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Frances Griffiths is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with notable contributions to subfields such as General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Emergency Medicine, and Infectious Diseases.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics, including:

  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms

Frances Griffiths has published frequently in several venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in:

  • BMJ Open
  • Digital Health
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Lancet Global Health
  • Journal of Medical Ethics

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Griffiths include:

  • Impact of the societal response to COVID-19 on access to healthcare for non-COVID-19 health issues in slum communities of Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria and Pakistan: results of pre-COVID and COVID-19 lockdown stakeholder engagements, 2020, BMJ Global Health
  • Health workers' perceptions and experiences of using mHealth technologies to deliver primary healthcare services: a qualitative evidence synthesis, 2020, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Exploring patients' and clinicians' experiences of video consultations in primary care: a systematic scoping review, 2020, BJGP Open
  • Analysis of OpenStreetMap Data Quality at Different Stages of a Participatory Mapping Process: Evidence from Slums in Africa and Asia, 2021, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
  • Systematic review of educational interventions to improve the menstrual health of young adolescent girls, 2022, BMJ Open

Collaborations play a significant role in their work, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Anne-Marie Slowther
  • Jane Goudge
  • Richard Lilford
  • Caroline Huxley
  • Karin Eli

Best Publications

  • The Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT) Version 2018 for Information Professionals and Researchers.

    Quan Nha Hong;Sergi Fàbregues;Gillian Bartlett;Felicity Boardman

  • Designing and evaluating complex interventions to improve health care

    Neil C Campbell;Elizabeth Murray;Janet Darbyshire;Jon Emery

  • A scoring system for appraising mixed methods research, and concomitantly appraising qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods primary studies in Mixed Studies Reviews.

    Pierre Pluye;Marie-Pierre Gagnon;Frances Griffiths;Janique Johnson-Lafleur

  • Why Are Health Care Interventions Delivered Over the Internet? A Systematic Review of the Published Literature

    Frances Griffiths;Antje Lindenmeyer;John Powell;Pam Lowe

  • Improving the content validity of the mixed methods appraisal tool: a modified e-Delphi study.

    Quan Nha Hong;Pierre Pluye;Sergi Fàbregues;Gillian Bartlett

  • The impact of patient and public involvement on UK NHS health care: a systematic review

    Carole Mockford;Sophie Staniszewska;Frances Griffiths;Sandra Herron-Marx

  • Health workers’ perceptions and experiences of using mHealth technologies to deliver primary healthcare services: a qualitative evidence synthesis

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  • Impact of the societal response to COVID-19 on access to healthcare for non-COVID-19 health issues in slum communities of Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria and Pakistan: results of pre-COVID and COVID-19 lockdown stakeholder engagements.

    Syed A K Shifat Ahmed;Motunrayo Ajisola;Motunrayo Ajisola;Kehkashan Azeem;Pauline Bakibinga

  • Social networks--the future for health care delivery.

    Frances Griffiths;Jonathan A. K. Cave;Felicity K. Boardman;Justin Ren

  • Mobile phone use among patients and health workers to enhance primary healthcare: A qualitative study in rural South Africa.

    Jocelyn Olivia Todd Anstey Watkins;Jane Goudge;Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé;Frances Griffiths

  • Networks for research in primary health care

    Paul Thomas;Frances Griffiths;Joe Kai;Aislinn O'Dwyer

  • A multicentred randomised controlled trial of a primary care-based cognitive behavioural programme for low back pain. The Back Skills Training (BeST) trial

    S E Lamb;R Lall;Z Hansen;E Castelnuovo

  • Internet videoconferencing for patient-clinician consultations in long-term conditions: A review of reviews and applications in line with guidelines and recommendations.

    Agnieszka Ignatowicz;Helen Atherton;Celia Janine Bernstein;Carol Bryce

  • Exploring patients' and clinicians' experiences of video consultations in primary care : a systematic scoping review

    Arun Thiyagarajan;Calum Grant;Frances Griffiths;Helen Atherton

  • Verbal and non-verbal behavior of doctors and patients in primary care consultations - how this relates to patient enablement.

    Teresa Pawlikowska;Wenjuan Zhang;Frances Griffiths;Jan van Dalen

  • Health workers’ perceptions and experiences of using mHealth technologies to deliver primary healthcare services: a qualitative evidence synthesis

    Willem A Odendaal;Jane Goudge;Frances Griffiths;Mark Tomlinson

  • Experiences of in-patient mental health services: systematic review.

    Sophie Staniszewska;Carole Mockford;Greg Chadburn;Sarah-jane Hannah Fenton

  • The nature of medical evidence and its inherent uncertainty for the clinical consultation: qualitative study.

    Frances Griffiths;Eileen Green;Maria Tsouroufli

  • Complex consultations and the 'edge of chaos'

    Andrew D Innes;Peter D Campion;Frances E Griffiths

  • Evaluating recovery following hip fracture: a qualitative interview study of what is important to patients.

    Frances Griffiths;Victoria Mason;Felicity K. Boardman;Kathryn J. Dennick

  • Women's control and choice regarding HRT.

    Frances Griffiths

  • “Making it All Normal”: The Role of the Internet in Problematic Pregnancy

    Pam K. Lowe;John Powell;Frances Griffiths;Margaret Thorogood

  • Resilience and depression : perspectives from primary care

    Christopher Dowrick;Renata Kokanovic;Kelsey Hegarty;Frances E. Griffiths

Frequent Co-Authors

Kelsey Hegarty
Kelsey Hegarty University of Melbourne
Jeffrey Borkan
Jeffrey Borkan Brown University
Shmuel Reis
Shmuel Reis Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Marie-Pierre Gagnon
Marie-Pierre Gagnon Université Laval
Helen Herrman
Helen Herrman University of Melbourne
Catherine Kyobutungi
Catherine Kyobutungi Heidelberg University
Pierre Pluye
Pierre Pluye McGill University
Martin Härter
Martin Härter Universität Hamburg

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