Research project

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Title: Joint Replacement

Project timescale: From 01 July, 2000 to 01 April, 2008
(Added to website on: 11 September, 2001 - Date last updated: 09 October, 2011)

Source of funding:
Medical Research Council

Aims: To understand barriers to appropriate utilisation of joint replacements and to test alternatives.

Research designs used:
Case Study
Cohort Study
Evaluation
Randomised controlled trial
Study of views/experiences
Systematic review

Methods used to collect data:
Focus groups
Interviews
Questionnaire survey

Research project description: Who should have a joint replacement and when?

Stages at which the public were involved:
Planning the research

Description of public involvement in research stages: We are forming a panel of people who have had joint replacements to act as advisers over a period of several years.

Training and support provided for either members of the public or researchers involved in the project:

Examples of ways the public have made a difference to the research project: They told us to sort out who should have a joint replacement when we were piloting this project so that became the focus of our work.

Evaluating the impact of public involvement in the research:

Details of publications or reports resulting from the research: Lancet 2000 : 355:2037 Arthritis Care and Research 2000 : 13:312 Rheumatology ( In Press)

Links to Reports:

Was/is your project user controlled: Not Known

For further information on the project, please contact:
Professor Paul Dieppe
Director
Medical Research Council Health Services Research Collaboration
Dept of Social Medicine
University of Bristol
Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road
Bristol
BS8 2PR
p.dieppe@bristol.ac.uk
0117 928 7343


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