Primary care
The Primary Care and Populations Research team is dedicated to improving the way healthcare is delivered to individuals and the community at local, national and global levels. We work as a multi-disciplinary team, collaborating with other schools in the university, including Computer Science, Psychology, Geography, and Mathematics and Statistics, focusing on incorporating cutting-edge analytical tools and methodologies in to Health Data Research:
- Clinical trials and complex interventions
- Health Informatics – Record-linkage of electronic health records to aid decision support, machine learning methods for clinical prediction rules.
- Health Services Research
- Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
- Antimicrobial stewardship in primary care and infectious disease epidemiology
The Primary Care and Populations Research department is also part of the Scottish School of Primary Care. Since its inception in 2000, the SSPC has been responsible for high quality research and for bringing new research funding into Scottish universities. http://www.sspc.ac.uk/about_us/.
