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List of works by Bruce Guthrie

A cluster randomised stepped wedge trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a multifaceted information technology-based intervention in reducing high-risk prescribing of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and antiplatelets in primary medical care: t

scientific article published on 23 March 2012

A framework for ensuring a balanced accounting of the impact of antimicrobial stewardship interventions.

scientific article published on 31 August 2017

A multifaceted intervention to improve sepsis management in general hospital wards with evaluation using segmented regression of interrupted time series

scientific article published on December 2014

A patient-centred intervention to improve the management of multimorbidity in general practice: the 3D RCT

scientific article published on 20 February 2019

Adapting clinical guidelines to take account of multimorbidity

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Adverse respiratory effect of acute β-blocker exposure in asthma: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

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An 'endless struggle': a qualitative study of general practitioners' and practice nurses' experiences of managing multimorbidity in socio-economically deprived areas of Scotland

scientific article published on 25 October 2010

An observational study of psychotropic drug use and initiation in older patients resident in their own home or in care

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Are people with HIV in London able to die where they plan?

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Associations between exemption and survival outcomes in the UK's primary care pay-for-performance programme: a retrospective cohort study.

scientific article published on December 2015

Bad apples or spoiled barrels? Multilevel modelling analysis of variation in high-risk prescribing in Scotland between general practitioners and between the practices they work in.

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Between demarcation and discretion: The medical-administrative boundary as a locus of safety in high-volume organisational routines

scientific article published on 2 March 2018

Biomedicine, holism and general medical practice: responses to the 2004 General Practitioner contract

scientific article published on 28 April 2008

Changes in opioid and other analgesic use 1995-2010: repeated cross-sectional analysis of dispensed prescribing for a large geographical population in Scotland

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Changes in resistance among coliform bacteraemia associated with a primary care antimicrobial stewardship intervention: A population-based interrupted time series study

scientific article published on 07 June 2019

Clinical assessment and management of multimorbidity: summary of NICE guidance

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Combined use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs with diuretics and/or renin–angiotensin system inhibitors in the community increases the risk of acute kidney injury

scientific article published on 15 April 2015

Commentary: a thesis that still warrants defence and promotion

scientific article published in December 2012

Comorbidity and health-related quality of life in people with a chronic medical condition in randomised clinical trials: An individual participant data meta-analysis

Comorbidity and polypharmacy in people with dementia: insights from a large, population-based cross-sectional analysis of primary care data.

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Comorbidity as a driver of adverse outcomes in people with chronic kidney disease

scientific article published on 29 July 2015

Continuity of care matters

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Control, compare and communicate: designing control charts to summarise efficiently data from multiple quality indicators

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Data feedback and behavioural change intervention to improve primary care prescribing safety (EFIPPS): multicentre, three arm, cluster randomised controlled trial

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Defining remission of type 2 diabetes in research studies: A systematic scoping review

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

Depression and multimorbidity: a cross-sectional study of 1,751,841 patients in primary care.

scientific article published on November 2014

Deprivation and quality of primary care services: evidence for persistence of the inverse care law from the UK Quality and Outcomes Framework

scientific article published on November 2006

Developing a complex intervention to improve prescribing safety in primary care: mixed methods feasibility and optimisation pilot study.

scientific article published on 21 January 2014

Differences in the quality of primary medical care for CVD and diabetes across the NHS: evidence from the quality and outcomes framework

scientific article (publication date: 29 May 2007)

Differences in the quality of primary medical care services by remoteness from urban settlements

scientific article published on December 2007

Differential impact of two risk communications on antipsychotic prescribing to people with dementia in Scotland: segmented regression time series analysis 2001-2011

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Do Pills Have No Ills? Capturing the Impact of Direct Treatment Disutility

scientific article published on 8 December 2015

Do managed clinical networks improve quality of diabetes care? Evidence from a retrospective mixed methods evaluation

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Double trouble: the impact of multimorbidity and deprivation on preference-weighted health related quality of life a cross sectional analysis of the Scottish Health Survey.

scientific article published on 20 August 2013

Drug-disease and drug-drug interactions: systematic examination of recommendations in 12 UK national clinical guidelines

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Effective Feedback to Improve Primary Care Prescribing Safety (EFIPPS) a pragmatic three-arm cluster randomised trial: designing the intervention (ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT01602705).

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Efficiency and thoroughness trade-offs in high-volume organisational routines: an ethnographic study of prescribing safety in primary care

scientific article published on 9 November 2017

Epidemiology of multimorbidity and implications for health care, research, and medical education: a cross-sectional study.

scientific article published on 10 May 2012

Exclusion rates in randomized controlled trials of treatments for physical conditions: a systematic review

scientific article published on 26 February 2020

Exploring the impact and use of patients' feedback about their care experiences in general practice settings-a realist synthesis.

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External validity of randomized controlled trials of glycaemic control and vascular disease: how representative are participants?

scientific article published on March 2013

Factors associated with statin treatment for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in people within 2 years following diagnosis of diabetes in Scotland, 2006-2008.

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Fair access to medicine? Retrospective analysis of UK medical schools application data 2009-2012 using three measures of socioeconomic status.

scientific article published on 13 January 2016

GP facilitators and HIV infection. GPs should be involved early

scientific article published on February 1994

General practice funding underpins the persistence of the inverse care law: cross-sectional study in Scotland

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Guidelines for people not for diseases: the challenges of applying UK clinical guidelines to people with multimorbidity.

scientific article published on 21 August 2012

Has primary care antimicrobial use really been increasing? Comparison of changes in different prescribing measures for a complete geographic population 1995-2014.

scientific article published in October 2017

Health plan competition for Medicaid enrollees based on performance does not improve quality of care

scientific article published in August 2010

High risk prescribing in primary care patients particularly vulnerable to adverse drug events: cross sectional population database analysis in Scottish general practice

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

High-risk prescribing and monitoring in primary care: how common is it, and how can it be improved?

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Hospitalised hip fracture risk with rosiglitazone and pioglitazone use compared with other glucose-lowering drugs.

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How Does Sex Influence Multimorbidity? Secondary Analysis of a Large Nationally Representative Dataset

scientific article published on 31 March 2016

Identifying care-home residents in routine healthcare datasets: a diagnostic test accuracy study of five methods

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Identifying older heart failure patients with major depression in primary care: a feasibility study

scientific article published in May 2014

Identifying which septic patients have increased mortality risk using severity scores: a cohort study

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Identifying who lives in a care home-a challenge to be conquered

scientific article published on 16 January 2018

Impact of the GP contract on inequalities associated with influenza immunisation: a retrospective population-database analysis.

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Improving the management of multimorbidity in general practice: protocol of a cluster randomised controlled trial (The 3D Study)

scientific article published on 25 April 2016

Insightful practice: a reliable measure for medical revalidation

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Is success in postgraduate examinations associated with family practitioners' attitudes or patient perceptions of the quality of their consultations? A cross-sectional study of the MRCGP examination in Great Britain

article by Brian McKinstry et al published 29 July 2005 in Family Practice

Long-acting β-agonist prescribing in people with asthma in primary care

scientific article published in September 2012

Managing patients with mental and physical multimorbidity

scientific article published on 3 September 2012

Managing patients with multimorbidity in primary care

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Measuring the quality of healthcare systems using composites

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Methods for identifying 30 chronic conditions: application to administrative data

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Monitoring and adverse events in relation to ACE inhibitor/angiotensin receptor blocker initiation in people with diabetes in general practice: a population database study

scientific article published in May 2013

Mortality in people with dementia, delirium, and unspecified cognitive impairment in the general hospital: prospective cohort study of 6,724 patients with 2 years follow-up

scholarly article by Simona Hapca et al published 2018 in Clinical Epidemiology

Multimorbidity and the inverse care law in primary care

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Multimorbidity in bipolar disorder and undertreatment of cardiovascular disease: a cross sectional study.

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Multiple physical and mental health comorbidity in adults with intellectual disabilities: population-based cross-sectional analysis

scientific article published on 27 August 2015

NSAID-exacerbated respiratory disease: a meta-analysis evaluating prevalence, mean provocative dose of aspirin and increased asthma morbidity

scientific article published on 07 May 2015

Oral ketamine analgesia in chronic pain and problematic rise in blood pressure

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Personal continuity and access in UK general practice: a qualitative study of general practitioners' and patients' perceptions of when and how they matter

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Physical and mental health comorbidities of epilepsy: Population-based cross-sectional analysis of 1.5 million people in Scotland

scientific article published on 23 November 2016

Physical and mental health comorbidity is common in people with multiple sclerosis: nationally representative cross-sectional population database analysis.

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Prescribing of -adrenoceptor antagonists in asthma: an observational study

scientific article published on 01 April 2011

Primary Medical Care in the United Kingdom

scholarly article by Martin Roland published in March 2012

Process evaluation of the data-driven quality improvement in primary care (DQIP) trial: active and less active ingredients of a multi-component complex intervention to reduce high-risk primary care prescribing

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Process evaluations for cluster-randomised trials of complex interventions: a proposed framework for design and reporting

scientific article published on 12 January 2013

Professional values and reported behaviours of doctors in the USA and UK: quantitative survey

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Protocol for a process evaluation of a cluster randomised controlled trial to improve management of multimorbidity in general practice: the 3D study.

scientific article published on 4 May 2016

Protocol for the Effective Feedback to Improve Primary Care Prescribing Safety (EFIPPS) study: a cluster randomised controlled trial using ePrescribing data

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Psychoactive prescribing for older people--what difference does 15 years make?

scientific article published on 17 April 2015

Quality and Outcomes Framework: what have we learnt?

scientific article published on 04 August 2016

Quality and safety of medication use in primary care: consensus validation of a new set of explicit medication assessment criteria and prioritisation of topics for improvement

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Quality in primary care

scientific article published on 11 November 2014

Quality of Care in the United Kingdom after Removal of Financial Incentives

scholarly article by Mark Minchin published in September 2018

Record rewards: the effects of targeted quality incentives on the recording of risk factors by primary care providers

scientific article published in January 2010

Respiratory effect of beta-blocker eye drops in asthma: population-based study and meta-analysis of clinical trials.

scientific article published on 10 May 2016

Respiratory effect of beta-blockers in people with asthma and cardiovascular disease: population-based nested case control study.

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Routine mortality monitoring for detecting mass murder in UK general practice: test of effectiveness using modelling

scientific article published on May 2008

Safer Prescribing--A Trial of Education, Informatics, and Financial Incentives.

scientific article published on March 2016

Safety risks for patients with aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease after acute exposure to selective nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and COX-2 inhibitors: Meta-analysis of controlled clinical trials

scientific article published on 31 December 2013

Schizophrenia is associated with excess multiple physical-health comorbidities but low levels of recorded cardiovascular disease in primary care: cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 17 April 2013

Screening for cardiovascular risk factors

scientific article published in July 1993

Smoking cessation interventions for patients with coronary heart disease and comorbidities: an observational cross-sectional study in primary care.

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Soft governance, restratification and the 2004 general medical services contract: the case of UK primary care organisations and general practice teams.

scientific article published on January 2015

Spatio-temporal elements of articulation work in the achievement of repeat prescribing safety in UK general practice

scientific article published on 18 August 2015

Standard cardiovascular disease risk algorithms underestimate the risk of cardiovascular disease in schizophrenia: evidence from a national primary care database.

scientific article published on 13 August 2014

Stroke, multimorbidity and polypharmacy in a nationally representative sample of 1,424,378 patients in Scotland: implications for treatment burden

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Study protocol of a mixed-methods evaluation of a cluster randomized trial to improve the safety of NSAID and antiplatelet prescribing: data-driven quality improvement in primary care

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Tackling therapeutic inertia: role of treatment data in quality indicators

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Temporal trends in anticholinergic medication prescription in older people: repeated cross-sectional analysis of population prescribing data

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The CARE Plus study - a whole-system intervention to improve quality of life of primary care patients with multimorbidity in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation: exploratory cluster randomised controlled trial and cost-utility analysis

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The burden of psychotropic drug prescribing in people with dementia: a population database study

scientific article published on 12 July 2010

The death of the personal doctor

scientific article published on 01 July 2001

The development and optimisation of a primary care-based whole system complex intervention (CARE Plus) for patients with multimorbidity living in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation.

scientific article published on 10 April 2016

The effect of physical multimorbidity, mental health conditions and socioeconomic deprivation on unplanned admissions to hospital: a retrospective cohort study

scientific article published on February 19, 2013

The impact of pay-for-performance on professional boundaries in UK general practice: an ethnographic study

scientific article published on 2 October 2008

The influence of socioeconomic deprivation on multimorbidity at different ages: a cross-sectional study

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The rising tide of polypharmacy and drug-drug interactions: population database analysis 1995-2010.

scientific article published on 7 April 2015

The role of data in health care disparities in Medicaid managed care.

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Time series analysis of the impact of an intervention in Tayside, Scotland to reduce primary care broad-spectrum antimicrobial use.

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Tobacco companies violated advertising restriction

scientific article published on December 1995

Treatment effect modification due to comorbidity: Individual participant data meta-analyses of 120 randomised controlled trials

Trends in primary care antidepressant prescribing 1995-2007: a longitudinal population database analysis.

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Trimethoprim prescription and subsequent resistance in childhood urinary infection: multilevel modelling analysis

scientific article published on April 1, 2013

Use of oral anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation is highly variable and only weakly associated with estimated stroke risk: cross-sectional population database study

scientific article published on 19 December 2013

Variation in the estimated prevalence of multimorbidity: systematic review and meta-analysis of 193 international studies

scientific article published in 2022

Vascular comorbidities in younger people with dementia: a cross-sectional population-based study of 616 245 middle-aged people in Scotland

scientific article published on 18 November 2014

Visual impairment is associated with physical and mental comorbidities in older adults: a cross-sectional study

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What happens when pay for performance stops?

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Which people with Type 2 diabetes achieve good control of intermediate outcomes? Population database study in a UK region

scientific article published in December 2009

Whither British general practice after the 2004 GMS contract?

Widening access to medicine may improve general practitioner recruitment in deprived and rural communities: survey of GP origins and current place of work.

scientific article published on October 2015