Ray Fitzpatrick: Annual Report 2000-2001

Ray Fitzpatrick (Faculty Fellow) began a study with colleagues in Birmingham and Oxford evaluating neurosurgery for Parkinson's Disease. He also began studies with colleagues in Oxford to assess how ethical issues are managed in primary care and how ethical dilemmas in anorexia nervosa are addressed. He served another year as member of the Council of the Medical Research Council and as chair of Health Services and Public Health Research Board (MRC). He became a Governor of the BUPA Research Foundation. He served another year as head of the Department of Public Health, University of Oxford.

Publications

(with R Morris, S Hajat, B Reeves, D Murray) 'The Value of Short and Simple Measures to Assess Outcomes for Patients of Total Hip Replacement Surgery' Quality in Health Care. 9, 2000.

(with M Campbell, A Haines, AL Kinmonth, P Sandercock, D Spiegelhalter) 'Framework for the Design and Evaluation of Complex Interventions to Improve Health' British Medical Journal 321, 2000.

(with A Sacker, M Bartley, D Firth) 'Comparing Health Inequality in Men and Women' British Medical Journal 321, 2000.

(with M Bartley, A Sacker, D Firth K Lynch) 'Towards Explaining Health Inequalities' British Medical Journal 321, 2000.

(with M Bartley, D Firth, M Marmot) 'Social Distribution of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: Changes Among Men in England 1984-93' Journal of Epidemiology Community Health,54, 2000.

(with C Jenkinson, G Levy, A Garratt) 'The Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assessment Questionnaire (ALSAQ-40): Tests of Data Quality, Score Reliability and Response Rate in a Survey of Patients, Journal of Neurological Sciences, 180, 2000.

(with C Jenkinson, M Swash, V Peto) 'The ALS-Health Profile Study: Quality of life of ALS Patients and Carers in Europe', Journal of Neurology, 247, 2000.

(with C Jenkinson) 'Reduced Item Set for the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assessment Questionnaire: Development and Validation of the ALSAQ-5', Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. 70, 2001.

(with C Davey, M Buxton, D Jones) 'Criteria for Assessing Patient Based Outcome Measures for Use in Clinical Trials' in A Stevens, K Abrams, Brazier J, Fitzpatrick R Lilford R, (eds.) Advanced Handbook of Methods in Evidence Based Healthcare, London: Sage Publications 2001.

(with K Johnston, M Buxton, D Jones) (2001) 'Collecting Resource Use Data for Costing in Clinical Trials' in A Stevens, K Abrams, Brazier J, Fitzpatrick R Lilford R, (eds.) Advanced Handbook of Methods in Evidence Based Healthcare, London: Sage Publications, 2001.

(with A Stevens, K Abrams, J Brazier R Lilford), (eds.) Advanced Handbook of Methods in Evidence Based Health Care, London: Sage Publications, 2001.

(with A Sacker, M Bartley, D Firth) 'Dimensions of Social Inequality in the Health of Women in England: Occupational Material and Behavioural Pathways', Social Science and Medicine, 52, 2001.

(with M Bartley, A Sacker, D Firth) 'Dimensions of Inequality and the Health of Women' in H Graham (ed.), Understanding Health Inequalities. Buckingham, OUP, 2001.

(with A Sacker, M Bartley, D Firth, M Marmot) 'The Relationship Between Job Strain and Coronary Heart Disease: Evidence from an English Sample of the Working Male Population', Psychological Medicine. 31, 2001.

(with R Lilford, A Richardson, A Stevens, S Edwards ) 'Issues in Methodological Research: Perspectives from Researchers and Commissioners', Health Technology Assessment 5, 2001.

(with M Dixon-Woods, K Roberts) 'Including Qualitative Research in Systematic Reviews: Opportunities and Problems', Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 7, 2001.

(with J Hobart, D Lamping, A Riazi, A Thompson) 'The Multiple Sclerosis Impact Scale (MSIS-29): A New Patient-Based Outcome Measure', Brain, 124, 2001.

'Social status and mortality', Annals of Internal Medicine, 134, 2001.

(with R Morris, S Hajat, B Reeves, D Murray, D Hanney) 'Primary Total Hip Replacement; Variations in Patient Management in Oxford and Anglia, Trent, Yorkshire and Northern 'Regions'', Annals of Royal College of Surgeons of England, 83, 2001.

(with V Peto, C Jenkinson) 'Determining Minimally Important Differences for the Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-39)', Age & Ageing, 30, 2001.

(with J Hobart, J Freeman, D Lamping, A Thompson) 'The SF-36 in Multiple Sclerosis: Why Basic Assumptions Must Be Tested', Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 71, 2001.

(with C Jenkinson, A Garratt, V Peto, S Stewart-Brown) 'Can Item Response Theory Reduce Patient Burden When Measuring Health Status in Neurological Disorders? Results from Rasch Analysis of the SF-36 Physical Functioning Scale (PF-10)', Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, 71, 2001.

(with J Dawson, G Hill, A Carr) 'The Benefits of Using Patient-Based Methods of Assessment. Medium-Term Results of an Observational Study of Shoulder Surgery', Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, 83, 2001.

'Evaluating Health Care Outcomes' in D Pencheon, C Guest, D Melzer, J Muir Gray (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001.