List of works - Gary Abel

A ‘telephone first’ approach to demand management in English general practice: a multimethod evaluation

scientific article published on 8 May 2019

Adjusted indices of multiple deprivation to enable comparisons within and between constituent countries of the UK including an illustration using mortality rates

scientific article

Are There Ethnic Differences in Recorded Features among Patients Subsequently Diagnosed with Cancer? An English Longitudinal Data-Linked Study

scientific article published on 7 June 2023

Are inequalities in cancer diagnosis through emergency presentation narrowing, widening or remaining unchanged? Longitudinal analysis of English population-based data 2006-2013

article

Assessing Ethnic Inequalities in Diagnostic Interval of Common Cancers: A Population-Based UK Cohort Study

scientific article published on 23 June 2022

Beyond the ecological fallacy: potential problems when studying healthcare organisations

scientific article

Can Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) from Population Surveys Provide Accurate Estimates of Pre-Admission Health Status of Emergency Hospital Admissions?

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

Cardiovascular polypharmacy is not associated with unplanned hospitalisation: evidence from a retrospective cohort study

scientific article

Changing practice as a quality indicator for primary care: analysis of data on voluntary disenrollment from the English GP Patient Survey

scientific article

Clinical decision-making on lung cancer investigations in primary care: a vignette study

scientific article published on 21 August 2024

Concordance with urgent referral guidelines in patients presenting with any of six ‘alarm’ features of possible cancer: a retrospective cohort study using linked primary care records

scientific article published on 4 October 2021

Could Ovarian Cancer Prediction Models Improve the Triage of Symptomatic Women in Primary Care? A Modelling Study Using Routinely Collected Data

scientific article published on 9 June 2021

Digital Facilitation to Support Patient Access to Web-Based Primary Care Services: Scoping Literature Review

scientific article published on 14 July 2022

Ecological studies: use with caution

scientific article (publication date: February 2014)

Emergency diagnosis of cancer and previous general practice consultations: insights from linked patient survey data

scientific article

Evaluating Differential Item Functioning in the English General Practice Patient Survey: Comparison of South Asian and White British Subgroups

scientific article

Examining methodology to identify patterns of consulting in primary care for different groups of patients before a diagnosis of cancer: An exemplar applied to oesophagogastric cancer

scientific article published in February 2023

Guideline interval: A new time interval in the diagnostic pathway for symptomatic cancer

scientific article published in August 2021

Identifying Ovarian Cancer in Symptomatic Women: A Systematic Review of Clinical Tools

scientific article published on 08 December 2020

Identifying and quantifying variation between healthcare organisations and geographical regions: using mixed-effects models

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

Impact of the Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care Older People's Programme on hospital utilisation and costs: controlled time series and cost-consequence analysis

scientific article published on 03 March 2019

Investigating the meaning of 'good' or 'very good' patient evaluations of care in English general practice: a mixed methods study.

scientific article published on 02 March 2017

Medication non-adherence: an overlooked target for quality improvement interventions

scientific article published on 20 December 2019

Mortality alerts, actions taken and declining mortality: true effect or regression to the mean?

article

Order effects in high stakes undergraduate examinations: an analysis of 5 years of administrative data in one UK medical school.

scientific article

Patient Experience Drivers of Overall Satisfaction With Care in Cancer Patients: Evidence From Responders to the English Cancer Patient Experience Survey

scientific article published on 25 November 2019

Patterns of disease presentation and management in Egyptian primary care: findings from a survey of 2458 primary care patient consultations

scientific article

Policies and strategies to retain and support the return of experienced GPs in direct patient care: the ReGROUP mixed-methods study

Post-sampling mortality and non-response patterns in the English Cancer Patient Experience Survey: Implications for epidemiological studies based on surveys of cancer patients

scientific article published on 18 January 2016

Predictors of Postal or Online Response Mode and Associations With Patient Experience and Satisfaction in the English Cancer Patient Experience Survey.

scientific article published on 2 May 2019

Primary care use by men with symptoms of possible prostate cancer: A multi‐method study with an ethnically diverse sample in London

scientific article published on 21 June 2021

Prolonged Diagnostic Intervals as Marker of Missed Diagnostic Opportunities in Bladder and Kidney Cancer Patients with Alarm Features: A Longitudinal Linked Data Study

scientific article published on 5 January 2021

Protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial assessing the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Electronic RIsk-assessment for CAncer for patients in general practice (ERICA)

scientific article published in March 2023

Quitting patient care and career break intentions among general practitioners in South West England: findings of a census survey of general practitioners ⬇️

scientific article published on 11 April 2017

Reliability of hospital scores for the Cancer Patient Experience Survey: analysis of publicly reported patient survey data

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Role of practices and Clinical Commissioning Groups in measures of patient experience: analysis of routine data

scientific article published on 27 October 2020

Seasonal variation in diagnosis of invasive cutaneous melanoma in Eastern England and Scotland. ⬇️

scientific article

Seeing the wood and the trees: the impact of the healthcare system on variation in primary care referrals

scientific article published on 10 December 2019

The accuracy of diagnostic coding for acute kidney injury in England - a single centre study

scientific article

The diagnostic performance of CA125 for the detection of ovarian and non-ovarian cancer in primary care: A population-based cohort study

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

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 the first UK lockdown for the COVID-19 pandemic on primary-care-recorded cancer and type-2 diabetes mellitus records: A population-based quasi-experimental time series study

scientific article published in August 2024

Understanding high and low patient experience scores in primary care: analysis of patients' survey data for general practices and individual doctors

scientific article

Variation and statistical reliability of publicly reported primary care diagnostic activity indicators for cancer: a cross-sectional ecological study of routine data.

scientific article published on 28 August 2017

Variation in 'fast-track' referrals for suspected cancer by patient characteristic and cancer diagnosis: evidence from 670 000 patients with cancers of 35 different sites

scientific article published on 28 November 2017

Variations in GP-patient communication by ethnicity, age, and gender: evidence from a national primary care patient survey

scientific article

What happens to patient experience when you want to see a doctor and you get to speak to a nurse? Observational study using data from the English General Practice Patient Survey

scientific article published on 3 February 2018

Workforce predictive risk modelling: development of a model to identify general practices at risk of a supply-demand imbalance

scientific article published on 23 January 2020

List of works by Gary Abel

A ‘telephone first’ approach to demand management in English general practice: a multimethod evaluation

Adjusted indices of multiple deprivation to enable comparisons within and between constituent countries of the UK including an illustration using mortality rates

Are There Ethnic Differences in Recorded Features among Patients Subsequently Diagnosed with Cancer? An English Longitudinal Data-Linked Study

Are inequalities in cancer diagnosis through emergency presentation narrowing, widening or remaining unchanged? Longitudinal analysis of English population-based data 2006-2013

Assessing Ethnic Inequalities in Diagnostic Interval of Common Cancers: A Population-Based UK Cohort Study

Beyond the ecological fallacy: potential problems when studying healthcare organisations

Can Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) from Population Surveys Provide Accurate Estimates of Pre-Admission Health Status of Emergency Hospital Admissions?

Cardiovascular polypharmacy is not associated with unplanned hospitalisation: evidence from a retrospective cohort study

Changing practice as a quality indicator for primary care: analysis of data on voluntary disenrollment from the English GP Patient Survey

Clinical decision-making on lung cancer investigations in primary care: a vignette study

Concordance with urgent referral guidelines in patients presenting with any of six ‘alarm’ features of possible cancer: a retrospective cohort study using linked primary care records

Could Ovarian Cancer Prediction Models Improve the Triage of Symptomatic Women in Primary Care? A Modelling Study Using Routinely Collected Data

Digital Facilitation to Support Patient Access to Web-Based Primary Care Services: Scoping Literature Review

Ecological studies: use with caution

Emergency diagnosis of cancer and previous general practice consultations: insights from linked patient survey data

Evaluating Differential Item Functioning in the English General Practice Patient Survey: Comparison of South Asian and White British Subgroups

Examining methodology to identify patterns of consulting in primary care for different groups of patients before a diagnosis of cancer: An exemplar applied to oesophagogastric cancer

Guideline interval: A new time interval in the diagnostic pathway for symptomatic cancer

Identifying Ovarian Cancer in Symptomatic Women: A Systematic Review of Clinical Tools

Identifying and quantifying variation between healthcare organisations and geographical regions: using mixed-effects models

Impact of the Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care Older People's Programme on hospital utilisation and costs: controlled time series and cost-consequence analysis

Investigating the meaning of 'good' or 'very good' patient evaluations of care in English general practice: a mixed methods study.

Medication non-adherence: an overlooked target for quality improvement interventions

Mortality alerts, actions taken and declining mortality: true effect or regression to the mean?

Order effects in high stakes undergraduate examinations: an analysis of 5 years of administrative data in one UK medical school.

Patient Experience Drivers of Overall Satisfaction With Care in Cancer Patients: Evidence From Responders to the English Cancer Patient Experience Survey

Patterns of disease presentation and management in Egyptian primary care: findings from a survey of 2458 primary care patient consultations

Policies and strategies to retain and support the return of experienced GPs in direct patient care: the ReGROUP mixed-methods study

Post-sampling mortality and non-response patterns in the English Cancer Patient Experience Survey: Implications for epidemiological studies based on surveys of cancer patients

Predictors of Postal or Online Response Mode and Associations With Patient Experience and Satisfaction in the English Cancer Patient Experience Survey.

Primary care use by men with symptoms of possible prostate cancer: A multi‐method study with an ethnically diverse sample in London

Prolonged Diagnostic Intervals as Marker of Missed Diagnostic Opportunities in Bladder and Kidney Cancer Patients with Alarm Features: A Longitudinal Linked Data Study

Protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial assessing the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Electronic RIsk-assessment for CAncer for patients in general practice (ERICA)

Quitting patient care and career break intentions among general practitioners in South West England: findings of a census survey of general practitioners ⬇️

Reliability of hospital scores for the Cancer Patient Experience Survey: analysis of publicly reported patient survey data

Role of practices and Clinical Commissioning Groups in measures of patient experience: analysis of routine data

Seasonal variation in diagnosis of invasive cutaneous melanoma in Eastern England and Scotland. ⬇️

Seeing the wood and the trees: the impact of the healthcare system on variation in primary care referrals

The accuracy of diagnostic coding for acute kidney injury in England - a single centre study

The diagnostic performance of CA125 for the detection of ovarian and non-ovarian cancer in primary care: A population-based cohort study

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

The effects of the first UK lockdown for the COVID-19 pandemic on primary-care-recorded cancer and type-2 diabetes mellitus records: A population-based quasi-experimental time series study

Understanding high and low patient experience scores in primary care: analysis of patients' survey data for general practices and individual doctors

Variation and statistical reliability of publicly reported primary care diagnostic activity indicators for cancer: a cross-sectional ecological study of routine data.

Variation in 'fast-track' referrals for suspected cancer by patient characteristic and cancer diagnosis: evidence from 670 000 patients with cancers of 35 different sites

Variations in GP-patient communication by ethnicity, age, and gender: evidence from a national primary care patient survey

What happens to patient experience when you want to see a doctor and you get to speak to a nurse? Observational study using data from the English General Practice Patient Survey

Workforce predictive risk modelling: development of a model to identify general practices at risk of a supply-demand imbalance