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Overview

Christopher R Burton is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Health Professions and Medicine, contributing extensively to topics including Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, and Quality of Life, as well as Health Policy Implementation Science. The scope of their work also covers Healthcare cost, quality, and practices, Radiology practices and education, Voice and Speech Disorders, Dysphagia Assessment and Management, and Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes.

The researcher has a record of several publications in notable venues such as BMC Health Services Research, Health Services and Delivery Research, BMJ Open, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, and Health Research Policy and Systems.

Frequent coauthors working alongside Christopher R Burton include:

  • Lynne Williams
  • Beth Hall
  • Catherine Sackley
  • Caroline Rick
  • Marian Brady

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on the practical application of healthcare research and policy. Selected works include:

  • The Implementation in Context (ICON) Framework: A meta-framework of context domains, attributes and features in healthcare (2023, Health Research Policy and Systems)
  • Theory and practical guidance for effective de-implementation of practices across health and care services: a realist synthesis (2021, Health Services and Delivery Research)
  • Lee Silverman voice treatment versus NHS speech and language therapy versus control for dysarthria in people with Parkinson's disease (PD COMM): pragmatic, UK based, multicentre, three arm, parallel group, unblinded, randomised controlled trial (2024, BMJ)
  • "It's not just about the numbers": Inside the black box of nurses' professional judgement in nurse staffing systems in England and Wales: Insights from a qualitative cross-case comparative study (2023, International Journal of Nursing Studies)
  • 'Function First-Be Active, Stay Independent'-promoting physical activity and physical function in people with long-term conditions by primary care: a protocol for a realist synthesis with embedded co-production and co-design (2020, BMJ Open)

Their work includes 33 publications categorized under Health Professions and 29 under Medicine. Subfield contributions are seen in General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Physiology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Best Publications

  • Do patients have worse outcomes in heart failure than in cancer? A primary care-based cohort study with 10-year follow-up in Scotland.

    Mamas A. Mamas;Mamas A. Mamas;Matthew Sperrin;Margaret C. Watson;Alasdair Coutts

  • Living with stroke: a phenomenological study.

    Christopher R. Burton

  • Beyond somatisation: a review of the understanding and treatment of medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS).

    Christopher Burton

  • Collaboration and Co-Production of Knowledge in Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges

    Jo Rycroft-Malone;Christopher R Burton;Tracey Bucknall;Ian D Graham;Ian D Graham

  • Activity monitoring in patients with depression: A systematic review

    Christopher Burton;Brian McKinstry;Aurora Szentagotai Tătar;Antoni Serrano-Blanco

  • Functional somatic disorders: discussion paper for a new common classification for research and clinical use

    Christopher Burton;Per Fink;Peter Henningsen;Bernd Löwe

  • Reassurance After Diagnostic Testing With a Low Pretest Probability of Serious Disease: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Alexandra Rolfe;Christopher Burton

  • Resilience of primary healthcare professionals: a systematic review.

    Helen D Robertson;Alison M Elliott;Christopher Burton;Lisa Iversen

  • Collective action for implementation: a realist evaluation of organisational collaboration in healthcare

    Jo Rycroft-Malone;Christopher R Burton;Joyce Wilkinson;Gill Harvey;Gill Harvey

  • The quality, safety and content of telephone and face-to-face consultations: a comparative study

    Brian McKinstry;Victoria S. Hammersley;Christopher Burton;Hilary Pinnock

  • Yoga for reducing perceived stress and back pain at work

    N. Hartfiel;C.R. Burton;J. Rycroft-Malone;G. Clarke

  • A description of the nursing role in stroke rehabilitation.

    Christopher R. Burton

  • Implementing health research through academic and clinical partnerships: a realistic evaluation of the Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC).

    Jo Rycroft-Malone;Joyce E. Wilkinson;Christopher R. Burton;Gavin J. Andrews

  • Re-thinking stroke rehabilitation: the Corbin and Strauss chronic illness trajectory framework.

    Christopher R. Burton

  • Expanding the role of the stroke nurse: a pragmatic clinical trial.

    Christopher Burton;Bernard Gibbon

  • Are electronic diaries useful for symptoms research? A systematic review.

    Christopher Burton;David Weller;Michael Sharpe

  • End-of-life issues in acute stroke care: a qualitative study of the experiences and preferences of patients and families

    Sheila Payne;Christopher Burton;Julia Addington-Hall;Amanda Jones

  • “Medically unexplained” symptoms and symptom disorders in primary care: prognosis-based recognition and classification

    Marianne Rosendal;Marianne Rosendal;Tim C Olde Hartman;Aase Aamland;Henriette van der Horst

  • The role of proton dynamics in the development and maintenance of multidrug resistance in cancer

    Chloë Daniel;Charlotte Bell;Christopher Burton;Salvador Harguindey

  • Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015)

    Maria Wolters;Luis Ferrini;Elaine Farrow;Aurora Szentagotai Tătar

  • Collaboration and Co-Production of Knowledge in Healthcare

    Jo Rycroft-Malone;Christopher R Burton;Tracey Bucknall;Ian D Graham

Frequent Co-Authors

Gill Harvey
Gill Harvey University of Adelaide
Sue Dopson
Sue Dopson University of Oxford
Judith G.M. Rosmalen
Judith G.M. Rosmalen University Medical Center Groningen
Bernd Löwe
Bernd Löwe Universität Hamburg
John A. Parkinson
John A. Parkinson Bangor University
Justin Waring
Justin Waring University of Birmingham
Per Fink
Per Fink Aarhus University
Claudia Pagliari
Claudia Pagliari University of Edinburgh
Peter Henningsen
Peter Henningsen Technical University of Munich
Winfried Rief
Winfried Rief Philipp University of Marburg

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