Executive summaries of final reports - January/March 2003

The following final reports were accepted by the Health Services Research Committee at their meeting in January 2003 and the Biomedical and Therapeutic Research Committee at their meeting in March 2003.

Health Services Research Committee

	Dr S Qureshi, Dr H McFarlane, Ms J Miller, Mr R Harbour	Using formal consensus methods to develop a guideline on post-operative care (CZG/4/2/26)
	Dr P Hanlon, Professor M Gilhooley, Mrs B Whyte	Phase III - Determinant of good health and successful ageing: a detailed examination of the healthiest surviving members of the MIDSPAN cohort (K/OPR/2/2/D372)
	Dr R McInnes, Ms J Britten, Dr P Hoddinott	Breastfeeding peer support: a descriptive study of health service programmes in Scotland (CZG/4/2/55)
	Dr M Granat, Mr D B Allen, Mr J P Hasler, Mr D J Maxwell	Functional electrical stimulation augmented treadmill training for incomplete spinal cord injured patients: a pilot study (CZH/4/15)
	Dr J Austin, Professor D Godden, Dr G Russell, Dr S Selvaraj	Allergic disease in Scottish school children - prevalence, trends and impact (CZH/4/40)
	Dr J Farmer, Mrs L Iverson (nee Stevenson), Dr N C Campbell, Dr G Deans, Ms R Chesson, Dr J MacDonald	Decisions to use primary care: a qualitative study in urban and rural general practice (CZH/4/16)
	Professor A Taylor, Professor D Goldberg, Dr S Ahmed, Dr S Cameron, Dr R Fox, Ms A Judd, Mr M Hickman	The prevalence and incidence of hepatitis C infection and associated risk behaviours among Glasgow injecting drug users who commenced injecting after the full implementation of harm reduction interventions (CZH/4/6)
	Professor N McIntosh, Dr G Menon	Neurological outcomes and pre-emptive analgesia in neonates: The NEOPAIN multicentre trial (Scottish Centre) (K/OPR/2/2/D397)
	Dr W A Liston, Dr DM Campbell	The effect of body mass index on obstetric performance (K/OPR/15/10/F20)
	Professor D Stone, Professor M Connor, Dr D Aitken, Dr J Chalmers, Dr J Crossley	The epidemiology and prevention of neural tube defects in Scotland - an exploration of available data sources (CZG/4/2/33)
	Dr P Adair (nee McGoldrick), Dr J Bannister	A systematic (Cochrane) review of conscious sedation for dental anxiety (CZG/4/2/44) New format
	Mr K Laidlaw, Dr K Davidson, Mr H Toner, Dr G Jackson, Dr S Clark	A randomised controlled trial of cognitive behaviour therapy versus treatment as usual in the treatment of mild to moderate late life depression (K/OPR/2/2/D367)
	Dr R M Wrate, Dr D Blackwood, Dr A Pelosi, Dr V Murray, Dr D Will, Dr R J R McCabe	Adolescent onset psychosis in Scotland: prevalence, health service use and disabilities (K/OPR/2/2/D370)
	Professor F M Sullivan, Professor G C M Watt, Ms E D Mitchell, Dr J M Grimshaw, Dr A Walker	Turning general practice data into useful knowledge - a randomised trial of two strategies of feedback to improve management of elderly hypertension using computerised data (K/OPR/2/2/D331)
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Biomedical and Therapeutic Research Committee

	Dr S C Clarke	Development of a PCR assay and typing method for invasive pneumococcal disease based on detection of the pneumolysin gene (CZG/4/21)
	Dr D Keating, Dr S Parks, Dr E Kemp, Professor W R Lee	In-vivo cross-sectional imaging of the retina using optical coherence tomography: evaluation and clinical application in management of choroidal melanoma (K/MRS/50/C2712)
	Dr S C Clarke	Developing assays for the monitoring of meningococcal disease after the introduction of conjugate vaccines (CZG/4/1/32)
	Dr S B Brown, Dr E Horn, Dr J Ross, Dr D Stirling	Constitutive death of platelets: a novel stimulus to thrombosis (CZB/4/8)
	Dr J H G Williams, Dr A Gilchrist, Professor A Whiten, Dr A Murray, Professor D I Perrett	A pilot study using fMRI to image imitation in autistic spectrum disorders (CZB/4/26)
	Dr D Porter, Mr P Lock, Dr H Capell	A RCT and prospective economic evaluation of intensive management of active, early rheumatoid arthritis, compared with routine outpatient care (K/MRS/50/C2745)
	Dr P Andrews, Ms B Harris	A randomised cross-over trial of the effects of airflow through the upper respiratory tract of intubated, brain injured patients on brain temperature and selective brain cooling (CZG/4/1/37)
	Professor L T Whalley, Dr R T Staff, Dr A Murray, Professor I Deary	The clinical significance of brain cortical atrophy and white matter lesions detected by MRI in a well characterised cohort of old people (K/MRS/2/2/2785)
	Professor W J Reilly, Dr J Wastling, Professor A Tait, Professor H Smith, Professor S Reid	The development and evaluation of molecular typing as a tool to investigate the epidemiology of human cryptospondiosis (K/MRS/50/C2762) New format
	Dr M McLaren, Professor J J F Belch, Dr K Morley	Investigation of platelet glycoprotein IIIa polymorphism in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (CZG/4/1/20) New format
	Dr I R Gunn, Dr D Gaffney, Professor C Packard, Mr A McMahon	Haemochromatosis gene mutations and risk of coronary heart disease (CZG/4/1/52)
	Professor R P Rampling, Dr M Boyd, Professor S M Brown, Dr R Mairs	A laboratory and clinical study of the synergy between radiation and the herpes simplex virus mutant, HSV1716 as a treatment for brain tumours (CZB/4/9)
	Dr B C Williams, Professor K A A Fox, Dr A K Dutta-Roy	Cardiac fatty acid binding protein as an early marker for myocardial damage (K/MRS/50/C2453)
	Professor P C Hayes, Dr J N Plevris, Dr J D S Gaylor, Dr L J Nelson	The application of a bioartificial liver support system to the treatment of a porcine model of fulminant hepatic failure prior to phase 1 trials (K/MRS/50/C2768)
	Dr J C Bramley, Dr S C Clarke, Dr S Ahmed	Carriage of hypervirulent meningococci before and after introduction of serogroup C conjugate polysaccharide vaccine in the UK (K/MRS/50/C2781)
	Dr H K Young, Professor S G B Amyes, Ms T G Dorai-John	The emergence and control of totally-resistant Klebsiella spp in hospitals (K/MRS/50/C2698)
	Dr R Fleming, Dr L Harborne, Dr N Sattar, Dr H Lyall, Dr J Norman	Project to determine whether high doses of metformin (>1500mg per day) can improve risk factors in morbidly obese women with polycystic ovaries (CZG/4/1/47)
	Dr G M Walsh, Dr J G Douglas	Analysis of the diagnostic and functional consequences of enhanced CD45, CD45RA, CD45RB and CD45RO expression by eosinophils from asthmatic subjects (K/MRS/50/C2779)
	Mr S Dundas, Dr J A Ross, Dr W Bickmore, Dr C Bellamy, Professor O J Garden	Bone marrow-derived hepatocytes: does rate of engraftment and functional status provide the basis for a novel treatment of liver disease? (CZG/4/1/15)
	Dr J W Muir, Professor D R Blackwood, Professor D J Porteous	Molecular cytogenetic mapping of the breakpoints of chromosome abnormalities associated with schizophrenia (K/MRS/50/C2789)