.
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Shaun Treweek @streweek.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Today has been lovely, a grant was funded, had a couple of very productive and enjoyable meetings, got some stuff off my To Do list and the sun is shining. If a red squirrel came to the bird feeder at tea-time, that really would be the cherry on the top.
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Many thanks to @vcornelius.bsky.social and @gsmaclennan.bsky.social for coming to Cork and sharing their wisdom on clinical trials today.
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Aberdeen Centre for Evaluation (formerly HSRU) @ace-aberdeen.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Interested in audit and feeback strategies and how they may improve healthcare practice? Then check out the updated Cochrane review on the topic, co-authored by our own Kristin Konnyu: Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice - Ivers, N - 2025 www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....
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Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice - Ivers, N - 2025 | Cochrane Library
Select your preferred language for Cochrane reviews and other content. Sections without translation will be in English.
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Aberdeen Centre for Evaluation (formerly HSRU) @ace-aberdeen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
🆕Paper📢 In their follow-up study in ‘Tolerating bad health research’, Shaun Treweek and colleagues conducted risk of bias assessment of 140 UK, Irish and Canadian trials. Despite the bad trials (55%), trials judged to be good increased from 9% to 16%. trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Tolerating bad health research (part 2): still as many bad trials, but more good ones too - Trials
Background We previously published a study examining the risk of bias of a random selection of Cochrane systematic reviews. The purpose of our current study is to reassess the risk of bias of a cohort...
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Shaun Treweek @streweek.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Tolerating bad health research (part 2): trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... In summary, after risk of bias reassessment of 140 UK, Irish and Canadian trials, there were still as many bad trials (55%) but trials judged to be good increased from 9% to 16%. Not very reassuring really.
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Tolerating bad health research (part 2): still as many bad trials, but more good ones too - Trials
Background We previously published a study examining the risk of bias of a random selection of Cochrane systematic reviews. The purpose of our current study is to reassess the risk of bias of a cohort...
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Gareth Hollands @gjhollands.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
❗ Latest issue of @thelancet.bsky.social out today and featuring the TEMPO trial on the cover 🙂 My summary thread here: bsky.app/profile/gjho... Open access paper here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Shaun Treweek @streweek.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Here's a new risk of bias tool for systematic reviews: ROBUST-RCT www.bmj.com/content/388/... Similar to an older Cochrane risk of bias tool, it looks like something that could actually be used, which is great. The team explicitly aimed to balance simplicity and methodological rigour.
The 6 core items of the new risk of bias tool. Also in paper at the link.
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trialforge.bsky.social @trialforge.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Here's an interesting rapid review on strategies to enhance the ethnic diversity of breast cancer clinical drug trials. It gives some trial recruitment and retention recommendations too. www.academia.edu/2998-7741/1/...
Figure 3 from the paper, which gives the eight themes identified in the review.
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Shaun Treweek @streweek.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Oddly enough I also submitted a paper today. I will be kind and not say which. I had all the bits ready bar two sentences and the short cover letter. It still took 1 hour 49 mins. Bonkers. Do they really need all that info at submission?
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Shaun Treweek @streweek.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
A new publication on the involvement of ethnic minority people in health and social care research priority setting from around the world. In summary, very few countries reported the involvement of ethnic minority community members in research priority-setting. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Global Insights on the Involvement of Ethnic Minority Populations in Health and Social Care Research Priority Setting: A Systematic Scoping Review - Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
Background Representing all population groups in health and social care research is essential for generating research relevant to decision making in everyday clinical and social healthcare policy and ...
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HRB-TMRN @hrb-tmrn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
SAVE THE DATE! The HRB-TMRN, with @mrcnihrtmrp.bsky.social, is delivering a "Roadmap Workshop: A road trip for PPI with Trials Methodology Research" with Derek Stewart & Katherine Cowan. Expressions of Interests will open very soon. Email us at hrb-tmrn@universityofgalway.ie for more information.
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Evidence Synthesis Ireland @evidsynirl.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Interested in the GRADE approach? On 28th & 29 April, Prof. Declan Devane, Dr K. M. Saif-Ur-Rahman from ESI & Philipp Kapp of the Freiburg GRADE center host a workshop on the complete guideline development process with GRADE at NUI Merrion Square. More info: evidencesynthesisireland.ie/training/
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Beatriz Goulão @beatrizgoulao.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
New paper exploring measuring #environmental impact of #health interventions - we found diversity in outcomes, measures, & analysis. Limited involvement of interested parties. Absolutely essential to do better and reach consensus on what's important to measure www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
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Measuring the environmental impact of health interventions in randomised controlled trials – a scoping review
Healthcare accounts for 4% of the overall greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Reducing carbon emissions is a key strategic aim for health systems in multiple countries. To achieve this, environmental ...
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trialforge.bsky.social @trialforge.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Do you work in the field of clinical trials? Please consider taking part in a Aberdeen-led survey that explores the practices of sharing recruitment and/ or retention rates with recruiting sites as a method to improve recruitment and/or retention behaviours. forms.office.com/e/9RCxiiCXM2.
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NIHR ARC East Midlands @arc-em.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
🎥 Our Director, Professor Kamlesh Khunti, discusses the importance of research #collaboration for improving patient outcomes in this new film by @nihr.bsky.social Watch it here:
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NIHR - Collaborating to make a difference
Our NIHR infrastructure combines world-class facilities and specialist expertise, enabling research collaboration to drive innovation and enhance patient out...
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Shaun Treweek @streweek.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
..and you can attend online too if you aren't lucky enough to be able to go to Madrid.
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Shaun Treweek @streweek.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
@ecrin.bsky.social and the Spanish Clinical Research Network (SCReN) are running a joint event on inclusive trials for International Clinical Trials Day, 20th May. Venue in Madrid. Free registration at: ecrin.org/ictd-2025
Screenshot of event flyer available at the link in the message.
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Jolyn Hersch PhD @jolynhersch.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Participant recruitment & retention in RCTs of melanoma surveillance: scoping review - D Ackermann, K Bell, me & others Just out in Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Need more consistent, detailed reporting of recruitment/retention strategies in RCTs
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Shaun Treweek @streweek.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
A colleague sent me a document today that included a link to a fantastic video on Frances Kelsey, the scientist who refuted the evidence submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration in support of thalidomide licensing for use in pregnancy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wIB... Worth a watch.
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How one scientist averted a national health crisis - Andrea Tone
YouTube video by TED-Ed
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Tasha Mellins-Cohen @tashamc.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I talk about this a lot with my consulting hat on. The financial pressures on libraries to cover the costs of the ever-increasing article output, and the drivers of research misconduct, are driven in large part by the way we incentivise and measure researchers (1)
A chart showing growth in research output (articles). The dark area on the bottom shows 1.54 million closed articles being published in 2009 increasing to 2.06 million closed articles published in 2023. Over the same period, open access articles increased from 786,000 to 3.52 million. Methodology at https://doi.org/10.17617/2.3361428
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Evidence Synthesis Ireland @evidsynirl.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
ESI Workshop for the health economists out there 💹 - 'Evidence Synthesis for Economic Evaluation' is being delivered by @gillespie-p.bsky.social & Paul Carty at the National University of Ireland, Merrion Square on the 5th March. For more info or to register: evidencesynthesisireland.ie/training/
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Ash Routen @ashrouten.com · 24/02/2025
Pleased to have been a part of this new paper from the UK Health Data Research Alliance, which presents five recommendations for improving data collection for inclusive health research. It resulted from 4 workshops with relevant stakeholders and public members. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Evidence Synthesis Ireland @evidsynirl.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
ESI Webinar - Krystle Amog of the IHPME at the Univeristy of Toronto will deliver a talk on the “Right Review: A tool that helps you decide which evidence synthesis method is right for you” on the 20th March @ 1pm (UTC). To register, universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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trialforge.bsky.social @trialforge.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
If you are interested in making randomised trials more inclusive there's a lot of material on the Trial Forge site: www.trialforge.org/improving-tr... ..and it's also worth looking at STEP UP: step-up-clinical-trials.co.uk
Screen shot of the webpage that the link in the  message takes you to.
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Munya Dimairo @mdimairo.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Looking for an NIHR pre-doctoral fellowship opportunity in trials methodology? Feel free to contact me!
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Jolyn Hersch PhD @jolynhersch.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Trial participant self‑reported understanding of randomisation phrases in participant info can be high but acceptability of some descriptions is low esp if linked to gambling/luck @streweek.bsky.social @katiegillies.bsky.social @taliaisaacs.bsky.social trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Trial participants’ self-reported understanding of randomisation phrases in participation information leaflets can be high, but acceptability of some descriptions is low, especially those linked to ga...
Background Evidence indicates that trial participants often struggle to understand participant information leaflets (PILs) for clinical trials, including the concept of randomisation. We analysed the ...
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