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50
Citations
9260
World Ranking
2789
National Ranking
482

Overview

Colin Drummond is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with a significant focus on subfields such as Epidemiology, General Health Professions, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Economics and Econometrics, and Neurology.

The main topics in Drummond's work include:

  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement

Colin Drummond has published extensively, contributing articles to several key journals. Frequent venues for their publications include:

  • Alcohol and Alcoholism
  • Addiction
  • Public Health Research
  • Alcohol Clinical and Experimental Research
  • BJPsych Open

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Drummond include:

  • "The post-COVID era": challenges in the treatment of substance use disorder (SUD) after the pandemic, 2020, BMC Medicine
  • New dimensions for hospital services and early detection of disease: a Review from the Lancet Commission into liver disease in the UK, 2021, The Lancet
  • Accuracy of Wearable Transdermal Alcohol Sensors: Systematic Review, 2022, Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Intended and unintended consequences of the implementation of minimum unit pricing of alcohol in Scotland: a natural experiment, 2021, Public Health Research
  • Efficacy of psychosocial interventions to reduce alcohol use in comorbid alcohol use disorder and alcohol-related liver disease: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials, 2023, Alcohol and Alcoholism

Frequent collaborators with Drummond include:

  • Paolo Deluca
  • Eileen Brobbin
  • Simon Coulton
  • Stephen Parkin
  • Thomas Phillips

Best Publications

  • Wearable sensors for monitoring the physiological and biochemical profile of the athlete

    Dhruv R. Seshadri;Ryan T. Li;James E. Voos;James R. Rowbottom

  • Evidence-Based Guidelines for Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Summary of WHO Recommendations

    Tarun Dua;Corrado Barbui;Nicolas Clark;Alexandra Fleischmann

  • Effectiveness of screening and brief alcohol intervention in primary care (SIPS trial): pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial.

    Eileen Kaner;Martin Bland;Paul Cassidy;Simon Coulton

  • Screening and referral for brief intervention of alcohol-misusing patients in an emergency department: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

    Mike J Crawford;Robert Patton;Robin Touquet;Colin Drummond

  • Co-morbid post-traumatic stress disorder in a substance misusing clinical population.

    Martina Reynolds;Gillian Mezey;Murray Chapman;Mike Wheeler

  • Wearable Sensors for COVID-19: A Call to Action to Harness Our Digital Infrastructure for Remote Patient Monitoring and Virtual Assessments.

    Dhruv R. Seshadri;Evan V. Davies;Ethan R. Harlow;Jeffrey J. Hsu

  • Surveying general practitioners: does a low response rate matter?

    Lorna Templeton;Ann Deehan;Colin Taylor;Colin Drummond

  • Wearable sensors for monitoring the internal and external workload of the athlete.

    Dhruv R. Seshadri;Ryan T. Li;James E. Voos;James R. Rowbottom

  • The Effectiveness of Electronic Screening and Brief Intervention for Reducing Levels of Alcohol Consumption: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Kim Donoghue;Robert Patton;Thomas Phillips;Paolo Deluca

  • Disease burden and costs from excess alcohol consumption, obesity, and viral hepatitis: Fourth report of the Lancet Standing Commission on Liver Disease in the UK

    Roger Williams;Graeme Alexander;Iain Armstrong;Alastair Baker

  • Alcohol screening and brief intervention for adolescents: the how, what and where of reducing alcohol consumption and related harm among young people.

    Robert Patton;Paolo Deluca;Eileen Kaner;Dorothy Newbury-Birch

  • Promoting innovation and excellence to face the rapid diffusion of novel psychoactive substances in the EU: the outcomes of the ReDNet project.

    Ornella Corazza;Ornella Corazza;Sulaf Assi;Pierluigi Simonato;John Corkery

  • Accuracy of Apple Watch for Detection of Atrial Fibrillation.

    Dhruv R. Seshadri;Barbara Bittel;Dalton Browsky;Penny Houghtaling

  • The effect of cash and other financial inducements on the response rate of general practitioners in a national postal study

    Ann Deehan;Lorna Templeton;Colin Taylor;Colin Drummond

  • Alcohol Needs Assessment Research Project (ANARP). The 2004 National Alcohol Needs Assessment for England

    Colin Drummond;Adenekan Oyefeso;Tom Phillips;Survjit Cheeta

  • The effectiveness of alcohol screening and brief intervention in emergency departments: a multicentre pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial

    Colin Drummond;Paolo Deluca;Simon Coulton;Martin Bland

  • The efficacy of acamprosate and naltrexone in the treatment of alcohol dependence, Europe versus the rest of the world: a meta-analysis.

    Kim Donoghue;Catherine Elzerbi;Rob Saunders;Craig Whittington

  • WHO EXPERT COMMITTEE ON PROBLEMS RELATED TO ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION

    D. Ofori-Adjei;S. Casswell;Colin Drummond;Wei Hao

  • Comparison of brief interventions in primary care on smoking and excessive alcohol consumption: a population survey in England

    Jamie Brown;Robert West;Colin Angus;Emma Beard

  • Cost-effectiveness of screening and referral to an alcohol health worker in alcohol misusing patients attending an accident and emergency department: a decision-making approach.

    Barbara Barrett;Sarah Byford;Mike J. Crawford;Robert Patton

Frequent Co-Authors

Paolo Deluca
Paolo Deluca King's College London
Eileen Kaner
Eileen Kaner Newcastle University
Christine Godfrey
Christine Godfrey University of York
Preben Bendtsen
Preben Bendtsen Linköping University
Alan Brennan
Alan Brennan University of Sheffield
Jamie Brown
Jamie Brown University College London
Susan Michie
Susan Michie University College London
Joanne Neale
Joanne Neale King's College London
Matthew Hotopf
Matthew Hotopf King's College London
Mike J. Crawford
Mike J. Crawford Imperial College London

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