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  • 1973 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Adrian Edwards is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with focused work in several subfields including General Health Professions, Oncology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Emergency Medicine, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's research covers multiple key topics such as Emergency and Acute Care Studies, Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare, Global Cancer Incidence and Screening, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, COVID-19 and healthcare impacts, Primary Care and Health Outcomes, and COVID-19 and Mental Health.

Adrian Edwards has contributed to numerous publications and their recent papers include:

  • Shared decision-making interventions for people with mental health conditions, 2022, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Incidence, nature and causes of avoidable significant harm in primary care in England: retrospective case note review, 2020, BMJ Quality & Safety
  • Bridging the Age Gap in breast cancer: Impact of chemotherapy on quality of life in older women with early breast cancer, 2020, European Journal of Cancer
  • Bridging the age gap in breast cancer. Impacts of omission of breast cancer surgery in older women with oestrogen receptor positive early breast cancer. A risk stratified analysis of survival outcomes and quality of life, 2020, European Journal of Cancer
  • Real-world effectiveness of molnupiravir, nirmatrelvir-ritonavir, and sotrovimab on preventing hospital admission among higher-risk patients with COVID-19 in Wales: A retrospective cohort study, 2023, Journal of Infection

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Adrian Edwards are:

  • Alison Cooper
  • Helen Snooks
  • Andrew Carson-Stevens
  • Bridie Evans
  • Ruth Lewis

Adrian Edwards has published extensively in certain venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Emergency Medicine Journal
  • BMJ Open
  • BMC Emergency Medicine
  • Research Square (Research Square)

The scientist has been recognized with the award of Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 1973.

Best Publications

  • Shared Decision Making: A Model for Clinical Practice

    Glyn Elwyn;Glyn Elwyn;Dominick Frosch;Dominick Frosch;Richard Thomson;Natalie J. Joseph-Williams

  • Developing a quality criteria framework for patient decision aids: online international Delphi consensus process

    Glyn Elwyn;Annette O'Connor;Dawn Stacey;Robert Volk

  • Knowledge is not power for patients: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of patient-reported barriers and facilitators to shared decision making

    Natalie Joseph-Williams;Glyn Elwyn;Adrian G. Edwards

  • HIV evolution: CTL escape mutation and reversion after transmission.

    A J Leslie;K J Pfafferott;P Chetty;R Draenert

  • Simple tools for understanding risks: from innumeracy to insight

    Gerd Gigerenzer;Adrian G. Edwards

  • Shared decision making and the concept of equipoise: the competences of involving patients in healthcare choices.

    Glyn Elwyn;Adrian G. Edwards;Paul Richard Kinnersley;Richard Grol

  • Explaining risks: turning numerical data into meaningful pictures

    Adrian G. Edwards;Glyn Elwyn;Al Mulley

  • Shared decision-making in primary care: the neglected second half of the consultation.

    Glyn Elwyn;Adrian G. Edwards;Paul Richard Kinnersley

  • Is there evidence that palliative care teams alter end-of-life experiences of patients and their caregivers?

    Irene J. Higginson;Ilora Gillian Finlay;Danielle M. Goodwin;Kerenza Hood

  • Shared decision making: developing the OPTION scale for measuring patient involvement.

    Glyn Elwyn;Adrian G. Edwards;M. Wensing;Kerenza Hood

  • Presenting risk information--a review of the effects of "framing" and other manipulations on patient outcomes.

    Adrian G. Edwards;Glyn Elwyn;Judith Covey;Elaine Matthews

  • Shared decision-making in health care : achieving evidence-based patient choice

    Adrian G. Edwards;Glyn Elwyn

  • The OPTION scale: measuring the extent that clinicians involve patients in decision-making tasks.

    Glyn Elwyn;Hayley Hutchings;Adrian Edwards;Frances Rapport

  • The understanding of spirituality and the potential role of spiritual care in end-of-life and palliative care: a meta-study of qualitative research.

    Adrian G. Edwards;N. Pang;V. Shiu;C. Chan

  • Presenting quantitative information about decision outcomes: a risk communication primer for patient decision aid developers

    Lyndal J. Trevena;Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher;Adrian Edwards;Wolfgang Gaissmaier

  • Assessing the Quality of Decision Support Technologies Using the International Patient Decision Aid Standards instrument (IPDASi)

    Glyn Elwyn;Annette M. O'Connor;Carol Bennett;Robert Gordon Newcombe

  • “Many miles to go …”: a systematic review of the implementation of patient decision support interventions into routine clinical practice

    Glyn Elwyn;Isabelle Scholl;Caroline Tietbohl;Mala Mann

  • Do hospital-based palliative teams improve care for patients or families at the end of life?

    Irene J Higginson;Ilora Finlay;Danielle M Goodwin;Alison M Cook

  • Toward Minimum Standards for Certifying Patient Decision Aids A Modified Delphi Consensus Process

    Natalie Joseph-Williams;Robert Newcombe;Mary Politi;Marie Anne Durand

  • Towards a feasible model for shared decision making: focus group study with general practice registrars

    Glyn Elwyn;Adrian G. Edwards;Richard Gwyn;Richard Grol

Frequent Co-Authors

Cheryl H. Arrowsmith
Cheryl H. Arrowsmith Structural Genomics Consortium
Opher Gileadi
Opher Gileadi Karolinska Institute
Glyn Elwyn
Glyn Elwyn Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
Paul Brennan
Paul Brennan International Agency For Research On Cancer
Stefan Knapp
Stefan Knapp Goethe University Frankfurt
Fiona Wood
Fiona Wood Cardiff University
Aziz Sheikh
Aziz Sheikh University of Oxford
Kerenza Hood
Kerenza Hood Cardiff University
Udo Oppermann
Udo Oppermann University of Oxford
Benedikt M. Kessler
Benedikt M. Kessler University of Oxford

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