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Make health data count

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What we do

Ultimately, REACH aims to improve the quality and relevance of health research and clinical trials by incorporating patient’s and public’s views and experiences into their design, analysis and interpretation.

Our research develops innovative approaches to improve the relevance of health research and health statistics in clinical practice to those that can benefit the most from it: patients, public and health care professionals.

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By working with patients, members of the public, and healthcare professionals, we aim to improve health statistics relevance and use in practice from research design to clinical decision making.

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Key Outputs

Our outputs focus on making health research and statistics more accessible to patients and the public, as well as healthcare professionals.

What are clinically important differences?

This video, co-developed with public partners, tell us more about meaningful differences in treatments in clinical trials.

Diagram titled 'Non-Inferiority Margin' with a central statement: 'A difference so small that most of us won't notice,' surrounded by annotations: 'The main aim of the treatment' pointing to the left and 'Well... it may not be so small but is acceptable overall*' pointing to the right, and at the bottom: 'Individual patients plus their clinicians' pointing to the left and 'Well... you might notice but you will find it acceptable*' pointing to the right, with a note '* Because of other benefits' at the bottom.

What are non-inferiority margins?

Our creative workshops with creative professionals, patients and statisticians have produced a range of outputs to help understand non-inferiority margins amongst other statistical aspects of trials.

The missing data puzzle

In a video co-developed with public partners, Sophie Greenwood explains the missing data puzzle in clinical trials and why patient’s views matter.