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Peter Croft is affiliated with Keele University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Medicine, with a focus on subfields such as Epidemiology, General Health Professions, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Infectious Diseases, and Neurology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including:

  • Chronic Disease Management Strategies
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life

Frequent publication venues for Peter Croft's research include:

  • Pain
  • Occupational Medicine
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Wellcome Open Research
  • British Journal of General Practice

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Peter Croft are:

  • "Stratified health care for low back pain using the STarT Back approach: holy grail or doomed to fail?", 2024, Pain
  • "Chronic pain in patients with inflammatory bowel disease", 2021, Pain
  • "Assessment of workers' personal vulnerability to covid-19 using 'covid-age'", 2020, Occupational Medicine
  • "Long-term trajectories of chronic musculoskeletal pain: a 21-year prospective cohort latent class analysis", 2020, Pain
  • "Assessment of Workers' Personal Vulnerability to COVID-19 Using "COVID-AGE"", 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Kelvin P. Jordan
  • David Coggon
  • Paul Cullinan
  • Anthony Williams
  • Paul Campbell

Best Publications

  • What low back pain is and why we need to pay attention

    Jan Hartvigsen;Mark J Hancock;Alice Kongsted;Quinette Louw

  • OARSI recommendations for the management of hip and knee osteoarthritis, Part II: OARSI evidence-based, expert consensus guidelines

    W Zhang;R W Moskowitz;G Nuki;S Abramson

  • Prevention and treatment of low back pain: evidence, challenges, and promising directions.

    Nadine E Foster;Johannes R Anema;Dan Cherkin;Roger Chou

  • Interpreting change scores for pain and functional status in low back pain: towards international consensus regarding minimal important change.

    Raymond W. J. G. Ostelo;Rick A. Deyo;P Stratford;Gordon Waddell

  • Knee pain and osteoarthritis in older adults: a review of community burden and current use of primary health care

    G Peat;R McCarney;P Croft

  • Outcome measures for low back pain research. A proposal for standardized use.

    Richard A. Deyo;Michele Battie;A. J. H. M. Beurskens;Claire Bombardier

  • OARSI recommendations for the management of hip and knee osteoarthritis: part III: Changes in evidence following systematic cumulative update of research published through January 2009

    W Zhang;G Nuki;R W Moskowitz;S Abramson

  • Low back pain: a call for action

    Rachelle Buchbinder;Maurits van Tulder;Birgitta Öberg;Lucíola Menezes Costa

  • Prevalence of chronic pain in the UK: a systematic review and meta-analysis of population studies

    A Fayaz;P Croft;R M Langford;L J Donaldson

  • The discordance between clinical and radiographic knee osteoarthritis: A systematic search and summary of the literature

    John Bedson;Peter R Croft

  • Outcome of low back pain in general practice: a prospective study

    Peter R Croft;Gary J Macfarlane;Ann C Papageorgiou;Elaine Thomas

  • A consensus approach toward the standardization of back pain definitions for use in prevalence studies

    Clermont E. Dionne;Kate M. Dunn;Peter R. Croft;Alf L. Nachemson

  • OARSI recommendations for the management of hip and knee osteoarthritis, part I: critical appraisal of existing treatment guidelines and systematic review of current research evidence.

    W Zhang;R W Moskowitz;G Nuki;S Abramson

  • Epidemiology of insomnia: a longitudinal study in a UK population.

    Hannah Morphy;Kate M Dunn;Martyn Lewis;Helen F Boardman

  • The prevalence of chronic widespread pain in the general population.

    P Croft;A S Rigby;R Boswell;J Schollum

  • Predicting who develops chronic low back pain in primary care: a prospective study

    Elaine Thomas;Alan J Silman;Peter R Croft;Ann C Papageorgiou

  • The prevalence of pain and pain interference in a general population of older adults: cross-sectional findings from the North Staffordshire Osteoarthritis Project (NorStOP)

    Elaine Thomas;George Peat;Lindsey Harris;Ross Wilkie

  • Prognosis research strategy (PROGRESS) 1: A framework for researching clinical outcomes

    Harry Hemingway;Peter Croft;Pablo Perel;Jill A Hayden

  • Knee osteoarthritis and obesity.

    D. Coggon;I. Reading;P. Croft;M. McLaren

  • Risk factors for neck pain: a longitudinal study in the general population.

    Peter R. Croft;Martyn Lewis;Ann C. Papageorgiou;Elaine Thomas

Frequent Co-Authors

Elaine Thomas
Elaine Thomas Keele University
Alan J. Silman
Alan J. Silman University of Oxford
Elaine M. Hay
Elaine M. Hay Keele University
Gary J. Macfarlane
Gary J. Macfarlane University of Aberdeen
Cyrus Cooper
Cyrus Cooper University of Southampton
David Coggon
David Coggon University of Southampton
Nadine E. Foster
Nadine E. Foster University of Queensland
Maurits W. van Tulder
Maurits W. van Tulder Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Lex M. Bouter
Lex M. Bouter Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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