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Keith R. Abrams is affiliated with the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. Their primary field of study is Medicine, with a significant focus on related subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Oncology, Statistics and Probability, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and General Health Professions.

Their research topics address a range of issues such as Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, COVID-19 and healthcare impacts, Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials, Meta-analysis and systematic reviews, Employment and Welfare Studies, Chronic Disease Management Strategies, and COVID-19 and Mental Health.

Recent scientific contributions include papers such as:

  • Ethnicity and clinical outcomes in COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2020, EClinicalMedicine)
  • Life Expectancy in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (2021, Neurology)
  • Ethnicity and clinical outcomes in COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))
  • Comparing associations between frailty and mortality in hospitalised older adults with or without COVID-19 infection: a retrospective observational study using electronic health records (2020, Age and Ageing)
  • Association of maternal lipid profile and gestational diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 292 studies and 97,880 women (2021, EClinicalMedicine)

Their frequent co-authors include Laura J. Gray, Sylwia Bujkiewicz, Manish Pareek, Rhiannon K Owen, and Kamlesh Khunti, reflecting collaborative research efforts across several projects.

Keith R. Abrams has published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Value in Health
  • BMC Medical Research Methodology
  • BMJ Open
  • EClinicalMedicine
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • The risk of colorectal cancer in ulcerative colitis: a meta-analysis

    J A Eaden;K R Abrams;J F Mayberry

  • Bayesian approaches to clinical trials and health-care evaluation

    David J. Spiegelhalter;Keith R. Abrams;Jonathan P. Myles

  • Comparison of Two Methods to Detect Publication Bias in Meta-analysis

    Jaime L. Peters;Alex J. Sutton;David R. Jones;Keith R. Abrams

  • Contour-enhanced meta-analysis funnel plots help distinguish publication bias from other causes of asymmetry

    Jaime L. Peters;Alex J. Sutton;David R. Jones;Keith R. Abrams

  • Pharmacological and lifestyle interventions to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes in people with impaired glucose tolerance: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Clare Louise Gillies;Keith R. Abrams;Paul C. Lambert;Nicola J. Cooper

  • Colorectal cancer prevention in ulcerative colitis: a case-control study.

    J Eaden;K Abrams;A Ekbom;E Jackson

  • Meta-analysis: colorectal and small bowel cancer risk in patients with Crohn's disease.

    C. Canavan;K. R. Abrams;J. Mayberry

  • Prognosis Research Strategy (PROGRESS) 2: Prognostic Factor Research

    Richard D. Riley;Jill A. Hayden;Ewout W. Steyerberg;Karel G. M. Moons

  • Rescue Angioplasty after Failed Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Anthony H. Gershlick;Amanda Stephens-Lloyd;Sarah Hughes;Keith R. Abrams

  • Performance of the trim and fill method in the presence of publication bias and between‐study heterogeneity

    Jaime L. Peters;Alex J. Sutton;David R. Jones;Keith R. Abrams

  • Quality of life and survival with continuous hepatic-artery floxuridine infusion for colorectal liver metastases

    T.G Allen-Mersh;S Earlam;C Fordy;K Abrams

  • Prognosis research strategy (PROGRESS) 1: A framework for researching clinical outcomes

    Harry Hemingway;Peter Croft;Pablo Perel;Jill A Hayden

  • How vague is vague? A simulation study of the impact of the use of vague prior distributions in MCMC using WinBUGS.

    Paul C. Lambert;Alex J. Sutton;Paul R. Burton;Keith R. Abrams

  • Ethnicity and clinical outcomes in COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Shirley Sze;Daniel Pan;Clareece R. Nevill;Laura J. Gray

  • Bayesian Approaches to Clinical Trials and Health-Care Evaluation: Spiegelhalter/Clinical Trials and Health-Care Evaluation

    David J. Spiegelhalter;Keith R. Abrams;Jonathan P. Myles

  • Meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials comparing open and laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair

    M. A. Memon;N. J. Cooper;B. Memon;M. I. Memon

  • Prognosis research strategy (PROGRESS) 4: Stratified medicine research

    Aroon D Hingorani;Daniëlle A van der Windt;Richard D Riley;Keith Abrams

  • Bayesian methods in health technology assessment: a review.

    David J. Spiegelhalter;Jonathan P. Myles;David R. Jones;Keith R. Abrams

  • Effectiveness of neuraminidase inhibitors in treatment and prevention of influenza A and B: systematic review and meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials.

    Nicola J Cooper;Alexander J Sutton;Keith R Abrams;Allan Wailoo

  • Ethnicity and clinical outcomes in COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Shirley Sze;Daniel Pan;Laura J Gray;Clareece R Nevill

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl G. Nicholson
Karl G. Nicholson University of Leicester
Mark Sculpher
Mark Sculpher University of York
John R. Thompson
John R. Thompson University of Leicester
David Spiegelhalter
David Spiegelhalter UK Statistics Authority
Maria Zambon
Maria Zambon Public Health England
Michael R. Barer
Michael R. Barer University of Leicester
Kamlesh Khunti
Kamlesh Khunti University of Leicester
Harry Hemingway
Harry Hemingway University College London
Kenneth J. O'Byrne
Kenneth J. O'Byrne Queensland University of Technology
Melanie J. Davies
Melanie J. Davies University of Leicester

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