List of works - Elaine Thomas

"I'd rather go and know": women's understanding and experience of DEXA scanning for osteoporosis

scientific article published on June 2002

A Prognostic Approach to Defining Chronic Pain Across a Range of Musculoskeletal Pain Sites ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 2013

A consensus approach toward the standardization of back pain definitions for use in prevalence studies

scientific article published on January 2008

A study of the noninstrumented physical examination of the knee found high observer variability

scientific article

Acupuncture as an adjunct to exercise based physiotherapy for osteoarthritis of the knee: randomised controlled trial

scientific article

An introduction to medical statistics for health care professionals: describing and presenting data

scientific article

Average symptom trajectories following incident radiographic knee osteoarthritis: data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative

scientific article

Birth factors and common mental health problems in young adults: a population-based study in North Staffordshire

scientific article published on 14 January 2008

Birth-related exposures and asthma and allergy in adulthood: a population-based cross-sectional study of young adults in North Staffordshire

scientific article

Chest pain and subsequent consultation for coronary heart disease: a prospective cohort study

scientific article

Clinical features of symptomatic patellofemoral joint osteoarthritis ⬇️

scientific article published on March 14, 2012

Cognitive complaints in a general population of older adults: prevalence, association with pain and the influence of concurrent affective disorders

scientific article published on 24 December 2008

Conceptual overlap of psychological constructs in low back pain ⬇️

scientific article published on May 29, 2013

Defining and mapping the person with osteoarthritis for population studies and public health

scientific article

Derivation and testing of an interval-level score for measuring locomotor disability in epidemiological studies of middle and old age.

scientific article published on 13 November 2009

Development and Validation of the Keele Musculoskeletal Patient Reported Outcome Measure (MSK-PROM).

scientific article published on 30 April 2015

Distinctiveness of psychological obstacles to recovery in low back pain patients in primary care

scientific article

Effectiveness of community physiotherapy and enhanced pharmacy review for knee pain in people aged over 55 presenting to primary care: pragmatic randomised trial

scientific article

Factors associated with participation restriction in community-dwelling adults aged 50 years and over

scientific article published on 26 May 2007

Factors associated with restricted mobility outside the home in community-dwelling adults ages fifty years and older with knee pain: an example of use of the International Classification of Functioning to investigate participation restriction

scientific article published in December 2007

Factors associated with the severity and progression of self-reported hand pain and functional difficulty in community-dwelling older adults: a systematic review

scientific article published on 31 January 2012

Flt3 ligand enhances thymic-dependent and thymic-independent immune reconstitution

scientific article published on 29 June 2004

GPs' perceptions of the role of DEXA scanning: an exploratory study

scientific article published in February 2004

Gender difference in symptomatic radiographic knee osteoarthritis in the Knee Clinical Assessment--CAS(K): a prospective study in the general population

scientific article

Hand assessment in older adults with musculoskeletal hand problems: a reliability study

scientific article

Health care practitioners' attitudes and beliefs about low back pain: a systematic search and critical review of available measurement tools

scientific article published on 7 March 2007

How does the self-reported clinical management of patients with low back pain relate to the attitudes and beliefs of health care practitioners? A survey of UK general practitioners and physiotherapists

scientific article

How reliable is structured clinical history-taking in older adults with knee problems? Inter- and intraobserver variability of the KNE-SCI.

scientific article published in November 2003

Human Leydig cells are productively infected by some HIV-2 and SIV strains but not by HIV-1.

scientific article

Impact of hallux valgus severity on general and foot-specific health-related quality of life

scientific article published on 15 November 2010

Impairment-targeted exercises for older adults with knee pain: protocol for a proof-of-principle study ⬇️

scientific article published on January 7, 2011

Is a "false-positive" clinical diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis just the early diagnosis of pre-radiographic disease?

scientific article published in October 2010

Is acupuncture a useful adjunct to physiotherapy for older adults with knee pain?: the "acupuncture, physiotherapy and exercise" (APEX) study [ISRCTN88597683]

scientific article

Is childhood pain associated with future mental health problems? A population based study of young adults in North Staffordshire

scientific article published on 30 October 2008

Is chronic widespread pain a predictor of all-cause morbidity? A 3 year prospective population based study in family practice.

scientific article

Knee pain and osteoarthritis in the general population: what influences patients to consult?

scientific article published on 4 August 2007

Multiple joint pain and lower extremity disability in middle and old age.

scientific article published in December 2006

National study of cause-specific mortality in rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile chronic arthritis, and other rheumatic conditions: a 20 year followup study

scientific article published in May 2003

Onset and Persistence of Disabling Foot Pain in Community-Dwelling Older Adults Over a 3-Year Period: A Prospective Cohort Study ⬇️

scientific article published on November 24, 2010

Onset and persistence of person-perceived participation restriction in older adults: a 3-year follow-up study in the general population

scientific article

Osteoporosis: what are the implications of DEXA scanning ‘high risk’ women in primary care? ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 2003

Pain at multiple body sites and health-related quality of life in older adults: results from the North Staffordshire Osteoarthritis Project

scientific article

Pain location matters: the impact of leg pain on health care use, work disability and quality of life in patients with low back pain

scientific article published on 18 May 2014

Patterns of pain and mobility limitation in older people: cross-sectional findings from a population survey of 18,497 adults aged 50 years and over

scientific article published in May 2008

Point-of-Care Prognosis for Common Musculoskeletal Pain in Older Adults ⬇️

scientific article published on June 24, 2013

Predicting poor functional outcome in community-dwelling older adults with knee pain: prognostic value of generic indicators

scientific article

Prognostic indicators of low back pain in primary care: five-year prospective study

scientific article published on 20 June 2013

Psychological, sleep, lifestyle, and comorbid associations with headache

scientific article published in June 2005

Recruiting patients and collecting data for an observational study using computerised record pop-up prompts: the PROG-RES study ⬇️

scientific article published on April 2, 2012

Self management, joint protection and exercises in hand osteoarthritis: a randomised controlled trial with cost effectiveness analyses ⬇️

scientific article published on July 11, 2011

Self-management approaches for osteoarthritis in the hand: a 2×2 factorial randomised trial

scientific article

Self-reported pain interference and symptoms of anxiety and depression in community-dwelling older adults: can a temporal relationship be determined?

scientific article

Severely disabling chronic pain in young adults: prevalence from a population-based postal survey in North Staffordshire

scientific article

Statistical guidelines for contributors to Rheumatology

scientific article

The Clinical Assessment Study of the Hand (CAS-HA): a prospective study of musculoskeletal hand problems in the general population

scientific article

The Knee Clinical Assessment Study--CAS(K). A prospective study of knee pain and knee osteoarthritis in the general population

scientific article

The Knee Clinical Assessment Study-CAS(K). A prospective study of knee pain and knee osteoarthritis in the general population: baseline recruitment and retention at 18 months

scientific article published on 16 March 2006

The North Staffordshire Osteoarthritis Project--NorStOP: prospective, 3-year study of the epidemiology and management of clinical osteoarthritis in a general population of older adults

scientific article

The assessment of the prognosis of musculoskeletal conditions in older adults presenting to general practice: a research protocol

scientific article published on 10 November 2006

The effect of changes in lower limb pain on the rate of progression of locomotor disability in middle and old age: Evidence from the NorStOP cohort with 6-year follow-up ⬇️

scientific article published on March 3, 2012

The effect of diabetic control on the incidence of, and changes in, retinopathy in type 2 non-insulin dependent diabetic patients.

scientific article

The prevalence of person-perceived participation restriction in community-dwelling older adults

scientific article published on 29 September 2006

The relationship between patient and practitioner expectations and preferences and clinical outcomes in a trial of exercise and acupuncture for knee osteoarthritis

scientific article

Use of qualitative integrative cycler PCR (qicPCR) to identify optimal therapeutic dosing time-points in a Respiratory Syncytial Virus Human Viral Challenge Model (hVCM).

scientific article published on 31 August 2015

What are the important components of the clinical assessment of hand problems in older adults in primary care? Results of a Delphi study

scientific article

What influences participants' treatment preference and can it influence outcome? Results from a primary care-based randomised trial for shoulder pain

scientific article

When knee pain becomes severe: a nested case-control analysis in community-dwelling older adults

scientific article published on August 2009

List of works by Elaine Thomas

"I'd rather go and know": women's understanding and experience of DEXA scanning for osteoporosis

A Prognostic Approach to Defining Chronic Pain Across a Range of Musculoskeletal Pain Sites ⬇️

A consensus approach toward the standardization of back pain definitions for use in prevalence studies

A study of the noninstrumented physical examination of the knee found high observer variability

Acupuncture as an adjunct to exercise based physiotherapy for osteoarthritis of the knee: randomised controlled trial

An introduction to medical statistics for health care professionals: describing and presenting data

Average symptom trajectories following incident radiographic knee osteoarthritis: data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative

Birth factors and common mental health problems in young adults: a population-based study in North Staffordshire

Birth-related exposures and asthma and allergy in adulthood: a population-based cross-sectional study of young adults in North Staffordshire

Chest pain and subsequent consultation for coronary heart disease: a prospective cohort study

Clinical features of symptomatic patellofemoral joint osteoarthritis ⬇️

Cognitive complaints in a general population of older adults: prevalence, association with pain and the influence of concurrent affective disorders

Conceptual overlap of psychological constructs in low back pain ⬇️

Defining and mapping the person with osteoarthritis for population studies and public health

Derivation and testing of an interval-level score for measuring locomotor disability in epidemiological studies of middle and old age.

Development and Validation of the Keele Musculoskeletal Patient Reported Outcome Measure (MSK-PROM).

Distinctiveness of psychological obstacles to recovery in low back pain patients in primary care

Effectiveness of community physiotherapy and enhanced pharmacy review for knee pain in people aged over 55 presenting to primary care: pragmatic randomised trial

Factors associated with participation restriction in community-dwelling adults aged 50 years and over

Factors associated with restricted mobility outside the home in community-dwelling adults ages fifty years and older with knee pain: an example of use of the International Classification of Functioning to investigate participation restriction

Factors associated with the severity and progression of self-reported hand pain and functional difficulty in community-dwelling older adults: a systematic review

Flt3 ligand enhances thymic-dependent and thymic-independent immune reconstitution

GPs' perceptions of the role of DEXA scanning: an exploratory study

Gender difference in symptomatic radiographic knee osteoarthritis in the Knee Clinical Assessment--CAS(K): a prospective study in the general population

Hand assessment in older adults with musculoskeletal hand problems: a reliability study

Health care practitioners' attitudes and beliefs about low back pain: a systematic search and critical review of available measurement tools

How does the self-reported clinical management of patients with low back pain relate to the attitudes and beliefs of health care practitioners? A survey of UK general practitioners and physiotherapists

How reliable is structured clinical history-taking in older adults with knee problems? Inter- and intraobserver variability of the KNE-SCI.

Human Leydig cells are productively infected by some HIV-2 and SIV strains but not by HIV-1.

Impact of hallux valgus severity on general and foot-specific health-related quality of life

Impairment-targeted exercises for older adults with knee pain: protocol for a proof-of-principle study ⬇️

Is a "false-positive" clinical diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis just the early diagnosis of pre-radiographic disease?

Is acupuncture a useful adjunct to physiotherapy for older adults with knee pain?: the "acupuncture, physiotherapy and exercise" (APEX) study [ISRCTN88597683]

Is childhood pain associated with future mental health problems? A population based study of young adults in North Staffordshire

Is chronic widespread pain a predictor of all-cause morbidity? A 3 year prospective population based study in family practice.

Knee pain and osteoarthritis in the general population: what influences patients to consult?

Multiple joint pain and lower extremity disability in middle and old age.

National study of cause-specific mortality in rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile chronic arthritis, and other rheumatic conditions: a 20 year followup study

Onset and Persistence of Disabling Foot Pain in Community-Dwelling Older Adults Over a 3-Year Period: A Prospective Cohort Study ⬇️

Onset and persistence of person-perceived participation restriction in older adults: a 3-year follow-up study in the general population

Osteoporosis: what are the implications of DEXA scanning ‘high risk’ women in primary care? ⬇️

Pain at multiple body sites and health-related quality of life in older adults: results from the North Staffordshire Osteoarthritis Project

Pain location matters: the impact of leg pain on health care use, work disability and quality of life in patients with low back pain

Patterns of pain and mobility limitation in older people: cross-sectional findings from a population survey of 18,497 adults aged 50 years and over

Point-of-Care Prognosis for Common Musculoskeletal Pain in Older Adults ⬇️

Predicting poor functional outcome in community-dwelling older adults with knee pain: prognostic value of generic indicators

Prognostic indicators of low back pain in primary care: five-year prospective study

Psychological, sleep, lifestyle, and comorbid associations with headache

Recruiting patients and collecting data for an observational study using computerised record pop-up prompts: the PROG-RES study ⬇️

Self management, joint protection and exercises in hand osteoarthritis: a randomised controlled trial with cost effectiveness analyses ⬇️

Self-management approaches for osteoarthritis in the hand: a 2×2 factorial randomised trial

Self-reported pain interference and symptoms of anxiety and depression in community-dwelling older adults: can a temporal relationship be determined?

Severely disabling chronic pain in young adults: prevalence from a population-based postal survey in North Staffordshire

Statistical guidelines for contributors to Rheumatology

The Clinical Assessment Study of the Hand (CAS-HA): a prospective study of musculoskeletal hand problems in the general population

The Knee Clinical Assessment Study--CAS(K). A prospective study of knee pain and knee osteoarthritis in the general population

The Knee Clinical Assessment Study-CAS(K). A prospective study of knee pain and knee osteoarthritis in the general population: baseline recruitment and retention at 18 months

The North Staffordshire Osteoarthritis Project--NorStOP: prospective, 3-year study of the epidemiology and management of clinical osteoarthritis in a general population of older adults

The assessment of the prognosis of musculoskeletal conditions in older adults presenting to general practice: a research protocol

The effect of changes in lower limb pain on the rate of progression of locomotor disability in middle and old age: Evidence from the NorStOP cohort with 6-year follow-up ⬇️

The effect of diabetic control on the incidence of, and changes in, retinopathy in type 2 non-insulin dependent diabetic patients.

The prevalence of person-perceived participation restriction in community-dwelling older adults

The relationship between patient and practitioner expectations and preferences and clinical outcomes in a trial of exercise and acupuncture for knee osteoarthritis

Use of qualitative integrative cycler PCR (qicPCR) to identify optimal therapeutic dosing time-points in a Respiratory Syncytial Virus Human Viral Challenge Model (hVCM).

What are the important components of the clinical assessment of hand problems in older adults in primary care? Results of a Delphi study

What influences participants' treatment preference and can it influence outcome? Results from a primary care-based randomised trial for shoulder pain

When knee pain becomes severe: a nested case-control analysis in community-dwelling older adults