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Oxford Trauma Cluster<br />
by Xavier Griffin and Matt Costa<br />
Each term we hold two open-invitation meetings, preceded by lunch in <strong>College</strong>. They<br />
embody an educational session on aspects of trauma care and an open-invitation lecture of<br />
general interest.<br />
THIS YEAR’S WEDNESDAY SESSIONS AND LECTURES:<br />
3 October 2018, we invited our PPI (patient and public involvement) Members to discuss<br />
JLA Lower Limb and Upper Limb as well as PPIs experience.<br />
5 December, we hosted Professor Paul Kind, who is a founder member and past-President of<br />
the EuroQoL Group, a multinational research cooperative responsible for the development<br />
of EQ-5D, and who recently retired from its Scientific Executive after more than twenty<br />
years. Associate Professor Xavier Griffin also provided an exciting insight into Fracture<br />
Healing.<br />
23 January, our NDORMS Grants Team gave a talk on ‘The Journey from Ideas to Funding<br />
to Running / Reporting a Project’. Duncan Appelbe, another internal speaker, updated us on<br />
digitalising trials through REDCap. This session also gave us a valuable opportunity to discuss<br />
ways forward and to provide feedback for the Trauma Trials Day.<br />
REPORTS<br />
27 March, Peter Knapp, Senior Lecturer at the University of York, informed us about<br />
developments in online digital media and its use in clinical trials, which is particularly useful<br />
for informing patients and developing their understanding about taking part in clinical trials.<br />
Dr Anthony Howard, previously a barrister and now a trauma surgeon at the University<br />
of Leeds, presented his work on medical error and consent. Matt Costa also gave an<br />
entertaining interactive session on ‘Why we do RCTs at all and the hierarchy of evidence’.<br />
7 May was the PPI Framework Workshop, which we shared with the UK Musculoskeletal<br />
Trauma PPI Group and the HERG programme within the BRC. Its goal was to develop a<br />
framework that will support the delivery of PPI in research, and consider how to evaluate<br />
that work. This event brought together patients, carers, researchers and clinicians to see what<br />
PPI is already being done well and what might be improved, and to discuss how everyone<br />
would like it to work in their research area. The group will then work on a framework for<br />
carrying out and evaluating PPI, and how this framework is to be implemented.<br />
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COLLEGE RECORD <strong>2019</strong>
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