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Peter Brocklehurst is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom and has a substantial body of research primarily within the field of Medicine. Their work spans various subfields, notably Obstetrics and Gynecology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Epidemiology.

Their research contributions focus on key topics that include:

  • Maternal and fetal healthcare
  • Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
  • Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
  • COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Preterm Birth and Chorioamnionitis
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Brocklehurst has coauthored numerous papers with frequent collaborators such as Ismaïl Lawani, Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar, Chris Gale, Nigel Simpson, and Thomas Pinkney.

Notable publication venues where Brocklehurst has contributed include:

  • Health Technology Assessment
  • BMJ Open
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Lancet Global Health
  • The Lancet

Among their recent papers are several significant cohort studies and systematic reviews, including:

  • Characteristics and outcomes of pregnant women admitted to hospital with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in UK: national population based cohort study, 2020, BMJ
  • Global variation in postoperative mortality and complications after cancer surgery: a multicentre, prospective cohort study in 82 countries, 2021, The Lancet
  • The incidence, characteristics and outcomes of pregnant women hospitalized with symptomatic and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection in the UK from March to September 2020: A national cohort study using the UK Obstetric Surveillance System (UKOSS), 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Surgical site infection and costs in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review of the economic burden, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Characteristics and outcomes of pregnant women hospitalised with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in the UK: a national cohort study using the UK Obstetric Surveillance System (UKOSS), 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Moderate Hypothermia to Treat Perinatal Asphyxial Encephalopathy

    Azzopardi Dv;Strohm B;Edwards Ad;Dyet L

  • Neurological outcomes at 18 months of age after moderate hypothermia for perinatal hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy: synthesis and meta-analysis of trial data

    AD Edwards;P Brocklehurst;AJ Gunn;H Halliday

  • Characteristics and outcomes of pregnant women admitted to hospital with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in UK: national population based cohort study.

    Marian Knight;Kathryn Bunch;Nicola Vousden;Edward Morris

  • Stunted microbiota and opportunistic pathogen colonization in caesarean-section birth

    Yan Shao;Samuel C. Forster;Samuel C. Forster;Samuel C. Forster;Evdokia Tsaliki;Kevin Vervier

  • Antiretrovirals for reducing the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection

    Peter Brocklehurst;Jimmy Volmink

  • Antibiotics for treating bacterial vaginosis in pregnancy

    Peter Brocklehurst;Adrienne Gordon;Emer Heatley;Stephen J Milan

  • Effects of Hypothermia for Perinatal Asphyxia on Childhood Outcomes

    Denis Azzopardi;Brenda Strohm;Neil Marlow;Peter Brocklehurst

  • Perinatal and maternal outcomes by planned place of birth for healthy women with low risk pregnancies : the Birthplace in England national prospective cohort study

    Peter Brocklehurst;Peter Brocklehurst;Pollyanna Hardy;Jennifer Hollowell;Louise Linsell

  • The association between maternal HIV infection and perinatal outcome : a systematic review of the literature and meta-analysis

    Peter Brocklehurst;Rebecca French

  • Assessment of brain tissue injury after moderate hypothermia in neonates with hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy: a nested substudy of a randomised controlled trial

    Mary Rutherford;Luca A Ramenghi;A David Edwards;Peter Brocklehurst

  • Donor breast milk versus infant formula for preterm infants: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Catherine A Boyd;Maria A Quigley;Peter Brocklehurst

  • Systematic review of effects of low-moderate prenatal alcohol exposure on pregnancy outcome.

    J Henderson;R Gray;P Brocklehurst

  • Incidence and Risk Factors for Placenta Accreta/Increta/Percreta in the UK: A National Case-Control Study

    Kathryn E. Fitzpatrick;Susan Sellers;Patsy Spark;Jennifer J. Kurinczuk

  • Childhood outcomes after prescription of antibiotics to pregnant women with spontaneous preterm labour: 7-year follow-up of the ORACLE II trial.

    S Kenyon;K Pike;Jones;P Brocklehurst

  • Saving Lives, Improving Mothers' Care: Lessons learned to inform future maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2009-2012

    M Knight;S Kenyon;P Brocklehurst;J Neilson

  • Oxygen Saturation and Outcomes in Preterm Infants

    Ben J. Stenson;William O. Tarnow-Mordi;Brian A. Darlow;John Simes

  • The management and outcomes of placenta accreta, increta, and percreta in the UK: A population-based descriptive study

    KE Fitzpatrick;S Sellers;P Spark;JJ Kurinczuk

  • Global burden of postoperative death

    Dmitri Nepogodiev;Janet Martin;Bruce Biccard;Alex Makupe

  • The TOBY Study. Whole body hypothermia for the treatment of perinatal asphyxial encephalopathy: A randomised controlled trial

    Dennis Azzopardi;Peter Brocklehurst;David Edwards;Henry Halliday

  • Effects of hypothermia for perinatal asphyxia on childhood outcomes

    D Azzopardi;D Azzopardi;B Strohm;N Marlow;P Brocklehurst

Frequent Co-Authors

Marian Knight
Marian Knight University of Oxford
Neil Marlow
Neil Marlow University College London
Stavros Petrou
Stavros Petrou University of Oxford
Diana Elbourne
Diana Elbourne London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Zarko Alfirevic
Zarko Alfirevic University of Liverpool
Michael Millar
Michael Millar Barts Health NHS Trust
Louise Locock
Louise Locock University of Aberdeen
David R. Jones
David R. Jones Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Hilary Graham
Hilary Graham University of York
Frank J. Kelly
Frank J. Kelly Imperial College London

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