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Influence of maternal and perinatal factors on subsequent hospitalisation for asthma in children: evidence from the Oxford record linkage studyRebekah Davidson
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Old Road, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
BMC Pulm Med 10:14. 2010..There is much interest in the possibility that perinatal factors may influence the risk of disease in later life. We investigated the influence of maternal and perinatal factors on subsequent hospital admission for asthma in children...
Career choices for ophthalmology made by newly qualified doctors in the United Kingdom, 1974-2005Trevor W Lambert
UK Medical Careers Research Group, Department of Public Health, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
BMC Ophthalmol 8:3. 2008..The paper aims to report trends in career choices for ophthalmology among UK medical graduates...
Views of junior doctors about whether their medical school prepared them well for work: questionnaire surveysMichael J Goldacre
Department of Public Health, Oxford University, UK
BMC Med Educ 10:78. 2010..We report junior doctors' views about the extent to which their medical school prepared them for their work in clinical practice...
Newly qualified doctors' views about whether their medical school had trained them well: questionnaire surveysJudith Cave
Academic Centre for Medical Education, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK
BMC Med Educ 7:38. 2007..We report on how UK qualifiers' preparedness has changed since then, and on the impact of course changes upon preparedness...
Risk of venous thromboembolism in people admitted to hospital with selected immune-mediated diseases: record-linkage studySreeram V Ramagopalan
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, UK
BMC Med 9:1. 2011..We, therefore, decided to study the risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) in people admitted to hospital with a range of immune-mediated diseases...
Maternal and perinatal factors associated with hospitalised infectious mononucleosis in children, adolescents and young adults: record linkage studyImran Mahmud
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Old Road, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
BMC Infect Dis 11:51. 2011..Little is known about maternal or perinatal factors associated with IM or its sequelae...
Immune-related disease before and after vasectomy: an epidemiological database studyM J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Hum Reprod 22:1273-8. 2007..We aimed to determine whether men with immune-related diseases were more or less likely than others to have a vasectomy and then to determine whether vasectomy is associated with the subsequent development of immune-related diseases...
Self-harm and depression in women with urinary incontinence: a record-linkage studyMichael J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Oxford, UK
BJU Int 99:601-5. 2007..To investigate the association between self-harm and urinary incontinence (UI), and between depression and UI, in women...
Risk of multiple sclerosis after head injury: record linkage studyM J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 77:351-3. 2006..The possibility that head injury may influence the development of multiple sclerosis (MS) has been studied inconclusively in the past...
Psychiatric disorders certified on death certificates in an English populationMichael J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Dept of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 41:409-14. 2006..The majority of deaths with a certified psychiatric cause are usually omitted from official mortality statistics, which are typically based on the underlying cause alone...
Cancer and cardiovascular disease after vasectomy: an epidemiological database studyMichael J Goldacre
Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Fertil Steril 84:1438-43. 2005..To determine whether vasectomy is associated with an increased long-term risk of cancer or cardiovascular disease...
Schizophrenia and cancer: an epidemiological studyMichael J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Old Road, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
Br J Psychiatry 187:334-8. 2005..For decades there has been interest in the possibility that people with schizophrenia might have some protection against cancer, and that, if this were so, it might hold clues about aetiological mechanisms in schizophrenia...
Mortality from heart failure in an English population, 1979-2003: study of death certificationMichael J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 59:782-4. 2005..The study objective was to discover if the decline in mortality from coronary heart disease has been accompanied by a rise in mortality from heart failure in the study population...
Cancer following hip and knee arthroplasty: record linkage studyM J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
Br J Cancer 92:1298-301. 2005..02), or for haematopoietic, lymphatic or urinary system cancers. There was also no elevation in risk of cancer more than 10 years after arthroplasty. Our findings add to the evidence that arthroplasty is safe in respect of cancer risk...
Cancer after cholecystectomy: record-linkage cohort studyM J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford Old Road Campus, Old Road, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
Br J Cancer 92:1307-9. 2005..94 (0.79-1.10). It is highly improbable that the short-term associations between cholecystectomy and gastrointestinal cancers are causal, and we conclude that cholecystectomy does not cause cancer...
Career choices for psychiatry: national surveys of graduates of 1974-2000 from UK medical schoolsMichael J Goldacre
UK Medical Careers Research Group, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
Br J Psychiatry 186:158-64. 2005..Concerns continue about recruitment levels of junior doctors into psychiatry in the UK...
Alcohol as a certified cause of death in a 'middle England' population 1979-1999: database studyMichael J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Oxford OX3 7LF
J Public Health (Oxf) 26:343-6. 2004..Data on age, sex and occupational social class show that people whose alcohol intake kills them are from a broad cross-section of society...
Multiple sclerosis after infectious mononucleosis: record linkage studyMichael J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 58:1032-5. 2004..To ascertain if infectious mononucleosis is a risk factor for the development of multiple sclerosis (MS); and, if it is, whether its effect is close to or remote in time from the onset of MS...
Career preferences of graduate and non-graduate entrants to medical schools in the UKMichael J Goldacre
Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Med Educ 41:349-61. 2007..Recent UK policy has been to increase substantially the number of graduate entrants to medical schools. Our aim was to study whether graduate and non-graduate entrants have different long-term career preferences...
Cancer in people with depression or anxiety: record-linkage studyMichael J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Dept of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Old Road, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 42:683-9. 2007..It has been suggested that the risk of cancer may be higher in people with psychological disorders, like depression and anxiety, than in the general population...
Trends in mortality from appendicitis and from gallstone disease in English populations, 1979-2006: study of multiple-cause coding of deathsMichael J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
Postgrad Med J 87:245-50. 2011..To report on trends in mortality from appendicitis and from gallstone disease...
Early career choices and successful career progression in surgery in the UK: prospective cohort studiesMichael J Goldacre
UK Medical Careers Research Group, Department of Public Health, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
BMC Surg 10:32. 2010..We studied trends in career choices for surgery, and the eventual career destinations, of UK graduates who declared an early preference for surgery...
Medical graduates' early career choices of specialty and their eventual specialty destinations: UK prospective cohort studiesMichael J Goldacre
UK Medical Careers Research Group, Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF
BMJ 341:c3199. 2010..To report on doctors' early choices of specialty at selected intervals after qualification, and eventual career destinations...
Benign breast disease and subsequent breast cancer: English record linkage studiesM J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
J Public Health (Oxf) 32:565-71. 2010..Benign breast disease (BBD) increases the risk of breast cancer, but details of the relationship would benefit from further study in the UK...
Trends in death certification for multiple sclerosis, motor neuron disease, Parkinson's disease and epilepsy in English populations 1979-2006Michael J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
J Neurol 257:706-15. 2010..A substantial percentage of neurological deaths are missed. Time trends may be misleading. All certified causes for each disease, as well as the underlying cause, should be analysed...
Demography of aging and the epidemiology of gastrointestinal disorders in the elderlyMichael J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, UK
Best Pract Res Clin Gastroenterol 23:793-804. 2009..As the developing world becomes more urbanised and westernised, disorders that are now rare in the developing world will probably become much more common...
Career choices made for the hospital medical specialties by graduates from UK medical schools, 1974-2005Michael J Goldacre
UK Medical Careers Research Group, Department of Public Health, Oxford University
Clin Med 9:42-8. 2009..This uncertainty needs to be considered by those planning postgraduate medical education for the hospital medical specialties, particularly now that postgraduate training in the UK has become much more structured...
Cancer and immune-mediated disease in people who have had meningococcal disease: record-linkage studiesM J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Epidemiol Infect 137:681-7. 2009..53-0.89). Susceptibility to meningococcal disease was not associated with an altered risk of cancer. Occurrence of immune-mediated disease was, if anything, low in the large all-England cohort of people who had meningococcal disease...
Mortality rates for stroke in England from 1979 to 2004: trends, diagnostic precision, and artifactsMichael J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Old Road, Oxford OX3 7LF, United Kingdom
Stroke 39:2197-203. 2008..To understand this apparent decline better, we studied trends in mortality in the UK using more detailed data than are routinely available...
Liver cirrhosis, other liver diseases, pancreatitis and subsequent cancer: record linkage studyMichael J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford, UK
Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 20:384-92. 2008....
Cancer in patients with ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease and coeliac disease: record linkage studyMichael J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 20:297-304. 2008..The objective of this study was to determine the risk of cancers in cohorts of patients with ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, or coeliac disease, compared with the risk in a control cohort...
Inflammatory bowel disease, peptic ulcer and diverticular disease as certified causes of death in an English population 1979-2003Michael J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 20:96-103. 2008..Until recently, only one underlying cause of death has been coded and analysed in official national statistics in England and many other countries...
Place, time and certified cause of death in people who die after hospital admission for myocardial infarction or strokeMichael J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK
Eur J Public Health 14:338-42. 2004....
Cancers and immune related diseases associated with Down's syndrome: a record linkage studyM J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Arch Dis Child 89:1014-7. 2004..To determine the risk of cancers and selected immune related diseases in people with Down's syndrome, relative to risk in other people...
Doctors' views of their first year of medical work and postgraduate training in the UK: questionnaire surveysMichael J Goldacre
UK Medical Career Research Group, Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road, Oxford, UK
Med Educ 37:802-8. 2003..Our aim was to report the views of pre-registration doctors on these posts...
In-hospital deaths as fraction of all deaths within 30 days of hospital admission for surgery: analysis of routine statisticsMichael J Goldacre
Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF
BMJ 324:1069-70. 2002
Case fatality rates for meningococcal disease in an English population, 1963-98: database studyMichael J Goldacre
Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, UK
BMJ 327:596-7. 2003
Preregistration house officers' views on whether their experience at medical school prepared them well for their jobs: national questionnaire surveyMichael J Goldacre
Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford OX3 7LF
BMJ 326:1011-2. 2003
Mortality after admission to hospital with fractured neck of femur: database studyMichael J Goldacre
Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF
BMJ 325:868-9. 2002
Multiple-cause coding of death from myocardial infarction: population-based study of trends in death certificate dataMichael J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Institute of Health Science, University of Oxford, Old Road, Oxford OX3 7LF
J Public Health Med 25:69-71. 2003..We wanted to know whether multiple-cause coding of deaths for myocardial infarction contributes much to the interpretation of death certificate data on mortality rates for this condition...
Trends in mortality rates comparing underlying-cause and multiple-cause coding in an English population 1979-1998Michael J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF
J Public Health Med 25:249-53. 2003..Comparisons over time of mortality rates based on underlying cause alone will be misleading when the time-period crosses years in which rules changed for selecting underlying cause...
Media criticism of doctors: review of UK junior doctors' concerns raised in surveysMichael J Goldacre
UK Medical Careers Research Group, Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford OX3 7LF
BMJ 326:629-30. 2003
Associations between infectious mononucleosis and cancer: record-linkage studiesM J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Epidemiol Infect 137:672-80. 2009..1-16.2), but no significant overall risk of cancer when lymphomas were excluded (RR 1.01, 95% CI 0.71-1.41). We confirm an association between IM and lymphoma; but the risk, if any, of cancer more generally is likely to be small...
Mortality rates for common respiratory diseases in an English population 1979-1998: artefact and substantive trendsMichael J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Institute of Health Sciences, Old Road, Oxford OX3 7LF
J Public Health (Oxf) 26:8-12. 2004..For all respiratory diseases studied, except lung cancer, the underlying cause of death alone considerably underestimated the extent of their certification on death certificates...
Trends in mortality rates for death-certificate-coded diabetes mellitus in an English population 1979-99M J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, University of Oxford, Old Road, Oxford, UK
Diabet Med 21:936-9. 2004..We used data from death certificates for 1979-99 to compare mortality rates for diabetes mellitus certified anywhere on death certificates with those certified as the underlying cause...
Use of large medical databases to study associations between diseasesM Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
QJM 93:669-75. 2000..We suggest that, through the use of datasets like the ORLS, it will be possible to 'map' comprehensively the phenomic expression of co-occurring diseases...
Trends in mortality for cancers, comparing multiple- and underlying-cause rates, in an English population 1979-1999M J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
Br J Cancer 90:1019-21. 2004..Mortality statistics for most types of cancer were not greatly affected, but there were significant effects on coding for cancers of colon, liver, breast, prostate, testis and bladder, and for lymphoma and leukaemia...
Hospital admission for acute pancreatitis in an English population, 1963-98: database study of incidence and mortalityMichael J Goldacre
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road, Oxford OX3 7LF
BMJ 328:1466-9. 2004..To investigate trends in the incidence of acute pancreatitis resulting in admission to hospital, and mortality after admission, from 1963 to 1998...
Country of training and ethnic origin of UK doctors: database and survey studiesMichael J Goldacre
UK Medical Careers Research Group, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF
BMJ 329:597. 2004....
Career progression and destinations, comparing men and women in the NHS: postal questionnaire surveysKathryn S Taylor
UK Medical Careers Research Group, Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Oxford University, Oxford, OX3 7LF
BMJ 338:b1735. 2009..To study the career progression of NHS doctors, comparing men and women...
Intercurrent drug therapy and perioperative cardiovascular mortality in elective and urgent/emergency surgical patientstJ W Sear
Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, University of Oxford, UK
Br J Anaesth 86:506-12. 2001..We conclude that, with the possible exception of the use of nitrates in elective surgical patients, chronic intercurrent drug treatment alone does not significantly affect the odds of cardiac death within 30 days of surgery...
Reasons for considering leaving UK medicine: questionnaire study of junior doctors' commentsPhilip J Moss
UK Medical Careers Research Group, Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF
BMJ 329:1263. 2004..The smaller numbers of doctors who gave work experience as a reason for considering leaving medicine might be influenced to stay by improvements in working lives...
The first house officer year: views of graduate and non-graduate entrants to medical schoolMichael J Goldacre
Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Med Educ 42:286-93. 2008..To determine whether graduate and non-graduate entrants to medical school differ in their views on the first year spent in medical practice as a pre-registration house officer...
UK senior doctors' career destinations, job satisfaction, and future intentions: questionnaire surveyJean M Davidson
UK Medical Careers Research Group, Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF
BMJ 325:685-6. 2002
Characteristics of consultants who hold distinction awards in England and Wales: database analysis with particular reference to sex and ethnicityTrevor W Lambert
UK Medical Careers Research Group, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF
BMJ 328:1347. 2004..Recent awards showed no under-representation of women and no appreciable under-representation of ethnic minorities overall. However, doctors who trained abroad-both white and non-white-remained under-represented for B awards...
Surgical specialty, surgical unit volume and mortality after oesophageal cancer surgeryY Leigh
Nuffield Department of Surgery, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford, UK
Eur J Surg Oncol 35:820-5. 2009..Case series from cardiothoracic surgeons report lower mortality rates than those from general surgeons. We therefore used a national data set to investigate the effects of surgical specialty and volume on mortality after oesophagectomy...
Cancer in patients with motor neuron disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease: record linkage studiesAlessandro F Fois
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Old Road, Oxford, UK
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 81:215-21. 2010..To determine the risk of cancer before and after the diagnosis of motor neuron disease (MND), multiple sclerosis (MS) and Parkinson's disease (PD)...
Impact of socio-economic deprivation on death rates after surgery for upper gastrointestinal tract cancerY Leigh
Nuffield Department of Surgery, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
Br J Cancer 95:940-3. 2006..16 (0.84-1.62) and 1.10 (0.86-1.41), respectively. There is a significant association between social deprivation and death after oesophagectomy, but less of an association, if any, after gastrectomy in current UK practice...
Economic implications of multiple births: inpatient hospital costs in the first 5 years of lifeJ Henderson
National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Old Road Campus, University of Oxford, Old Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 89:F542-5. 2004..To estimate long term health service costs for hospital stays associated with singleton, twin, and higher order multiple births up to 5 years of age...
Olive oil, diet and colorectal cancer: an ecological study and a hypothesisM Stoneham
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Oxford University, Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford
J Epidemiol Community Health 54:756-60. 2000..The purpose of this study was to compare national levels of dietary factors, with particular reference to olive oil, with national differences in CRC incidence...
Views of junior doctors on the specialist registrar (SpR) training scheme: qualitative study of UK medical graduatesJulie Evans
UK Medical Careers Research Group, Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, UK
Med Educ 36:1122-30. 2002..To report junior doctors' views on specialist registrar (SpR) training...
Doctors' reasons for rejecting initial choices of specialties as long-term careersTrevor W Lambert
UK Medical Careers Research Group, Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, University of Oxford, UK
Med Educ 37:312-8. 2003..To report on rejected choices of specialty as long-term careers and reasons for rejection...
Retention in the British National Health Service of medical graduates trained in Britain: cohort studiesMichael J Goldacre
UK Medical Careers Research Group, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Oxford OX3 7LF
BMJ 338:b1977. 2009..To report the percentage of graduates from British medical schools who eventually practise medicine in the British NHS...
Recruitment of UK-trained doctors into general practice: findings from national cohort studiesTrevor W Lambert
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, University of Oxford, UK
Br J Gen Pract 52:364-7, 369-72. 2002..In recent years there have been difficulties with recruitment in the United Kingdom (UK) to principalships in general practice...
Career destinations and views in 1998 of the doctors who qualified in the United Kingdom in 1993Trevor W Lambert
UK Medical Careers Research Group, Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, University of Oxford, UK
Med Educ 36:193-8. 2002..To report career destinations and views in 1998 of doctors who qualified in the United Kingdom (UK) in 1993...
Head and other physical trauma requiring hospitalisation is not a significant risk factor in the development of ALSMartin R Turner
Oxford University Department of Clinical Neurology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK
J Neurol Sci 288:45-8. 2010..The high risk of head injury observed in the immediate post-diagnosis period may be amenable to primary prevention...
Career choices of United Kingdom medical graduates of 1999 and 2000: questionnaire surveysTrevor W Lambert
UK Medical Careers Research Group, Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF
BMJ 326:194-5. 2003
Reasons why some UK medical graduates who initially choose psychiatry do not pursue it as a long-term careerTrevor W Lambert
UK Medical Careers Research Group, Department of Public Health, Oxford University
Psychol Med 36:679-84. 2006..Some doctors who initially choose psychiatry do not pursue it as a long-term career. The study seeks to identify reasons for leaving psychiatry...
Mortality in young people admitted to hospital for diabetes: database studyStephen E Roberts
Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF
BMJ 328:741-2. 2004
Career choices for pathology: national surveys of graduates of 1974-2002 from UK medical schoolsTrevor W Lambert
UK Medical Careers Research Group, Department of Public Health, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
J Pathol 208:446-52. 2006..This depends on developing innovative ways of raising the profile of pathology to medical students and junior hospital doctors...
Hospital mortality league tables: influence of place of deathValerie Seagroatt
Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF
BMJ 328:1235-6. 2004
Career choices of United Kingdom medical graduates of 2002: questionnaire surveyTrevor W Lambert
UK Medical Careers Research Group, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Med Educ 40:514-21. 2006..To report the specialty choices of UK medical graduates of 2002, and to compare their choices with those of qualifiers in previous years and with the profile of career grade doctors in different specialties in England...
Doctors' views about their first postgraduate year in UK medical practice: House officers in 2003Trevor W Lambert
UK Medical Careers Research Group, Department of Public Health, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Med Educ 40:1115-22. 2006..To report house officers' views in 2003 of their first postgraduate year, and to compare their responses with those of house officers 2 and 3 years previously...
Variation by medical school in career choices of UK graduates of 1999 and 2000Michael J Goldacre
UK Medical Careers Research Group, Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, UK
Med Educ 38:249-58. 2004..To report on how newly qualified doctors' specialty choices, and factors that influenced them, varied by medical school...
Time trends and demography of mortality after fractured neck of femur in an English population, 1968-98: database studyStephen E Roberts
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF
BMJ 327:771-5. 2003..To investigate time trends in mortality after admission to hospital for fractured neck of femur from 1968 to 1998, and to report on the effects of demographic factors on mortality...
Pre-registration house officers' comments on working in the NHS: a qualitative study of the views of UK medical graduates of 1999Julie Evans
UK Medical Careers Research Group, Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford, UK
Med Teach 26:250-5. 2004..A few respondents' experiences had deterred them from continuing their NHS hospital training. Most PRHOs had enjoyed the year despite poor working conditions; for a few, their educational experience was marred...
Views of doctors in training on the importance and availability of career advice in UK medicineTrevor W Lambert
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Med Educ 41:460-6. 2007....
Elective surgery for aortic abdominal aneurysm: comparison of English outcomes with those elsewhereMiodrag Filipovic
Unit of Health Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 61:226-31. 2007..The aim of this study was to quantify mortality after elective repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) in England, and to compare English case fatality rates (CFRs) with those reported in the literature...
An index of unhealthy lifestyle is associated with coronary heart disease mortality rates for small areas in England after adjustment for deprivationP Scarborough
Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7LF, UK
Health Place 17:691-5. 2011....
Caesarean delivery and risk of stillbirth in subsequent pregnancy: a retrospective cohort study in an English populationR Gray
National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
BJOG 114:264-70. 2007..We also report on the proportion of stillbirths in our study population, which may have been attributable to previous delivery by caesarean section...
Use of case fatality and readmission measures to compare hospital performance in gynaecologyA Mason
Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Department of Public-Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
BJOG 113:695-9. 2006..These measures are relatively homogeneous with respect to their likely rates of adverse events and have sufficient numbers to produce potentially useful comparative results...
Case fatality rates after admission to hospital with stroke: linked database studyStephen E Roberts
Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF
BMJ 326:193-4. 2003
The role of manual occupation in the aetiology of Dupuytren's disease in men in England and WalesA A Khan
Oxford University Medical School, Oxford, UK
J Hand Surg [Br] 29:12-4. 2004..In fact, the incidence rates of Dupuytren's disease in the elderly were higher in non-manual than in manual social classes...
Exploring the variation in paediatric tonsillectomy rates between English regions: a 5-year NHS and independent sector data analysisM Suleman
Department of Otolaryngology, Oxford Radcliffe NHS Trust John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
Clin Otolaryngol 35:111-7. 2010....
Nutritional research in World War 2: the Oxford Nutrition Survey and its research potential 50 years laterR R Huxley
Division of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Oxford, UK
Br J Nutr 84:247-51. 2000..These findings continued to exert an influence over government food policy for pregnant women until the abolition of rationing in 1954...
Cow's milk and the emergence of group B streptococcal disease in newborn babiesA Q Ismail
The Medical School, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
Neonatology 100:404-8. 2011..GBS also causes mastitis in cows, and there is indirect evidence that human GBS is derived from a bovine ancestor...
Hospital admission for selected single virus infections prior to diabetes mellitusMichael J Goldacre
Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Oxford OX37LF, UK
Diabetes Res Clin Pract 69:256-61. 2005....
Pneumococcal infection in patients with coeliac diseaseHarry J Thomas
Gastroenterology Unit, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK
Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 20:624-8. 2008..Splenectomy is a risk factor for pneumococcal infection. Our objective was to determine the risk of invasive pneumococcal disease - septicaemia, pneumonia or meningitis - in patients with coeliac disease...
Epilepsy and the subsequent risk of cerebral tumour: record linkage retrospective cohort studyTasneem Khan
University of Oxford Medical School, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 82:1041-5. 2011..Studies suggest that seizures may precede the detection of cerebral tumour by several years. Aim To quantify the risk of cerebral tumour after new onset seizures, with particular interest in long term risk...
Geography of hospital admissions for multiple sclerosis in England and comparison with the geography of hospital admissions for infectious mononucleosis: a descriptive studySreeram V Ramagopalan
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 82:682-7. 2011....
Pregnancy outcome among twins conceived after subfertility treatment compared with natural twins: A population-based studyMichael F G Murphy
Childhood Cancer Research Group, University of Oxford Department of Pediatrics, Oxford, United Kingdom
Twin Res Hum Genet 9:279-84. 2006..Overall the results are reassuring with respect to outcome in twin pregnancies following simple ovulation induction...
Mortality in patients with and without colectomy admitted to hospital for ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease: record linkage studiesStephen E Roberts
School of Medicine, Swansea University, Swansea SA2 8PP
BMJ 335:1033. 2007....
Mortality rates and self reported health: database analysis by English local authority areaRobert G E Kyffin
South East Regional Public Health Group, Government Office for the South East, Bridge House, Guildford, Surrey GU1 4GA
BMJ 329:887-8. 2004
Using routine data to define clinical case-mix and compare hospital outcomes in urologyAlastair Mason
St Mary's NHS Trust, London, UK
BJU Int 97:1145-7. 2006
Changes in safety on England's roads: analysis of hospital statisticsMike Gill
South East Public Health Group, Government Office for the South East, Guildford, Surrey GU1 4GA
BMJ 333:73. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: The overall fall seen in police statistics for non-fatal road traffic injuries probably represents a fall in completeness of reporting of these injuries...
