Standard Development Group: Selection, Measurement, and Reporting of Outcomes in Clinical Trials
Ian P. Sinha
Affiliation: Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Douglas G. Altman †
† Deceased 3 June 2018
Michael W. Beresford
Affiliation: Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Maarten Boers
Affiliation: Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mike Clarke
Affiliation: All-Ireland Hub for Trials Methodology Research, Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Jonathan Craig
Affiliation: School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Ornella Della Casa Alberighi
Affiliation: Clinical Pharmacology Unit, G. Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy
Ricardo M. Fernandes
Affiliation: Attending pediatrician, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Santa Maria, Lisbon’s Academic Medical Centre; Lecturer and clinical researcher, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, and Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular Molecular; Co-Director, Cochrane Child Health Field.
Research interests: Clinical research interests – pediatric respiratory disease, allergy and emergency medicine; methodological topics – research on outcomes and measurement, clinical trial design, conduct and data monitoring, and systematics reviews and meta-analysis.
Current projects: improving trial design and selecting patient-relevant and valid outcomes and outcome measurements in acute and chronic pediatric respiratory conditions such as bronchiolitis and recurrent wheezing disorders; developing methods to conduct overviews of systematic reviews in child health; improving methods to disseminate high-quality pediatric evidence.
Lisa Hartling
Affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Bradley C. Johnston
Affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Andrew Lux
Affiliation: Department of Pediatric Neurology, Frenchay Hospital and the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol, United Kingdom
Amy Plint
Affiliation: Department of Pediatrics and Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Peter Tugwell
Affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa and Institute of Population Health, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Mark Turner
Affiliation: Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Johanna H. van der Lee
Affiliation: Department of Pediatric Clinical Epidemiology, Emma Children’s Hospital, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Martin Offringa
Affiliation: Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Research interests: Design, conduct, and reporting of high quality trials that inform decision making.
Current projects: Developing standards, frameworks, and tools for ethics review of multicentre trials; deferring consent in trials in acute medical conditions (publication submitted); developing justifiable comparators to enhance recruitment; developing relevant, acceptable and responsive health outcomes for children.
Paula R. Williamson
Affiliation: Department of Biostatisics, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Rosalind L. Smyth
Affiliation: Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom