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Shaun Treweek
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Professor of Health Services Research, Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen; trying to make trials more efficient http://trialforge.org
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u-care.bsky.social
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
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
streweek.bsky.social
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
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December 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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trialschangelives.bsky.social
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
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Reposted by Shaun Treweek
eduedinburghcrf.bsky.social
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
October 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
streweek.bsky.social
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....
Who is in your trial? Improving the reporting of participant characteristics in trial protocols and results - Trials
trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Reposted by Shaun Treweek
ace-aberdeen.bsky.social
📣 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....
September 15, 2025 at 11:24 AM
streweek.bsky.social
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
Who is in your trial? Improving the reporting of participant characteristics in trial protocols and results - Trials
trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
streweek.bsky.social
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.
June 20, 2025 at 7:31 AM
streweek.bsky.social
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....
June 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Reposted by Shaun Treweek
thepeoplesreview.ie
🎉 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
May 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
streweek.bsky.social
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.
May 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
streweek.bsky.social
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
May 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Reposted by Shaun Treweek
sensitise-eu.bsky.social
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...
May 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Reposted by Shaun Treweek
dysphagiamatters.bsky.social
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 🎙️!
April 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Reposted by Shaun Treweek
mrcctu.bsky.social
💻 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
May 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
streweek.bsky.social
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.
April 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Reposted by Shaun Treweek
sensitise-eu.bsky.social
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...
orca.cardiff.ac.uk
April 21, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Reposted by Shaun Treweek
marionkcampbell.bsky.social
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)
April 21, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Reposted by Shaun Treweek
thepeoplesreview.ie
🚨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
April 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Reposted by Shaun Treweek
trialforge.bsky.social
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.
April 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
streweek.bsky.social
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.
April 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Reposted by Shaun Treweek
statsepi.bsky.social
Many thanks to @vcornelius.bsky.social and @gsmaclennan.bsky.social for coming to Cork and sharing their wisdom on clinical trials today.
March 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Reposted by Shaun Treweek
ace-aberdeen.bsky.social
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....
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.
www.cochranelibrary.com
March 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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ace-aberdeen.bsky.social
🆕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....
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...
trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com
March 31, 2025 at 7:54 PM
streweek.bsky.social
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.
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...
trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com
March 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM