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Colin Fischbacher is affiliated with the National Health Service Scotland in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with a particular focus on subfields such as General Health Professions, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Health, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Epidemiology.

Their main topics of research include:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Acute Myocardial Infarction Research
  • Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts

Colin Fischbacher has frequently published in venues such as Wellcome Open Research, BMJ Open, Archives of Public Health, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and BMJ. Their publication record includes multiple papers addressing COVID-19 related health impacts as well as cardiology and emergency medicine topics.

Selected recent papers include:

  • Risk of hospital admission with coronavirus disease 2019 in healthcare workers and their households: nationwide linkage cohort study (2020, BMJ)
  • Risks of and risk factors for COVID-19 disease in people with diabetes: a cohort study of the total population of Scotland (2020, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology)
  • High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin on Presentation to Rule Out Myocardial Infarction: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (2021, Circulation)
  • COVID-19 - exploring the implications of long-term condition type and extent of multimorbidity on years of life lost: a modelling study (2020, Wellcome Open Research)
  • Impact of COVID-19 on accident and emergency attendances and emergency and planned hospital admissions in Scotland: an interrupted time-series analysis (2020, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Nicholas L. Mills, Anoop Shah, David McAllister, Atul Anand, and Kuan Ken Lee. These collaborators indicate a network of interaction primarily focused on cardiovascular medicine and public health.

Best Publications

  • Smoke-free legislation and hospitalizations for acute coronary syndrome

    Jill Pell;Sally Haw;Stuart M Cobbe;David E Newby

  • High-sensitivity troponin in the evaluation of patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome: a stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised controlled trial.

    Anoop S V Shah;Anoop S V Shah;Atul Anand;Fiona E Strachan;Amy V Ferry

  • Smoke-free Legislation and Hospitalizations for Childhood Asthma

    Daniel Mackay;Sally Haw;Jon G. Ayres;Colin Fischbacher

  • Risk of hospital admission with coronavirus disease 2019 in healthcare workers and their households: nationwide linkage cohort study.

    Anoop Sv Shah;Anoop Sv Shah;Rachael Wood;Ciara Gribben;David Caldwell

  • How physically active are South Asians in the United Kingdom? A literature review

    C. M. Fischbacher;S. Hunt;L. Alexander

  • The epidemiology, healthcare and societal burden and costs of asthma in the UK and its member nations: analyses of standalone and linked national databases

    Mome Mukherjee;Andrew Stoddart;Ramyani P. Gupta;Bright I. Nwaru;Bright I. Nwaru

  • Mortality from all causes and circulatory disease by country of birth in England and Wales 2001–2003

    S.H. Wild;C. Fischbacher;A. Brock;C. Griffiths

  • Patterns of physical activity and relationship with risk markers for cardiovascular disease and diabetes in Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and European adults in a UK population

    Louise Hayes;Martin White;Nigel Unwin;Raj Bhopal

  • The impact of cancer on subsequent chance of pregnancy: a population-based analysis.

    Richard A Anderson;David H Brewster;Rachael Wood;Sian Nowell

  • Incidence of Hospitalization for Heart Failure and Case-Fatality Among 3.25 Million People With and Without Diabetes Mellitus.

    David A. McAllister;Stephanie H. Read;Jan Kerssens;Shona Livingstone

  • Impact of laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a population-based study

    Andrew J. Mcmahon;Colin M. Fischbacher;Susan H. Frame;Margaret C. M. Macleod

  • Predicted and observed cardiovascular disease in South Asians: application of FINRISK, Framingham and SCORE models to Newcastle Heart Project data.

    Raj Bhopal;Colin Fischbacher;Erkki Vartiainen;Nigel Unwin

  • Adverse events after first, single, mesh and non-mesh surgical procedures for stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse in Scotland, 1997–2016: a population-based cohort study

    Joanne R Morling;Joanne R Morling;David A McAllister;David A McAllister;Wael Agur;Colin M Fischbacher

  • An exploratory population-based case-control study of primary biliary cirrhosis.

    Denise Howel;Colin M. Fischbacher;Raj S. Bhopal;Jackie Gray

  • Record linked retrospective cohort study of 4.6 million people exploring ethnic variations in disease: myocardial infarction in South Asians

    CM Fischbacher;CM Fischbacher;R Bhopal;C Povey;M Steiner

  • COVID-19 - exploring the implications of long-term condition type and extent of multimorbidity on years of life lost: a modelling study

    Peter Hanlon;Fergus Chadwick;Anoop Shah;Rachael Wood

  • Pricing Policies And Control of Tobacco in Europe (PPACTE) project: cross-national comparison of smoking prevalence in 18 European countries.

    Silvano Gallus;Alessandra Lugo;Alessandra Lugo;Carlo La Vecchia;Carlo La Vecchia;Paolo Boffetta

  • Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: a web-based risk score for seven British black and minority ethnic groups

    P Brindle;Margaret T May;P Gill;F Cappuccio

  • Use of a journal club and letter-writing exercise to teach critical appraisal to medical undergraduates.

    Richard Edwards;Martin White;Jackie Gray;Colin Fischbacher

  • Mortality from all cancers and lung, colorectal, breast and prostate cancer by country of birth in England and Wales, 2001–2003

    S H Wild;C M Fischbacher;A Brock;C Griffiths

Frequent Co-Authors

Raj Bhopal
Raj Bhopal University of Edinburgh
Sarah H. Wild
Sarah H. Wild University of Edinburgh
Richard Edwards
Richard Edwards University of Otago
Harry Campbell
Harry Campbell University of Edinburgh
James F. Wilson
James F. Wilson University of Edinburgh
Peter K. Joshi
Peter K. Joshi University of Edinburgh
Jamie Pearce
Jamie Pearce University of Edinburgh
Mark A Bellis
Mark A Bellis Liverpool John Moores University

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