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Peter Bower is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on health professions and medicine, with extensive work in the subfields of general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, economics and econometrics, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, and epidemiology.

Their main topics of research include health systems, economic evaluations, quality of life; health policy implementation science; primary care and health outcomes; chronic disease management strategies; mental health and patient involvement; ethics in clinical research; and diabetes management and education.

Peter Bower has published numerous papers in various journals. Some recent publications include:

  • Factors Associated With Burnout and Stress in Trainee Physicians, 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • Preventable medication harm across health care settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020, BMC Medicine
  • Why do patients take part in research? An overview of systematic reviews of psychosocial barriers and facilitators, 2020, Trials
  • Are there interactional differences between telephone and face-to-face psychological therapy? A systematic review of comparative studies, 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Routine provision of feedback from patient-reported outcome measurements to healthcare providers and patients in clinical practice, 2021, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Frequent co-authors in their research include Evangelos Kontopantelis, Shaun Treweek, Penny Bee, Matt Sutton, and Katie Gillies.

Peter Bower's work is often published in the following venues:

  • Trials
  • BMJ Open
  • BMC Medicine
  • British Journal of General Practice
  • Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Best Publications

  • Patient-centredness: a conceptual framework and review of the empirical literature.

    Nicola Mead;Peter Bower

  • Collaborative care for depression: a cumulative meta-analysis and review of longer-term outcomes.

    Simon Gilbody;Peter Bower;Janine Fletcher;David Richards

  • Controlled Interventions to Reduce Burnout in Physicians A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Maria Panagioti;Efharis Panagopoulou;Peter Bower;George Lewith

  • Collaborative care for depression and anxiety problems

    Janine Archer;Peter Bower;Simon Gilbody;Karina Lovell

  • Stepped care in psychological therapies: Access, effectiveness and efficiency. Narrative literature review.

    Peter Bower;Simon Gilbody

  • Patient-centred consultations and outcomes in primary care: a review of the literature.

    Nicola Mead;Peter Bower

  • Prevalence, severity, and nature of preventable patient harm across medical care settings: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Maria Panagioti;Kanza Khan;Richard N Keers;Aseel Abuzour

  • Instruments for exploring organizational culture: A review of the literature

    Tobias Jung;Tim Scott;Huw T. O. Davies;Peter Bower

  • What makes self-help interventions effective in the management of depressive symptoms? Meta-analysis and meta-regression.

    Judith Gellatly;Peter Bower;Sue Hennessy;David Richards

  • Exploring barriers to participation and adoption of telehealth and telecare within the Whole System Demonstrator trial: A qualitative study

    Caroline Sanders;Anne Rogers;Robert Bowen;Peter Bower

  • Collaborative care for depression in primary care. Making sense of a complex intervention: systematic review and meta-regression

    Peter Bower;Simon Gilbody;David Richards;Janine Fletcher

  • The effectiveness and cost effectiveness of a national lay-led self care support programme for patients with long-term conditions: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial

    Anne Kennedy;David Reeves;Peter Bower;Victoria Lee

  • Computerised cognitive behaviour therapy (cCBT) as treatment for depression in primary care (REEACT trial): large scale pragmatic randomised controlled trial

    Simon Gilbody;Elizabeth Littlewood;Catherine Hewitt;Gwen Brierley

  • Cost effectiveness of telehealth for patients with long term conditions (Whole Systems Demonstrator telehealth questionnaire study): nested economic evaluation in a pragmatic, cluster randomised controlled trial

    Catherine Henderson;Martin Knapp;Martin Knapp;José Luis Fernández;Jennifer Beecham

  • Interventions for common perinatal mental disorders in women in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Atif Rahman;Jane Rosamond Woodward Fisher;Peter Bower;Stanley Luchters

  • Randomised controlled trial of non-directive counselling, cognitive-behaviour therapy, and usual general practitioner care for patients with depression. II: cost effectiveness.

    Peter Bower;Sarah Byford;Bonnie Sibbald;Elaine Ward

  • Randomised controlled trial of non-directive counselling, cognitive-behaviour therapy and usual general practitioner care in the management of depression as well as mixed anxiety and depression in primary care

    M King;B Sibbald;E Ward;P Bower

  • Support for self care for patients with chronic disease

    Anne Kennedy;Anne Rogers;Peter Bower

  • Collaborative care for depression : A cumulative meta-analysis and review of longer-term outcomes. Commentary

    Wayne Katon;Jürgen Unützer;Simon Gilbody;Peter Bower

  • Patient Health Questionnaire

    C Dowrick;C Chew-Graham;K Lovell;J Lamb

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda Gask
Linda Gask University of Manchester
Simon Gilbody
Simon Gilbody University of York
Anne Rogers
Anne Rogers University of Southampton
Michael Barkham
Michael Barkham University of Sheffield
Anne Kennedy
Anne Kennedy University of Southampton
Peter A. Coventry
Peter A. Coventry University of York
David Richards
David Richards University of Bristol
Maria Panagioti
Maria Panagioti University of Manchester
Martin Roland
Martin Roland University of Cambridge
Ricardo Araya
Ricardo Araya King's College London

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