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Richard Ashcroft is affiliated with Queen Mary University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on fields related to medicine and health professions, with 24 publications in Medicine and 11 in Health Professions. Within these areas, Ashcroft has contributed extensively to several subfields including General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Applied Psychology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's work spans a variety of topics, with a notable emphasis on pregnancy and preeclampsia studies, assisted reproductive technology and twin pregnancy, as well as prenatal screening and diagnostics. Additional focus areas include health literacy and information accessibility, patient-provider communication in healthcare, digital mental health interventions, and the use of social media in health education.

Ashcroft has numerous publications in respected journals and venues. Frequent publication outlets include BMJ Open, where they have five published papers, BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology with two papers, the International Encyclopedia of Ethics also featuring two publications, and Developing World Bioethics and Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd, both with two publications each.

The following are some of the recent papers associated with Ashcroft's research:

  • 'Better off, as judged by themselves': do people support nudges as a method to change their own behavior? (2020) in Behavioural Public Policy
  • Understanding decision making about major surgery: protocol for a qualitative study of shared decision making by high-risk patients and their clinical teams (2020) in BMJ Open
  • Improving Development of Drug Treatments for Pregnant Women and the Fetus (2022) in Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory Science
  • International Research Ethics (2024) in International Encyclopedia of Ethics
  • Diagnosis and management of selective fetal growth restriction in monochorionic twin pregnancies: A cross-sectional international survey (2024) in BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Collaboration is an important aspect of Ashcroft's research practice. Frequent co-authors include Smriti Prasad, Asma Khalil, Kerry Woolfall, Chris Griffiths, and Andrew Sharp, each having collaborated on multiple publications.

Best Publications

  • An open letter to The BMJ editors on qualitative research

    Trisha Greenhalgh;Ellen Annandale;Richard Ashcroft;James Barlow

  • Using financial incentives to achieve healthy behaviour

    Theresa M Marteau;Richard E Ashcroft;Adam Oliver

  • Epistemologic Inquiries in Evidence-Based Medicine

    Benjamin Djulbegovic;Gordon H. Guyatt;Richard E. Ashcroft

  • Principles of health care ethics

    Richard E. Ashcroft;Angus Dawson;Heather Draper

  • Beyond "misunderstanding": written information and decisions about taking part in a genetic epidemiology study.

    Mary Dixon-Woods;Richard E. Ashcroft;Clare J. Jackson;Martin D. Tobin

  • Current epistemological problems in evidence based medicine

    Richard E. Ashcroft

  • Nudge: Concept, Effectiveness, and Ethics

    Yiling Lin;Magda Osman;Richard Ashcroft

  • Drug-related mortality and fatal overdose risk: pilot cohort study of heroin users recruited from specialist drug treatment sites in London.

    Matthew Hickman;Zenobia Carnwath;Peter Madden;Michael Farrell

  • International research ethics.

    Udo Schücklenk;Richard Ashcroft

  • The ethics of mandatory vaccination against influenza for health care workers.

    J.J.M. van Delden;R. Ashcroft;A. Dawson;G. Marckmann

  • Genomics and world health; Redesigning humans — our inevitable genetic future.

    Richard Ashcroft

  • Cohort Profile: East London Genes & Health (ELGH), a community-based population genomics and health study in British Bangladeshi and British Pakistani people.

    Sarah Finer;Hilary C Martin;Ahsan Khan;Karen A Hunt

  • The Standardization of Race and Ethnicity in Biomedical Science Editorials and UK Biobanks

    Andrew Smart;Richard Tutton;Paul Martin;George T.H. Ellison

  • Equipoise, knowledge and ethics in clinical research and practice.

    Richard Ashcroft

  • Why National eHealth Programs Need Dead Philosophers: Wittgensteinian Reflections on Policymakers' Reluctance to Learn from History

    Trisha Greenhalgh;Jill Russell;Richard E. Ashcroft;Wayne Parsons

  • Fair Process and the Redundancy of Bioethics: A Polemic

    Richard Ashcroft

  • Making sense of dignity.

    Richard E Ashcroft

  • Affordable access to essential medication in developing countries: conflicts between ethical and economic imperatives.

    Udo Schüklenk;Richard E. Ashcroft

  • Acceptability of financial incentives to improve health outcomes in UK and US samples

    Marianne Promberger;Rebecca C H Brown;Richard E Ashcroft;Theresa M Marteau

  • Conducting research with children: the limits of confidentiality and child protection protocols

    Emma Williamson;Trudy Goodenough;Julie Kent;Richard Ashcroft

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary Dixon-Woods
Mary Dixon-Woods University of Cambridge
Clive Seale
Clive Seale Brunel University London
Theresa M. Marteau
Theresa M. Marteau University of Cambridge
Daniel G. MacArthur
Daniel G. MacArthur Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Alan Bryman
Alan Bryman University of Leicester
Trisha Greenhalgh
Trisha Greenhalgh University of Oxford
Guy Widdershoven
Guy Widdershoven University of Amsterdam
Richard C. Trembath
Richard C. Trembath King's College London
David A. van Heel
David A. van Heel Queen Mary University of London

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