Spring 2017
Welcome
The first of our research roadshow events turned out to be a bit of a surprise.
We had anticipated that there would be a lot of interest in hearing the team from Southend University presenting their research. We were expecting about 60 people, but on the day, people just kept on coming in, and we had an audience of 86. People had come from all over the region, and beyond, to hear more about new knowledge in GCA and PMR.
Professor Dasgupta of course is no stranger to our members, but his talk gave new insights into how groups of experts come up with new recommendations for diagnosis and treatment, exhaustively surveying all the research literature available to answer very specific questions. This research technique is called GRADE methodology, and the talk gave insight into the background to the new recommendations on PMR and the much-awaited recommendations on GCA, which we hope will be approved in the near future.
