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Overview

Vikki Entwistle is affiliated with the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Health Professions and Medicine, with a strong focus on subfields such as General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Philosophy, Economics and Econometrics, and Clinical Psychology.

The scientist's work covers several key topics, including:

  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Patient Dignity and Privacy
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Healthcare cost, quality, practices
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health

They have contributed to multiple recent academic papers. Notable publications include:

  • "What, how, when and who of trial results summaries for trial participants: stakeholder-informed guidance from the RECAP project," 2022, BMJ Open
  • "Vagueness and variety in person-centred care," 2022, Wellcome Open Research
  • "Some Unresolved Ethical Challenges in Healthcare Decision-Making: Navigating Family Involvement," 2020, Asian Bioethics Review
  • "Providing trial results to participants in phase III pragmatic effectiveness RCTs: a scoping review," 2021, Trials
  • "Talking it better: conversations and normative complexity in healthcare improvement," 2021, Medical Humanities

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Vikki Entwistle include:

  • Alan Cribb
  • Polly Mitchell
  • Marion Campbell
  • Katie Gillies
  • Sharon McCann

The scientist's work has appeared repeatedly in several academic publication venues. These include:

  • Journal of Medical Ethics
  • BMC Primary Care
  • Mortality
  • BMJ Open
  • Wellcome Open Research

In addition to journal publications, Vikki Entwistle has authored at least one book, Values and Ethics, published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.

Best Publications

  • What is an adequate sample size? Operationalising data saturation for theory-based interview studies

    Jill J Francis;Marie Johnston;Clare Robertson;Liz Glidewell

  • Developing a quality criteria framework for patient decision aids: online international Delphi consensus process

    Glyn Elwyn;Annette O'Connor;Dawn Stacey;Robert Volk

  • What influences recruitment to randomised controlled trials? A review of trials funded by two UK funding agencies.

    Alison Mary McDonald;Rosemary C. Knight;Marion Kay Campbell;Vikki Entwistle

  • Decision aids for patients facing health treatment or screening decisions: systematic review

    Annette M O'Connor;Alaa Rostom;Valerie Fiset;Jacqueline Tetroe

  • Sharing decisions with patients: is the information good enough?

    Angela Coulter;Vikki Entwistle;David Gilbert

  • Personalised care planning for adults with chronic or long-term health conditions

    Angela Coulter;Vikki A Entwistle;Abi Eccles;Sara Ryan

  • Supporting Patient Autonomy: The Importance of Clinician-patient Relationships

    Vikki A. Entwistle;Stacy M. Carter;Alan Cribb;Kirsten McCaffery

  • Recruitment to randomised trials: strategies for trial enrolment and participation study. The STEPS study

    Marion Kay Campbell;Claire Snowdon;David Francis;Diana R. Elbourne

  • Lay perspectives: advantages for health research

    Vikki A Entwistle;Mary J Renfrew;Steven Yearley;John Forrester

  • Treating patients as persons: a capabilities approach to support delivery of person-centered care

    Vikki A. Entwistle;Ian S. Watt

  • Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions.

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  • Patient involvement in treatment decision-making: the case for a broader conceptual framework.

    Vikki A. Entwistle;Ian S. Watt

  • Do patient decision aids meet effectiveness criteria of the international patient decision aid standards collaboration? A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Annette M O'Connor;Carol Bennett;Dawn Stacey;Michael J Barry

  • Reasons for participating in randomised controlled trials: conditional altruism and considerations for self.

    Sharon Katrina McCann;Marion Kay Campbell;Vikki Ann Entwistle

  • Informing patients : an assessment of the quality of patient information materials

    Angela Coulter;Vikki Entwistle;David Gilbert

  • Three questions that patients can ask to improve the quality of information physicians give about treatment options: a cross-over trial

    Heather L. Shepherd;Heather L. Shepherd;Alexandra Barratt;Lyndal J. Trevena;Kevin McGeechan

  • Evidence-informed patient choice : Practical issues of involving patients in decisions about health care technologies

    Vikki A. Entwistle;Trevor A. Sheldon;Amanda Sowden;Ian S. Watt

  • Rationalising the 'irrational': a think aloud study of discrete choice experiment responses.

    Mandy Ryan;Verity Watson;Vikki Entwistle

  • Reporting research in medical journals and newspapers

    Vikki Entwistle

  • Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of arthroscopic lavage in the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee: a mixed methods study of the feasibility of conducting a surgical placebo-controlled trial (the KORAL study).

    Marion Kay Campbell;Zoe Christina Skea;Alasdair George Sutherland;Brian Cuthbertson

  • Health in the 'hidden population' of people with low literacy. A systematic review of the literature

    Phyllis Easton;Vikki A Entwistle;Brian Williams

  • How the stigma of low literacy can impair patient-professional spoken interactions and affect health: insights from a qualitative investigation

    Phyllis Easton;Vikki A Entwistle;Brian Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Stacy M Carter
Stacy M Carter University of Wollongong
Amanda Sowden
Amanda Sowden University of York
Rick Iedema
Rick Iedema King's College London
David J. Roberts
David J. Roberts University of Oxford
Wendy A. Rogers
Wendy A. Rogers University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Brian Williams
Brian Williams Edinburgh Napier University
Marie Johnston
Marie Johnston University of Aberdeen
Kirsten McCaffery
Kirsten McCaffery University of Sydney
Sally Wyke
Sally Wyke University of Glasgow
Phyllis Butow
Phyllis Butow University of Sydney

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