Ray Fitzpatrick: Annual Report 2002-2003

Ray Fitzpatrick (Faculty Fellow) continued his research with colleagues in Oxford and a number of other universities into evaluation of outcomes of healthcare interventions in a range of chronic and disabling conditions, including osteo-arthritis, Parkinson's disease and motor neurone disease. He began a research study with the Oxford Vaccine Group to examine determinants of parents' willingness to enter children into new vaccine trials. He continued for another year as Head of the Department of Public Health, as Director of the Institute of Health Sciences, and as member, Division of Medical Sciences Board, University of Oxford. He served a further year as Governor, BUPA Research Foundation. In July 2003 he completed his term as a member of the Council of the Medical Research Council and as chair of the Health Services and Public Health Research Board (MRC).

Publications

'Capturing "What Matters to Patients When They Evaluate Their Hospital Care', Quality and Safety in Health Care, 11, 306-307, 2002.

(with D Pongratz, S Zierz, W Fischer, C Jenkinson C, M Swash, and the ALS-HPSD Steering Group) 'Validitat und Reliabilitat der deutschen Fassung des SF-36 bei Patienten mit amyotropher Lateralsklerose', Nervenheilkunde, 21, 432-4377, 2002.

(with A Riazi, D Lamping, A Thompson, and J Hobart) 'Multiple Sclerosis Impact Scale (MSIS-29): Reliability and Validity in Hospital-based Samples', Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery Psychiatry, 73, 701-704, 2002.

(with K Roberts, M Dixon-Woods, K Abrams, and D Jones) 'Bayesian Synthesis of Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence: An Overview and an Example', Lancet, 360, 1596-1599, 2002.

(with J Dawson, G Hill, and A Carr) 'A Comparison of Clinical and Patient-based Measures to Assess Medium Term Outcomes Following Shoulder Surgery for Disorders of the Rotator Cuff', Arthritis Care and Research, 47, 513-5199, 2002.

(with J Norquist, J Dawson, and C Jenkinson) 'Rasch Scoring of Outcomes of Total Hip Replacement', Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 56, 68-74, 2003.

(with R Surender and T Chandola) 'Health and Health Care', in J Hollowell (ed.), Britain Since 1945. Oxford: Blackwells, 2003, pp 332-346.

(with J Hobart, A Riazi, D Lamping and A Thompson) 'Measuring the Impact of MS on Walking Ability: The 12 Item Multiple Sclerosis Walking Scale (MSWS-12)', Neurology, 60, 31-36, 2003.

(with C Jenkinson and J Norquist) 'Deriving Summary Indices of Health Status from the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assessment Questionnaires (ALSAQ-40 and ALSAQ-5)', Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 60: 31-36, 2003.

'Evaluating the Outcome of Rehabilitation Interventions', in D Playford (ed.), Neurological Rehabilitation of Parkinson's Disease. London: Martin Dunitz, 2003, pp 105-118.

(with A Riazi, J Hobart, D Lamping, J Freeman, C Jenkinson, V Peto, and A Thompson) 'Using the SF-36 Measure to Compare the Health Impact on Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson's Disease with Normal Population Profiles', Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery Psychiatry, 74,710-714, 2003.

(with J Dawson, E Juszczak, M Thorogood, S Marks, and C Dodd) 'Distant Past Exercise in Women: Measures May Be Reliable but Are They Valid?' Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise, 35, 862-866, 2003.

(with C Jenkinson, V Peto, and G Jones) 'Interpreting Change Scores on the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assessment Questionnaire (ALSAQ-40)', Clinical Rehabilitation, 17, 380-385, 2003.

(with J Norquist, C Jenkinson, and M Swash) 'Which Factors Predict Physical and Mental Health Status in Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis over Time?' Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Other Motor Neuron Disorders, 4, 112-117, 2003.