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List of works by Stewart Mercer

'Learning together': sharing international experience on new models of primary care.

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'Trying to put a square peg into a round hole': a qualitative study of healthcare professionals' views of integrating complementary medicine into primary care for musculoskeletal and mental health comorbidity

scientific article published on 29 October 2018

A Pilot Prospective Study on the Consultation and Relational Empathy, Patient Enablement, and Health Changes over 12 Months in Patients Going to the Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital

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

scientific article published on 20 February 2019

A pilot study on the validity and reliability of the Patient Enablement Instrument (PEI) in a Chinese population

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A preliminary evaluation of the Visual CARE Measure for use by Allied Health Professionals with children and their parents

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A qualitative study of patients' views on quality of primary care consultations in Hong Kong and comparison with the UK CARE Measure

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A qualitative study of the views of patients with long-term conditions on family doctors in Hong Kong.

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A randomized, controlled clinical trial: the effect of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on generalized anxiety disorder among Chinese community patients: protocol for a randomized trial.

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A systematic review of the benefits of mindfulness-based interventions following transient ischemic attack and stroke.

scientific article published on August 2013

Acceptability of mindfulness from the perspective of stroke survivors and caregivers: a qualitative study

scientific article published on 26 February 2018

Accessibility and implementation in UK services of an effective depression relapse prevention programme - mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT): ASPIRE study protocol

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Accounting for multimorbidity in pay for performance: a modelling study using UK Quality and Outcomes Framework data.

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Adapting clinical guidelines to take account of multimorbidity

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Analyzing the "nature" and "specific effectiveness" of clinical empathy: a theoretical overview and contribution towards a theory-based research agenda.

scientific article published on 04 January 2009

Assessing the Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) Measure in sexual health nurses' consultations

scientific article published on 25 November 2017

Association of Antihypertensive Monotherapy With Serum Sodium and Potassium Levels in Chinese Patients

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Authors' reply to Lewis and Bray.

scientific article published on 18 August 2015

Can mindfulness groups treat common mental health problems? Problematic design and short follow-up fails to answer the question.

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Challenges of managing people with multimorbidity in today's healthcare systems

scientific article published on 14 October 2015

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and comorbidities: a large cross-sectional study in primary care

scientific article published on May 2017

Chronic psychosocial stress: does it modulate immunity to the influenza vaccine in Hong Kong Chinese elderly caregivers?

scientific article published on 08 July 2012

Co-morbidity and polypharmacy in Parkinson's disease: insights from a large Scottish primary care database.

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Comorbidities in adults with asthma: Population-based cross-sectional analysis of 1.4 million adults in Scotland

scientific article published on 30 June 2017

Comorbidity and polypharmacy in chronic heart failure: a large cross-sectional study in primary care.

scientific article published on 10 April 2017

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 in asthma is important and requires a generalist approach

scientific article published on 01 March 2014

Correction of: Supporting Goal-Oriented Primary Health Care for Seniors with Complex Care Needs Using Mobile Technology: Evaluation and Implementation of the Health System Performance Research Network, Bridgepoint Electronic Patient Reported Outcome

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Defining and measuring multimorbidity: a systematic review of systematic reviews

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Delivering a primary care-based social prescribing initiative: a qualitative study of the benefits and challenges

scientific article published on 21 May 2018

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

scientific article published on November 2014

Developing middle-ground research to support primary care transformation.

scientific article published in November 2017

Disability and human rights

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

Distilling the essence of general practice: a learning journey in progress.

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Divided we fall: the commodification of primary medical care.

scientific article published on 22 February 2018

Do GPs use motivational interviewing skills in routine consultations with patients living with mental-physical multimorbidity? An observational study of primary care in Scotland

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Do multimorbidity and deprivation influence patients' emotional expressions and doctors' responses in primary care consultations?--An exploratory study using multilevel analysis.

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Doctors and medical students with disabilities

scientific article published on 01 November 2000

Does mindfulness improve outcomes in patients with chronic pain? Systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on June 2015

Does vocational training in family medicine have an impact on antibiotic prescribing pattern?

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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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Effect of facemasks on empathy and relational continuity: a randomised controlled trial in primary care.

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Empathy, Enablement, and Outcome: An Exploratory Study on Acupuncture Patients' Perceptions

scientific article published on 01 December 2003

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

scientific article published on 10 May 2012

Epidemiology of multimorbidity in China and implications for the healthcare system: cross-sectional survey among 162,464 community household residents in southern China

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Further observations on enablement.

scientific article published on July 2008

General Practitioners' Empathy and Health Outcomes: A Prospective Observational Study of Consultations in Areas of High and Low Deprivation

scientific article published on March 2016

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

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Having a Family Doctor is Associated with Some Better Patient-Reported Outcomes of Primary Care Consultations.

scientific article published on 15 September 2014

Health benefits of primary care social work for adults with complex health and social needs: a systematic review

scientific article published on 5 April 2016

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

scientific article published on 31 March 2016

How many patients are required to provide a high level of reliability in the Japanese version of the CARE Measure? A secondary analysis

scientific article published on 16 August 2018

How useful are clinical guidelines for the management of obesity in general practice?

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Impact of educational attainment on the association between social class at birth and multimorbidity in middle age in the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s cohort study

scientific article published on 28 January 2019

Improving medication management in multimorbidity: development of the MultimorbiditY COllaborative Medication Review And DEcision Making (MY COMRADE) intervention using the Behaviour Change Wheel

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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

Improving together: a new quality framework for GP clusters in Scotland.

scientific article published in July 2017

Incentivised chronic disease management and the inverse equity hypothesis: findings from a longitudinal analysis of Scottish primary care practice-level data

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Insightful practice: a reliable measure for medical revalidation

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Involving deprived communities in improving the quality of primary care services: does participatory action research work?

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Is polypharmacy always hazardous? A retrospective cohort analysis using linked electronic health records from primary and secondary care

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Management of multimorbidity using a patient-centred care model: a pragmatic cluster-randomised trial of the 3D approach.

scientific article published on 28 June 2018

Managing multimorbidity in primary care in patients with chronic respiratory conditions

scientific article published on 15 September 2016

Managing patients with mental and physical multimorbidity

scientific article published on 3 September 2012

Measuring empathic, person-centred communication in primary care nurses: validity and reliability of the Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) Measure

scientific article published on 23 October 2015

Measuring empathy in pediatrics: validation of the Visual CARE measure.

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Mindfulness based interventions in multiple sclerosis--a systematic review

scientific article published on 17 January 2014

Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Young Offenders: a Scoping Review

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Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy v. group psychoeducation for people with generalised anxiety disorder: randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 4 February 2016

Mindfulness-based interventions for people with multiple sclerosis

scientific article published on 28 April 2015

Mindfulness-based interventions in epilepsy: a systematic review.

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Mindfulness-based stress reduction for people with multiple sclerosis - a feasibility randomised controlled trial

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Mindfulness-based stress reduction in Parkinson's disease: a systematic review.

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More time for complex consultations in a high-deprivation practice is associated with increased patient enablement

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Multimorbidity

scientific article published on 10 November 2011

Multimorbidity and Socioeconomic Deprivation in Primary Care Consultations

scientific article published on 01 March 2018

Multimorbidity and functional impairment: bidirectional interplay, synergistic effects and common pathways

scientific article published on 22 November 2018

Multimorbidity and mental health: can psychiatry rise to the challenge?

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Multimorbidity and patient-centred care in the 3D trial – Authors' reply

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

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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Multimorbidity in middle age predicts more subsequent hospital admissions than in older age: A nine-year retrospective cohort study of 121,188 discharged in-patients

scientific article published on 20 December 2018

Multimorbidity in primary care: a systematic review of prospective cohort studies

scientific article published in April 2012

Multimorbidity in primary care: developing the research agenda

scientific article published on 01 April 2009

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

scientific article published on 27 August 2015

Nurses in the triage of the emergency department: self-compassion and empathy

scientific article published on 18 July 2019

Optimising mindfulness-based stress reduction for people with multiple sclerosis

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Participants’ experiences of music, mindful music, and audiobook listening interventions for people recovering from stroke

scientific article published on 04 May 2018

Patient centredness and the outcome of primary care consultations with patients with depression in areas of high and low socioeconomic deprivation

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Patient enablement requires physician empathy: a cross-sectional study of general practice consultations in areas of high and low socioeconomic deprivation in Scotland

scientific article published on February 8, 2012

Patterns of antihypertensive prescribing, discontinuation and switching among a Hong Kong Chinese population from over one million prescriptions.

scientific article published in October 2008

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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Physical health indicators in SMI.

scientific article published in January 2015

Physical health indicators in major mental illness: analysis of QOF data across UK general practice.

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Practitioner empathy, patient enablement and health outcomes of patients attending the Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital: a retrospective and prospective comparison

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Prevention of anxiety and depression in Chinese: a randomized clinical trial testing the effectiveness of a stepped care program in primary care

scientific article published on 19 August 2014

Profiles of mortality among Chinese hypertensive patients in Hong Kong: a cohort study.

scientific article published on 2 April 2009

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

Psychological therapies in primary care: a progress report.

scientific article published on November 2014

Psychosocial distress of Tibetans in exile: integrating western interventions with traditional beliefs and practice.

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Public and private healthcare services utilization by non-institutional elderly in Hong Kong: is the inverse care law operating?

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Quality in general practice consultations; a qualitative study of the views of patients living in an area of high socio-economic deprivation in Scotland.

scientific article published on 19 April 2007

Questionnaire severity measures for depression

scientific article published on May 2011

Randomised controlled trial of a brief intervention targeting predominantly non-verbal communication in general practice consultations.

scientific article published on June 2015

Relevance and practical use of the Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) Measure in general practice

scientific article published on 16 March 2005

Reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the CARE Measure in a primary care setting in Hong Kong

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Reliability and validity of the Croatian version of Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) Measure in primary care setting

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Reliability and validity of the Dutch version of the Consultation and Relational Empathy Measure in primary care.

scientific article published on 05 December 2016

Response to: assessing the harms of polypharmacy requires careful interpretation and consistent definitions

scientific article published in September 2014

Risk of intracranial haemorrhage linked to co-treatment with antidepressants and NSAIDs

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Scoping review of systematic reviews of complementary medicine for musculoskeletal and mental health conditions

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

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Socioeconomic Determinants of Multimorbidity: A Population-Based Household Survey of Hong Kong Chinese.

scientific article published on 9 October 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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Supporting Goal-Oriented Primary Health Care for Seniors with Complex Care Needs Using Mobile Technology: Evaluation and Implementation of the Health System Performance Research Network, Bridgepoint Electronic Patient Reported Outcome Tool

scientific article published on 24 June 2016

The Association Between Perceived Stress and Mortality Among People With Multimorbidity: A Prospective Population-Based Cohort Study.

scientific article published on 11 July 2016

The Association of Types of Training and Practice Settings with Doctors' Empathy and Patient Enablement among Patients with Chronic Illness in Hong Kong

scientific article published on 14 December 2015

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 Chinese-version of the CARE measure reliably differentiates between doctors in primary care: a cross-sectional study in Hong Kong

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The Foundations Framework for Developing and Reporting New Models of Care for Multimorbidity.

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The association between multimorbidity and mobility disability-free life expectancy in adults aged 85 years and over: A modelling study in the Newcastle 85+ cohort

scientific article published on 14 November 2022

The association between types of regular primary care and hospitalization among people with and without multimorbidity: A household survey on 25,780 Chinese

scientific article published on 20 July 2016

The consultation and relational empathy (CARE) measure: development and preliminary validation and reliability of an empathy-based consultation process measure

scientific article published on 04 November 2004

The contribution of risk factors to socioeconomic inequalities in multimorbidity across the lifecourse: a longitudinal analysis of the Twenty-07 cohort.

scientific article published on 24 August 2017

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 development of urban community health centres for strengthening primary care in China: a systematic literature review.

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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 effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction program on the mental health of family caregivers: a randomized controlled trial.

scientific article published on 19 November 2013

The impact of general practitioner morale on patient satisfaction with care: a cross-sectional study

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

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The inverse care law: clinical primary care encounters in deprived and affluent areas of Scotland

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The relationship between clinically relevant depressive symptoms and episodes and duration of all cause hospitalization in Southern Chinese elderly.

scientific article published on 18 July 2008

The reliability of workplace-based assessment in postgraduate medical education and training: a national evaluation in general practice in the United Kingdom

scientific article published on 28 February 2008

The role of empathy in therapy and the physician-patient relationship.

scientific article published on 05 October 2012

Time to care: tackling health inequalities through primary care

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Towards standard setting for patient-reported outcomes in the NHS homeopathic hospitals

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Understanding usual care for patients with multimorbidity: baseline data from a cluster-randomised trial of the 3D intervention in primary care

scientific article published on 29 August 2018

Using clinical audit to improve the quality of obstetric care at the Tibetan Delek Hospital in North India: a longitudinal study

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Using normalisation process theory to understand barriers and facilitators to implementing mindfulness-based stress reduction for people with multiple sclerosis

scientific article published on 26 April 2018

Validity and reliability of the Japanese version of the CARE Measure in a general medicine outpatient setting

scientific article published on 10 October 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

Verbal and non-verbal behaviour and patient perception of communication in primary care: an observational study

scientific article published on June 2015

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

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Working lives of GPs in Scotland and England: cross-sectional analysis of national surveys

scientific article published on 30 October 2020