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Robin J. Prescott is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of medicine, with numerous contributions to psychiatry and mental health, biomedical engineering, emergency medicine, clinical psychology, and genetics.

The main topics of their work include cerebral palsy and movement disorders, lower extremity biomechanics and pathologies, family and disability support research, foot and ankle surgery, cardiac arrest and resuscitation, trauma and emergency care studies, and spinal dysraphism and malformations.

The scientist has published articles in various venues, with multiple papers appearing in Bone & Joint Open, Gait & Posture, Resuscitation, Journal of Children's Orthopaedics, and Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

Frequent co-authors of Prescott include Julie Stebbins, Tim Theologis, Jennifer McCahill, Jaap Harlaar, and Tomos Edwards.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Robin J. Prescott are:

  • What is the functional mobility and quality of life in patients with cerebral palsy following single-event multilevel surgery?, 2020, Journal of Children's Orthopaedics
  • Genome-Wide Methylation Profiling in 229 Patients With Crohn's Disease Requiring Intestinal Resection: Epigenetic Analysis of the Trial of Prevention of Post-operative Crohn's Disease (TOPPIC), 2023, Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • Foot function during gait and parental perceived outcome in older children with symptomatic club foot deformity, 2020, Bone & Joint Open
  • A comparison of conventional and minimally invasive multilevel surgery for children with diplegic cerebral palsy, 2020, The Bone & Joint Journal
  • Reliability testing of the heel marker in three-dimensional gait analysis, 2021, Gait & Posture

Best Publications

  • Prospective Study of Heart Rate Variability and Mortality in Chronic Heart Failure Results of the United Kingdom Heart Failure Evaluation and Assessment of Risk Trial (UK-Heart)

    James Nolan;Phillip D. Batin;Richard Andrews;Steven J. Lindsay

  • A randomized trial of intensive lipid-lowering therapy in calcific aortic stenosis.

    S. Joanna Cowell;David E. Newby;Robin J. Prescott;Peter Bloomfield

  • The prevention of progression of arterial disease and diabetes (POPADAD) trial: factorial randomised placebo controlled trial of aspirin and antioxidants in patients with diabetes and asymptomatic peripheral arterial disease

    Jill Belch;Angus MacCuish;Iain Campbell;Stuart Cobbe

  • Barriers to participation in randomised controlled trials: a systematic review.

    Sue Ross;Adrian Grant;Carl Counsell;William Gillespie

  • Smoking, Lipids, Glucose Intolerance, and Blood Pressure as Risk Factors for Peripheral Atherosclerosis Compared with Ischemic Heart Disease in the Edinburgh Artery Study

    Fowkes Fg;Housley E;Riemersma Ra;Macintyre Cc

  • CONTROLLED TRIAL OF SOTALOL FOR ONE YEAR AFTER MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

    D.G. Julian;D.G. Julian;F.S. Jackson;F.S. Jackson;R.J. Prescott;R.J. Prescott;P. Szekely;P. Szekely

  • 14 years of follow-up from the Edinburgh randomised trial of breast-cancer screening

    F E Alexander;T J Anderson;H K Brown;A P M Forrest

  • Edinburgh trial of screening for breast cancer: mortality at seven years.

    A. Huggins;B.B. Muir;P.T. Donnan;W. Hepburn

  • Randomised controlled trial of conservation therapy for breast cancer: 6-year analysis of the Scottish trial

    A Patrick Forrest;Helen J Stewart;Dawn Everington;Robin J Prescott

  • The prevalence of diabetic impotence.

    D. K. McCulloch;I. W. Campbell;F. C. Wu;R. J. Prescott

  • A pharmacist-led information technology intervention for medication errors (PINCER): a multicentre, cluster randomised, controlled trial and cost-effectiveness analysis

    Anthony J Avery;Sarah Rodgers;Judith A Cantrill;Sarah Armstrong

  • Applied Mixed Models in Medicine: Brown/Applied Mixed Models in Medicine, 2nd Edition

    Helen Brown;Robin Prescott

  • Systematic review of misdiagnosis of conversion symptoms and “hysteria”

    Jon Stone;Roger Smyth;Alan Carson;Steff Lewis

  • Factors that limit the quality, number and progress of randomised controlled trials

    Prescott Rj;Counsell Ce;Gillespie Wj;Grant Am

  • British Thoracic Society Sarcoidosis study: effects of long term corticosteroid treatment.

    G. J. Gibson;R. J. Prescott;M. F. Muers;W. G. Middleton

  • Does the storage time of transfused red blood cells influence regional or global indexes of tissue oxygenation in anemic critically ill patients

    Timothy S. Walsh;Fiona McArdle;Stuart A. McLellan;Caroline Maciver

  • Predicting the outcome of severe ulcerative colitis: development of a novel risk score to aid early selection of patients for second-line medical therapy or surgery

    G. T. Ho;C. Mowat;C. J. R. Goddard;J. M. Fennell

  • Familial Hypercholesterolaemia Regression Study: a randomised trial of low-density-lipoprotein apheresis

    G.R. Thompson;V.M.G. Maher;Y. Kitano;C. Neuwirth

  • The ROSE (Risk Stratification of Syncope in the Emergency Department) Study

    Matthew J. Reed;David E. Newby;Andrew J. Coull;Robin J. Prescott

  • Predicting death due to progressive heart failure in patients with mild-to-moderate chronic heart failure

    Mark T Kearney;Keith A.A Fox;Amanda J Lee;Robin J Prescott

Frequent Co-Authors

Amanda J. Lee
Amanda J. Lee University of Aberdeen
Aziz Sheikh
Aziz Sheikh University of Oxford
Keith A.A. Fox
Keith A.A. Fox University of Edinburgh
John Cairns
John Cairns London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Peter T. Donnan
Peter T. Donnan University of Dundee
Ajay M. Shah
Ajay M. Shah King's College London
David E. Newby
David E. Newby University of Edinburgh
Jack Satsangi
Jack Satsangi University of Oxford
Kathrin Cresswell
Kathrin Cresswell University of Edinburgh
Jian-Hua Mao
Jian-Hua Mao Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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