Dr Kirsty Garfield
BA, MSc, PhD
Current positions
Research Fellow in Health Economic Evaluation
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
Kirsty is a research fellow in health economic evaluation at the Bristol Trials Centre and Health Economics at Bristol. She has experience in conducting applied economic evaluations alongside a wide range of randomised controlled trials. The trials she has worked on have been conducted in a variety of settings, including primary and secondary care and the community. They span many areas, from dermatology to prostate cancer and physical activity. Kirsty is currently working on the Athena, ROMIO and Prepare for Kidney Care trials.
Kirsty’s research interests are in trials and trials methodology research. In 2017, Kirsty obtained a PhD studentship from the NIHR Hubs for Trials Methodology Research. The aim of her PhD was to develop and perform initial validation of the healthcare module of a new generic modular resource-use measure (ModRUM). Following on from this research, Kirsty is currently working on an NIHR RfPB grant to develop social care, informal care and personal expense modules for ModRUM.
Publications
Recent publications
26/01/2024How should we measure the use of social care and informal care?
Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research
Identification and prioritisation of items for a draft participant-reported questionnaire to measure use of social care, informal care, aids and adaptations
PharmacoEconomics - Open
Laparoscopic or open abdominal surgery with thoracotomy for patients with oesophageal cancer
British Journal of Surgery
Talking in primary care (TIP): protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled trial in UK primary care to assess clinical and cost-effectiveness of communication skills e-learning for practitioners on patients’ musculoskeletal pain and enablement
BMJ Open
Development of a brief, generic, modular resource-use measure (ModRUM): piloting with patients
BMC Health Services Research
Thesis
Development of a modular resource-use measure for use in economic evaluations alongside randomised controlled trials
Supervisors
Award date
12/05/2022