W S A Smellie

Summary

Affiliation: Bishop Auckland
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi A laboratory based intervention to improve appropriateness of lipid tests and audit cholesterol lowering in primary care
    W S Smellie
    Clinical Laboratory, General Hospital, Bishop Auckland, County Durham DL14 6AD
    BMJ 323:1224-7. 2001
  2. ncbi Biochemical "liver function tests"
    W Stuart A Smellie
    Clinical Laboratory, General Hospital, Bishop Auckland DL14 6AD
    BMJ 333:481-3. 2006
  3. ncbi Best practice in primary care pathology: review 12
    W S A Smellie
    Department of Chemical Pathology, Bishop Auckland General Hospital, Bishop Auckland, County Durham DL14 6AD, UK
    J Clin Pathol 63:330-6. 2010
  4. ncbi Best practice in primary care pathology: review 7
    W S A Smellie
    Department of Chemical Pathology, Bishop Auckland General Hospital, Cockton Hill Road, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, UK
    J Clin Pathol 60:458-65. 2007
  5. ncbi Hypertriglyceridaemia in diabetes
    W Stuart A Smellie
    Clinical Laboratory, General Hospital, Bishop Auckland DL14 6AD
    BMJ 333:1257-60. 2006
  6. ncbi Best practice in primary care pathology: review 8
    W S A Smellie
    Department of Chemical Pathology, Bishop Auckland General Hospital, Bishop Auckland, UK
    J Clin Pathol 60:740-8. 2007
  7. ncbi Cases in primary care laboratory medicine: testing pitfalls and summary of guidance on sex hormone testing
    W Stuart A Smellie
    Clinical Laboratory, General Hospital, Bishop Auckland DL14 6AD
    BMJ 334:91-4. 2007
  8. ncbi Pitfalls of testing and summary of guidance on safety monitoring with amiodarone and digoxin
    W Stuart A Smellie
    Clinical Laboratory, General Hospital, Bishop Auckland DL14 6AD
    BMJ 334:312-5. 2007
  9. ncbi Hyponatraemia and hypernatraemia: pitfalls in testing
    W Stuart A Smellie
    Clinical Laboratory, General Hospital, Bishop Auckland DL14 6AD
    BMJ 334:473-6. 2007
  10. ncbi Spurious hyperkalaemia
    W Stuart A Smellie
    Clinical Laboratory, Bishop Auckland General Hospital, Bishop Auckland DL14 6AD
    BMJ 334:693-5. 2007

Detail Information

Publications33

  1. ncbi A laboratory based intervention to improve appropriateness of lipid tests and audit cholesterol lowering in primary care
    W S Smellie
    Clinical Laboratory, General Hospital, Bishop Auckland, County Durham DL14 6AD
    BMJ 323:1224-7. 2001
    ..A need exists to reduce inequalities in lipid testing, to provide relevant, individual, patient based interpretation for users, and to audit lipid lowering in primary care...
  2. ncbi Biochemical "liver function tests"
    W Stuart A Smellie
    Clinical Laboratory, General Hospital, Bishop Auckland DL14 6AD
    BMJ 333:481-3. 2006
  3. ncbi Best practice in primary care pathology: review 12
    W S A Smellie
    Department of Chemical Pathology, Bishop Auckland General Hospital, Bishop Auckland, County Durham DL14 6AD, UK
    J Clin Pathol 63:330-6. 2010
    ..They are not standards but form a guide to be set in the clinical context. Most are consensus rather than evidence-based. They will be updated periodically to take account of new information...
  4. ncbi Best practice in primary care pathology: review 7
    W S A Smellie
    Department of Chemical Pathology, Bishop Auckland General Hospital, Cockton Hill Road, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, UK
    J Clin Pathol 60:458-65. 2007
    ..The recommendations are not standards, but form a guide to be set in the clinical context. Most are consensus based rather than evidence based. They will be updated periodically to take account of new information...
  5. ncbi Hypertriglyceridaemia in diabetes
    W Stuart A Smellie
    Clinical Laboratory, General Hospital, Bishop Auckland DL14 6AD
    BMJ 333:1257-60. 2006
    ....
  6. ncbi Best practice in primary care pathology: review 8
    W S A Smellie
    Department of Chemical Pathology, Bishop Auckland General Hospital, Bishop Auckland, UK
    J Clin Pathol 60:740-8. 2007
    ..They are not standards but form a guide to be set in the clinical context. Most are consensus rather than evidence-based. They will be updated periodically to take account of new information...
  7. ncbi Cases in primary care laboratory medicine: testing pitfalls and summary of guidance on sex hormone testing
    W Stuart A Smellie
    Clinical Laboratory, General Hospital, Bishop Auckland DL14 6AD
    BMJ 334:91-4. 2007
  8. ncbi Pitfalls of testing and summary of guidance on safety monitoring with amiodarone and digoxin
    W Stuart A Smellie
    Clinical Laboratory, General Hospital, Bishop Auckland DL14 6AD
    BMJ 334:312-5. 2007
  9. ncbi Hyponatraemia and hypernatraemia: pitfalls in testing
    W Stuart A Smellie
    Clinical Laboratory, General Hospital, Bishop Auckland DL14 6AD
    BMJ 334:473-6. 2007
  10. ncbi Spurious hyperkalaemia
    W Stuart A Smellie
    Clinical Laboratory, Bishop Auckland General Hospital, Bishop Auckland DL14 6AD
    BMJ 334:693-5. 2007
  11. ncbi Best practice in primary care pathology: review 10
    W S A Smellie
    Department of Chemical Pathology, Bishop Auckland General Hospital, Bishop Auckland, UK
    J Clin Pathol 60:1195-204. 2007
    ..They are not standards but form a guide to be set in the clinical context. Most are consensus rather than evidence-based. They will be updated periodically to take account of new information...
  12. ncbi Best practice in primary care pathology: review 3
    W S A Smellie
    Department of Chemical Pathology, Bishop Auckland General Hospital, Bishop Auckland County, Durham, UK
    J Clin Pathol 59:781-9. 2006
    ..They are not standards, but form a guide to be set in the clinical context. Most of the recommendations are based on consensus rather than evidence. They will be updated periodically to take account of new information...
  13. ncbi Paraprotein management
    W Stuart A Smellie
    Clinical Laboratory, General Hospital, Bishop Auckland DL14 6AD
    BMJ 333:185-7. 2006
  14. ncbi Testing pitfalls and summary of guidance in lipid management
    W Stuart A Smellie
    Clinical Laboratory, General Hospital, Bishop Auckland DL14 6AD
    BMJ 333:83-6. 2006
  15. ncbi Is clinical practice variability the major reason for differences in pathology requesting patterns in general practice?
    W S A Smellie
    Clinical Laboratory, General Hospital, Cockton Hill Road, Bishop Auckland, County Durham DL14 6AD, UK
    J Clin Pathol 55:312-4. 2002
    ..To examine whether variations in pathology test requesting between different general practices can be accounted for by sociodemographic or other descriptive indicators of the practice...
  16. ncbi Appropriateness of test use in pathology: a new era or reinventing the wheel?
    W S A Smellie
    Clinical Laboratory, Bishop Auckland General Hospital, Bishop Auckland, DL14 6AD, UK
    Ann Clin Biochem 40:585-92. 2003
    ....
  17. ncbi Inequalities of primary care microbiology testing between hospital catchment areas
    W S A Smellie
    Clinical Laboratory, General Hospital, Cockton Hill Road, Bishop Auckland, County Durham DL14 6AD, UK
    J Clin Pathol 56:933-6. 2003
    ..To compare differences in microbiology testing activity between general practices within and between five hospitals in two National Health Service (NHS) regions in England...
  18. ncbi Methodology for constructing guidance
    W S A Smellie
    Clinical Laboratory, General Hospital, Cockton Hill Road, Bishop Auckland, County Durham DL14 6AD, UK
    J Clin Pathol 58:249-53. 2005
    ....
  19. ncbi Best practice in primary care pathology: review 1
    W S A Smellie
    Department of Pathology, Bishop Auckland Hospital, General Cockton Hill Road, Bishop Auckland, County Durham DL14 6AD, UK
    J Clin Pathol 58:1016-24. 2005
    ..They are not standards but form a guide to be set in the clinical context. Most are consensus rather than evidence based. They will be updated periodically to take account of new information...
  20. ncbi Best practice in primary care pathology: review 2
    W S Smellie
    Bishop Auckland General Hospital, Cockton Hill Road, Bishop Auckland, County Durham DL14 6AD, UK
    J Clin Pathol 59:113-20. 2006
    ..They are standards but form a guide to be set in the clinical context. Most are consensus rather than evidence based. They will be updated periodically to take account of new information...
  21. ncbi Best practice in primary care pathology: review 5
    W S A Smellie
    Department of Chemical Pathology, Bishop Auckland General Hospital, Durham, UK
    J Clin Pathol 59:1229-37. 2006
    ..They are not standards but form a guide to be set in the clinical context. Most are consensus-based rather than evidence-based. They will be updated periodically to take account of new information...
  22. ncbi Best practice in primary care pathology: review 4
    W S A Smellie
    Department of Chemical Pathology, Bishop Auckland General Hospital, Cockton Hill Road, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, UK
    J Clin Pathol 59:893-902. 2006
    ..They are not standards but form a guide to be set in the clinical context. Most of them are consensus based rather than evidence based. They will be updated periodically to take account of new information...
  23. ncbi Best practice in primary care pathology: review 6
    W S A Smellie
    Department of Chemical Pathology, Bishop Auckland General Hospital, Cockton Hill Road, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, UK
    J Clin Pathol 60:225-34. 2007
    ..They are not standards but form a guide to be set in the clinical context. Most are consensus based rather than evidence based. They will be updated periodically to take account of new information...
  24. ncbi Best practice in primary care pathology: review 11
    W S A Smellie
    Department of Chemical Pathology, Bishop Auckland General Hospital, Cockton Hill Road, Bishop Auckland, County Durham DL14 6AD, UK
    J Clin Pathol 61:410-8. 2008
    ..They are not standards but form a guide to be set in the clinical context. Most are consensus rather than evidence based. They will be updated periodically to take account of new information...
  25. ncbi Best practice in primary care pathology: review 9
    W S A Smellie
    Department of Chemical Pathology, Bishop Auckland General Hospital, Cockton Hill Road, Bishop Auckland, County Durham DL14 6AD, UK
    J Clin Pathol 60:966-74. 2007
    ..They are not standards but form a guide to be set in the clinical context. Most are consensus rather than evidence-based. They will be updated periodically to take account of new information...
  26. ncbi Bettertesting: putting laboratory test guidance on the web
    W S A Smellie
    Bishop Auckland General Hospital, Bishop Auckland, Co Durham DL14 6AD
    Br J Hosp Med (Lond) 69:648-9. 2008
    ..It was constructed using a standard search strategy to identify the best quality guidance from the literature and will shortly include clinical self-assessment questions...
  27. ncbi What is a significant difference between sequential laboratory results?
    W S A Smellie
    Clinical Laboratory, General Hospital, Cockton Hill Road, Bishop Auckland, County Durham DL146AD, UK
    J Clin Pathol 61:419-25. 2008
    ..There is a need for discussion about how this is best done, and compatible with electronic result delivery. Options for providing this information are considered...
  28. ncbi Liquorice and soy sauce, a life-saving concoction in a patient with Addison's disease
    H Cooper
    Department of Medicine, Bishop Auckland General Hospital, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, UK
    Ann Clin Biochem 44:397-9. 2007
    ..The case highlights the importance of taking a dietary history to aid diagnosis...
  29. ncbi Intravenous fluid therapy - an under-recognized patient safety opportunity
    W S A Smellie
    Bishop Auckland General Hospital, Co Durham, UK
    Ann Clin Biochem 46:438-40. 2009
    ....
  30. ncbi The diagnostic accuracy and utility of a B-type natriuretic peptide test in a community population of patients with suspected heart failure
    Ahmet Fuat
    Department of Medicine, Darlington Memorial Hospital, Centre for Integrated Health Care Research, University of Durham, Darlington Primary Care Trust
    Br J Gen Pract 56:327-33. 2006
    ....
  31. ncbi Laboratory medicine: a guide for foundation doctors
    W Stuart A Smellie
    Clinical Laboratory, Bishop Auckland Hospital, Bishop Auckland, County Durham DL14 6AD
    Br J Hosp Med (Lond) 69:M44-5. 2008
  32. ncbi Glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) monitoring
    Timothy M Reynolds
    Department of Clinical Chemistry, Queen's Hospital, Burton upon Trent DE13 0RB
    BMJ 333:586-8. 2006
  33. ncbi Investigating iron status in microcytic anaemia
    Michael J Galloway
    City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, Sunderland Royal Hospital, Sunderland SR4 7TP
    BMJ 333:791-3. 2006