Hayley Jones
@profhayleyjones.bsky.social
Professor of Medical Statistics, University of Bristol, UK: meta-analysis methods, diagnostic test accuracy, screening evaluation, Bayesian modelling. Any views my own or my cats’.
Super proud of my PhD student Yasin Okkaoglu who passed his viva with very minor corrections today 🥳. We’ve enjoyed guiding him through research on latent class models to estimate diagnostic test accuracy, and we’ve learned a lot too! Yasin is heading to Newcastle Uni next for a post doc position.
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Super proud of my PhD student Yasin Okkaoglu who passed his viva with very minor corrections today 🥳. We’ve enjoyed guiding him through research on latent class models to estimate diagnostic test accuracy, and we’ve learned a lot too! Yasin is heading to Newcastle Uni next for a post doc position.
Planned to go to ISCB this year for the first time in ages, but it’s sold out before I got around to booking! 😭
June 10, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Planned to go to ISCB this year for the first time in ages, but it’s sold out before I got around to booking! 😭
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How ‘correct’ should #evidencesynthesis be? How does this change if we add #AI?
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June 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
How ‘correct’ should #evidencesynthesis be? How does this change if we add #AI?
Help inform new tool dev and best practice guidance! forms.office.com/e/ZwdicYQpjv
Open until 2 Jul, ~35 mins. Part of @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded DESTinY @campbellreviews.bsky.social @ellaflem.bsky.social
Help inform new tool dev and best practice guidance! forms.office.com/e/ZwdicYQpjv
Open until 2 Jul, ~35 mins. Part of @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded DESTinY @campbellreviews.bsky.social @ellaflem.bsky.social
Finally official! We're excited to have just launched the new NIHR Bristol Evidence Synthesis for Screening (BESS) Group. Funded for 5 years to produce evidence reviews and models to support the important work of the UK National Screening Committee.
nationalscreening.blog.gov.uk/2025/04/07/n...
nationalscreening.blog.gov.uk/2025/04/07/n...
New NIHR evidence synthesis groups give major boost to the UK NSC
The National Institute for Health Research is investing millions of pounds to provide the UK NSC with dedicated research expertise.
nationalscreening.blog.gov.uk
April 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Finally official! We're excited to have just launched the new NIHR Bristol Evidence Synthesis for Screening (BESS) Group. Funded for 5 years to produce evidence reviews and models to support the important work of the UK National Screening Committee.
nationalscreening.blog.gov.uk/2025/04/07/n...
nationalscreening.blog.gov.uk/2025/04/07/n...
We extended our work from last year to estimate prevalence of opioid dependence in Scotland up to 2022/23 and for 4 additional NHS Boards.
For more info about this project and model, see
hprubse.blogspot.com/2024/08/coun...
Updated estimates now available via the PHS report below.
For more info about this project and model, see
hprubse.blogspot.com/2024/08/coun...
Updated estimates now available via the PHS report below.
Latest opioid dependence prevalence estimates for Scotland published today.
publichealthscotland.scot/media/32049/...
publichealthscotland.scot/media/32049/...
publichealthscotland.scot
March 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
We extended our work from last year to estimate prevalence of opioid dependence in Scotland up to 2022/23 and for 4 additional NHS Boards.
For more info about this project and model, see
hprubse.blogspot.com/2024/08/coun...
Updated estimates now available via the PHS report below.
For more info about this project and model, see
hprubse.blogspot.com/2024/08/coun...
Updated estimates now available via the PHS report below.
Looking forward to presenting (online) with colleagues tomorrow, on our use of rich linked data in Scotland to better understand prevalence of and risks of opioid dependence. Still time to sign up via link below
Join us online tomorrow!
The Power of Data Linkage
📅 27 February 2025
🕘 10:00 - 12:00
📍 Online via Teams
Sign up here:
The Power of Data Linkage
📅 27 February 2025
🕘 10:00 - 12:00
📍 Online via Teams
Sign up here:
The Power of Data Linkage
Evaluating Public Health Interventions for Substance Use in Scotland (EPHeSUS): The Power of Data Linkage
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February 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Looking forward to presenting (online) with colleagues tomorrow, on our use of rich linked data in Scotland to better understand prevalence of and risks of opioid dependence. Still time to sign up via link below
📣*Information Scientists*: please share in your networks!
Part time (50%) 5 year position available at Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol UK
Opportunity to contribute to evidence syntheses needed to support the work of the UK National Screening Committee
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Part time (50%) 5 year position available at Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol UK
Opportunity to contribute to evidence syntheses needed to support the work of the UK National Screening Committee
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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January 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
📣*Information Scientists*: please share in your networks!
Part time (50%) 5 year position available at Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol UK
Opportunity to contribute to evidence syntheses needed to support the work of the UK National Screening Committee
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Part time (50%) 5 year position available at Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol UK
Opportunity to contribute to evidence syntheses needed to support the work of the UK National Screening Committee
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Where in this article do Drs say either of those things? 🤔
At-home ECGs will detect early heart issues and save thousands, say doctors
At-home ECGs will detect early heart issues and save thousands, say doctors
Colour-coded output from smartwatch device would be easy for public to read
They remain some of the most complex diagnostic procedures carried out by doctors. To take an electrocardiogram, or ECG, they first have to attach 10 or more electrodes to a…
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Where in this article do Drs say either of those things? 🤔
📣Still time to apply for this job - closing date 13th January.
A 5 year post doc position for a statistician with expertise in evidence synthesis / meta-analysis.
Opportunity to join the excellent Bristol Evidence synthesis Appraisal and Modelling Centre at the University of Bristol, UK!
A 5 year post doc position for a statistician with expertise in evidence synthesis / meta-analysis.
Opportunity to join the excellent Bristol Evidence synthesis Appraisal and Modelling Centre at the University of Bristol, UK!
JOB! We're looking for a post doc (or equivalent) statistician with interest in meta-analysis and NMA to work across University of Bristol's 3 NIHR Evidence Synthesis Groups.
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Yes, I know this is a crazy time to advertise and I'll send reminders after Christmas!
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Yes, I know this is a crazy time to advertise and I'll send reminders after Christmas!
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
January 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
📣Still time to apply for this job - closing date 13th January.
A 5 year post doc position for a statistician with expertise in evidence synthesis / meta-analysis.
Opportunity to join the excellent Bristol Evidence synthesis Appraisal and Modelling Centre at the University of Bristol, UK!
A 5 year post doc position for a statistician with expertise in evidence synthesis / meta-analysis.
Opportunity to join the excellent Bristol Evidence synthesis Appraisal and Modelling Centre at the University of Bristol, UK!
JOBS: Multiple evidence synthesis posts available at the University of Bristol:
*4x (Senior) Research Associate (SRA/RA) in Evidence Synthesis
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
*SRA in Medical Statistics
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
*SRA in Information Science
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
*4x (Senior) Research Associate (SRA/RA) in Evidence Synthesis
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
*SRA in Medical Statistics
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
*SRA in Information Science
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
December 27, 2024 at 9:05 AM
JOBS: Multiple evidence synthesis posts available at the University of Bristol:
*4x (Senior) Research Associate (SRA/RA) in Evidence Synthesis
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
*SRA in Medical Statistics
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
*SRA in Information Science
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
*4x (Senior) Research Associate (SRA/RA) in Evidence Synthesis
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
*SRA in Medical Statistics
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
*SRA in Information Science
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
JOB! We're looking for a post doc (or equivalent) statistician with interest in meta-analysis and NMA to work across University of Bristol's 3 NIHR Evidence Synthesis Groups.
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Yes, I know this is a crazy time to advertise and I'll send reminders after Christmas!
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Yes, I know this is a crazy time to advertise and I'll send reminders after Christmas!
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
December 19, 2024 at 12:12 PM
JOB! We're looking for a post doc (or equivalent) statistician with interest in meta-analysis and NMA to work across University of Bristol's 3 NIHR Evidence Synthesis Groups.
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Yes, I know this is a crazy time to advertise and I'll send reminders after Christmas!
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Yes, I know this is a crazy time to advertise and I'll send reminders after Christmas!
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NEW TSD 25 evidence synthesis one page summary. To view visit: bit.ly/3ZxIreu
To view the series of TSDs in the area of evidence synthesis, visit: bit.ly/3ZsV8XX
For all available TSD one page summaries, visit: bit.ly/3Sx5ljz
To view the series of TSDs in the area of evidence synthesis, visit: bit.ly/3ZsV8XX
For all available TSD one page summaries, visit: bit.ly/3Sx5ljz
December 16, 2024 at 9:43 AM
NEW TSD 25 evidence synthesis one page summary. To view visit: bit.ly/3ZxIreu
To view the series of TSDs in the area of evidence synthesis, visit: bit.ly/3ZsV8XX
For all available TSD one page summaries, visit: bit.ly/3Sx5ljz
To view the series of TSDs in the area of evidence synthesis, visit: bit.ly/3ZsV8XX
For all available TSD one page summaries, visit: bit.ly/3Sx5ljz
Super interesting 1950s screening programme, including this amazing sounding publicity campaign: “two specially commissioned songs… which were played at football matches, church services, and on the radio. Illuminated tram cars carried posters, an aeroplane flew over the city trailing a banner”
How Glasgow's 1957 #tuberculosis screening programme could help countries today.
#episky #IDsky 🛟🧪🦠
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#episky #IDsky 🛟🧪🦠
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
How Glasgow's 1957 tuberculosis screening programme could help countries today
Visitors arriving in Glasgow, UK, today are met with a city that's undergone massive regeneration, from the colourfully illuminated exterior of the Hydro music venue on the old dockside along the River Clyde, to the stratified medicine cluster that is growing up around the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, one of the largest facilities in Europe. Wind the clock back to the 1950s, and visitors were faced with a city shrouded in smog from factories and coal fires, full of many people living in substandard, overcrowded housing, and suffering from poor nutrition, with World War 2 rationing only ending in 1954.
www.thelancet.com
December 12, 2024 at 7:53 AM
Super interesting 1950s screening programme, including this amazing sounding publicity campaign: “two specially commissioned songs… which were played at football matches, church services, and on the radio. Illuminated tram cars carried posters, an aeroplane flew over the city trailing a banner”
Excited to announce NICE Technical Support Document 25: Evidence synthesis of diagnostic test accuracy for decision making. Guidance on implementation of meta-analysis of test accuracy and use of results in decision models. Available from: www.sheffield.ac.uk/nice-dsu/tsd...
December 9, 2024 at 10:57 AM
Excited to announce NICE Technical Support Document 25: Evidence synthesis of diagnostic test accuracy for decision making. Guidance on implementation of meta-analysis of test accuracy and use of results in decision models. Available from: www.sheffield.ac.uk/nice-dsu/tsd...
New paper! Latent class models can be used to estimate diagnostic test accuracy without a 'gold standard' to compare with, but test correlations within true disease state (conditional dependence) can be a big challenge. Estimates of accuracy can be biased... (1/5)
doi.org/10.1186/s128...
doi.org/10.1186/s128...
Detecting departures from the conditional independence assumption in diagnostic latent class models: a simulation study - BMC Medical Research Methodology
Background Latent class models can be used to estimate diagnostic accuracy without a gold standard test. Early studies often assumed independence between tests given the true disease state, however th...
doi.org
December 5, 2024 at 3:47 PM
New paper! Latent class models can be used to estimate diagnostic test accuracy without a 'gold standard' to compare with, but test correlations within true disease state (conditional dependence) can be a big challenge. Estimates of accuracy can be biased... (1/5)
doi.org/10.1186/s128...
doi.org/10.1186/s128...
A handy little app for showing how a diagnostic test result changes probability of disease - input sensitivity & specificity values, which could be from a single study or a #metaanalysis. For more on interpreting test accuracy results, see also Alex Sutton’s DTA primer: crsu.shinyapps.io/diagprimer/
November 25, 2024 at 7:17 PM
A handy little app for showing how a diagnostic test result changes probability of disease - input sensitivity & specificity values, which could be from a single study or a #metaanalysis. For more on interpreting test accuracy results, see also Alex Sutton’s DTA primer: crsu.shinyapps.io/diagprimer/
We found a mouse in our house. The (indoor) cats are working hard on their surveillance duties 🙄 😹
November 24, 2024 at 10:03 PM
We found a mouse in our house. The (indoor) cats are working hard on their surveillance duties 🙄 😹
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Question for my #EvidenceSynthesis #MetaAnalysis #SystematicReview folks:
I'm organizing the 2025 meeting of the Society for Research Synthesis Methods (www.srsm.org). Currently working on the call for submissions, which it has me dreaming about sessions I would love to see at the conference....
I'm organizing the 2025 meeting of the Society for Research Synthesis Methods (www.srsm.org). Currently working on the call for submissions, which it has me dreaming about sessions I would love to see at the conference....
Society for Research Synthesis Methodology
The Society for Research Synthesis Methodology (SRSM) is an organization of scholars and practitioners interested in the development and application of research synthesis methodology. This website ser...
www.srsm.org
November 20, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Question for my #EvidenceSynthesis #MetaAnalysis #SystematicReview folks:
I'm organizing the 2025 meeting of the Society for Research Synthesis Methods (www.srsm.org). Currently working on the call for submissions, which it has me dreaming about sessions I would love to see at the conference....
I'm organizing the 2025 meeting of the Society for Research Synthesis Methods (www.srsm.org). Currently working on the call for submissions, which it has me dreaming about sessions I would love to see at the conference....
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I am trying to find reviewers for a paper which explores the use of LLMs to assess risk of bias in the context of evidence synthesis. I have asked 19 people so far…If you have experience with LLMs and/or RoB assessments AND a desire to review a paper please get in touch.
November 20, 2024 at 12:05 PM
I am trying to find reviewers for a paper which explores the use of LLMs to assess risk of bias in the context of evidence synthesis. I have asked 19 people so far…If you have experience with LLMs and/or RoB assessments AND a desire to review a paper please get in touch.
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MEMTAB 2025 pre-conference courses news!
2 options:
- An Introduction to Clinical Prediction Models and Sample Size Calculations for Model Development & Evaluation
- Systematic Reviews of Prognosis Studies
Just £50 when registering for conference!
Details 👇
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2 options:
- An Introduction to Clinical Prediction Models and Sample Size Calculations for Model Development & Evaluation
- Systematic Reviews of Prognosis Studies
Just £50 when registering for conference!
Details 👇
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Pre-conference Courses - MEMTAB 2025
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November 14, 2024 at 7:11 PM
MEMTAB 2025 pre-conference courses news!
2 options:
- An Introduction to Clinical Prediction Models and Sample Size Calculations for Model Development & Evaluation
- Systematic Reviews of Prognosis Studies
Just £50 when registering for conference!
Details 👇
uobevents.eventsair.com/memtab-2025/...
2 options:
- An Introduction to Clinical Prediction Models and Sample Size Calculations for Model Development & Evaluation
- Systematic Reviews of Prognosis Studies
Just £50 when registering for conference!
Details 👇
uobevents.eventsair.com/memtab-2025/...
Hi new followers! For those interested in/working on evidence synthesis methods, have you heard of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology (SRSM)? www.srsm.org We welcome applications from those meeting any 1 of our 5 criteria: www.srsm.org/how-to-apply...
Society for Research Synthesis Methodology
The Society for Research Synthesis Methodology (SRSM) is an organization of scholars and practitioners interested in the development and application of research synthesis methodology. This website ser...
www.srsm.org
November 13, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Hi new followers! For those interested in/working on evidence synthesis methods, have you heard of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology (SRSM)? www.srsm.org We welcome applications from those meeting any 1 of our 5 criteria: www.srsm.org/how-to-apply...
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My first post on this new platform will be sharing our recent research into Suicide among people with opioid dependence. In short, risk is much higher than the general population (8 times higher), but rates have fallen over time and treatment is protective. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Suicide in people prescribed opioid‐agonist therapy in Scotland, United Kingdom, 2011–2020: A national retrospective cohort study
Background and aims Opioid dependence is associated with an increased risk of suicide. Drug-related mortality among people with opioid dependence in Scotland has more than tripled since 2010; less i...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 12, 2024 at 12:43 PM
My first post on this new platform will be sharing our recent research into Suicide among people with opioid dependence. In short, risk is much higher than the general population (8 times higher), but rates have fallen over time and treatment is protective. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Register here for our next webinar with Mikkel Vembye: www.srmasig.org/seminar/
November 11, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Register here for our next webinar with Mikkel Vembye: www.srmasig.org/seminar/
Andreas Markoulidakis presenting our work at #LxAddictions24 today! Find out more via our paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
Better yet - come and do a PhD with us and explore how we can extend the methods to estimate stimulant dependence…
Better yet - come and do a PhD with us and explore how we can extend the methods to estimate stimulant dependence…
October 24, 2024 at 9:43 PM
Andreas Markoulidakis presenting our work at #LxAddictions24 today! Find out more via our paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
Better yet - come and do a PhD with us and explore how we can extend the methods to estimate stimulant dependence…
Better yet - come and do a PhD with us and explore how we can extend the methods to estimate stimulant dependence…
