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Economics and Finance
UK
2024

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Economics and Finance

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75
Citations
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World Ranking
352
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Peter C. Smith is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans across several fields, primarily focusing on health professions, economics, econometrics and finance, and medicine.

Their work includes contributions in main fields of study such as:

  • Health Professions
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Medicine

Within these broader fields, Peter C. Smith's research has extended into more specific subfields, including:

  • General Health Professions
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Finance
  • Pharmacology
  • Pharmacy

Their published work covers a range of main topics related to healthcare and economic evaluation:

  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms
  • Pharmacology and Obesity Treatment

Peter C. Smith has published in several academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • The Lancet
  • BMJ
  • Health Economics
  • Frontiers in Medicine
  • Automation in Construction

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Peter C. Smith include:

  • Computer vision-based interior construction progress monitoring: A literature review and future research directions, 2021, Automation in Construction
  • Work as a social determinant of health in high-income countries: past, present, and future, 2023, The Lancet
  • LSE-Lancet Commission on the future of the NHS: re-laying the foundations for an equitable and efficient health and care service after COVID-19, 2021, The Lancet
  • Lessons Learned During COVID-19 That Can Move Telehealth in Primary Care Forward, 2021, The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
  • Prevention of non-communicable disease: best buys, wasted buys, and contestable buys, 2020, BMJ

Frequent collaborators in Peter C. Smith's research include:

  • David Haw
  • Giovanni Forchini
  • Katharina Hauck
  • Finn McGuire
  • Leigh Perreault

Best Publications

  • What works?Evidence-based policy and practice in public services

    Huw T.O. Davies;Sandra M. Nutley;Peter C. Smith

  • Methods for the estimation of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence cost-effectiveness threshold

    Karl Philip Claxton;Stephen Martin;Marta O Soares;Nigel Rice

  • On the unintended consequences of publishing performance data in the public sector

    Peter Smith

  • Equity of access to health care services: theory and evidence from the UK.

    Maria Goddard;Peter Smith

  • Performance measurement for health system improvement : experiences, challenges and prospects

    Peter C. Smith;Elias Mossialos;Irene Papanicolas;Sheila Leatherman;Sheila Leatherman

  • Measurement of health-related quality of life for people with dementia: development of a new instrument (DEMQOL) and an evaluation of current methodology.

    S C Smith;D L Lamping;S Banerjee;R Harwood

  • Measuring Efficiency in Health Care: Analytic Techniques and Health Policy

    Rowena Jacobs;Peter C. Smith;Andrew Street

  • Technologies for global health

    Peter Howitt;Ara Darzi;Guang-Zhong Yang;Hutan Ashrafian

  • Does progress towards universal health coverage improve population health

    Rodrigo Moreno-Serra;Peter C Smith

  • Performance Indicators: Good, Bad, and Ugly

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  • Outcome‐related Performance Indicators and Organizational Control in the Public Sector1

    Peter Smith

  • Public reporting on quality in the United States and the United Kingdom.

    Martin N. Marshall;Paul G. Shekelle;Huw T.O. Davies;Peter C. Smith

  • Model misspecification in Data Envelopment Analysis

    Peter Smith

  • On the Role of Weight Restrictions in Data Envelopment Analysis

    Francisco Pedraja-Chaparro;Javier Salinas-Jimenez;Peter Smith

  • Use of ratios in data envelopment analysis

    Bruce Phillip Hollingsworth;Peter Smith

  • Rationing by waiting lists: an empirical investigation

    Stephen Martin;Peter C. Smith

  • Measuring efficiency in the public sector

    Peter Smith;David Mayston

  • Measuring the efficiency of public services: the limits of analysis

    Peter C. Smith;Andrew Street

  • Allocating resources to health authorities: development of method for small area analysis of use of inpatient services

    R A Carr-Hill;T A Sheldon;P Smith;S Martin

  • On the quality of the data envelopment analysis model

    Francisco Pedraja-Chaparro;Javier Salinas-Jiménez;Peter Smith

  • Does health care spending improve health outcomes? Evidence from English programme budgeting data.

    Stephen Martin;Nigel Rice;Peter C. Smith

  • Measuring efficiency in health care

    Rowena Jacobs;Peter C. Smith;Andrew Street

  • Performance Measurement for Health System Improvement

    Peter C. Smith;Elias Mossialos;Irene Papanicolas;Sheila Leatherman

  • Performance measurement for health system improvement: Targets and performance measurement

    Peter C. Smith;Elias Mossialos;Irene Papanicolas;Sheila Leatherman

  • Public Reporting on Quality in the United States and the United Kingdom: In Both Countries the Imperatives of Accountability and Quality Improvement Make the Wider Development and Implementation for Report Cards Inevitable

    Martin Marshall;Paul G. Shekelle;H. T O Davies;Peter C. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Nigel Rice
Nigel Rice University of York
Andrew Street
Andrew Street London School of Economics and Political Science
Nancy Devlin
Nancy Devlin University of Melbourne
Karl Claxton
Karl Claxton University of York
Hugh Gravelle
Hugh Gravelle University of York
Russell Mannion
Russell Mannion University of Birmingham
Elias Mossialos
Elias Mossialos London School of Economics and Political Science
Reinhard Busse
Reinhard Busse Technical University of Berlin
Huw Davies
Huw Davies University of St Andrews
John Wang
John Wang National University of Singapore

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