Richard Ashcroft

Publication List Details

Period

1990 - 2009

Number

25

Co-Authors

Financial incentives to improve adherence to anti-psychotic maintenance medication in non-adherent patients: a cluster randomised controlled trial (FIAT) (2009)

Priebe, Stefan, Burton, Alexandra, Ashby, Deborah, Ashcroft, Richard, Burns, Tom, David, Anthony, ...

Background: Various interventions have been tested to achieve adherence to anti-psychotic maintenance medication in non-adherent patients with psychotic disorders, and there is no consistent evidence...

Financial incentives to improve adherence to anti-psychotic maintenance medication in non-adherent patients - a cluster randomised controlled trial (FIAT) (2009)

Priebe, Stefan, Burton, Alexandra, Ashby, Deborah, Ashcroft, Richard, Burns, Tom, David, Anthony, ...

Abstract Background Various interventions have been tested to achieve adherence to anti-psychotic maintenance medication in non-adherent patients with psychotic disorders, and there is no consistent...

The place for harm reduction and product regulation in UK tobacco control policy (2009)

Gilmore, Anna B., Britton, John, Arnott, Deborah, Ashcroft, Richard, Jarvis, Martin J.

Tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable death in this country and more needs to be done to reduce smoking rates. Harm reduction is one policy option. Smokers smoke for the nicotine, but...

Social Science Gets the Ethics Treatment: Research Governance and Ethical Review (2002)

Williamson, Emma, Kent, Julie, Goodenough, Trudy, Ashcroft, Richard

The paper examines the current provision for ethical review within the social sciences and considers how existent structures could be improved to protect human research subjects in accordance with...

Randomised controlled trials in primary care: scope and application.

Sheikh, Aziz, Smeeth, Liam, Ashcroft, Richard

There is now widespread acknowledgement of the absence of a sound evidence base underpinning many of the decisions made in primary care. Randomised controlled trials represent the methodology of...

Randomised controlled trials in primary care: scope and application.

Sheikh, Aziz, Smeeth, Liam, Ashcroft, Richard

There is now widespread acknowledgement of the absence of a sound evidence base underpinning many of the decisions made in primary care. Randomised controlled trials represent the methodology of...

Should genetic information be disclosed to insurers? No

Ashcroft, Richard

UK insurers have said that they may seek approval to use the results of genetic tests for cancer from next year. Søren Holm believes they should have to pass the results on to insurance companies,...

Racial Categories in Medicine: A Failure of Evidence-Based Practice?

Ellison, George T. H, Smart, Andrew, Tutton, Richard, Outram, Simon M, Ashcroft, Richard, Martin, Paul

Race and ethnicity are imprecise markers of the genotypic and sociocultural determinants of health, argue the authors.

Social Science Gets the Ethics Treatment: Research Governance and Ethical Review

Emma Williamson, Julie Kent, Trudy Goodenough, Richard Ashcroft

The paper examines the current provision for ethical review within the social sciences and considers how existent structures could be improved to protect human research subjects in accordance with...