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Alan Brennan is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a significant focus on several subfields including General Health Professions, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Epidemiology, Economics and Econometrics, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The main topics of Alan Brennan's research include:

  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Diabetes Management and Research
  • Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
  • Diabetes Management and Education

Among their recent papers are the following titles:

  • Psychological interventions to improve self-management of type 1 and type 2 diabetes: a systematic review (2020), published in Health Technology Assessment
  • Computing the Expected Value of Sample Information Efficiently: Practical Guidance and Recommendations for Four Model-Based Methods (2020), published in Value in Health
  • Bridging the Age Gap in breast cancer: Impact of chemotherapy on quality of life in older women with early breast cancer (2020), published in 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), published in European Journal of Cancer
  • Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of psychological interventions to improve glycaemic control in children and adults with type 1 diabetes (2020), published in Diabetic Medicine

Alan Brennan has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Addiction
  • Value in Health
  • BMJ Open
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • NIHR Open Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Brennan include:

  • Duncan Gillespie
  • Colin Angus
  • Penny Breeze
  • Daniel Pollard
  • Robin C. Purshouse

Best Publications

  • A taxonomy of model structures for economic evaluation of health technologies

    Alan Brennan;Stephen E. Chick;Ruth Davies

  • Modeling using discrete event simulation: a report of the ISPOR-SMDM Modeling Good Research Practices Task Force-4.

    Jonathan Karnon;James Stahl;Alan Brennan;J. Jaime Caro

  • Screening for Type 2 Diabetes: Literature Review and Economic Modelling

    Norman Robert Waugh;Graham Stewart Scotland;Paul McNamee;M. Gillett

  • Effects of minimum unit pricing for alcohol on different income and socioeconomic groups: a modelling study

    John Holmes;Yang Meng;Petra S Meier;Alan Brennan

  • Estimated effect of alcohol pricing policies on health and health economic outcomes in England: an epidemiological model

    Robin C Purshouse;Petra S Meier;Alan Brennan;Karl B Taylor

  • Delivering the diabetes education and self management for ongoing and newly diagnosed (DESMOND) programme for people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes: cost effectiveness analysis

    M Gillett;HM Dallosso;S Dixon;A Brennan

  • Estimating multiparameter partial expected value of perfect information from a probabilistic sensitivity analysis sample: a nonparametric regression approach.

    Mark Strong;Jeremy E. Oakley;Alan Brennan

  • Accurate, practical and cost-effective assessment of carotid stenosis in the UK

    J M Wardlaw;F M Chappell;M Stevenson;E De Nigris

  • Policy options for alcohol price regulation: the importance of modelling population heterogeneity

    Petra Sylvia Meier;Robin Purshouse;Alan Brennan

  • Should patients have a greater role in valuing health states

    John Brazier;Ron Akehurst;Alan Brennan;Paul Dolan

  • Modelling in health economic evaluation. What is its place? What is its value?

    Alan Brennan;Ron Akehurst

  • Modelling the cost-effectiveness of etanercept in adults with rheumatoid arthritis in the UK

    A. Brennan;N. Bansback;A. Reynolds;P. Conway

  • Non-Pharmacological Interventions to Reduce the Risk of Diabetes in People with Impaired Glucose Regulation: A Systematic Review and Economic Evaluation

    M. Gillett;Pamela Royle;Ailsa Snaith;Graham Scotland

  • Using mixed treatment comparisons and meta-regression to perform indirect comparisons to estimate the efficacy of biologic treatments in rheumatoid arthritis.

    R. M. Nixon;N. Bansback;N. Bansback;A. Brennan

  • Estimated Effects of Different Alcohol Taxation and Price Policies on Health Inequalities: A Mathematical Modelling Study

    Petra S. Meier;John Holmes;Colin Angus;Abdallah K. Ally

  • Bridging The Age Gap: observational cohort study of effects of chemotherapy and trastuzumab on recurrence, survival and quality of life in older women with early breast cancer.

    Alistair Ring;Nicolò Matteo Luca Battisti;Malcolm W. R. Reed;Esther Herbert

  • Home telemonitoring or structured telephone support programmes after recent discharge in patients with heart failure: systematic review and economic evaluation.

    A Pandor;P Thokala;T Gomersall;H Baalbaki

  • Biologic drugs for rheumatoid arthritis in the Medicare program: a cost-effectiveness analysis.

    Allan J. Wailoo;Nick Bansback;Nick Bansback;Alan Brennan;Kaleb Michaud

  • Cost effectiveness of adalimumab in the treatment of patients with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis in Sweden

    Nick Bansback;Alan Brennan;Ola Ghatnekar

  • Trend analysis and modelling of gender-specific age, period and birth cohort effects on alcohol abstention and consumption level for drinkers in Great Britain using the General Lifestyle Survey 1984–2009

    Yang Meng;John Holmes;Daniel Hill-McManus;Alan Brennan

  • Calculating partial expected value of perfect information via Monte Carlo sampling algorithms.

    Alan Brennan;Samer Kharroubi;Anthony O'Hagan;Jim Chilcott

Frequent Co-Authors

Petra Meier
Petra Meier University of Glasgow
John Holmes
John Holmes University of Sheffield
Jamie Brown
Jamie Brown University College London
Susan Michie
Susan Michie University College London
Eileen Kaner
Eileen Kaner Newcastle University
Karen Lock
Karen Lock London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Colin Drummond
Colin Drummond King's College London
Elizabeth Goyder
Elizabeth Goyder University of Sheffield
Mark Stevenson
Mark Stevenson University of Melbourne
Rona Campbell
Rona Campbell University of Bristol

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