Eleftheria Patetsini
Research Fellow (Trial Coordinator)

Profile

Biography

Eleftheria joined the York Trials Unit as a Trial Coordinator in April 2024. Prior to this, she held an NIHR Pre-doctoral Fellowship funded for 18 months based at the University of Manchester. Eleftheria has previous trial management experience from the Manchester Clinical Trials Unit and the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. She has also worked in a variety of roles in different research settings, such as NHS R&D departments and the NIHR Clinical Research Network (Yorkshire and Humber). 

Qualifications

• MSc in Applied Health Research, University of York
• BSc (Hons) Psychology including integrated professional placement year, Aston University
• Degree of Health Visiting, Technological Educational Institution of Athens

Research

Overview

Eleftheria’s research interests include clinical trial methodology and reviewing research methods. She is especially interested in mental health-related research. 

Projects

• DIAMONDS - An RCT of the DIAMONDS Programme investigating the clinical and cost-effectiveness of the DIAMONDS intervention (diabetes self-management programme) for people with severe mental illnesses (SMI) and type 2 diabetes. 
• FARSTER-Care - An RCT investigating whether, following cardiac surgery with full median sternotomy, an accelerated cardiac rehabilitation pathway will lead to improved patient outcomes and is cost effective compared to the usual timing of cardiac rehabilitation.

Research group(s)

• Trials and Statistics

Publications

Selected publications

• Clegg A, Crocker T., Ensor J., Foster A., Gladman J., Riley R., Lam N., Bajpai R., Jordão, M., Patetsini E., Ramiz. (2020) Community-based complex interventions to sustain independence in older people, stratified by frailty: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. NIHR HTA Reference: 18/143 NIHR128862

• Crocker TF, Clegg A, Riley RD, Lam N, Bajpai R, Jordão M, Patetsini E, Ramiz R, Ensor J, Forster A, Gladman JRF. Community-based complex interventions to sustain independence in older people, stratified by frailty: a protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis. BMJ Open 2021;11(2):e045637. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045637  

• Crocker TF, Ensor J, Lam N, Jordão M, Bajpai R, Bond M, Forster A, Riley RD, Andre D, Brundle C, Ellwood A, Green J, Hale M, Mirza L, Morgan J, Patel I, Patetsini E, Prescott M, Ramiz R, Todd O, Walford R, Gladman J, Clegg A. Community based complex interventions to sustain independence in older people: systematic review and network meta-analysis. BMJ 2024;384:e077764. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2023-077764 [doi.org]

Full publications list

• Eleftheria Patetsini's publications