Paul RoderickPaul Roderick has a major research interest in the effectiveness and equity of renal failure care. Since his involvement in the first National Renal Review in England, he has published several papers on the epidemiology of renal replacement therapy. Recently completed work includes studies of the epidemiology of chronic renal failure and avoidable factors in late referral. Paul has been on the Executive of the UK Renal Registry since its inception, and was joint co-ordinator of the 1995 and 1998 National Reviews. He is the lead investigator on a national project to evaluate satellite units. Paul is also interested in the evidence base for health care. In the renal field he has been a member of the Cochrane Renal Group since 1996, and an Editor since 1999. He is undertaking one review at present. Paul has been a member of the Renal Association's Standards Group since 1997. In non-renal areas he has also been principal investigator for two RCTs and helped plan and co-ordinate the MRCs multicentre Thrombosis Prevention trial. He is the lead on two systematic reviews of thromboprophylaxis in collaboration with CTSU in Oxford and is supervising a review of methods of assessing diagnostic tests. Paul teaches epidemiology and evidence based medicine to medical undergraduates, and to Masters and PhD level postgraduate students. |
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