Ray Fitzpatrick's 1995-96 Annual Research Report

Ray Fitzpatrick (Faculty Fellow) continued work with Crispin Jenkinson (Department of Public Health and Primary Care) and neurologists at the Radcliffe Infirmary, assessing the impact of Parkinson’s disease on individuals’ lives. This involves the development of simple, reliable and valid questionnaires that can be used in clinical trials. The instrument we have produced has already resulted in collaborative studies with a wide range of pharmaceutical companies. It is being used in a national study to evaluate Parkinson’s disease nurses, and will be the primary outcome measure for a randomised controlled trial we are conducting of neurosurgery. His research continued with Jill Dawson (Department of Public Health and Primary Care) and orthopaedic surgical colleagues, to design practical measures of outcome for a range of orthopaedic surgical interventions. The instrument we have developed for hip replacement surgery is the primary outcome measure for a national audit of hip replacement surgery, intended to identify the scope for improvement in this extremely common form of surgery. He chaired the MRC’s Health Services and Public Health Research Grants Committee for its first year of existence.

Publications

‘Patient-Centred Approaches to the Evaluation of Health Care’, in K Fulford, S Ersser, A Hope (eds.) Essential Practice in Patient-Centred Care. Oxford: Blackwell Science, 1995.

(with S Newman, T Revenson, S Skevington, G Williams) Understanding Rheumatoid Arthritis. London: Routledge, 1995.

(with C Jenkinson, V Peto) ‘Outcome Measure for Parkinson’s Disease’, British Journal of General Practice, 45, 1995.

(with C Jenkinson, V Peto, R Greenhall, N Hyman) ‘Self Reported Functioning and Well-Being in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease’, Age and Ageing, 24, 1995.

(with M Boulton, G Hart) ‘Men, Women and Safer Sex: Bisexual Men in England and Scotland’, in S Rose and C Stevens (eds.) Bisexual Horizons. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1995.

(with E Badley) ‘An Overview of Disability’, British Journal of Rheumatology, 35, 1996.

(with J Dawson, A Carrr, D Murray) ‘Questionnaire on the Perceptions of Patients about Total Hip Replacement’, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 78, 1996.

(with J Dawson, D Murray, A Carr) ‘Comparison of Measures to Assess Outcomes in Total Hip Replacement Surgery’, Quality in Health Care, 5, 1996.

(with G Williams, A McGregor, A Rigby) ‘Rheumatoid Arthritis’, in B Davey and C Seale (eds.) Experiencing and Explaining Disease. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1996.

(with M Bartley, L Carpenter, K Dunnell) ‘Measuring Inequalities in Health: an Analysis of Mortality Patterns from two Social Classifications’ Sociology of Health and Illness, 18, 1996.

‘Telling Patients There is Nothing Wrong’, British Medical Journal, 313, 1996.

‘Measuring Functional Status’ in A Long and D Scott (eds.) Measuring Outcomes in Rheumatoid Arthritis. London: Royal College of Physicians, 1996.

(with M Boulton) ‘Bisexual Men in Britain’, in P Aggleton (ed.) Bisexualities and AIDS. Bristol: Taylor and Francis, 1996.

(with M Boulton) ‘Qualitative Research’, Lancet, 348, 1996.

(with J Dawsson and A Carr) ‘A Questionnaire on the Perceptions of Patients about Shoulder Surgery’, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 78, 1996.

(with A Klassen, C Jenkinson, T Goodacre) ‘Should Breast Reduction Surgery be Rationed? A Comparison of the Health Status of Patients before and after Surgery’, British Medical Journal, 313, 1996.

(with A Klassen, C Jenkinson, T Goodacre) ‘Patients’ Health-Related Quality of Life before and after Aesthetic Surgery’, British Journal of Plastic Surgery, 49, 1996.

(with E Grunfeld, D Mant, P Yudkin, R Adewuyi-Dalton, D Cole, J Stewart) ‘Routine Follow-up of Breast Cancer in Primary Care: Randomised Trial’, British Medical Journal, 313, 1996.