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SUMMARY:MHS Faculty Research Series 2013 | Opening up clinical performanc
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DESCRIPTION:'''Host:''' Institute of Population Health and Institute of I
 nflammation and Repair\n\n'''Title:''' "Opening up clinical performance"
 \n\n'''Speakers:''' Professor Ben Bridgewater\, Institute of Inflammatio
 n and Repair and Dr Evan Kontopantelis\, Institute of Population Health\
 n\n'''Registration:''' via Eventbrite: http://mhsfacultyresearchseries25
 sept.eventbrite.co.uk/\n\n(1) Title: “Creating transparency in healthcar
 e outcomes” \nProfessor Ben Bridgewater\, Institute of Inflammation and 
 Repair\n\nBen Bridgewater is a consultant cardiac surgeon at the Univers
 ity Hospital of South Manchester and Honorary Professor in the Departmen
 t of Translational Medicine. He leads the programme to collect\, analyse
  and publish data on cardiac surgical outcomes in the UK and runs an act
 ive research programme  which develops methodologies for analysis and ap
 plies the data to hypothesis testing. He is also the Chair of the Europe
 an Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery database committee. Since Marc
 h 2013\, Ben has been appointed as the Director of Outcomes Publication 
 at the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership\, to deliver the publi
 cation of clinical outcomes for 9 surgical specialties and interventiona
 l cardiology on behalf of NHS England.\n\n(2) Title: “Variation and fina
 ncial incentives in primary care quality of care”\nDr Evan Kontopantelis
 \, Institute of Population Health\, \n\nEvan Kontopantelis works with la
 rge-scale primary care databases (PCDs) to investigate important health 
 care issues: the effect of monetary incentives on quality of care\, pred
 ictors of cancer\, cancer screening utilisation and care for people with
  severe mental illnesses. From a statistical perspective he is mainly in
 terested in structured equation modelling\, reliability analysis\, simul
 ations\, bootstrapping\, interrupted time series\, meta-analysis and PCD
  validity research. He joined the University of Manchester in 2005 and h
 as been involved in primary care\, biostatistics and health informatics 
 research since then. He is currently on a National Institute for Health 
 Research (NIHR) Training Fellowship\, until October 2013.\n\nMore inform
 ation about the Faculty Research Series\, and a full list of future date
 s: http://www.mhs.manchester.ac.uk/intranet/admingroups/research/Events/
 \n\n'''About the Faculty Research Series:'''\n\n*These are monthly event
 s that are open to all staff and students from across the Faculty of Med
 ical and Human Sciences and the University\, offering an opportunity to 
 celebrate research achievement and stimulate scientific interaction. Eac
 h month\, one host School or Institute from the Faculty will pair with a
  different School or Institute to highlight and showcase similar topics 
 from different perspectives.\n\n*The 2013 series is being led by Profess
 or David Eisner and administered from the Faculty Research Office. \n\n*
 View video: 'Faculty Research Series: introduction'\, see: http://www.mh
 s.manchester.ac.uk/intranet/events/researchseries/researchintro\n\n*Held
  on Wednesday lunchtimes\, each meeting lasts an hour\, including two 20
 -25 minute presentations – one from a junior and one from a more senior 
 member of Faculty staff. \n\n*Each presentation will be followed by a sh
 ort discussion.\n\n*A buffet lunch will be available from 12.30 pm.\n\n*
 Presentations begin: 1.00 pm.\n
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:G306b\, Jean McFarlane Building \, Oxford Rd\, Manchester\, M139
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