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Overview

Peter Littlejohns is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and has contributed to research primarily within the field of Health Professions, with a focus on General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Epidemiology, Emergency Medicine, and Speech and Hearing.

Their research covers a range of topics, including Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Healthcare Cost, Quality, Practices, Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections, Mental Health and Patient Involvement, Healthcare Systems and Challenges, Employment and Welfare Studies, and Emergency and Acute Care Studies.

Frequent coauthors in Peter Littlejohns's research include:

  • Albert Weale
  • Toslima Khatun
  • Jacqueline Johnson
  • David J. Hunter

Key publication venues where Peter Littlejohns has contributed multiple works are:

  • Policy Press eBooks
  • Infection
  • Health Economics Policy and Law
  • The Lancet Public Health
  • Frontiers in Health Services

Their recent papers include the following:

  • "Reforming the public health system in England," 2022, The Lancet Public Health
  • "Respiratory tract infection-related healthcare utilisation in children with Down's syndrome," 2020, Infection
  • "What interventions should we implement in England's mental health services? The mental health implementation network (MHIN) mixed-methods approach to rapid prioritisation," 2023, Frontiers in Health Services
  • "Public health by organizational fix?," 2023, Health Economics Policy and Law
  • "Public health is in crisis, but it can be fixed," 2024, BMJ

In terms of book publications, Peter Littlejohns has authored multiple editions of "Making Health Public" mainly published by Policy Press during 2023, with an additional edition published by Bristol University Press eBooks.

Best Publications

  • AGREE II: advancing guideline development, reporting and evaluation in health care

    Melissa C. Brouwers;Michelle E. Kho;George P. Browman;Jako S. Burgers

  • No surgical innovation without evaluation: the IDEAL recommendations.

    Peter McCulloch;Douglas G Altman;W Bruce Campbell;David R Flum

  • GRIPP2 reporting checklists: tools to improve reporting of patient and public involvement in research

    Sophie Staniszewska;Jo Brett;I. Simera;Kate Seers

  • Influence of delay on survival in patients with breast cancer: a systematic review

    MA Richards;AM Westcombe;SB Love;P Littlejohns

  • AGREE II: advancing guideline development, reporting and evaluation in health care.

    Melissa C Brouwers;Michelle E Kho;George P Browman;Jako S Burgers

  • Evaluating computerised health information systems: hard lessons still to be learnt

    Peter Littlejohns;Jeremy C Wyatt;Linda Garvican

  • Factors predicting delayed presentation of symptomatic breast cancer: a systematic review.

    AJ Ramirez;AM Westcombe;CC Burgess;S Sutton

  • Probability of an obese person attaining normal body weight: Cohort study using electronic health records

    Alison Fildes;Judith Charlton;Caroline Rudisill;Peter Littlejohns

  • Development and application of a generic methodology to assess the quality of clinical guidelines.

    Francoise A. Cluzeau;Peter Littlejohns;Jeremy M. Grimshaw;Gene Feder

  • Levers for addressing medical underuse and overuse: achieving high-value health care

    Adam G Elshaug;Meredith B Rosenthal;John N Lavis;John N Lavis;Shannon Brownlee

  • NICE clinical guidelines: maybe health economists should participate in guideline development.

    Peter Littlejohns;Gillian Leng;Tony Culyer;Mike Drummond

  • Newborn screening for inborn errors of metabolism: a systematic review.

    Seymour Ca;Thomason Mj;Chalmers Ra;Addison Gm

  • A collaboratively-derived science-policy research agenda

    William J. Sutherland;Laura Bellingan;Jim R. Bellingham;Jason J. Blackstock;Jason J. Blackstock

  • Disinvestment from low value clinical interventions: NICEly done?

    Sarah Garner;Peter Littlejohns

  • Cumulative risk adjusted mortality chart for detecting changes in death rate: observational study of heart surgery

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  • Guidance on priority setting in health care (GPS-Health): The inclusion of equity criteria not captured by cost-effectiveness analysis

    Ole Frithjof Norheim;Rob Baltussen;Mira Johri;Dan Chisholm

  • Implementing Evidence-Based Practice: Factors That Influence the Use of Research Evidence by Occupational Therapists:

    Debra Humphris;Peter Littlejohns;Christina Victor;Paul O'halloran

  • Identifying existing health care services that do not provide value for money

    Adam G Elshaug;John R Moss;Peter Littlejohns;Jonathan Karnon

  • The Global Rating Scale complements the AGREE II in advancing the quality of practice guidelines.

    Melissa C. Brouwers;Melissa C. Brouwers;Michelle E. Kho;George P. Browman;Jako S. Burgers

  • Economic evaluation of a primary care-based education programme for patients with osteoarthritis of the knee.

    J. Lord;C. Victor;P. Littlejohns;F.M. Ross

  • Relation between a career and family life for English hospital consultants: qualitative, semistructured interview study.

    Carol Dumelow;Peter Littlejohns;Sîan Griffiths

  • ProbabilityofanObesePersonAttainingNormalBody Weight:CohortStudyUsingElectronicHealthRecords

    Alison Fildes;Judith Charlton;Caroline Rudisill;Peter Littlejohns

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Ashworth
Mark Ashworth King's College London
Elizabeth Kendall
Elizabeth Kendall Griffith University
James F. Wilson
James F. Wilson University of Edinburgh
Julie Ratcliffe
Julie Ratcliffe Flinders University
Ole Frithjof Norheim
Ole Frithjof Norheim University of Bergen
Adam G. Elshaug
Adam G. Elshaug University of Melbourne
Richard Cookson
Richard Cookson University of York
Christina R. Victor
Christina R. Victor Brunel University London
Sarah Hawkes
Sarah Hawkes University College London
John N. Lavis
John N. Lavis McMaster University

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