Health tests on the high street: Convenient or confusing? Public Webinar 🗓️ Tuesday 14 October THIS EVENING 6-7pm Register here eventbrite.com/e/health-tes... This evening, we are presenting the findings of our evaluations of supermarket self tests, summarising our BMJ papers

Link here to the @RoyalStatSoc Series A report from the RSS Working Group on Diagnostic Tests. It includes the RSS recommendations to update how we should evaluate and regulate IVD diagnostic tests - and ensure their studies and findings are transparent. doi.org/10.1093/jrsssa/qnae0…

Some of the older more cranky statisticians here are going to host two pre-conference workshops on Diagnostic and Prediction models on the day before - do book your place.

Our team is proud to be hosting this year's Young Statisticians Meeting @ysm_conference here at @UoB and @UoB_IAHR . Make sure that you invite all young statisticians to attend.

It’s arrived. Thank you Wiley.

The Cochrane Handbook for Diagnostic Tests launched today! 20 years of work from many people @CochraneDTAteam Details cochrane.org/news/introducin…. At Wiley or @cochranetrain online. Thanks to coeditors @pmmbossuyt Yemisi Takwoingi @leeflang_m and @EllaFlemyng to get this out.

Finally made it to my induction as a Fellow of the @acmedsc two years late. Was great to meet so meet other FMedSci fellows from all sorts of backgrounds. Good to see all the medical statisticians there - @prw_paula @MarionKCampbell good to see you. @UoB_IAHR

Our team is collecting even more rapid tests from our shopping trips- we are writing an investigation to summarise their claims and their health advice

We’ve been stopping at Tesco. My Test team will have a look at these tomorrow. We’ll write up what we find …

Test accuracy - this was the Orient Gene test which is 'meant' to be better than Innova. only 32 of 60 cases detected. In this scenario with recent exposure to an infected case there is real concern that those missed (who had lower viral loads) are or could become infectious.

The study was meant to PCR test all contacts in both arms - they failed to do this to most in the isolation arm - look at the difference here between n numbers for the PCR tests done. IT has failed to be able to compare asymptomatic spread