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Choosing outcomes and measures - for doing and using research
James Lind AllianceOutcomes in clinical research – whose responsibility?20 November 2008
Sandy Oliver Professor of Public Policywww.ioe.ac.uk/ssru
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Outline • Using outcomes in decisions
• Choosing outcomes for decision
• What are the challenges?
• Who to involve, and why?
• What expertise is required?
• What roles may we adopt?
• What are our responsibilities?
Using outcomes in decisions?
Personal decisions• About own care, or patient’s care• About participating in research (providing data, recruiting
participants)
Collective decisions• Developing policy• Planning services• Doing research
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Choosing outcomes for decisionsIF USING RESEARCH…
Choosing from a set of outcomes available from completed research• for personal decisions• for collective decisions
IF DOING RESEACH…• Thinking of plausible outcomes of treatment, good and bad• Choosing those which are important and measurable
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Plausible, important and measurablePLAUSIBLE AND IMPORTANT• To whom?
– Patients, carers, clinicians, researchers?• For what?
– Choosing personal care, Planning services, Developing interventions?
MEASURABLE• Technically?• Within staffing resources?• Without exhausting participants good will?• For how long?
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Challenges when choosing outcomes
Thinking about…• Complex issues• Complex health conditions• Undesired effects as well as desired effects
Deciding priorities• Choosing between all possible outcomes
Limited personal perspective
Sharing ideas and coming to agreement
Thinking about outcomesIt’s difficult thinking about• personal recovery goals… for coping strategies. (CEO charity)• undesired effects… But they are just as important [as desired effects].
(Health services Researcher) • a complex outcome study. Useful though. (Health services researcher)
In contrast• Quite easy as there are research questions I am exploring currently in a
multi-centre trial. (Health service researcher)
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Deciding priorities• Hard to disentangle the effects and therefore hard to prioritise (anon.)
• Quite easy to list the symptoms and the desired effects, it was harder to decide which was the most important and why. (Research funder)
• I’m afraid that it is not possible to rank the desired effects in this way. [This condition] is multi-faceted; the facets vary in intensity in any one individual, over time and between individuals. What matters is to ensure that all the effects of the disease are included in the outcome measures. (Service user/ Support group representative)
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Limited personal perspective• I found it hard to move between my personal experience and objective
notions of measurement and ranking…In thinking about a condition which I don’t have myself but have professional responsibility for, I found it easier to answer the questions. But I’m not convinced that my answers are generally accurate. (Service user/ Support group representative)
• [What was hard?] Not knowing how physiological benefits are measured (Patient involvement lead)
• I am not a sufferer myself. I don’t represent patients for any single disease area, and so am not knowledgeable about any one disease to give a sensible set of examples. (Patient Involvement specialist)
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Sharing ideas
• I found it difficult to summarise in a few words the major issues(Health services user-researcher)
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Who to involve, and why?
• Ethical, rights, citizenship arguments justify involvement in• choosing areas of life deserving research
prioritising problems• ensuring accountability of researchers
• Pragmatic arguments for better research, use of research findings and, ultimately, health justify involvement in:• deciding how the research should be done
finding solutions
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What expertise do we need?
To prioritise problems deserving research…• Understanding about living with the condition• Understanding about treating people with the condition• Understanding the purpose of research• Skills for communicating with and for the different groups
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What expertise do we need?
To improve research and research use…• Understanding about living with the condition• Understanding about treating people with the condition• Understanding the nature, potential, limitations and options
for research• Skills for communicating with and for the different groups
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What roles?
• As individual patients or clinicians – to make individual decisions about particular treatments or research projects
• As a voice for patients or clinicians – to be well informed and able to speak about a range of views
• As a researcher – to take into account the views of patients and clinicians when planning, conducting and reporting research
• As a ‘link’ person – to help different people understand each others’ issues and work together
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Spokespeople for collective decisions
Networked/ well informed patients and carers
Networked/ well informed health professionals
Who…
Understand the purpose of research
Understand the nature, potential and limitations of research
Are up-to-date with their peers
Listen, share ideas, learn
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Spokespersons: the current cast
Networked/ well informed patients and carers
Networked/ well informed health professionals
Individual patients and carers
Individual health professionals
Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) leads
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The current cast: roles for choosing outcomes and measures
Researchers
Networked patients, carers & health professionals
Individual patients
Individual health professionals
PPI leads
Designing measures
Spokespersons
Piloting measures
Link persons
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Our responsibilities• Be clear about the types of decisions (personal/collective)• Learn about the topic• Be clear about own expertise and roles
(as an individual, spokesperson, link person)• Be clear about other people’s expertise and roles• Listen to other people• Share our own ideas• Keep our expertise up-to-date• Learn from our experiences of sharing decisions
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Ideas about roles and responsibilities…• World Health Organisation
International Conference on Primary Health Care, Alma-Ata, USSR, 1978.
• Philosophy of communication Habermas’ ideology about fair play in speech and mutual understanding
• History of public involvement in science Collins and Evans (2002) The Third Wave of Science Studies: Studies of Expertise and Experience. Social Studies of Science, Vol. 32, No. 2, 235-296.
• Study of expertise Stewart (2007) The communication of expertise in the context of multi-disciplined, participatory, problem-based training in evidence-based decision-making. PhD thesis.
• Studies of getting research findings into decisionsGreenhalgh et al (2004) Diffusion of innovations in service organizations: systematic review and recommendations. The Milbank Quarterly 82 (4): 581 – 629.
• Your pre-seminar contributions to today’s discussion
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