Dr Rhiannon Macefield
Senior Research Fellow
Rhiannon Macefield is a Senior Research Fellow in Health Services Research at the University of Bristol and a core member of the Bristol BRC surgical and orthopaedic innovation theme.
She is a methodologist with expertise in outcome measurement, patient-reported outcomes, and clinical trial design.
She leads methodological research to improve the evaluation of surgical innovation and healthcare interventions, ensuring that studies measure outcomes that matter to patients and healthcare professionals.
Her work includes developing and validating innovative approaches for assessing surgical-site infection, including remote and patient-centred methods for post-surgical follow up.
Improving how surgical procedure modifications are reported
The way new surgical procedures are developed and evaluated is very different to how new…
- Theme Surgical and orthopaedic innovation
- Workstream Innovative translational research methods
Understanding how new surgical procedures and devices are introduced
The overall aim of this study is to understand and improve how innovative surgical…
- Theme Surgical and orthopaedic innovation
- Workstream Innovative translational research methods
A scoping review of equality, diversity and inclusion reporting in early-phase surgical research
Researchers often conduct early studies when new types of surgery are being developed. They test…
- Theme Surgical and orthopaedic innovation
- Workstream Innovative translational research methods
Quality of life in pressurised intraperitoneal aerosolised chemotherapy
This project aims to explore the views and experiences of patients with peritoneal metastases (cancer…
- Theme Surgical and orthopaedic innovation
- Workstream Innovative translational research methods
Outcome assessment continuity in early and late phase surgical research
Early evaluation of innovative (new) surgical procedures and devices provides the evidence we need to…
- Theme Surgical and orthopaedic innovation
- Workstream Innovative translational research methods
Improving how patients are selected for early evaluations of new surgical procedures and devices
Early evaluations are small studies about new or modified surgical procedures and devices. These studies…
- Theme Surgical and orthopaedic innovation
- Workstream Innovative translational research methods
Interviewing surgical teams to optimise new chemotherapy delivery method
Bowel, ovarian and stomach cancer often spreads (metastasises) to the lining (peritoneum) of the abdominal…
- Theme Surgical and orthopaedic innovation
- Workstream Innovative translational research methods
Improving methods for assessing surgical site infection
The aim of this project is to explore methods to improve surgical site infection (SSI)…
- Theme Surgical and orthopaedic innovation
- Workstream Innovative translational research methods