Ray Fitzpatrick: Annual Report 1998-99
Ray Fitzpatrick (Faculty Fellow). With colleagues in Oxford University and the Institute of Neurology, London, he continued research into assessment of outcome of treatments for a number of chronic disorders, osteo-arthritis, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease. He began a large multi-centred trial of surgical management of knee pain and disability with colleagues in the universities of Oxford, Dundee and Aberdeen. This study, funded by NHS R&D, will examine over at least five years of follow-up the outcomes for patients with knee problems of being randomly allocated to one of a number of alternative surgical treatments. With Gary Albrecht and Susan Scrimshaw, colleagues in the School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, he completed an international handbook of social studies in medicine and health care to be published by Sage, later in 1999. In 1998, he was appointed to be chair of the Health Services and Public Health Research Board, Medical Research Council (MRC) for a period of three years. He thereby also became a member of Council (MRC) for the same period.
Publications
(with C Jenkinson and M Swash) ‘The European Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Health Profile Study’, Journal of Neurological Science, 160,1998.
(with R Surender and S Stewart-Brown) ‘The Patient’s View of General Practice Fund-holding: Results of a Cross-sectional Survey’, Health and Social Care in the Community, 6, 1998.
(with A Klassen, C Jenkinson and T Goodacre) ‘Measuring Quality of Life in Cosmetic Surgery Patient with a Condition Specific Instrument: the Derriford Scale’, British Journal of Plastic Surgery, 51, 1998.
(with C Davey, M Buxton and D Jones) ‘Patient Assessed Outcome Measures’, in N Black, J Brazier, R Fitzpatrick and B Reeves (eds.), Health Services Research Methods: A Guide to Best Practice. London: BMJ Books, 1998.
(with K Johnston, M Buxton and R Jones) ‘Assessing the Costs of Health Care Technologies in Clinical Trials: Issues in Resource Use Data Collection’, in N Black et al, Health Services Research Methods: A Guide to Best Practice. London, BMJ Books, 1998.
(with N Black, J Brazier, B Reeves) (eds.) Health Services Research Methods: A Guide to Best Practice. London: BMJ Books, 1998.
(with C Davey, M Buxton and D Jones) ‘Evaluating Patient-based Outcome Measures for Use in Clinical Trials’, Health Technology Assessment 2, 1998.
(with P Maxwell) ‘End Stage Renal Failure and Assessment of Health Related Quality of Life’, Quality in Health Care, 7, 1998
(with A Briggs, M Sculpher, A Britton and A D Murray) ‘The Costs and Benefits of Total Hip Replacement: How Likely are New Prostheses to be Cost Effective?’, International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 14, 1998.
(with E Shortall, M Sculpher, D Murray and colleagues) ‘Primary Total Hip Replacement Surgery: A Systematic Review of Outcomes and Modelling of Cost Effectiveness Associated with Different Prostheses’, Health Technology Assessment, 2, 1998.
(with M Bartley, A Sacker and D Firth) ‘Social Position, Social Roles and Women’s Health in England: Changing Relationships 1984-1993’, Social Science & Medicine, 48, 1999.
(with C Jenkinson and V Peto) ‘Health-related Quality of Life Measurement in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease’, PharmacoEconomics, 15, 1999.
(with E Grunfeld, A Gray, D Mant, P Yudkin, and colleagues) ‘Follow-up of Breast Cancer in Primary Care versus Specialist Care: Results of an Economic Evaluation’, British Journal of Cancer, 79, 1999.
‘Assessment of Quality of Life as an Outcome: Finding Measurements that Reflect Individuals’ Priorities’, Quality in Health Care, 8, 1999.
(with K Johnston, M Buxton and D Jones) ‘Assessing the Costs of Healthcare Technologies in Clinical Trials’, Health Technology Assessment, 3, 1999.
(with J Dawson and A Carr) ‘The Assessment of Shoulder Instability’, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 81, 1999.
(with A Klassen, C Jenkinson and T Goodacre) ‘Contrasting Evidence of the Effectiveness of Cosmetic Surgery from Two Health-related Quality of Life Measures’, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 53, 1999.
(with J Dawson, R Gundle and D Murray) ‘Provision of Primary Total Hip Replacement Surgery’, Lancet, 353, 1999.
(with E Beck, R Griffith, S Mandalia and colleagues) ‘Patient Satisfaction with HIV Service Provision in NPMS Hospitals: The Development of a Standard Satisfaction Questionnaire’, Aids Care, 11, 1999.
(with A Klassen, C Jenkinson and T Goodacre) ‘Methods of Assessing Health-related Quality of Life and Outcome for Plastic Surgery’, British Journal of Plastic Surgery, 52, 1999.
‘Principles and Problems in the Assessment of Quality of Life in Health Care’, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2, 1999.
(with M Bartley, A Sacker and D Firth) ‘Understanding Social Variation in Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Women and Men: The Advantage of Theoretically Based Measures’ Social Science and Medicine, 49, 1999.