McManus, Richard J, Bray, Emma P, Mant, Jonathan, Holder, Roger, Greenfield, Sheila, Bryan, Stirling, ...
Abstract Background Controlling blood pressure with drugs is a key aspect of cardiovascular disease prevention, but until recently has been the sole preserve of health professionals. Self-management...
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...
Brealey, Stephen D., Atwell, Christine Leander Angela, Bryan, Stirling, Collins, Sue, Coulton, Simon, Cox, Helen, ...
Brealey, Stephen D., Atwell, Christine Leander Angela, Bryan, Stirling, Collins, Sue, Coulton, Simon, Cox, Helen, ...
Brealey, Stephen D, Atwell, Christine, Bryan, Stirling, Coulton, Simon, Cox, Helen, Cross, Ben, ...
Abstract Background Poor response rates to postal questionnaires can introduce bias and reduce the statistical power of a study. To improve response rates in our trial in primary care we tested the...
Burton, Andrea, Billingham, Lucina Jane, Bryan, Stirling
Background: Cost-effectiveness has become an important outcome in many clinical trials and has resulted in the collection of resource use data and the calculation of costs for individual patients. A...
Yao, Guiqing, Freemantle, Nick, Calvert, Melanie J., Bryan, Stirling, Daubert, Jean-Claude, Cleland, John G.F.
Aims Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT-P) is an effective treatment for patients with heart failure and cardiac dyssynchrony with moderate or severe symptoms despite pharmacological therapy. The...
Brealey, Stephen D, Atwell, Christine, Bryan, Stirling, Coulton, Simon, Cox, Helen, Cross, Ben, ...
Abstract Background Though new technologies like Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) may be accurate, they often diffuse into practice before thorough assessment of their value in diagnosis and...
Freemantle, Nick, Yao, Guiqing, Calvert, Melanie J., Cleland, John G.F., Billingham, Lucinda, Daubert, Jean-Claude, ...
Freemantle, Nick, Yao, Guiqing, Calvert, Melanie J., Cleland, John G.F., Billingham, Lucinda, Daubert, Jean-Claude, ...
Cost-effectiveness of cardiac resynchronization therapy: results from the CARE-HF trial (2005)
Calvert, Melanie J., Freemantle, Nick, Yao, Guiqing, Cleland, John G.F., Billingham, Lucinda, Daubert, Jean-Claude, ...
Aims Whilst the CArdiac REsynchronization in Heart Failure (CARE-HF) trial has shown that cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) leads to reduced morbidity and mortality, the cost-effectiveness of...
Cost-effectiveness of cardiac resynchronization therapy: results from the CARE-HF trial (2005)
Calvert, Melanie J., Freemantle, Nick, Yao, Guiqing, Cleland, John G.F., Billingham, Lucinda, Daubert, Jean-Claude, ...
Aims Whilst the CArdiac REsynchronization in Heart Failure (CARE-HF) trial has shown that cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) leads to reduced morbidity and mortality, the cost-effectiveness of...
Swancutt, Dawn, Hobbs, Richard, Fitzmaurice, David, Mant, Jonathan, Murray, Ellen, Jowett, Sue, ...
Abstract Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) has been recognised as an important independent risk factor for thromboembolic disease, particularly stroke for which it provides a five-fold increase in...
Mant, Jonathan WF, Richards, Suzanne H, Hobbs, FD Richard, Fitzmaurice, David, Lip, Gregory YH, Murray, Ellen, ...
Abstract Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an important independent risk factor for stroke. Randomised controlled trials have shown that this risk can be reduced substantially by treatment with...
Kenkre, Joyce E, Allan, Teresa F, Tobias, Rosalind S, Parry, David J, Bryan, Stirling, Carter, Yvonne H
Objective. This longitudinal study was designed to assess the effect of an educational training package for primary health care teams in accident prevention for older people, with reference to the...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Brunel University, 1999.
Mant, Jonathan WF, Richards, Suzanne H, Hobbs, FD Richard, Fitzmaurice, David, Lip, Gregory YH, Murray, Ellen, ...
Sculpher, Mark, Bryan, Stirling, Fry, Pat, De Winter, Patricia, Payne, Heather, Emberton, Mark
Objective To establish which attributes of conservative treatments for prostate cancer are most important to men.
Riluzole for motor neurone disease : More trials are needed
Sandercock, Josie, Burls, Amanda, Hyde, Chris, Fry-Smith, Anne, Barton, Pelham, Bryan, Stirling, ...
Mant, Jonathan WF, Richards, Suzanne H, Hobbs, FD Richard, Fitzmaurice, David, Lip, Gregory YH, Murray, Ellen, ...
Sculpher, Mark, Bryan, Stirling, Fry, Pat, De Winter, Patricia, Payne, Heather, Emberton, Mark
Objective To establish which attributes of conservative treatments for prostate cancer are most important to men.
Riluzole for motor neurone disease : More trials are needed
Sandercock, Josie, Burls, Amanda, Hyde, Chris, Fry-Smith, Anne, Barton, Pelham, Bryan, Stirling, ...
QALY-maximisation and public preferences: results from a general population survey
Stirling Bryan, Tracy Roberts, Chris Heginbotham, Alison McCallum
The appropriate criteria that should be used in setting priorities in a publicly funded health care system remain open to debate. From a health economics perspective, quality-adjusted life years...
An empirical comparison of EQ-5D and SF-6D in liver transplant patients
Louise Longworth, Stirling Bryan
There remains disagreement about the preferred utility-based measure of health-related quality of life for use in constructing quality-adjusted life years (QALYs). The recent development of a new...
Roberts, Tracy E, Robinson, Suzanne, Barton, Pelham M, Bryan, Stirling, McCarthy, Anne, Macleod, John, ...
Objective To investigate the cost effectiveness of screening for Chlamydia trachomatis compared with a policy of no organised screening in the United Kingdom.
Stirling Bryan, Iestyn Williams, Shirley McIver
Resource scarcity is the raison d'être for the discipline of economics. Thus, the primary purpose of economic analysis is to help decision-makers when addressing problems arising due to the scarcity...
Magnetic resonance imaging for the investigation of knee injuries: an investigation of preferences
Stirling Bryan, Martin Buxton, Robert Sheldon, Alison Grant
The conventional approach to the diagnosis and treatment of severe knee injuries is arthroscopy, a minimally invasive surgical procedure. Since arthroscopy is an invasive technique that carries...
Preference measurement using conjoint methods: an empirical investigation of reliability
Stirling Bryan, Lisa Gold, Rob Sheldon, Martin Buxton
The application of conjoint measurement to the field of health economics is relatively new, although there is growing interest and there have been a number of studies undertaken recently. Wider...
Evaluation of diffuse technologies: the case of digital imaging networks
Keen, Justin, Bryan, Stirling, Muris, Nicole, Weatherburn, Gwyn, Buxton, Martin
Issues in the evaluation of picture archiving and communication systems
Bryan, Stirling, Keen, Justin, Muris, Nicole, Weatherburn, Gwyn, Buxton, Martin
Structural Reliability of Conjoint Measurement in Health Care: An Empirical Investigation.
This paper is concerned with the structural reliability of conjoint measurement when applied in a health care setting. The clinical context was the diagnosis and treatment of knee injuries. A...
McManus, Richard J, Bray, Emma P, Mant, Jonathan, Holder, Roger, Greenfield, Sheila, Bryan, Stirling, ...
Has the time come for cost-effectiveness analysis in US health care?
BRYAN, STIRLING, SOFAER, SHOSHANNA, SIEGELBERG, TARYN, GOLD, MARTHE
Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is a powerful analytic tool for assessing the value of health care interventions but it is a method used sparingly in the US. Despite its growing acceptance...