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Working with public contributors in Parkinson's research: What were the changes, benefits and learnings? A critical reflection from the researcher and public contributor perspective (2023)
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Lithander, F. E., Tenison, E., Jones, D. A., Stocker, S., Hopewell‐Kelly, N., Gibson, A., & McGrath, C. (2024). Working with public contributors in Parkinson's research: What were the changes, benefits and learnings? A critical reflection from the researcher and public contributor perspective. Health Expectations, 27(1), Article e13914. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13914

Introduction: This paper provides a critical reflection from both the researcher and public contributor (PC) perspective on the benefits and the learnings taken from involving PCs in research related to Parkinson's. Approach toPatient and Public Invo... Read More about Working with public contributors in Parkinson's research: What were the changes, benefits and learnings? A critical reflection from the researcher and public contributor perspective.

World Cafés as a participatory approach to understanding research agendas in primary care with underserved communities: Reflections, challenges and lessons learned (2023)
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McGrath, C., Kennedy, M. R., Gibson, A., Musse, S., Kosar, Z., & Dawson, S. (2023). World Cafés as a participatory approach to understanding research agendas in primary care with underserved communities: Reflections, challenges and lessons learned. Research Involvement and Engagement, 9(1), Article 101. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-023-00509-3

Background: Certain communities are underserved by research, resulting in lower inclusion rates, under researched health issues and a lack of attention to how different communities respond to health interventions. Minoritised ethnic groups are often... Read More about World Cafés as a participatory approach to understanding research agendas in primary care with underserved communities: Reflections, challenges and lessons learned.

Evaluating the benefit of early patient and public involvement for product development and testing with small companies (2023)
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Hinton, E. C., Fenwick, C., Hall, M., Bell, M., Hamilton‐Shield, J. P., & Gibson, A. (2023). Evaluating the benefit of early patient and public involvement for product development and testing with small companies. Health Expectations, 26(3), 1159-1169. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13731

Introduction: There is a growing understanding of the benefits of patient and public involvement (PPI), and its evaluation, in research. An online version of the CUBE PPI evaluation framework has been developed. We sought to use the CUBE to evaluate... Read More about Evaluating the benefit of early patient and public involvement for product development and testing with small companies.

General practitioners working in or alongside the emergency department: The GPED mixed-methods study (2022)
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Benger, J., Brant, H., Scantlebury, A., Anderson, H., Baxter, H., Bloor, K., …Adamson, J. (2022). General practitioners working in or alongside the emergency department: The GPED mixed-methods study. Health and Social Care Delivery Research, 10(30), VII-110. https://doi.org/10.3310/HEPB9808

Background: Emergency care is facing a steadily rising demand. In response, hospitals have implemented new models of care that locate general practitioners in or alongside the emergency department. Objectives: We aimed to explore the effects of gener... Read More about General practitioners working in or alongside the emergency department: The GPED mixed-methods study.

Do general practitioners working in or alongside the emergency department improve clinical outcomes or experience? A mixed-methods study (2022)
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Scantlebury, A., Adamson, J., Salisbury, C., Brant, H., Anderson, H., Baxter, H., …Benger, J. R. (2022). Do general practitioners working in or alongside the emergency department improve clinical outcomes or experience? A mixed-methods study. BMJ Open, 12(9), e063495. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-063495

OBJECTIVES: To examine the effect of general practitioners (GPs) working in or alongside the emergency department (GPED) on patient outcomes and experience, and the associated impacts of implementation on the workforce. DESIGN: Mixed-methods study: i... Read More about Do general practitioners working in or alongside the emergency department improve clinical outcomes or experience? A mixed-methods study.

Tackling root causes upstream of unhealthy urban development (TRUUD): Protocol of a five-year prevention research consortium (2022)
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Black, D., Ayres, S., Bondy, K., Brierley, R., Campbell, R., Carhart, N., …Scally, G. (2022). Tackling root causes upstream of unhealthy urban development (TRUUD): Protocol of a five-year prevention research consortium. Wellcome Open Research, 6, 30. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16382.2

Poor quality urban environments substantially increase non-communicable disease. Responsibility for associated decision-making is dispersed across multiple agents and systems: fast growing urban authorities are the primary gatekeepers of new developm... Read More about Tackling root causes upstream of unhealthy urban development (TRUUD): Protocol of a five-year prevention research consortium.

Attitudes and approaches to patient and public involvement across Europe: A systematic review (2020)
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Biddle, M., Gibson, A., & Evans, D. (2021). Attitudes and approaches to patient and public involvement across Europe: A systematic review. Health and Social Care in the Community, 29(1), 18-27. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13111

The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) is making great strides in promoting patient and public involvement (PPI) in health research across Europe, supporting patient organisations to be involved in the projects that it funds. Despite this, the lit... Read More about Attitudes and approaches to patient and public involvement across Europe: A systematic review.

Coronavirus disease 2019 mortality: A multivariate ecological analysis in relation to ethnicity, population density, obesity, deprivation and pollution (2020)
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Bray, I., Gibson, A., & White, J. (2020). Coronavirus disease 2019 mortality: A multivariate ecological analysis in relation to ethnicity, population density, obesity, deprivation and pollution. Public Health, 185, 261-263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2020.06.056

Background: There is emerging evidence about characteristics that may increase the risk of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mortality, but they are highly correlated. Methods: An ecological analysis was used to estimate associations between these... Read More about Coronavirus disease 2019 mortality: A multivariate ecological analysis in relation to ethnicity, population density, obesity, deprivation and pollution.

Apart but not alone? A cross-sectional study of neighbour support in a major UK urban area during the COVID-19 lockdown (2020)
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Jones, M., Beardmore, A., Biddle, M., Gibson, A., Ismail, S. U., McClean, S., & White, J. (2020). Apart but not alone? A cross-sectional study of neighbour support in a major UK urban area during the COVID-19 lockdown. Emerald Open Research, 2, Article 37. https://doi.org/10.35241/emeraldopenres.13731.1

Background: Evidence from a range of major public health incidents shows that neighbour-based action can have a critical role in emergency response, assistance and recovery. However, there is little research to date on neighbour-based action during t... Read More about Apart but not alone? A cross-sectional study of neighbour support in a major UK urban area during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Challenges and opportunities for involving patients and the public in acute antimicrobial medicine development research: An interview study (2019)
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Gibson, A., Kok, M., Evans, D., Grier, S., & Macgowan, A. (2019). Challenges and opportunities for involving patients and the public in acute antimicrobial medicine development research: An interview study. BMJ Open, 9(4), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024918

Objectives: To explore what approaches to patient and public involvement (PPI) in antimicrobial medicines development are currently being utilised, what are the impacts of PPI on antimicrobial medicines development and what are the barriers to its im... Read More about Challenges and opportunities for involving patients and the public in acute antimicrobial medicine development research: An interview study.

General practitioners and emergency departments (GPED) - Efficient models of care: A mixed-methods study protocol (2018)
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Morton, K., Brandling, J., Benger, J., Gibson, A., & Voss, S. (2018). General practitioners and emergency departments (GPED) - Efficient models of care: A mixed-methods study protocol. BMJ Open, 8(10), e024012. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024012

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2018. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. Introduction Pressure continues to grow on emergency departments in the UK and throughout the world, with declining performance and adverse effects on patient ou... Read More about General practitioners and emergency departments (GPED) - Efficient models of care: A mixed-methods study protocol.

Receptionists' role in new approaches to consultations in primary care: A focused ethnographic study (2018)
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Brant, H. D., Atherton, H., Bikker, A., Porqueddu, T., Salisbury, C., McKinstry, B., …Ziebland, S. (2018). Receptionists' role in new approaches to consultations in primary care: A focused ethnographic study. British Journal of General Practice, 68(672), e478-e486. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp18X697505

© British Journal of General Practice. Background The receptionist is pivotal to the smooth running of general practice in the UK, communicating with patients and booking appointments. Aim The authors aimed to explore the role of the receptionist in... Read More about Receptionists' role in new approaches to consultations in primary care: A focused ethnographic study.

Assessing the effectiveness of Enhanced Psychological Care for patients with depressive symptoms attending cardiac rehabilitation compared with treatment as usual (CADENCE): A pilot cluster randomised controlled trial (2018)
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Richards, S. H., Dickens, C., Anderson, R., Richards, D. A., Taylor, R. S., Ukoumunne, O. C., …Campbell, J. (2018). Assessing the effectiveness of Enhanced Psychological Care for patients with depressive symptoms attending cardiac rehabilitation compared with treatment as usual (CADENCE): A pilot cluster randomised controlled trial. Trials, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-2576-9

© 2018 The Author(s). Background: Around 17% of people attending UK cardiac rehabilitation programmes have depression. Optimising psychological wellbeing is a rehabilitation goal, but provision of psychological care is limited. We developed and pilot... Read More about Assessing the effectiveness of Enhanced Psychological Care for patients with depressive symptoms attending cardiac rehabilitation compared with treatment as usual (CADENCE): A pilot cluster randomised controlled trial.

Alternatives to the face-to-face consultation in general practice: Focused ethnographic case study (2018)
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Atherton, H., Brant, H., Ziebland, S., Bikker, A., Campbell, J., Gibson, A., …Salisbury, C. (2018). Alternatives to the face-to-face consultation in general practice: Focused ethnographic case study. British Journal of General Practice, 68(669), e293-e300. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp18X694853

© British Journal of General Practice. Background NHS policy encourages general practices to introduce alternatives to the face-to-face consultation, such as telephone, email, e-consultation systems, or internet video. Most have been slow to adopt th... Read More about Alternatives to the face-to-face consultation in general practice: Focused ethnographic case study.

Finding and engaging patients and the public to work collaboratively on an acute infection microbiology research public panel (2018)
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Grier, S., Evans, D., Gibson, A., Chin, T. L., Stoddart, M., Kok, M., …Macgowan, A. (2018). Finding and engaging patients and the public to work collaboratively on an acute infection microbiology research public panel. Research Involvement and Engagement, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-018-0083-5

© The Author(s). Background In 2015 the microbiology research team became involved in a large European programme of research aiming to bring new antimicrobial drugs onto the market to combat the increasing problem of multi-drug resistant infection. W... Read More about Finding and engaging patients and the public to work collaboratively on an acute infection microbiology research public panel.

Does funded research reflect the priorities of people living with type 1 diabetes? A secondary analysis of research questions (2017)
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Boddy, K., Cowan, K., Gibson, A., & Britten, N. (2017). Does funded research reflect the priorities of people living with type 1 diabetes? A secondary analysis of research questions. BMJ Open, 7(9), Article e016540. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016540

© Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2017. Objectives This study explored the divergence and convergence between funded research about type 1 diabetes and the research agenda of people living w... Read More about Does funded research reflect the priorities of people living with type 1 diabetes? A secondary analysis of research questions.

Conducting a team-based multi-sited focused ethnography in primary care (2017)
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Bikker, A. P., Atherton, H., Brant, H., Porqueddu, T., Campbell, J. L., Gibson, A., …Ziebland, S. (2017). Conducting a team-based multi-sited focused ethnography in primary care. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-017-0422-5

© 2017 The Author(s). Focused ethnography is an applied and pragmatic form of ethnography that explores a specific social phenomenon as it occurs in everyday life. Based on the literature a problem-focused research question is formulated before the d... Read More about Conducting a team-based multi-sited focused ethnography in primary care.

Extent, quality and impact of patient and public involvement in antimicrobial drug development research: A systematic review (2017)
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Smedley, R., Misselbrook, E., Micciche, A., Marshall, R., Kane, N., Campbell, R., …MacGowan, A. (2018). Extent, quality and impact of patient and public involvement in antimicrobial drug development research: A systematic review. Health Expectations, 21(1), 75-81. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12587

© 2017 The Authors Health Expectations Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Background: Patient and public involvement (PPI) is increasingly recognized as bringing a range of benefits to clinical and health services research. Recent systematic review... Read More about Extent, quality and impact of patient and public involvement in antimicrobial drug development research: A systematic review.

Evaluating patient and public involvement in health research: from theoretical model to practical workshop (2017)
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Gibson, A., Welsman, J., & Britten, N. (2017). Evaluating patient and public involvement in health research: from theoretical model to practical workshop. Health Expectations, 20(5), 826-835. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12486

© 2017 The Authors Health Expectations published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Background: There is a growing literature on evaluating aspects of patient and public involvement (PPI). We have suggested that at the core of successful PPI is the dynamic i... Read More about Evaluating patient and public involvement in health research: from theoretical model to practical workshop.