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List of works by Colin R. Simpson

A national survey of the prevalence, incidence, primary care burden and treatment of atrial fibrillation in Scotland

scientific article (publication date: May 2007)

A retrospective cohort study assessing patient characteristics and the incidence of cardiovascular disease using linked routine primary and secondary care data

scientific article

A retrospective observational study comparing rescue medication use in children on combined versus separate long-acting beta-agonists and corticosteroids.

scientific article published on 23 July 2010

A systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis of prognostic factors for foot ulceration in people with diabetes: the international research collaboration for the prediction of diabetic foot ulcerations (PODUS)

scientific article (publication date: July 2015)

Accuracy and utility of using administrative healthcare databases to identify people with epilepsy: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.

scientific article published on 30 June 2018

Acute drug prescribing to children on chronic antiepilepsy therapy and the potential for adverse drug interactions in primary care

scientific article published in June 2005

Adequate levels of adherence with controller medication is associated with increased use of rescue medication in asthmatic children

scientific article

Adolescent females and hormonal contraception: a retrospective study in primary care

scientific article published on 4 October 2007

Adolescent use of the combined oral contraceptive pill: a retrospective observational study

scientific article

Adrenaline is first line treatment for the emergency treatment of anaphylaxis

scientific article published on 21 April 2010

Antibiotic prescribing for children. Too much and too little? Retrospective observational study in primary care

scientific article published in July 2003

Are different groups of patients with stroke more likely to be excluded from the new UK general medical services contract? A cross-sectional retrospective analysis of a large primary care population

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Association Between Prescribing of Cardiovascular and Psychotropic Medications and Hospital Admission for Falls or Fractures

scientific article published on 01 April 2013

Association between multimorbidity and mortality in a cohort of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 in Scotland

scholarly article by Utkarsh Agrawal published in 2021

Authors' response: Homeopathy is safe and does not lack positive evidence in clinical trials/Scottish GPs use of Homeopathy.

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BNT162b2 and ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccinations, incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infections and COVID-19 hospitalisations in Scotland in the Delta era

scientific article published on 26 March 2022

Building a recruitment database for asthma trials: a conceptual framework for the creation of the UK Database of Asthma Research Volunteers

scientific article published on 26 May 2016

Burden of corticosteroids in children with asthma in primary care: retrospective observational study

scientific article published on June 2002

COVID-19 in Pregnancy in Scotland (COPS): protocol for an observational study using linked Scottish national data

scientific article published on 26 November 2020

Cardiovascular and neuropsychiatric risks of varenicline - Authors' reply

scientific article published on 2 March 2016

Cardiovascular and neuropsychiatric risks of varenicline and bupropion in smokers with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

scientific article published on 4 May 2017

Cardiovascular and neuropsychiatric risks of varenicline: a retrospective cohort study

scientific article

Cardiovascular and neuropsychiatric risks of varenicline: too good to be true? - Authors' reply

scientific article published in December 2015

Cardiovascular and neuropsychiatric safety of varenicline and bupropion compared with nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation: study protocol of a retrospective cohort study using the QResearch general practice database

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Challenges of harmonising data from UK national health surveys: a case study of attempts to estimate the UK prevalence of asthma

scientific article published in November 2015

Changes in primary care prescribing patterns for paediatric asthma: a prescribing database analysis

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Cohort Profile: Early Pandemic Evaluation and Enhanced Surveillance of COVID-19 (EAVE II) Database

scholarly article by Rachel H Mulholland published in 2021

Coincidence of immune-mediated diseases driven by Th1 and Th2 subsets suggests a common aetiology. A population-based study using computerized general practice data.

scientific article

Considerable differences exist between prevalent and incident myocardial infarction cohorts derived from the same population

scientific article

Development and validation of a model to predict the 10-year risk of general practitioner-recorded COPD.

scientific article

Diagnosis and treatment of depression following routine screening in patients with coronary heart disease or diabetes: a database cohort study

scientific article

Early estimation of pandemic influenza Antiviral and Vaccine Effectiveness (EAVE) - use of a unique community and laboratory national linked dataset

Early estimation of pandemic influenza Antiviral and Vaccine Effectiveness (EAVE): use of a unique community and laboratory national data-linked cohort study.

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Effect of the UK incentive-based contract on the management of patients with stroke in primary care

scientific article

Effectiveness of H1N1 vaccine for the prevention of pandemic influenza in Scotland, UK: a retrospective observational cohort study

scientific article

Effectiveness of influenza vaccination for preventing influenza-related complications in people with asthma: a systematic review protocol

scientific article

Effectiveness of influenza vaccines in asthma: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 7 June 2017

Epidemiology and disease burden from allergic disease in Scotland: analyses of national databases.

scientific article published in October 2009

Epidemiology of Asthma

scholarly article published 14 January 2014

Ethnic variations in asthma hospital admission, readmission and death: a retrospective, national cohort study of 4.62 million people in Scotland

scientific article published on 12 January 2016

Ethnic variations in morbidity and mortality from lower respiratory tract infections: a retrospective cohort study

scientific article published on 7 July 2015

Evaluating the effectiveness, impact and safety of live attenuated and seasonal inactivated influenza vaccination: protocol for the Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Effectiveness II (SIVE II) study.

scientific article published on 28 February 2017

Evidence for age and sex differences in the secondary prevention of stroke in Scottish primary care.

scientific article published on 21 July 2005

Evidence for inequalities in the management of coronary heart disease in Scotland.

scientific article published on May 2005

Evidence for prolonged prescribing of aspirin-clopidogrel combination in Scottish primary care

scientific article

Exogenous sex steroid hormones and asthma in females: protocol for a population-based retrospective cohort study using a UK primary care database.

scientific article published on 27 June 2018

Exploiting the potential of routine data to better understand the disease burden posed by allergic disorders.

scientific article

External validation of a COPD prediction model using population-based primary care data: a nested case-control study

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Factors associated with duration of new antidepressant treatment: analysis of a large primary care database

scientific article published on February 2012

Five year prognosis in patients with angina identified in primary care: incident cohort study

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Five-year prognosis in an incident cohort of people presenting with acute myocardial infarction

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Gender-specific presentations for asthma, allergic rhinitis and eczema in primary care

scientific article published in February 2007

Genomic epidemiology reveals transmission patterns and dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in Aotearoa New Zealand

scientific article published on 11 December 2020

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

Homoeopathic and herbal prescribing in general practice in Scotland

scientific article published on 23 June 2006

Impact of COVID-19 on accident and emergency attendances and emergency and planned hospital admissions in Scotland: an interrupted time-series analysis

scientific article published on 04 October 2020

Impact of first UK COVID-19 lockdown on hospital admissions: Interrupted time series study of 32 million people

scientific article published on 20 May 2022

Impact of the pay-for-performance contract and the management of hypertension in Scottish primary care: a 6-year population-based repeated cross-sectional study

scientific article

Improving predictive asthma algorithms with modelled environment data for Scotland: an observational cohort study protocol.

scientific article published on 20 May 2018

Inadequacies in UK primary care allergy services: national survey of current provisions and perceptions of need

Incidence and prevalence of multiple allergic disorders recorded in a national primary care database

scientific article

Incidence, prevalence, and trends of general practitioner-recorded diagnosis of peanut allergy in England, 2001 to 2005

scientific article published in March 2011

Integrating telehealth care-generated data with the family practice electronic medical record: qualitative exploration of the views of primary care staff

scientific article

Interim findings from first-dose mass COVID-19 vaccination roll-out and COVID-19 hospital admissions in Scotland: a national prospective cohort study

scholarly article by Jiafeng Pan published in 2021

Investigating the uptake, effectiveness and safety of COVID-19 vaccines: protocol for an observational study using linked UK national data

scientific article published on 14 February 2022

Long-term trends in first hospitalization for heart failure and subsequent survival between 1986 and 2003: a population study of 5.1 million people.

scientific article published on 19 January 2009

Models for estimating projections for disease prevalence and burden: a systematic review focusing on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

scientific article published on 02 April 2015

Models for estimating projections for the prevalence and disease burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): systematic review protocol.

scientific article published on June 2013

Off-label prescribing to children in primary care: retrospective observational study

scientific article published on 14 May 2004

Paediatric homoeopathy in general practice: where, when and why?

scientific article published in June 2005

Pandemic influenza vaccination for healthcare workers in primary care: good progress, but higher uptake required.

scientific article

Paracetamol prescribing in primary care: too little and too much?

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Pneumonia hospitalisations in Scotland following the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccination in young children

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Practical methodological strategies for individual patient data systematic reviews

scientific article published in The Lancet

Predicting asthma attacks in primary care: protocol for developing a machine learning-based prediction model

scientific article published on 09 July 2019

Prevalence of polypharmacy in a Scottish primary care population.

scientific article published in February 2014

Prevalence, incidence, primary care burden and medical treatment of angina in Scotland: age, sex and socioeconomic disparities: a population-based study

scientific article (publication date: August 2006)

Primary care burden and treatment of patients with heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Scotland

scientific article published on 30 November 2009

Projecting the COPD population and costs in England and Scotland: 2011 to 2030.

scientific article published on September 2016

Protocol for a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis of prognostic factors of foot ulceration in people with diabetes: the international research collaboration for the prediction of diabetic foot ulcerations (PODUS)

scientific article

Respiratory morbidity in primary care. A population based study, using practices from the Scottish Continuous Morbidity Recording Research Database.

scientific article published in November 2000

Retrospective cohort study of breast cancer incidence, health service use and outcomes in Europe: a study of feasibility

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Retrospective cohort study to evaluate medication use in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 in Scotland: protocol for a national observational study

publication published on 19 November 2021

Risk of prostate cancer associated with benign prostate disease: a primary care case-control study

scientific article published on November 2011

Risk of respiratory hospitalization and death, readmission and subsequent mortality: scottish health and ethnicity linkage study

scientific article published on 17 April 2015

Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness (SIVE): an observational retrospective cohort study – exploitation of a unique community-based national-linked database to determine the effectiveness of the seasonal trivalent influenza vaccine

scientific article published on 3 February 2015

Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness in the community (SIVE): protocol for a cohort study exploiting a unique national linked data set.

scientific article

The UK's pandemic influenza research portfolio: a model for future research on emerging infections

scientific article published on 18 April 2019

The accuracy of using administrative healthcare data to identify epilepsy cases: A systematic review of validation studies

scientific article published on 31 May 2020

The effect of the UK incentive-based contract on the management of patients with coronary heart disease in primary care

scientific article

The epidemiology, healthcare and societal burden and costs of asthma in the UK and its member nations: analyses of standalone and linked national databases

scientific article

The filaggrin gene mutation, atopic dermatitis and asthma

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The impact and effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccination in Scotland for those aged 65 and over during winter 2003/2004

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The potential for interaction between warfarin and coprescribed medication: a retrospective study in primary care

scientific article published in January 2008

Trends in the epidemiology and prescribing of medication for eczema in England

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Trends in the epidemiology of asthma in England: a national study of 333,294 patients

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Trends in the epidemiology of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in England: a national study of 51 804 patients

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Trends in the epidemiology of smoking recorded in UK general practice

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Understanding the reasons for poor asthma outcomes in ethnic minorities: welcome progress, but important questions remain

scientific article published on 18 October 2007

Usage of allergy codes in primary care electronic health records: a national evaluation in Scotland

scientific article published on 5 May 2016

Use and safety of long-acting β2-agonists for pediatric asthma

Using primary care prescribing databases for pharmacovigilance

scientific article

Using routinely collected prescribing data to determine drug persistence for the purpose of pharmacovigilance

scientific article

Utility of routinely acquired primary care data for paediatric disease epidemiology and pharmacoepidemiology

scientific article (publication date: June 2005)

Vaccine effectiveness in pandemic influenza - primary care reporting (VIPER): an observational study to assess the effectiveness of the pandemic influenza A (H1N1)v vaccine.

scientific article

Will Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms improve our understanding of the disease burden posed by allergic disorders?

scientific article published on 18 September 2007

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