
Dr Hayley Jones
BSc, MPhil (Cantab), PhD (Cantab)
Current positions
Senior Lecturer
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Biography
Dr Jones joined the department as a Research Associate in 2009, and became a Senior Lecturer in 2019. She has a PhD in Biostatistics (MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge), MPhil in Statistical Science (University of Cambridge) and BSc in Mathematics with Linguistics (University of York).
Research interests
I am interested in methods for evidence synthesis, including meta-analysis, particularly within a Bayesian statistical framework. I have a particular interest in diagnostic test evaluation. Specific interests include methods for meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy, estimation of the prevalence of problem drug use, and accounting for sources of bias in meta-analysis of randomised trials.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
8071 MRC: MR/T044594/1 HCD: Synthesis of networks of evidence on test accuracy, with and without a 'gold standard'
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/06/2021 to 31/05/2024
Latent class analysis of baseline data
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/06/2021 to 30/09/2021
Evidence synthesis of diagnostic test performance from a decision-making perspective
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
12/08/2015 to 11/08/2019
Publications
Selected publications
11/11/2020Accuracy of the UK-Rapid-Test Consortium (UK-RTC) “AbC-19TM Rapid Test” for the detection of previous SARS-CoV-2 infection in key workers
BMJ
Estimating the prevalence of problem drug use from drug-related mortality data
Addiction
Quantifying how diagnostic test accuracy depends on threshold in a meta-analysis
Statistics in Medicine
Recent publications
07/04/2022Development and external validation of a clinical prediction model to aid coeliac disease diagnosis in primary care
EClinicalMedicine
Diagnostic test accuracy and cost‐effectiveness of tests for codeletion of chromosomal arms 1p and 19q in people with glioma
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Systematic review with meta-analysis
Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Identifying the optimum strategy for identifying adults and children with coeliac disease
Identifying the optimum strategy for identifying adults and children with coeliac disease
Meta-analysis of dichotomous and ordinal tests with an imperfect gold standard
Research Synthesis Methods
Teaching
Dr Jones jointly leads the Research Methods unit of MSc Public Health and the Clinical Epidemiology Unit of MSc Epidemiology.
On the Bristol Medical School short course program, she co-leads the Introduction to Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis and the Introduction to Diagnostic Research courses.