List of works - Rafael Perera

A prognostic model predicted deterioration in health-related quality of life in older patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy

scientific article published on 13 October 2020

A simple method to correct for the design effect in systematic reviews of trials using paired dichotomous data

scientific article

A systematic review and meta-analysis: probiotics in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome

scientific article

A systematic review assessing the effectiveness of interventions to improve persistence with anti-resorptive therapy in women at high risk of clinical fracture.

scientific article

A year in statistics-the view from the trenches

scientific article published on 07 January 2020

Acute infective conjunctivitis in primary care: who needs antibiotics? An individual patient data meta-analysis

scientific article

Adaptation and validation of the Charlson Index for Read/OXMIS coded databases

scientific article

Adequacy of reporting monitoring regimens of risk factors for cardiovascular disease in clinical guidelines: systematic review ⬇️

scientific article published on March 14, 2011

An open randomised study of autoinflation in 4- to 11-year-old school children with otitis media with effusion in primary care

scientific article

Are treatments more effective than placebos? A systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article

Assessing differential attrition in clinical trials: self-monitoring of oral anticoagulation and type II diabetes

scientific article

Autoinflation for hearing loss associated with otitis media with effusion

scientific article

Automatic extraction of quantitative data from ClinicalTrials.gov to conduct meta-analyses

scientific article published on 17 July 2019

Benefits of Aldosterone Receptor Antagonism in Chronic Kidney Disease (BARACK D) trial-a multi-centre, prospective, randomised, open, blinded end-point, 36-month study of 2,616 patients within primary care with stage 3b chronic kidney disease [...]

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Better reporting of interventions: template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide

scientific article (publication date: 7 March 2014)

Blood CEA levels for detecting recurrent colorectal cancer ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 10 December 2015)

Cardiovascular disease risk in healthy children and its association with body mass index: systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article

Clinical symptoms and signs for the diagnosis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in children and adolescents with community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article

Cognitive behavioural therapy for tinnitus

scientific article (published 2010-09-08)

Cognitive behavioural therapy for tinnitus

scientific article (published 2007-01-24)

Cohort study of Anticoagulation Self-Monitoring (CASM): a prospective study of its effectiveness in the community

scientific article

Competitions and incentives for smoking cessation

scientific article (published 2011-04-13)

Competitions and incentives for smoking cessation

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Competitions and incentives for smoking cessation

scientific article (publication date: 20 April 2005)

Control charts for monitoring mood stability as a predictor of severe episodes in patients with bipolar disorder

scientific article published on 4 April 2018

Corticosteroids as standalone or add-on treatment for sore throat

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Corticosteroids for pain relief in sore throat: systematic review and meta-analysis

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Corticosteroids for the common cold

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Corticosteroids for the common cold

scientific article (published 2012-08-15)

Determining which automatic digital blood pressure device performs adequately: a systematic review.

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Development and internal validation of prognostic models to predict negative health outcomes in older patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy in general practice

scientific article published on 22 October 2020

Effectiveness of school-based smoking prevention curricula: systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article

Enhancing the usability of systematic reviews by improving the consideration and description of interventions.

scientific article published on 20 July 2017

Evidence for non-communicable diseases: analysis of Cochrane reviews and randomised trials by World Bank classification

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Examining the role of patients’ experiences as a resource for choice and decision-making in health care: a creative, interdisciplinary mixed-method study in digital health

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Forty years of sports performance research and little insight gained

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Framework for the impact analysis and implementation of Clinical Prediction Rules (CPRs)

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How individual participant data meta-analyses have influenced trial design, conduct, and analysis

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Implications of lower risk thresholds for statin treatment in primary prevention: analysis of CPRD and simulation modelling of annual cholesterol monitoring

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Incentives for smoking cessation

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Individual patient data meta-analysis of trials of self-monitoring of blood glucose in non-insulin treated type 2 diabetes: protocol for a systematic review

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Intranasal corticosteroids in management of acute sinusitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Long-term health outcomes of people with reduced kidney function in the UK: A modelling study using population health data

scientific article published on 16 December 2020

Meta-analysis of individual patient data in randomised trials of self monitoring of blood glucose in people with non-insulin treated type 2 diabetes

scientific article

Meta-analysis: statistical methods for binary data pooling

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Natriuretic peptide-guided treatment for heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 20 July 2019

Neuraminidase inhibitors for preventing and treating influenza in children

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Neuraminidase inhibitors for preventing and treating influenza in children

scientific article (publication date: 24 January 2007)

Neuraminidase inhibitors for preventing and treating influenza in children (published trials only) ⬇️

scientific article published on April 18, 2012

Neuraminidase inhibitors for treatment and prophylaxis of influenza in children: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

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New treatments compared to established treatments in randomized trials

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Nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation

scientific article (published 2012-11-14)

Nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation

2008 scientific article

OpenSAFELY: factors associated with COVID-19-related hospital death in the linked electronic health records of 17 million adult NHS patients.

scientific article published on 07 May 2020

Optimal insulin regimens in type 2 diabetes mellitus: systematic review and meta-analyses

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Optimal loading dose for the initiation of warfarin: a systematic review

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Optimal loading dose of warfarin for the initiation of oral anticoagulation

scientific article (publication date: 12 December 2012)

Optimal strategies for monitoring lipid levels in patients at risk or with cardiovascular disease: a systematic review with statistical and cost-effectiveness modelling

scientific article

Oral corticosteroid use for clinical and cost-effective symptom relief of sore throat: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

scientific article

PROSPECTIV-a pilot trial of a nurse-led psychoeducational intervention delivered in primary care to prostate cancer survivors: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

scientific article

Pharmacological interventions for smoking cessation: an overview and network meta-analysis

scientific article

Primary care professionals providing non-urgent care in hospital emergency departments

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Quit and Win contests for smoking cessation

scientific article (publication date: 8 October 2008)

Quit and Win contests for smoking cessation

scientific article

Reminder packaging for improving adherence to self-administered long-term medications

scientific article (published 2011-09-07)

Reminder packaging for improving adherence to self-administered long-term medications

scientific article

School-based programmes for preventing smoking

scientific article (publication date: 30 April 2013)

School-based programmes for preventing smoking

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Self-monitoring and self-management of oral anticoagulation

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Self-monitoring and self-management of oral anticoagulation

scientific article (publication date: 5 July 2016)

Self-monitoring of oral anticoagulation: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Self-monitoring of oral anticoagulation: systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data

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Stopping randomized trials early for benefit and estimation of treatment effects: systematic review and meta-regression analysis

scientific article published on March 2010

Stopping randomized trials early for benefit: a protocol of the Study Of Trial Policy Of Interim Truncation-2 (STOPIT-2)

scientific article published on 06 July 2009

Surveillance for ocular hypertension: an evidence synthesis and economic evaluation

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Symptomatic treatment of the cough in whooping cough

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Symptomatic treatment of the cough in whooping cough

scientific article (publication date: 16 May 2012)

Symptomatic treatment of the cough in whooping cough

scientific article (publication date: 20 January 2010)

Systemic corticosteroids for acute sinusitis

scientific article

Systemic corticosteroids for acute sinusitis

scientific article (published 2011-12-07)

Taking healthcare interventions from trial to practice

scientific article published on 13 August 2010

Telephone counselling for smoking cessation

scientific article (published 2006-07-19)

Telephone counselling for smoking cessation

scientific article (publication date: 20 January 2003)

The diagnosis of urinary tract infections in young children (DUTY): protocol for a diagnostic and prospective observational study to derive and validate a clinical algorithm for the diagnosis of UTI in children presenting to primary care with an acu

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The evidence base for interventions delivered to children in primary care: an overview of cochrane systematic reviews

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The need for randomization in animal trials: an overview of systematic reviews

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Uptake of systematic reviews and meta-analyses based on individual participant data in clinical practice guidelines: descriptive study

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What are the basic self-monitoring components for cardiovascular risk management?

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Which early 'red flag' symptoms identify children with meningococcal disease in primary care?

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Whooping cough in school age children with persistent cough: prospective cohort study in primary care

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‘Optimum threshold estimation based on cost function in a multistate diagnostic setting’ by K. Skaltsa, L. Jover, D. Fuster and J. L. Carrasco ⬇️

scientific article published on May 20, 2012

List of works by Rafael Perera

A prognostic model predicted deterioration in health-related quality of life in older patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy

A simple method to correct for the design effect in systematic reviews of trials using paired dichotomous data

A systematic review and meta-analysis: probiotics in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome

A systematic review assessing the effectiveness of interventions to improve persistence with anti-resorptive therapy in women at high risk of clinical fracture.

A year in statistics-the view from the trenches

Acute infective conjunctivitis in primary care: who needs antibiotics? An individual patient data meta-analysis

Adaptation and validation of the Charlson Index for Read/OXMIS coded databases

Adequacy of reporting monitoring regimens of risk factors for cardiovascular disease in clinical guidelines: systematic review ⬇️

An open randomised study of autoinflation in 4- to 11-year-old school children with otitis media with effusion in primary care

Are treatments more effective than placebos? A systematic review and meta-analysis

Assessing differential attrition in clinical trials: self-monitoring of oral anticoagulation and type II diabetes

Autoinflation for hearing loss associated with otitis media with effusion

Automatic extraction of quantitative data from ClinicalTrials.gov to conduct meta-analyses

Benefits of Aldosterone Receptor Antagonism in Chronic Kidney Disease (BARACK D) trial-a multi-centre, prospective, randomised, open, blinded end-point, 36-month study of 2,616 patients within primary care with stage 3b chronic kidney disease [...]

Better reporting of interventions: template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide

Blood CEA levels for detecting recurrent colorectal cancer ⬇️

Cardiovascular disease risk in healthy children and its association with body mass index: systematic review and meta-analysis

Clinical symptoms and signs for the diagnosis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in children and adolescents with community-acquired pneumonia

Cognitive behavioural therapy for tinnitus

Cognitive behavioural therapy for tinnitus

Cohort study of Anticoagulation Self-Monitoring (CASM): a prospective study of its effectiveness in the community

Competitions and incentives for smoking cessation

Competitions and incentives for smoking cessation

Competitions and incentives for smoking cessation

Control charts for monitoring mood stability as a predictor of severe episodes in patients with bipolar disorder

Corticosteroids as standalone or add-on treatment for sore throat

Corticosteroids for pain relief in sore throat: systematic review and meta-analysis

Corticosteroids for the common cold

Corticosteroids for the common cold

Determining which automatic digital blood pressure device performs adequately: a systematic review.

Development and internal validation of prognostic models to predict negative health outcomes in older patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy in general practice

Effectiveness of school-based smoking prevention curricula: systematic review and meta-analysis

Enhancing the usability of systematic reviews by improving the consideration and description of interventions.

Evidence for non-communicable diseases: analysis of Cochrane reviews and randomised trials by World Bank classification

Examining the role of patients’ experiences as a resource for choice and decision-making in health care: a creative, interdisciplinary mixed-method study in digital health

Forty years of sports performance research and little insight gained

Framework for the impact analysis and implementation of Clinical Prediction Rules (CPRs)

How individual participant data meta-analyses have influenced trial design, conduct, and analysis

Implications of lower risk thresholds for statin treatment in primary prevention: analysis of CPRD and simulation modelling of annual cholesterol monitoring

Incentives for smoking cessation

Individual patient data meta-analysis of trials of self-monitoring of blood glucose in non-insulin treated type 2 diabetes: protocol for a systematic review

Intranasal corticosteroids in management of acute sinusitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Long-term health outcomes of people with reduced kidney function in the UK: A modelling study using population health data

Meta-analysis of individual patient data in randomised trials of self monitoring of blood glucose in people with non-insulin treated type 2 diabetes

Meta-analysis: statistical methods for binary data pooling

Natriuretic peptide-guided treatment for heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Neuraminidase inhibitors for preventing and treating influenza in children

Neuraminidase inhibitors for preventing and treating influenza in children

Neuraminidase inhibitors for preventing and treating influenza in children (published trials only) ⬇️

Neuraminidase inhibitors for treatment and prophylaxis of influenza in children: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

New treatments compared to established treatments in randomized trials

Nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation

Nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation

OpenSAFELY: factors associated with COVID-19-related hospital death in the linked electronic health records of 17 million adult NHS patients.

Optimal insulin regimens in type 2 diabetes mellitus: systematic review and meta-analyses

Optimal loading dose for the initiation of warfarin: a systematic review

Optimal loading dose of warfarin for the initiation of oral anticoagulation

Optimal strategies for monitoring lipid levels in patients at risk or with cardiovascular disease: a systematic review with statistical and cost-effectiveness modelling

Oral corticosteroid use for clinical and cost-effective symptom relief of sore throat: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

PROSPECTIV-a pilot trial of a nurse-led psychoeducational intervention delivered in primary care to prostate cancer survivors: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Pharmacological interventions for smoking cessation: an overview and network meta-analysis

Primary care professionals providing non-urgent care in hospital emergency departments

Quit and Win contests for smoking cessation

Quit and Win contests for smoking cessation

Reminder packaging for improving adherence to self-administered long-term medications

Reminder packaging for improving adherence to self-administered long-term medications

School-based programmes for preventing smoking

School-based programmes for preventing smoking

Self-monitoring and self-management of oral anticoagulation

Self-monitoring and self-management of oral anticoagulation

Self-monitoring of oral anticoagulation: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Self-monitoring of oral anticoagulation: systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data

Stopping randomized trials early for benefit and estimation of treatment effects: systematic review and meta-regression analysis

Stopping randomized trials early for benefit: a protocol of the Study Of Trial Policy Of Interim Truncation-2 (STOPIT-2)

Surveillance for ocular hypertension: an evidence synthesis and economic evaluation

Symptomatic treatment of the cough in whooping cough

Symptomatic treatment of the cough in whooping cough

Symptomatic treatment of the cough in whooping cough

Systemic corticosteroids for acute sinusitis