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VT Farewell

MRC Biostatistics Unit
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Methods for assessing responsiveness: a critical review and recommendations

JA Husted, RJ Cook, VT Farewell… - Journal of clinical …, 2000 - Elsevier
A review of the literature suggests there are two major aspects of responsiveness. We
define the first as “internal responsiveness,” which characterizes the ability of a measure to …

The use of mixture models for the analysis of survival data with long-term survivors

VT Farewell - Biometrics, 1982 - JSTOR
… A generalization of these technigues has been considered by Farewell (1977a, b) in a
discussion of the incidence of breast cancer and there has been renewed interest in such models …

Efficacy of a Cancer Research UK communication skills training model for oncologists: a randomised controlled trial

L Fallowfield, V Jenkins, V Farewell, J Saul, A Duffy… - The Lancet, 2002 - thelancet.com
Background Doctors' communication with patients is commonly hampered by lack of training
in this core skill. This study aimed to assess the efficacy of an intensive 3-day training …

Factors associated with damage accrual in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: results from the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) …

IN Bruce, AG O'Keeffe, V Farewell, JG Hanly… - Annals of the …, 2015 - ard.bmj.com
Background and aims We studied damage accrual and factors determining development
and progression of damage in an international cohort of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) …

Performance indicators: good, bad, and ugly

SM Bird, C Sir David, VT Farewell… - Journal of the Royal …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
A striking feature of UK public services in the 1990s was the rise of performance monitoring (PM),
which records, analyses and publishes data in order to give the public a better idea of …

[HTML][HTML] Prednisone and aspirin in women with autoantibodies and unexplained recurrent fetal loss

…, FP Mandel, K Ritchie, V Farewell… - … England Journal of …, 1997 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Recurrent fetal loss has been well described in women with antiphospholipid
antibodies. Such women also often have other autoantibodies commonly found in patients …

Monitoring surgical performance using risk-adjusted cumulative sum charts

SH Steiner, RJ Cook, VT Farewell, T Treasure - Biostatistics, 2000 - academic.oup.com
The cumulative sum (CUSUM) procedure is a graphical method that is widely used for
quality monitoring in industrial settings. More recently it has been used to monitor surgical …

Lupus and pregnancy studies

MB Urowitz, DD Gladman, VT Farewell… - … : Official Journal of …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
Objective. To examine factors prior to pregnancy in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
(SLE) that are prognostic for the occurrence of active disease during and shortly after …

Multiplicity considerations in the design and analysis of clinical trials

RJ Cook, VT Farewell - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
The need for efficient use of available resources in medical research has led to the increased
appeal of clinical trial designs based on multiple responses, multiple treatment arms and …

The analysis of failure times in the presence of competing risks

…, AV Peterson Jr, N Flournoy, VT Farewell… - Biometrics, 1978 - JSTOR
Distinct problems in the analysis of failure times with competing causes of failure include the
estimation of treatment or exposure effects on specific failure types, the study of …