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Overview

John Cairns was affiliated with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions spanned the fields of medicine and economics, with significant focus on economic and financial evaluations in healthcare.

The main fields of study for Cairns included:

  • Medicine
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

The subfields of study encompassed:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Oncology
  • General Health Professions
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Ophthalmology

The primary topics of their research covered:

  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
  • Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
  • Pharmaceutical studies and practices
  • Retinal and Optic Conditions
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies

Frequent publication venues included:

  • Value in Health
  • PharmacoEconomics - Open
  • BMJ Open
  • International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care
  • EClinicalMedicine

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Cairns were:

  • The Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health: vision beyond 2020 (2021, The Lancet Global Health)
  • Global economic productivity losses from vision impairment and blindness (2021, EClinicalMedicine)
  • The economics of vision impairment and its leading causes: A systematic review (2022, EClinicalMedicine)
  • Stated versus revealed preferences: An approach to reduce bias (2021, Health Economics)
  • Supply-Side Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds: Questions for Evidence-Based Policy (2022, Applied Health Economics and Health Policy)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Cairns were:

  • Jiyeon Kang
  • Lea Wiedmann
  • Matthew J. Burton
  • Jacqueline Ramke
  • Ana Patrícia Marques

In addition to articles, Cairns contributed to book publications, including a work published by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique titled "Jacques Cujas, la fabrique d'un " grand juriste "" in 2024.

Best Publications

  • The Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health: vision beyond 2020.

    Matthew J Burton;Matthew J Burton;Jacqueline Ramke;Jacqueline Ramke;Ana Patricia Marques;Rupert R A Bourne;Rupert R A Bourne

  • The CRASH-2 trial: a randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation of the effects of tranexamic acid on death, vascular occlusive events and transfusion requirement in bleeding trauma patients.

    I Roberts;H Shakur;T Coats;B Hunt

  • The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of screening for open angle glaucoma: a systematic review and economic evaluation.

    Jennifer Margaret Burr;Graham Mowatt;Rodolfo Andrés Hernández;Muhammad Ardul Rehman Siddiqui

  • The International Decision Support Initiative Reference Case for Economic Evaluation: An Aid to Thought.

    Thomas Wilkinson;Mark J. Sculpher;Karl Claxton;Paul Revill

  • The Economics of Professional Team Sports: A Survey of Theory and Evidence

    J. Cairns;N. Jennett;P.J. Sloane

  • Willingness‐to‐pay for community‐based insurance in Burkina Faso

    Hengjin Dong;Bocar Kouyate;John Cairns;Frederick Mugisha

  • Cost-effectiveness analysis of administering tranexamic acid to bleeding trauma patients using evidence from the CRASH-2 trial.

    Carla Guerriero;John Cairns;Pablo Perel;Haleema Shakur

  • Prioritization of HCV treatment in the direct-acting antiviral era: An economic evaluation

    Natasha K. Martin;Natasha K. Martin;Peter Vickerman;Gregory J. Dore;Jason Grebely

  • The familial technique for linking maternal death with poverty.

    Wendy Jane Graham;Ann Elizabeth Fitzmaurice;Jacqueline Sarah Bell;John Alexander Cairns

  • Global economic productivity losses from vision impairment and blindness.

    Ana Patricia Marques;Jacqueline Ramke;Jacqueline Ramke;John Cairns;Thomas Butt

  • The cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation support delivered by mobile phone text messaging: Txt2stop.

    Carla Guerriero;John Cairns;Ian Roberts;Anthony Rodgers

  • Prospective epidemiologic study of the outcome and cost-effectiveness of antenatal screening to detect neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia due to anti-HPA-1a.

    Marc L. Turner;Hagop Bessos;Timothy Fagge;Mairi Harkness

  • Immediate Computed Tomography Scanning of Acute Stroke Is Cost-Effective and Improves Quality of Life

    Joanna M. Wardlaw;Janelle Seymour;John Cairns;Sarah Keir

  • Estimating population-based values for EQ-5D health states in Thailand.

    Sirinart Tongsiri;John Cairns

  • Evaluating changes in league structure: the reorganization of the Scottish Football League

    John A. Cairns

  • Evaluation of modernisation of adult critical care services in England: time series and cost effectiveness analysis

    Andrew Hutchings;Mary Alison Durand;Richard Grieve;David Harrison

  • SF-6D versus EQ-5D: reasons for differences in utility scores and impact on reported cost-utility

    Richard Grieve;Marina Grishchenko;John Cairns

  • Discounting and health benefits: another perspective.

    John Cairns

  • Estimating time preferences for health using discrete choice experiments

    Marjon van der Pol;John Cairns

  • Valuing future benefits.

    John A. Cairns

  • Cost-Effectiveness of Magnetic Resonance-Guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery for Treatment of Uterine Fibroids

    H Zowall;J A. Cairns;C Brewer;D L. Lamping

Frequent Co-Authors

Sandy Oliver
Sandy Oliver University College London
Nancy Devlin
Nancy Devlin University of Melbourne
Aki Tsuchiya
Aki Tsuchiya University of Sheffield
Paul Dolan
Paul Dolan London School of Economics and Political Science
John Brazier
John Brazier University of Sheffield
Donna Rowen
Donna Rowen University of Sheffield
David J. Roberts
David J. Roberts University of Oxford
Rainer Sauerborn
Rainer Sauerborn University Hospital Heidelberg
Joanna M. Wardlaw
Joanna M. Wardlaw University of Edinburgh
Karl Claxton
Karl Claxton University of York

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