MethodS in Patient-centered outcomes and HEalth ResEarch (SPHERE)
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Recherche en santé avec une approche centrée sur le patient
Address
UMR INSERM 1246 – SPHERE, CHRU de Tours
Bâtiment Tertiaire, 2 boulevard Tonnellé
Tours 37044
France
Director
Véronique Sébille (University of Nantes) and Bruno Giraudeau (University of Tours)
Contact
sphere.secretariat@univ-tours.fr
Website
Scientific Field
SPHERE is a multidisciplinary unit that seeks to develop and validate methods that can be used in clinical or epidemiological studies.
The philosophy that drives the SPHERE unit is that the patient must be considered as a whole, i.e. taking into account his/her environment, and integrating his/her perceptions, experience, and wishes.
Research topics:
- Cluster Randomized Trials and Complex Interventions
- Definition, selection, validation, and assessment of outcomes
- Methods for the measurement and interpretation of Self-Reported Outcomes
- Prediction and Causality
Skills and know-how:
- Cluster randomized trial planning and analysis
- Complex intervention evaluation
- Outcome development and assessment
- « Core outcome set » development
- Psychometric analysis
- Prognostic analyses
- Causal inference
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