Andrew Stevens

Publication List Details

Period

1989 - 2009

Number

33

Co-Authors

A randomized trial of the addition of home-based exercise to specialist heart failure nurse care: the Birmingham Rehabilitation Uptake Maximisation study for patients with Congestive Heart Failure (BRUM-CHF) study (2009)

Jolly, Kate, Taylor, Rod S., Lip, Gregory Y.H., Davies, Mick, Davis, Russell, Mant, Jonathan, ...

Aims Supervised exercise can benefit selected patients with heart failure, however the effectiveness of home-based exercise remains uncertain. We aimed to assess the effectiveness of a home-based...

Cooperating Reasoning Processes: More than just the Sum of their Parts ∗ (2008)

Bernard Silver, Julian Richardson, Alan Smaill, Andrew Stevens, Alan Bundy

Using the achievements of my research group over the last 30+ years, I provide evidence to support the following hypothesis: By complementing each other, cooperating reasoning process can achieve...

Process of care and mortality of stroke patients with and without a do not resuscitate order in the West Midlands, UK (2006)

Mohammed, Mohammed A., Mant, Jonathan, Bentham, Louise, Stevens, Andrew, Hussain, Shakir

Objectives. To compare the process of care of stroke patients with and without a do not resuscitate (DNR) order. Design. Retrospective case note review with prospective follow up of mortality....

Predicting the impact of new health technologies on average length of stay: development of a prediction framework (2005)

Simpson, Sue, Packer, Claire, Stevens, Andrew, Raftery, James

Objectives: The aim of this study was to develop a framework to predict the impact of new health technologies on average length of hospital stay. Methods: A literature search of EMBASE, MEDLINE, Web...

Process of care and mortality of stroke patients with and without a do not resuscitate order in the West Midlands, UK (2005)

Mohammed, Mohammed A., Mant, Jonathan, Bentham, Louise, Stevens, Andrew, Hussain, Shakir

Objectives. To compare the process of care of stroke patients with and without a do not resuscitate (DNR) order. Design. Retrospective case note review with prospective follow up of mortality....

Process of care and mortality of stroke patients with and without a do not resuscitate order in the West Midlands, UK (2005)

Mohammed, Mohammed A., Mant, Jonathan, Bentham, Louise, Stevens, Andrew, Hussain, Shakir

Objectives. To compare the process of care of stroke patients with and without a do not resuscitate (DNR) order. Design. Retrospective case note review with prospective follow up of mortality....

HTA responses and the classic HTA report (2003)

Milne, Ruairidh, Clegg, Andrew, Stevens, Andrew

Reports produced in response to the need for health technology assessment (HTA) vary greatly in the methods they use, depending on the decision‐maker's needs, the technology's characteristics...

Health technology assessment: history and demand (2003)

Stevens, Andrew, Milne, Ruairidh, Burls, Amanda

Health technology assessment (HTA) – the provision to decision makers of information on the value of treatments and tests – has come of age in the last two decades. But it has deep roots in...

Web résumé and list of projects: www.4serendipity.com/resume/ (2002)

Andrew Stevens

Provided in-person, telephone, and Internet-based (email and chat) reference to a diverse University clientele. Instructed library clientele in the effective use of online databases and research...

Identifying 'non-medical' datasets to monitor community health and well-being (2001)

Saunders, Patrick, Mathers, Jonathan, Parry, Jayne, Stevens, Andrew

Background The aim of the study was to identify ‘non‐medical’ datasets holding routinely collected information that might be used to measure and monitor the wider determinants of community...

Health care needs assessment in prisons: a toolkit (2001)

Marshall, Tom, Simpson, Sue, Stevens, Andrew

Background Since 1999, prison health services and health authorities have been jointly responsible for assessing the health care needs of the prison population. To facilitate this process, the...

Estimating the burden of disease in an English region (1997)

Bowie, Cameron, Beck, Sarah, Stevan, Andrew, Bevan, Gwyn, Raftery, James, Silverton, Franscesca, ...

Background Health Authorities seeking to make appropriateinvestments in health care require information about thenature of the burden of disease in their populations. TheWorld Bank instrument called...

Rippling: A Heuristic for Guiding Inductive Proofs (1993)

Alan Bundy, Andrew Stevens, Frank Van Harmelen, Andrew Ireland, Alan Smaill

We describe rippling: a tactic for the heuristic control of the key part of proofs by mathematical induction. This tactic significantly reduces the search for a proof of a wide variety of inductive...

A Rational Reconstruction and Extension of Recursion Analysis (1992)

Alan Bundy, Frank Van Harmelen, Jane Hesketh, Alan Smaill, Andrew Stevens

The focus of this paper is the technique of recursion analysis. Recursion analysis is used by the Boyer-Moore Theorem Prover to choose an appropriate induction schema and variable to prove theorems...

A rational reconstruction and extension of recursion analysis (1989)

Alan Bundy, Frank Van Harmelen, Jane Hesketh, Alan Smaill, Andrew Stevens

The focus of this paper is the technique of recur8\on analysis. Recursion analysis is used by the Boyer-Moore Theorem Prover to choose an appropriate induction schema and variable to prove theorems...

An investigation into general practitioners associated with high patient mortality flagged up through the Shipman inquiry: retrospective analysis of routine data

Mohammed, Mohammed A, Rathbone, Anthony, Myers, Paulette, Patel, Divya, Onions, Helen, Stevens, Andrew

Objective To identify a credible explanation for the excessively high mortality associated with general practitioners who were flagged up by the Shipman inquiry.

Adjusting for treatment refusal in rationing decisions

Lilford, Richard, Girling, Alan, Stevens, Andrew, Almasri, Abdullah, Mohammed, Mohammed A, Braunholtz, David

Assessments of cost effectiveness are increasingly used to get the most value from limited health resources. Could adjusting for people who wouldn't want the treatment improve the process?

Admissions processes for five year medical courses at English schools: review

Parry, Jayne, Mathers, Jonathan, Stevens, Andrew, Parsons, Amanda, Lilford, Richard, Spurgeon, Peter, ...

Objective To describe the current methods used by English medical schools to identify prospective medical students for admission to the five year degree course.

An investigation into general practitioners associated with high patient mortality flagged up through the Shipman inquiry: retrospective analysis of routine data

Mohammed, Mohammed A, Rathbone, Anthony, Myers, Paulette, Patel, Divya, Onions, Helen, Stevens, Andrew

Objective To identify a credible explanation for the excessively high mortality associated with general practitioners who were flagged up by the Shipman inquiry.

Adjusting for treatment refusal in rationing decisions

Lilford, Richard, Girling, Alan, Stevens, Andrew, Almasri, Abdullah, Mohammed, Mohammed A, Braunholtz, David

Assessments of cost effectiveness are increasingly used to get the most value from limited health resources. Could adjusting for people who wouldn't want the treatment improve the process?

Admissions processes for five year medical courses at English schools: review

Parry, Jayne, Mathers, Jonathan, Stevens, Andrew, Parsons, Amanda, Lilford, Richard, Spurgeon, Peter, ...

Objective To describe the current methods used by English medical schools to identify prospective medical students for admission to the five year degree course.

The value of administrative databases

Mohammed, Mohammed A, Stevens, Andrew

Is improving but their contribution to improving quality of care remains unclear

Comparison of direct and indirect methods of estimating health state utilities for resource allocation: review and empirical analysis

Arnold, David, Girling, Alan, Stevens, Andrew, Lilford, Richard

Background and objective Utilities (values representing preferences) for healthcare priority setting are typically obtained indirectly by asking patients to fill in a quality of life questionnaire...