Ray Fitzpatrick: Annual Report 1999-2000

Ray Fitzpatrick (Faculty Fellow) with colleagues in Oxford and Birmingham Universities, began a multi-centre randomized controlled trial, funded by NHS R&D, to examine alternative drugs for Parkinson's disease. With Crispin Jenkinson (Oxford), he continued research into the health of individuals throughout Europe with motor neurone disease. With colleagues at the Institute of Neurology, London he completed a study to develop new methods of measuring outcomes in multiple sclerosis. He continued his positions as Chair of the Health Services and Public Health Research Board, Mecial Research Council as member of council of MRC. In March 2000 he became acting head of the Department of Public Health, University of Oxford.

Publications

(with J. Alonso) 'Quality of Life in Health Care: Concepts and Components', in P. Martinez and W. Koller (eds.) Quality of Life in Parkinson's Disease. Barcelona: Masson, 1999.

(with A. Klassen, T. Goodacre) 'Quality of Life Outcomes after Cosmetic Surgery', Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 104, 1999.

(with E. Grunfield, D. Mant, P. Yudkin, and R. Adewuyi-Dalton) 'Comparison of Breast Cancer Patient Satisfaction with Follow-up in Primary Care vs Specialist Care: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial', British Journal of General Practice, 49, 1999.

(with R. Surrender) 'Will Doctors Manage? Lessons from General Practice Fundholding', Policy and Politics, 27, 1999.

(with C. Jenkinson, C. Brennan and M. Swash) 'Evidence for the Validity and Reliability of the ALS Assessment Questionnaire: The ALSAQ-40.' Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Other Motor Neurone Diseases, 1, 1999.

(with C. Jenkinson, C. Brennan, M. Bromberg, and M. Swash) 'Development and Validation of a Short Measure of Health Status for Individuals with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/Motor Neurone Disease: the ALSAQ-40', Journal of Neurology, 20, 1999.

'Th Importance of Evaluation', in Public Health Practice Resource Pack. Milton Keynes: NHS Eastern Region, 2000.

(with M. Dury, P. Yudkin, J. Harcourt, L. Jones, and colleagues) 'Patients with Cancer Holding Their Own Records: A Randomized Controlled Trial', British Journal of General Practice, 50, 2000.

(with G. Albrecht, and S. Scrimshaw) (eds.), A Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine. London: Sage, 2000.

(with A. Coulter) 'The Patient's Perspective Regarding Appropriate Health Care' in G. Albrecht et al (eds.), A Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine. London: Sage, 2000.

(with T. Chandola), 'Health' in A H Halsey (ed.), Twentieth Century British Social Trends. London: Macmillan, 2000.

'Measurement Issues in Health-related Quality of Life: A Challenge for Health Psychology', Psychology and Health, 15, 2000.

(with C. Davey) 'Assessing Quality of Life', in J. Grimley Evans and T. Franklin Williams (eds.), Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine. Oxford University Press, 2000.

(with A. Sacker, D. Firsth, K. Lynch and M. Bartley) 'Comparing Health Inequality in Men and Women: Prospective Study of Mortality 1986-96', British Medical Journal, 320, 2000.

(with G. Wilkinson, B. Hesdon, D. Wild, R. Cookson and colleagues) 'Self-report Quality of Life Measure for People with Schizophrenia: the SQLS', British Journal of Psychiatry, 177, 2000.

(with V. Peto, and C. Jenkinson) 'Parkinson's Disease', in C. Jenkinson, R. Fitzpatrick and D. Jenkinson (eds.), Health Status Measurement in Neurological Disorders. Abingdon: Radcliffe Medical Press, 2000.

(with J. Hobart and A. Tompson) 'Multiple Sclerosis', in C. Jenkinson, R. Fitzpatrick and D. Jenkinson (eds.), Health Status Measurement in Neurological Disorders. Abingdon: Radcliffe Medical Press, 2000.

(with C. Jenkinson and M. Swash) 'Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/Motor Neurone Disease', in C. Jenkinson, R. Fitzpatrick and D. Jenkinson (eds.), Health Status Measurement in Neurological Disorders. Abingdon: Radcliffe Medical Press, 2000.