Newcastle University

Risk Communication and Decision Making

Current Projects

• A questionnaire survey of attitudes of orthopaedic surgeons to the use of decision aids in hip and knee replacement surgery
  Project Leader(s): Dr Meng Khaw
• Centre for Shared Decision Making
  Project Leader(s): Richard Thomson; Joanne Lally
• DASH Objective III
  Project Leader(s): Professor Gary Ford and Dr Chris Price
• Designing decision support to facilitate choice of urinary drainage procedure after cystectomy for bladder cancer
  Project Leader(s): Susan Wong (C.I.), Prof. Richard Thomson, Dr. Catherine Exley, Prof. Robert Pickard
• Developing and Assessing Services for Hyperacute Stroke (DASH)
  Project Leader(s): Prof. Gary Ford (PI), Dr Madeleine Murtagh, Prof Richard Thomson
  

  For more information please see our DASH newsletter: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ihs/assets/pdfs/dashnewsletterissue 2.pdf

• Development and Assessment of Services for Hyper-acute Stroke (DASH) : Objective II
  Project Leader(s): Professor Richard Thomson
• Development and Assessment of Services for Hyper-acute Stroke (DASH): Objective 1
  Project Leader(s): Prof Gary Ford, Prof Helen Rodgers, Prof Richard Thomson, Prof Martin White, Prof Martin Eccles, Dr Madeleine Murtagh
  To determine the effectiveness of a multi faceted community programme to increase awareness of and response to symptoms of stroke by the public, patients and health service staff
• Development and Assessment of Services for Hyper-acute Stroke (DASH): Objective IV
  Project Leader(s): Professor Gary Ford and Dr Chris Price
• Development of evidenced-based decision support information for MMR and Influenza vaccinations
  Project Leader(s): Prof Richard Thomson, Dr Madeleine Murtagh, Dr Rachel Baker, Mrs Suttini Wattanakul
• Diabetes and tuberculosis control
• Diabetes DNA
  Project Leader(s): Dr Madeleine Murtagh
• Improving learning from patient safety incidents
  Project Leader(s): Australian Patient Safety Foundation, Adelaide, Australia. Project lead Prof Bill Runciman
• Making Good Decisions In Collaboration With Patients (MAGIC)
  Project Leader(s): Professor Richard Thomson and Professor Glyn Elwyn
• Managing scarcity: developing commissioning in the (primary) care organisations within Northumberland and Tyne & Wear Strategic Health Authority
  Project Leader(s): Prof Cam Donaldson, Dr Madeleine Murtagh, Ms Angela Bate
• Older people’s involvement in decision making and governance: a qualitative study with expert older people in the Better Government for Older People (BGOP) Older Peoples’ Advisory Group (OPAG)
  Project Leader(s): Dr Madeleine Murtagh
• Processes and practices in the enrolment of patients to randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of acute and hyperacute stroke treatment: decision making by patients, carers and healthcare professionals
  Project Leader(s): Dr Madeleine Murtagh, Lynne Stobbart, Dr Helen Rodgers, Prof Gary Ford, Dr Stephen Louw
• Promoting patient involvement in improving patient safety
  Project Leader(s): Prof. Richard Thomson
• Qualitative study of professional, patient and parents’ perspectives on decision-making about treatments for intermittent distance exotropia (X(T))
  Project Leader(s): Richard Thomson
• Safer care and harm reduction in the primary care setting using the global trigger tool
  Project Leader(s): Richard Thomson
• Understanding the barriers to the uptake by prisoners of opportunities for testing for Hepatitis C viral infection
  Project Leader(s): Dr Meng Khaw, Dr Madeleine Murtagh
• What is the clinical effect and cost effectiveness of treating upper limb spasticity due to stroke with botulinum toxin
• Women’s decision making regarding pain relief in labour
  Project Leader(s): Mrs Joanne Lally, Prof Richard Thomson, Dr Madeleine Murtagh, Dr Sheila Macphail (R.V.I.)