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Linda D. Sharples is affiliated with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a focus on areas such as Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Statistics and Probability, Surgery, and Oncology.

The scientist has published extensively on topics including Aortic aneurysm repair treatments, Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection, Advanced Causal Inference Techniques, Infectious Aortic and Vascular Conditions, and Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials.

Frequent collaborators include Jan van der Meulen, Kate Walker, Colin Bicknell, Priya Sastry, and Carol Freeman.

Linda D. Sharples has contributed to notable journals with frequent publications appearing in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology and BMJ Open (six publications each), British Journal of Surgery (four publications), International Journal for Population Data Science (three publications), and European Heart Journal (two publications).

Recent publications include the following:

  • Developing a reference protocol for structured expert elicitation in health-care decision-making: a mixed-methods study, 2021, Health Technology Assessment
  • Reducing bias in trials due to reactions to measurement: experts produced recommendations informed by evidence, 2021, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
  • Aneurysm growth, survival, and quality of life in untreated thoracic aortic aneurysms: the effective treatments for thoracic aortic aneurysms study, 2021, European Heart Journal
  • Reference Case Methods for Expert Elicitation in Health Care Decision Making, 2021, Medical Decision Making
  • Multicenter Randomized Trial of Intermittently Scanned Continuous Glucose Monitoring Versus Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes and Recent-Onset Acute Myocardial Infarction: Results of the LIBERATES Trial, 2022, Diabetes Care

Best Publications

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    Samer A. M. Nashef;Francois Roques;Linda D. Sharples;Johan Nilsson

  • Cardiac Remote Ischemic Preconditioning in Coronary Stenting (CRISP Stent) Study A Prospective, Randomized Control Trial

    Stephen P. Hoole;Patrick M. Heck;Linda Sharples;Sadia N. Khan

  • Banking on human embryonic stem cells: estimating the number of donor cell lines needed for HLA matching

    Craig J Taylor;Eleanor M Bolton;Susan Pocock;Linda D Sharples

  • The epidermal growth factor receptor and the prognosis of bladder cancer

    David E. Neal;Linda Sharples;Kenneth Smith;Janet Fennelly

  • Transmyocardial laser revascularisation in patients with refractory angina: a randomised controlled trial.

    PM Schofield;LD Sharples;N Caine;S Burns

  • Risk factors for bronchiolitis obliterans: a systematic review of recent publications.

    Linda D Sharples;Keith McNeil;Susan Stewart;John Wallwork

  • Multistate Markov models for disease progression with classification error

    Christopher H. Jackson;Linda D. Sharples;Simon G. Thompson;Stephen W. Duffy

  • Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome: incidence, natural history, prognosis, and risk factors

    D Heng;L D Sharples;K McNeil;S Stewart

  • Epidemic asthma and the role of the fungal mold Alternaria alternata.

    Thomas B. Pulimood;Julie M. Corden;Clare Bryden;Linda Sharples

  • Modelling Complexity: Applications of Gibbs Sampling in Medicine

    W. R. Gilks;D. G. Clayton;D. J. Spiegelhalter;N. G. Best

  • Effect of Care Guided by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Myocardial Perfusion Scintigraphy, or NICE Guidelines on Subsequent Unnecessary Angiography Rates: The CE-MARC 2 Randomized Clinical Trial.

    John P. Greenwood;David P. Ripley;Colin Berry;Gerry P. McCann;Gerry P. McCann

  • Long term intravenous prostaglandin (epoprostenol or iloprost) for treatment of severe pulmonary hypertension

    T Higenbottam;A Y Butt;A McMahon;R Westerbeck

  • Randomized Controlled Trial of Rituximab and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Treating Fatigue and Oral Dryness in Primary Sjögren's Syndrome.

    Simon J. Bowman;Colin C. Everett;John L. O'Dwyer;Paul Emery

  • Outcome of elective prostatectomy.

    D. E. Neal;P. D. Ramsden;L. Sharples;A. Smith

  • Idiopathic hypersomnia: a study of 77 cases.

    Kirstie N. Anderson;Samantha Pilsworth;Linda D. Sharples;Ian E. Smith

  • Performance status score: do patients and their oncologists agree?

    S P Blagden;S C Charman;L D Sharples;L R A Magee

  • Efficacy and cost of video-assisted thoracoscopic partial pleurectomy versus talc pleurodesis in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma (MesoVATS): an open-label, randomised, controlled trial

    Robert C Rintoul;Andrew J Ritchie;John G Edwards;David A Waller

  • Assessment of survival benefit after lung transplantation by patient diagnosis.

    Susan C Charman;Linda D Sharples;Linda D Sharples;Keith D McNeil;John Wallwork

  • Prospective study of quality of life before and after coronary artery bypass grafting.

    N Caine;S C Harrison;L D Sharples;J Wallwork

  • Meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials of oral mandibular advancement devices and continuous positive airway pressure for obstructive sleep apnoea-hypopnoea.

    Linda D. Sharples;Linda D. Sharples;Abigail L. Clutterbuck-James;Matthew J. Glover;Maxine S. Bennett

Frequent Co-Authors

John Wallwork
John Wallwork Papworth Hospital
Julia Fox-Rushby
Julia Fox-Rushby King's College London
Peter R. Schofield
Peter R. Schofield Neuroscience Research Australia
Paul Emery
Paul Emery University of Leeds
Jan van der Meulen
Jan van der Meulen University of London
Simon G. Thompson
Simon G. Thompson University of Cambridge
Jane M Blazeby
Jane M Blazeby University of Bristol
Michele Bombardieri
Michele Bombardieri Queen Mary University of London
Sylvia Richardson
Sylvia Richardson University of Cambridge
Karl Claxton
Karl Claxton University of York

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