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70
Citations
33478
World Ranking
752
National Ranking
142

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2000 - Prince Mahidol Award
  • 1994 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Iain Chalmers is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on health professions and medicine, with particular attention to general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, statistics and probability, and genetics. Their work spans important subfields such as statistics, probability, and uncertainty.

The main topics addressed in their research include ethics in clinical research, health sciences research and education, health literacy and information accessibility, meta-analysis and systematic reviews, ethics in medical practice, statistical methods in clinical trials, and health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life.

Chalmers has contributed publications to several notable venues, including the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Trials, F1000Research, Abstracts, and PLoS ONE.

  • Effects of the Informed Health Choices podcast on the ability of parents of primary school children in Uganda to assess the trustworthiness of claims about treatment effects: one-year follow up of a randomised trial, 2020, Trials
  • Effects of the Informed Health Choices primary school intervention on the ability of children in Uganda to assess the reliability of claims about treatment effects, 1-year follow-up: a cluster-randomised trial, 2020, Trials
  • Improving research ethics review and governance can improve human health, 2021, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
  • Protocol for assessing stakeholder engagement in the development and evaluation of the Informed Health Choices resources teaching secondary school students to think critically about health claims and choices, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Key concepts for informed health choices: Where's the evidence?, 2022, F1000Research

The scientist frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors, including Paul Glasziou, Andrew D Oxman, Astrid Dahlgren, Sarah Rosenbaum, and Daniel Semakula.

Recognition of Chalmers's work includes several awards such as the Prince Mahidol Award in 2000, membership in the National Academy of Medicine since 1994, and fellowship with The Academy of Medical Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Empirical evidence of bias. Dimensions of methodological quality associated with estimates of treatment effects in controlled trials.

    Kenneth F. Schulz;Iain Chalmers;Richard J. Hayes;Douglas G. Altman

  • Avoidable waste in the production and reporting of research evidence.

    Iain Chalmers;Paul Glasziou

  • Effect of early tranexamic acid administration on mortality, hysterectomy, and other morbidities in women with post-partum haemorrhage (WOMAN): an international, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

    Haleema Shakur;Ian Roberts;Bukola Fawole;Rizwana Chaudhri

  • How to increase value and reduce waste when research priorities are set

    Iain Chalmers;Michael B Bracken;Ben Djulbegovic;Silvio Garattini

  • WHICH ANTICONVULSANT FOR WOMEN WITH ECLAMPSIA - EVIDENCE FROM THE COLLABORATIVE ECLAMPSIA TRIAL

    L Duley;G Carroli;J Belizan;L Gonzalez

  • The effects of corticosteroid administration before preterm delivery: an overview of the evidence from controlled trials.

    Patricia Crowley;Iain Chalmers;Marc J. N. C. Ke Rse

  • Letter: Maternal deaths.

    R G Newcombe;H Campbell;I Chalmers

  • A brief history of research synthesis

    Iain Chalmers;Larry V. Hedges;Harris Cooper

  • PRISMA for Abstracts: Reporting Systematic Reviews in Journal and Conference Abstracts

    Elaine M. Beller;Paul P. Glasziou;Douglas G. Altman;Sally Hopewell;Sally Hopewell

  • When are randomised trials unnecessary? Picking signal from noise

    Paul Glasziou;Iain Chalmers;Michael Rawlins;Peter McCulloch

  • The Cochrane Collaboration: Preparing, Maintaining, and Disseminating Systematic Reviews of the Effects of Health Care

    Iain Chalmers

  • Increasing value and reducing waste in biomedical research regulation and management

    Rustam Al-Shahi Salman;Elaine Beller;Jonathan Kagan;Elina Hemminki

  • Getting to grips with Archie Cochrane's agenda.

    I. Chalmers;K. Dickersin;T. C. Chalmers

  • West Berkshire perineal management trial.

    J Sleep;A Grant;J Garcia;D Elbourne

  • Increasing value and reducing waste in biomedical research: who's listening?

    David Moher;David Moher;Paul Glasziou;Iain Chalmers;Mona Nasser

  • Patients’, clinicians’ and the research communities’ priorities for treatment research: there is an important mismatch

    Sally Crowe;Mark Fenton;Matthew Hall;Katherine Cowan

  • A Randomized Controlled Trial of Cervical Cerclage in Women at High Risk of Spontaneous Preterm Delivery

    R. W. Rush;S. Isaacs;K. Mcpherson;Lesley Jones

  • Research waste is still a scandal-an essay by Paul Glasziou and Iain Chalmers

    Paul Glasziou;Iain Chalmers

  • Using evidence to inform health policy: case study

    Sally Macintyre;Iain Chalmers;Richard Horton;Richard Smith

  • Are research ethics committees behaving unethically? Some suggestions for improving performance and accountability

    Julian Savulescu;Iain Chalmers;Jennifer Blunt

  • Trying to do more Good than Harm in Policy and Practice: The Role of Rigorous, Transparent, Up-to-Date Evaluations

    Iain Chalmers

  • What do I want from health research and researchers when I am a patient

    Iain Chalmers

  • Taking healthcare interventions from trial to practice

    Paul Glasziou;Iain Chalmers;Douglas G Altman;Hilda Bastian

  • Assembling comparison groups to assess the effects of health care.

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Frequent Co-Authors

Atle Fretheim
Atle Fretheim Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Simon Lewin
Simon Lewin South African Medical Research Council
Susan Michie
Susan Michie University College London
Julian Savulescu
Julian Savulescu University of Oxford
Andy Haines
Andy Haines London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Jonathan Grant
Jonathan Grant King's College London
Sandy Oliver
Sandy Oliver University College London
Harris Cooper
Harris Cooper Duke University
Larry V. Hedges
Larry V. Hedges Northwestern University

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