Core Outcome Measures in Effectiveness Trials (COMET)
Third year medical student, Hannah Thomas, recently presented two research posters at the annual Core Outcome Measures in Effectiveness Trials (COMET) conference in Amsterdam. The conference aims to gather likeminded scientists, clinicians and students whose work focuses on developing standardized ‘core outcome sets’ in different fields of healthcare. Collecting, combining and reporting on these sets, aids in establishing a baseline reference for all clinical trials, audits of practice or other forms of research for a specific condition.
The two day conference included many insightful talks and workshops from scientists with the Cochrane review program, experts in the Delphi consensus and many more. Hannah presented two posters investigating cardiac disease in pregnant women, from her work at Mt Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada- “Variation in preferences of pregnant women with and without cardiac disease for health states related to anticoagulant use in pregnancy” and “Preferences of pregnant women with cardiac disease for maternal-fetal outcomes related to their pregnancies.”
Hannah would like to greatly thank her supervisor, Dr. Rohan D’Souza for his guidance and support, and the St Andrews School of Medicine for funding this fantastic research symposium.