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Richard J. Lilford is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with a significant focus on General Health Professions, Infectious Diseases, and Emergency Medicine. Additional areas of study include Economics and Econometrics as well as Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health.

The scientist's work encompasses diverse topics related to global health, including Global Maternal and Child Health, Child Nutrition and Water Access, Emergency and Acute Care Studies, Healthcare Policy and Management, Leprosy Research and Treatment, Primary Care and Health Outcomes, and Healthcare cost, quality, and practices.

Frequent collaborators in Richard J. Lilford's research include Sam Watson, Jo Sartori, Frances Griffiths, Yen-Fu Chen, and Paramjit Gill. These partnerships have contributed to a substantial body of shared work over many publications.

Richard J. Lilford has published extensively in various academic venues. Among the most recurrent publication sites are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), BMJ Quality & Safety, The Lancet Global Health, http://isrctn.com/, and BMJ Open.

Some recent publications from this scientist include:

  • Impact of the societal response to COVID-19 on access to healthcare for non-COVID-19 health issues in slum communities of Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria and Pakistan: results of pre-COVID and COVID-19 lockdown stakeholder engagements, 2020, BMJ Global Health
  • Local response in health emergencies: key considerations for addressing the COVID-19 pandemic in informal urban settlements, 2020, Environment and Urbanization
  • Global variation in postoperative mortality and complications after cancer surgery: a multicentre, prospective cohort study in 82 countries, 2021, The Lancet
  • Emergency ambulance services for heart attack and stroke during UK's COVID-19 lockdown, 2020, The Lancet
  • Impact of malnutrition on early outcomes after cancer surgery: an international, multicentre, prospective cohort study, 2023, The Lancet Global Health

Best Publications

  • The stepped wedge cluster randomised trial: rationale, design, analysis, and reporting

    Karla Hemming;Terrence Peter Haines;Peter J Chilton;Alan John Girling

  • The stepped wedge trial design: a systematic review

    Celia A Brown;Richard J Lilford

  • The eVALuate study: two parallel randomised trials, one comparing laparoscopic with abdominal hysterectomy, the other comparing laparoscopic with vaginal hysterectomy.

    Ray Garry;Jayne Fountain;Su Mason;Jeremy Hawe

  • The systemic immune response to trauma: an overview of pathophysiology and treatment.

    Janet M Lord;Mark J Midwinter;Yen-Fu Chen;Yen-Fu Chen;Antonio Belli

  • The history, geography, and sociology of slums and the health problems of people who live in slums

    Alex Ezeh;Oyinlola Oyebode;David Satterthwaite;Yen Fu Chen

  • Are randomized clinical trials good for us (in the short term)? Evidence for a "trial effect".

    David A. Braunholtz;Sarah J.L. Edwards;Richard J. Lilford

  • Use and misuse of process and outcome data in managing performance of acute medical care: avoiding institutional stigma

    Richard Lilford;Mohammed A Mohammed;David Spiegelhalter;Richard Thomson

  • Reporting of stepped wedge cluster randomised trials: extension of the CONSORT 2010 statement with explanation and elaboration

    Karla Hemming;Monica Taljaard;Monica Taljaard;Joanne E McKenzie;Richard Hooper

  • Ethical issues in the design and conduct of cluster randomised controlled trials

    Sarah J L Edwards;David A Braunholtz;Richard J Lilford;Andrew J Stevens

  • A systematic review of tests of empathy in medicine.

    Joanne M Hemmerdinger;Samuel D R Stoddart;Richard J Lilford

  • The Top Patient Safety Strategies That Can Be Encouraged for Adoption Now

    Paul G. Shekelle;Peter J. Pronovost;Robert M. Wachter;Kathryn M. McDonald

  • Global burden of postoperative death

    Dmitri Nepogodiev;Janet Martin;Bruce Biccard;Alex Makupe

  • Impact of the societal response to COVID-19 on access to healthcare for non-COVID-19 health issues in slum communities of Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria and Pakistan: results of pre-COVID and COVID-19 lockdown stakeholder engagements.

    Syed A K Shifat Ahmed;Motunrayo Ajisola;Motunrayo Ajisola;Kehkashan Azeem;Pauline Bakibinga

  • Use of traditional medicine in middle-income countries: a WHO-SAGE study

    Oyinlola Oyebode;Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala;Peter J Chilton;Richard J Lilford

  • Presence and severity of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in a large prospective primary care cohort.

    Matthew J. Armstrong;Diarmaid D. Houlihan;Diarmaid D. Houlihan;Louise Bentham;Jean C. Shaw

  • Effects of redesigned community postnatal care on womens' health 4 months after birth: a cluster randomised controlled trial

    Christine MacArthur;Heather Winter;Debra Bick;H Knowles

  • Improving the health and welfare of people who live in slums.

    Richard J Lilford;Oyinlola Oyebode;David Satterthwaite;G J Melendez-Torres

  • Using hospital mortality rates to judge hospital performance: a bad idea that just won’t go away

    Richard Lilford;Peter Pronovost

  • Sample size calculations for cluster randomised controlled trials with a fixed number of clusters

    Karla Hemming;Alan J Girling;Alice J Sitch;Jennifer Marsh

  • EVALUATE hysterectomy trial: a multicentre randomised trial comparing abdominal, vaginal and laparoscopic methods of hysterectomy.

    Raymond Garry;J. Fountain;J. Brown;A. Manca

Frequent Co-Authors

Steve Halligan
Steve Halligan University College London
Jane Wardle
Jane Wardle University College London
Timothy P. Hofer
Timothy P. Hofer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Frances Griffiths
Frances Griffiths University of Warwick
Russell Mannion
Russell Mannion University of Birmingham
Mary Dixon-Woods
Mary Dixon-Woods University of Cambridge
Khalid S. Khan
Khalid S. Khan University of Granada
Olalekan A. Uthman
Olalekan A. Uthman University of Warwick
Jon Nicholl
Jon Nicholl University of Sheffield
Judith N. Bulmer
Judith N. Bulmer Newcastle University

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