Brett Thombs
Brett Thombs is a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at 看片视频 University, a Senior Investigator at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research at the Jewish General Hospital, Chair of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care and Director of the Scleroderma Patient-centered Intervention Network (SPIN) and DEPRESsion Screening Data (DEPRESSD) Projects. Members of the Thombs Research Team work in three projects or areas: (1) SPIN, which conducts observational studies and conducts trials of patient support interventions using a large cohort from 48 sites in 7 countries; (2) the DEPRESSD Project (Directed jointly with聽 Andrea Benedetti), which uses datasets collected from over 300 investigators from more than 50 countries to conduct individual participant data meta-analyses of depression screening tool accuracy, and (3) meta research and policy, which includes the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC), the development of an extension of the CONsolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement for trials conducted in cohorts and other routinely collected data, and other meta-research projects
Non-pharmacological clinical trials, Health services, Screening and preventive care, Systematic review and meta-analysis, Mental Health, Depression
Keywords:聽Mental health, Rare diseases, Chronic diseases, Screening, Prevention, clinical trials, meta analysis