@petermay_csi

#healtheconomics #palliativecare // @CSI_KCL @tilda_tcd // may contain traces of parenting, cricket, #avfc, scepticism, empty 90s references. Own views etc

 London, Dublin
kcl.ac.uk/cicelysaunders
Joined April 2017
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New paper w/ @kesleeman and others. Specialist palliative care (SPC) improves patient experience, reduces bed days and saves money: An economic modelling study of home- and hospital-based care journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

Specialist palliative care improves patient experience, reduces bed days and saves money: An...

Background: High-quality evidence suggests that specialist palliative care reduces the odds of dying in hospital. The economic implications have not been establ...

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📣📣📣 Webinar on the economic benefits of palliative care 📅 Thursday, 12 November ⏰ 2:00pm–3:00pm (GMT) 💻 Online via Microsoft Teams With @petermay_csi, lead author of new research that demonstrates that hospital- and home-based specialist palliative care for adults reduces NHS costs, supports people to die out of hospital and reduces bed days. 🔎 PLUS we will launch bespoke briefings for ICSs on the economic benefits of specialist palliative care. To access the briefing for your ICS, email [email protected]. 🎟️ Register here: tickettailor.com/events/facu…
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Limitations: Trials evaluate timely, coherent care, but room to make it more timely, coherent in real-world practice. Place-of-death effects aren’t for everyone. Benefits will accrue to those fortunate enough to want, and be able, to go home.
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There is also a podcast promised on journal website at some point. Negotiations to turn this into a beloved series ‘The Rest Is Economics Of Advanced Illness and Medical Complexity’ remain deadlocked over my unreasonable personal demands.
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Specialist palliative care improves patient experience, reduces bed days and saves money: an economic modelling study of home- and hospital-based care medrxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #medRxiv
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Peter May retweeted
Khoa Vu@KhoaVuUmn9 Aug 2025
With large n we don't even need the credibility revolution.
John B. Holbein
@JohnHolbein19 Aug 2025
The credibility revolution was good; now we need a statistical power revolution
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Come do a PhD with me! Annual stipend, fees paid, funds for travel, national and international placements and research materials! Plus you get to do this @RCSI_Irl!
Dementia Research Network Ireland@drnire24 Apr 2025
🧑‍🎓@SPHeREprogramme & @JonathanBriody are advertising a @Researchirel funded PhD scholarship: “Empowering Voices, Enhancing Outcomes: Co‑creating an Open‑Source Health‑Economic Model for Alzheimer’s Disease & Dementia in Ireland". ➡️More info & to apply: tinyurl.com/49mta4ce
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As a palliative care doctor, I am aghast that a bill sponsor could get this so fundamentally wrong People with a month to live are not ‘by definition already being palliated’ The is the entire point 1 in 4 people who need palliative care don’t receive it 100,000 ppl each year
Care Not Killing
@CNKAlliance5 Mar 2025
Leadbeater #AssistedSuicide Bill committee: 5 Mar >𝟭𝟬𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗞 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲. MP Kit Malthouse, opposing longer periods of reflection & mandatory #palliativecare referral: "these people are by definition being palliated with a month to go; the idea they're just waltzing up, unattended to..." kcl.ac.uk/news/65-of-adults-… @kesleeman

65% of adults are worried about access to palliative care | King's College London

A survey commissioned by King’s College London, and carried out by YouGov, has found that 65% of people across the UK are worried about access to palliative and end of life care, and 41% think there...

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Looking at ICLR submissions with the lowest score - What a work of art! 🧵
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Last research webinar of @eolc_research of 2024! With @petermay_csi. State of the art on econonmic evaluation of palliative care. Dec 12 👇 eventbrite.be/o/vrije-univer…
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This is a great opportunity for recent graduates and early career researchers. Join our team!
The Sutton Trust
@suttontrust22 Oct 2024
Our agenda-setting research identifies the root causes of low social mobility and promotes effective solutions through education and employment 🔎 If you want the chance to contribute to our research outputs, join our team! Apply by 28th October ⬇️ recruitment.suttontrust.com/…
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Job opportunity! We are recruiting a full-time post-doc in #healtheconomics. The successful applicant will work on national and international trials, and with UK policymakers, to improve outcomes for people with serious illness and their families. my.corehr.com/pls/coreportal…
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Peter May retweeted
Khoa Vu@KhoaVuUmn16 Oct 2024
Does it teach them about omitted variable bias?
Jeremy Wayne Tate
@JeremyTate4115 Oct 2024
Research data from 160,000 adults in 31 countries concludes that a sizeable home library gave teens skills equivalent to university graduates.
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“The NHS has too many managers” latest
Alison Moore @alijanemoore also on Bluesky@AliJaneMoore15 Oct 2024
What? Waiting times reduced from a year to 7 weeks by employing an administrator.
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Academics via email: Sorry but your question about late 17th C. Portuguese mercantilism is outside my area of expertise, which is early 17th C. Portuguese mercantilism Academics via Twitter: I teach linguistics at Oberlin and I am troubled by the Democrat’s strategy in Nevada
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Published today in @LancetRespirMed the results the BETTER-B double blind, international randomised controlled trial of whether mirtazapine alleviates severe #breathlessness in people with serious #respiratory illness or needing #palliative care- thelancet.com/journals/lanre…

Mirtazapine to alleviate severe breathlessness in patients with COPD or interstitial lung diseases...

Our findings suggested that mirtazapine of doses 15 to 45 mg daily over 56 days does not improve severe breathlessness among patients with COPD or interstitial lung diseases and might cause adverse...

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Hot off the press: BETTER-B trial results now published by the Lancet Respiratory Medicine: thelancet.com/journals/lanre… Key finding: the antidepressant mirtazapine does not alleviate severe breathlessness. Findings raise questions about off-label medicines.

Mirtazapine to alleviate severe breathlessness in patients with COPD or interstitial lung diseases...

Our findings suggested that mirtazapine of doses 15 to 45 mg daily over 56 days does not improve severe breathlessness among patients with COPD or interstitial lung diseases and might cause adverse...

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