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| Celia A BrownSummaryAffiliation: University of Birmingham Country: UK Publications
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Cost-utility analysis when not everyone wants the treatment: modeling split-choice biasRichard Lilford
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Med Decis Making 27:21-6. 2007..In all cases in which decision making is correlated with personal utility gain, the bias rises steeply as the proportion of acceptors declines...
Selecting medical studentsCelia A Brown
BMJ 336:786. 2008
An epistemology of patient safety research: a framework for study design and interpretation. Part 3. End points and measurementC Brown
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Qual Saf Health Care 17:170-7. 2008..Since no end point or method of data collection is infallible, the present authors advocate the use of multiple end points and methods where feasible...
Cost effectiveness of continuing professional development in health care: a critical review of the evidenceC A Brown
Centre for Research in Medical and Dental Education, School of Education, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT
BMJ 324:652-5. 2002
An epistemology of patient safety research: a framework for study design and interpretation. Part 2. Study designC Brown
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Qual Saf Health Care 17:163-9. 2008..The extent to which findings can be generalised over time and place should be considered as part of an evaluation, for example by undertaking qualitative or quantitative measures of fidelity, attitudes or subgroup effects...
An epistemology of patient safety research: a framework for study design and interpretation. Part 1. Conceptualising and developing interventionsC Brown
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Qual Saf Health Care 17:158-62. 2008..Finally, the paper outlines the authors' pragmatist ontological stance to patient safety research, which sets the philosophical basis for the remaining three articles...
Antenatal care and perinatal outcomes in Kwale district, KenyaCelia A Brown
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, The University of Birmingham, UK
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 8:2. 2008..This study aims to identify the determinants of attending ANC and the association between attendance and behavioural and perinatal outcomes (live births and healthy birthweight) for women in the Kwale region of Kenya...
A qualitative study of medical school choice in the UKCelia Brown
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Med Teach 29:27-32. 2007..Examining the factors that make a medical school attractive (or otherwise) to potential students is particularly important but there is little empirical evidence that explores this issue...
The stepped wedge trial design: a systematic reviewCelia A Brown
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
BMC Med Res Methodol 6:54. 2006..This paper presents a review of 12 studies (or protocols) that use (or plan to use) a stepped wedge design. One aim of the review is to highlight the potential for the stepped wedge design, given its infrequent use to date...
Cross sectional study of performance indicators for English Primary Care Trusts: testing construct validity and identifying explanatory variablesCelia Brown
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
BMC Health Serv Res 6:81. 2006..Secondly, we wanted to find out whether broad (global) indicators correlated with any particular features of Primary Care Trusts, such as expenditure per capita...
An epistemology of patient safety research: a framework for study design and interpretation. Part 4. One size does not fit allC Brown
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Qual Saf Health Care 17:178-81. 2008..We show how a bayesian framework can be used to synthesise evidence from a number of different sources and why this approach may be particularly appropriate for the evaluation of patient safety interventions...
Use of process measures to monitor the quality of clinical practiceRichard J Lilford
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT
BMJ 335:648-50. 2007
