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Peter Brooks is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has a significant focus on medicine, with a specialized emphasis on several subfields including general health professions, economics and econometrics, rheumatology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and pharmacology.

Their research topics cover a range of areas predominantly connected to health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life; anesthesia and neurotoxicity research; rheumatoid arthritis research and therapies; musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation; telemedicine and telehealth implementation; anesthesia and sedative agents; as well as patient-provider communication in healthcare.

Among their recent papers are the following works:

  • Global, regional, and national burden of osteoarthritis, 1990-2020 and projections to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 (2023, The Lancet Rheumatology)
  • Global, regional, and national burden of rheumatoid arthritis, 1990-2020, and projections to 2050: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 (2023, The Lancet Rheumatology)
  • Global, regional, and national burden of neck pain, 1990-2020, and projections to 2050: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 (2024, The Lancet Rheumatology)
  • Global, regional, and national burden of gout, 1990-2020, and projections to 2050: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 (2024, The Lancet Rheumatology)
  • Telehealth in cancer care: during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic (2021, Internal Medicine Journal)

Peter Brooks frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors including Lyn March, Jaimie D Steinmetz, Marita Cross, Anthony D. Woolf, and Tiffany K. Gill.

Their work has been published in a variety of venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • The Lancet Rheumatology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Australian Health Review
  • Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
  • Pediatric Anesthesia

Best Publications

  • Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Theo Vos;Rafael Lozano;Mohsen Naghavi

  • A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Stephen S. Lim;Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Goodarz Danaei

  • Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Mohsen Naghavi;Rafael Lozano

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Theo Vos;Ryan M. Barber;Brad Bell;Amelia Bertozzi-Villa

  • A systematic review of the global prevalence of low back pain

    Damian Hoy;Christopher Bain;Gail Williams;Lyn March

  • The global burden of low back pain: estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study

    Damian Hoy;Lyn March;Peter Brooks;Fiona Blyth

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H. Ross Anderson;Victoria F. Bachman

  • The Epidemiology of low back pain.

    D G Hoy;Peter Brooks;Fiona Blyth;Rachelle Buchbinder

  • Assessing risk of bias in prevalence studies: modification of an existing tool and evidence of interrater agreement

    Damian Hoy;Peter G Brooks;Anthony Woolf;Fiona Blyth

  • American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism Provisional Definition of Remission in Rheumatoid Arthritis for Clinical Trials

    David T. Felson;David T. Felson;Josef S. Smolen;George Wells;Bi Zhang

  • Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013 : quantifying the epidemiological transition

    Christopher J. L. Murray;Ryan M. Barber;Kyle J. Foreman;Ayse Abbasoglu Ozgoren

  • Common values in assessing health outcomes from disease and injury: disability weights measurement study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.

    Joshua A. Salomon;Theo Vos;Daniel R. Hogan;Michael Gagnon

  • Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs--differences and similarities.

    Peter M. Brooks;Richard O. Day

  • Recommendations for a core set of outcome measures for future Phase III clinical trials in knee, hip, and hand osteoarthritis. Consensus development at OMERACT III

    Nicholas Bellamy;John Kirwan;Maarten Boers;Peter Brooks

  • The OMERACT filter for Outcome Measures in Rheumatology.

    M Boers;P Brooks;C V Strand;P Tugwell

  • Developing Core Outcome Measurement Sets for Clinical Trials: OMERACT Filter 2.0

    Maarten Boers;John R. Kirwan;George Wells;Dorcas Beaton

  • The burden of musculoskeletal disease--a global perspective.

    Peter M. Brooks

  • Mobilisation with movement and exercise, corticosteroid injection, or wait and see for tennis elbow: randomised trial

    Leanne Margaret Bisset;Elaine Beller;Gwendolen Jull;Peter Brooks

  • Common values in assessing health outcomes from disease and injury: Disability weights measurement study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    J.A. Salomon;T. Vos;D.R. Hogan;M. Gagnon

Frequent Co-Authors

Lyn March
Lyn March University of Sydney
Peter Tugwell
Peter Tugwell University of Ottawa
Maarten Boers
Maarten Boers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Richard O. Day
Richard O. Day University of New South Wales
Vibeke Strand
Vibeke Strand Stanford University
Fiona M. Blyth
Fiona M. Blyth University of Sydney
Rachelle Buchbinder
Rachelle Buchbinder Monash University
Anthony D. Woolf
Anthony D. Woolf Royal Cornwall Hospital
Theo Vos
Theo Vos Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Jasvinder A. Singh
Jasvinder A. Singh Veterans Health Administration

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