Research
Topics that shaped the work
Grouped by the question the work was asking rather than by the journal it landed in. Counts are of everything in the archive filed under each theme. Select a topic to see its publications.
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Global population health (consortium)
Contributions of data to the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration pooled analyses.
- 21
Multimorbidity
Naming and defining multimorbidity, then measuring how common co-occurring chronic disease actually is in general practice.
- 43
Bladder cancer epidemiology
Haematuria as a signal, and the epidemiology of urological cancer in a general practice population.
- 44
Alcohol and addiction screening
Detecting and working with problem use in primary care.
- 47
Cervical screening and HPV
Quality control and diagnostic value of smears, and the evidence that shaped European cervical screening programmes.
- 56
Routine-data research infrastructure
Intego, the Flemish general-practice morbidity registration network running since 1994, and the methods behind it.
- 62
Cancer detection in primary care
Diagnostic value of common symptoms in detecting cancer.
- 64
Serious infection in children
Diagnostic value of common symptoms in detecting serious infection in children.
- 72
Cardiovascular risk and blood pressure
Measurement, risk estimation and management of cardiovascular risk in general practice.
- 87
Diagnostic research methodology
How a doctor tells what is wrong in the first place, and how to study that honestly: reference standards, systematic reviews of diagnostic studies, meta-analysis of ROC curves.
- 145
Older people, dementia and nursing homes
The Qualidem studies and a long line of work on dementia care, carers and residential care quality.
- 217
General practice and primary care
The discipline itself: organisation, teaching, research capacity and the future of the consulting room.