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Articles Published Since 1992
This page contains a list of some of the journal
articles I have published since 1992. You can
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about my articles and other publications. A more
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Publication List
Ethnic group differences in overweight and obese
children and young people in England: cross-sectional
survey.
Archives of Diseases in Childhood 2004; 89: 30-36.
Sources, uses, strengths and limitations of data
collected in primary care in England.
Health Statistics Quarterly 2004; 21: 5-14.
Trends in mortality and hospital admissions associated
with epilepsy in England and Wales during the 1990s.
Health
Statistics Quarterly 2004; 21: 23-29.
How are primary care organisations using financial
incentives to
influence prescribing?
Journal of Public Health 2004; 26: 48-51.
Managing heart failure in primary care: first steps in
implementing the National Service Framework.
Journal of Public Health 2004; 26: 42-47.
An educational intervention to improve data recording in
the management of ischaemic heart disease in primary
care.
Journal of Public Health 2004; 26: 34-37.
Decline in admission rates for acute appendicitis in
England.
British Journal of Surgery 2003; 90: 1586-1592.
Universal health coverage in the United Kingdom.
Journal of Ambulatory Care Management 2003; 26: 373-377.
Diverticular disease of the colon - on the rise: a study of hospital admissions in England between 1989/1990 and 1999/2000.
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics 2003; 17: 1189-1195.
Workload implications of identifying patients with ischaemic heart disease in primary care: population-based study.
Journal of Public Health Medicine 2003; 25: 223-227.
Use of Read codes in diabetes management in a South London primary care group: implications for the production of disease registers in primary care.
British Medical Journal 2003; 326: 1130-1132.
The development of prescribing incentive schemes in primary care: a longitudinal survey.
British Journal of General Practice 2003; 53: 468-470.
Profiling performance in primary care in the USA.
British Medical Journal 2003; 326: 744-777.
Primary care in the United States.
British Medical Journal 2003; 326: 631-634.
Trends in oesophageal and gastric cancer incidence, mortality and survival in England and Wales 1971-1998/1999.
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics 2003; 17: 655-664.
Trends in the subsite and morphology of oesophageal and gastric cancer in England and Wales 1971-1998
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics 2002; 17: 665-676.
Referral of children to specialists in the United States and United Kingdom.
Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine 2003; 157: 279-285.
Prevalence and management of coronary heart disease in primary care: population-based cross-sectional study using a disease register.
Journal of Public Health Medicine 2003; 25: 29-35.
Prevalence of treated asthma and its management in general practice in England and Wales, 1994-1998.
Health Statistics Quarterly 2003; 17: 15-22.
Association between practice size, volume of cases and quality of care of patients with ischaemic heart disease: cross-sectional study.
British Medical Journal 2003; 326: 371-372.
Ten ways to improve information technology in the NHS.
British Medical Journal 2003; 326: 202-204.
Acute and chronic pancreatitis - diseases on the rise: a study of hospital admissions in England 1989/90-1999/2000.
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics 2002; 16:
2097-2105.
Trends in the treatment of osteoporosis and types of drug treatments prescribed in general practice in England and Wales, 1994 to 1998.
Health Statistics Quarterly 2002; 16: 5-13.
Prevalence of treated hypertension in general practice in England and Wales, 1994 to 1998.
Health Statistics Quarterly 2002; 16: 14-18.
Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis: divergent trends in hospital admission rates 1989/90 to 1999/2000.
Health Statistics Quarterly 2002; 16: 14-18.
How
are primary care groups approaching clinical governance?
A review of clinical governance plans from primary care
groups in London.
Journal
of Public Health Medicine 2002; 24: 165-169.
Socio-economic
and ethnic variations in health status and use of health
services among children: cross-sectional survey.
British
Medical Journal 2002; 325: 520-523.
Differences
in the use of health services among people with and
without epilepsy in the United Kingdom: socio-economic
and disease-specific determinants.
Epilepsy
Research 2002; 50: 233-241.
Epilepsy prevalence and prescribing patterns in England and Wales.
Health Statistics Quarterly 2002; 15: 23-30.
Primary
care physicians’ specialty referral rates in the
United Kingdom versus the United States.
British
Medical Journal 2002; 325: 370-371.
Prescribing
indicators and their use by Primary Care Groups to
influence prescribing.
Journal
of Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics 2002; 27:
197-204.
Does
feedback improve the quality of computerised medical
records in primary care?
Journal
of the American Medical Informatics Association 2002; 9:
395-401.
Peptic
ulceration in general practice in England and Wales
1994-98: period prevalence and drug management.
Alimentary
Pharmacology & Therapeutics 2002; 16:
1067-1074.
Trends
in suicide from drug overdose in the elderly in England
and Wales, 1993-1999.
International
Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2002; 17: 416-421.
Prevalence
of diagnosed diabetes mellitus in general practice in
England and Wales, 1994 to 1998.
Health
Statistics Quarterly 2002; 14: 5-13.
Age
and sex specific antibiotic prescribing patterns in
general practice in England and Wales, 1994 to 1998.
Health
Statistics Quarterly 2002; 14: 14-20.
Prescribing incentive schemes
in two regions: cross-sectional survey.
British
Medical Journal 2002; 324: 1127-1128.
Systematic
application of capitation formulas in primary care:
Any economic benefits?
Disease
Management & Health Outcomes 2002; 10: 215-220.
Socio-economic
deprivation and psychiatric referral and admission rates
– an ecological study in one London borough.
Psychiatric
Bulletin 2002; 26: 175-178.
Recent
trends in admissions and mortality due to peptic ulcer
in England: Increasing frequency of haemorrhage among
older people.
Gut
2002; 50: 460-464.
Variation
in coronary artery bypass grafting, angioplasty,
cataract surgery, and hip replacement rates among
primary care groups in London.
Journal
of Public Health Medicine 2002; 24: 21-26.
Trends
in hospital admissions for heart failure in England,
1989-2000.
Health
Statistics Quarterly 2002; 13: 16-21.
Prevalence
of ischaemic heart disease and its management with
statins and aspirin in general practice in England and
Wales, 1994-1998.
Health
Statistics Quarterly 2001; 12: 34-39.
Trends
in mortality and hospital admissions associated with
atrial fibrillation in England and Wales.
Health
Statistics Quarterly 2001; 9: 37-44.
Social
and economic variation in general practice consultation
rates amongst men aged 16-39.
Health
Statistics Quarterly 2001; 9: 29-36.
Trends
in testicular carcinoma in England and Wales, 1971-1999.
British
Journal of Urology 2001; 87: 361-365.
Trends
in hospital admissions for fractures of the femur in
England, 1989/90 to 1997/98.
Journal
of Public Health Medicine 2001; 23: 11-17.
Improving
the certification of death and the usefulness of routine
mortality statistics.
Clinical
Medicine JRCPL 2001; 1: 122-125.
Use
of computer systems in a primary care research network;
implications for
the
NHS Information Strategy.
Clinician
in Management 2001; 10: 32-37.
Socio-economic
differences in psychiatric consultation rates among
people aged 65 years and over.
International
Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2001; 16: 57-63.
Use
of risk adjustment in budget setting and performance
measurement in primary care: Advantages,
disadvantages, practicalities.
British
Medical Journal 2001; 323: 607-610.
Use
of risk adjustment in budget setting and performance
measurement in primary care. How it works.
British
Medical Journal 2001; 323: 604-607.
Deaths
from antidepressants in England and Wales 1993-97:
analysis of a new national database.
Psychological
Medicine 2001; 31: 1203-1210.
Comorbidity
associated with atrial fibrillation.
British
Journal of General Practice 2001; 51: 884-891.
Co-existing
conditions and utilisation of health services associated
with heart failure: general practice based study.
Health
Statistics Quarterly 2001; 12: 27-33.
Stroke
incidence and risk factors in a population-based
prospective cohort study.
Health
Statistics Quarterly 2001; 12: 18-26.
The
United Kingdom’s Primary Care Groups: An Integrated
Structure for Quality Improvement and Community-Based
Accountability.
Health
Affairs 2001; 20: 132-145.
Trends
in the prevalence and management of atrial fibrillation
in general practice in England and Wales 1994-98:
analysis of data from the General Practice Research
Database.
Heart
2001, 86: 284-288.
Prevalence
and management of heart failure in general practice in
England and Wales, 1994-1998.
Health
Statistics Quarterly 2001; 11: 17-24.
Socio-demographic
differences in general practice consultation rates for
psychiatric disorders among patients aged 16-64.
Health
Statistics Quarterly 2001; 11: 5-10.
Trends
in deaths from drug overdose and poisoning in England
and Wales 1993-1998.
Journal
of Public Health Medicine 2001; 23: 242-246.
Extent
of misclassification of death from CreutzfeldtJakob
disease in England 1979-96: retrospective examination
of clinical records.
British
Medical Journal 2000; 320: 145-147.
Measuring
blood pressure at the wrist: more comfortable for
patients and more convenient for doctors?
Public
Health 2000; 114: 161-164.
Death
rates from dementias and neurodegenerative disorders in
England & Wales and the USA, 1993–1997.
Health
Statistics Quarterly 2000; 6: 26-31.
Trends
in prostate cancer incidence, mortality and survival in
England and Wales, 1971-1998.
British
Journal of Urology 2000; 85: 1058-1062.
Paracetamol
related deaths in England and Wales, 1993-1997
Health
Statistics Quarterly 2000; 7: 5-9.
Trends
in hospital admissions for fractures in England, 1989-90
to 1997-98.
Health
Statistics Quarterly 2000; 7: 10-17.
Using
computerised medical records to identify patients with
ischaemic heart disease in general practice.
British
Medical Journal 2000; 321: 548-50.
Age,
sex and practice variations in the use of statins in
general practice in England and Wales.
Journal
of Public Health Medicine 2000; 22: 275-279.
Cross-sectional
study of primary care groups in London: measures of
socio-economic and health status, and association with
hospital admission rates.
British
Medical Journal 2000; 321: 1057-1060.
Management
of heart failure in general practice in England and
Wales in 1996.
Health
Statistics Quarterly 1999; 4: 5-8.
Prevalence
of treated chronic diseases in general practice in
England and Wales; trends over time and variations by
the ONS area classification.
Health
Statistics Quarterly 1999; 2: 25-32.
Prescribing
for asthma by general practitioners in England and Wales
1994-1996.
Health
Statistics Quarterly 1999; 1: 16-20.
Socio-economic
differences in childhood consultation rates in general
practice in England and Wales: Prospective cohort study.
British
Medical Journal 1999; 318: 642-646.
Unified
budgets for primary care groups.
British
Medical Journal 1999; 318: 772-6.
Adapting
routine information systems to meet the needs of primary
care groups.
Public
Health Medicine 1999; 1: 4-11.
Management
of ischaemic heart disease in primary care: towards
better practice.
Journal
of Public Health Medicine 1999; 21: 179-184.
Socio-economic
differences in general practice consultation rates among
people aged 65 years and over: prospective cohort study.
British
Medical Journal 1999; 319: 26-28.
Explaining
the variation in general practice admission rates:
cross-sectional study.
British
Medical Journal 1999; 319: 98-103.
Age
and sex specific antibiotic prescribing patterns in
general practice in England and Wales in 1996.
British
Journal of General Practice 1999; 49: 735-736.
Prescribing
of beta-2 agonists and inhaled steroids in England:
trends between 1992-1998 and association with material
deprivation, chronic illness and asthma mortality rates.
Journal
of Public Health Medicine 1999; 21: 395-400.
Death
rates from dementias and neurodegenerative disorders in
England and Wales, 1979-1996.
British
Medical Journal 1998; 317: 320-321.
Hospital
admissions data: why are they collected?
Clinician
in Management 1998; 7: 160-166.
Recent
developments in general practice computing.
Clinician
in Management 1998; 7: 148-154.
Setting
and monitoring prescribing budgets in general practice.
British
Medical Journal 1998; 316: 748-750.
Dementia
in people aged 65 years and older: a growing problem?
Population
Trends 1998; 92: 23-28.
What
can PACT tell us about prescribing in general practice?
British
Medical Journal 1997; 315: 1515-1519.
The
impact of follow up letters on non-attenders for breast
screening: a general practice based study.
Journal
of Medical Screening 1997; 4: 19-20.
Variations
in general practice prescribing costs: implications for
setting and monitoring prescribing budgets.
Health
Trends 1996; 28: 52-55.
Deprivation
payments to general practitioners.
British
Medical Journal 1996; 669-670.
Home
visiting by general practitioners in England and Wales.
British
Medical Journal 1996; 313: 207-210.
Age
and sex differences in the management of ischaemic heart
disease.
Public
Health 1996; 110: 7-12.
Socio-demographic
variables for general practices: use of census data.
British
Medical Journal 1995; 310: 1373-1374.
Using
data from the 1991 census.
British
Medical Journal 1995; 310: 1511-1514.
Night
visiting rates in 129 general practices in one family
health services authority: association with patient and
practice characteristics.
British
Journal of General Practice 1995; 45: 531-535.
Do
general practitioners influence the uptake of breast
cancer screening?
Journal
of Medical Screening 1995; 2: 119-124.
Contract
data.
Health
Service Journal 1995; 105: 28-29 (16 March 1995).
The
killing season - fact or fiction?
British
Medical Journal 1994; 309: 1690.
Monitoring
and promoting equity in primary and secondary care.
British
Medical Journal 1994; 308: 1426-1429.
Using
patient and general practice characteristics to explain
variations in cervical smear uptake rates.
British
Medical Journal 1994; 308: 1272-1276.
Trends
in death rates and registration rates for prostate
cancer in England and Wales.
British
Journal of Urology 1994; 73: 377-381.
Audit
of near patient cholesterol testing in occupational
health clinics.
Occupational
Medicine 1993; 43: 23-26.
Salivary
antibody testing in a school outbreak of hepatitis A.
Epidemiology
and Infection 1992; 109: 161-166.
An
outbreak of hepatitis A in Gloucester, UK.
Epidemiology
and Infection 1992; 109: 167-173.
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