Professor
Peter
Bath
(he/him)
BSc (Technical) (University of Wales), MSc (Sheffield), PhD (Sheffield)
School of Information, Journalism and Communication
Professor of Health Informatics
Full contact details
Room C225
The Wave
- Profile
-
My first degree was a BSc. (Technical) in Applied Biology at the University of Wales (Cardiff). Following this, I undertook an MSc in Information Science at the University of Sheffield and this led to my PhD in Chemoinformatics at Sheffield.
- Research interests
-
My research involves analysing health and social care data to understand outcomes and care needs in specific groups, for example people with multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity).
I am working on the NIHR-funded RESHAPE-Care project, which is re-engineering health care services for people with Type 2 Diabetes and people with breathlessness using Digital Twins. I am the lead for developing the data infrastructure for the project and I am lead for the Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE).
I am working on another project, funded School for Social Care Research, that is examining the feasibility of linking and using routinely-collected adult social care (ASC) data with health (and other) data for research, service planning and policy making within ASC services.
My other research interests include the information needs and information behaviours of people with specific illnesses and their carers. I also undertake research evaluating information systems within health and social care settings.
- Publications
-
Show: Featured publications All publications
Featured publications
Journal articles
- The role of online groups for autistic people in users’ autism information journeys. Journal of Documentation. View this article in WRRO
- Accuracy of telephone triage for predicting adverse outcomes in suspected COVID-19: an observational cohort study. BMJ Quality and Safety, 33(6). View this article in WRRO
- Pre-hospital prediction of adverse outcomes in patients with suspected COVID-19 : development, application and comparison of machine learning and deep learning methods. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 151, Part A. View this article in WRRO
- Accuracy of emergency medical service telephone triage of need for an ambulance response in suspected COVID-19 : an observational cohort study. BMJ Open, 12(5). View this article in WRRO
- 965 Accuracy of emergency (999) telephone triage for predicting adverse outcomes in suspected COVID-19 : an observational cohort study. Emergency Medicine Journal, 39(3). View this article in WRRO
- Prognostic accuracy of triage tools for adults with suspected COVID-19 in a prehospital setting : an observational cohort study. Emergency Medicine Journal, 39, 317-324. View this article in WRRO
- Factors affecting general practitioners’ readiness to accept and use an electronic health record system in the Republic of North Macedonia: a national survey of general practitioners. JMIR Medical Informatics, 9(4).
- Physical activity and long-term survival in older men and women: A 21 year longitudinal study. Activities, Adaptation and Aging, 43(4), 294-314. View this article in WRRO
- Relational regularized risk prediction of acute coronary syndrome using electronic health records. Information Sciences, 465, 118-129. View this article in WRRO
- Sharing and empathy in digital spaces: qualitative study of online health forums for breast cancer and motor neuron disease. (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis). JMIR, 20(6). View this article in WRRO
- A ‘gold-centric’ implementation of open access: Hybrid journals, the ‘total cost of publication’ and policy development in the UK and beyond. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(9), 2248-2263. View this article in WRRO
- Development of Trust in an Online Breast Cancer Forum: A Qualitative Study
. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 19(5). View this article in WRRO
- Making sense of dementia: a phenomenographic study of the information behaviours of people diagnosed with dementia. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 69(3), 261-277. View this article in WRRO
- The 'total cost of publication' in a hybrid open-access environment: Institutional approaches to funding journal article-processing charges in combination with subscriptions. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 67(7), 1751-1766.
- Recording signs of deterioration in acute patients: The documentation of vital signs within electronic health records in patients who suffered in-hospital cardiac arrest.. Health Informatics J, 22(1), 21-33.
- On mining latent treatment patterns from electronic medical records. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 29(4), 914-949. View this article in WRRO
- Individual Factors Affecting Preferences for Feedback Message Tactics in the Contexts of Physical Activity. Journal of Health Communication, 20(2), 220-229.
- Open-access repositories worldwide, 2005-2012: Past growth, current characteristics, and future possibilities. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 65(12), 2404-2421.
- A structured judgement method to enhance mortality case note review: development and evaluation.. BMJ Quality & Safety, 22(12), 1032-1040.
- An assessment of the quality of information on stroke and speech and language difficulty web sites. Journal of Information Science, 39(1), 113-125.
- Information management and quality of palliative care in general practices: Secondary analysis of a UK study. Journal of Information Science, 39(1), 126-140.
- The association of geographical location and neighbourhood deprivation with older people's use of NHS direct: A population-based study. Age and Ageing, 42(1), 57-62.
- What factors influence emergency department staff attitudes towards using information technology?. Emergency Medicine Journal, 30(4), 303-307.
- Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for examining healthcare professionals' assessments of risk factors: The relative importance of risk factors for falls in community-dwelling older people. Methods of Information in Medicine, 50(5), 435-444.
- Older people's use of NHS Direct. Age and Ageing, 40(3), 335-340.
- Information overload and information poverty: Challenges for healthcare services managers?. Journal of Documentation, 67(2), 238-263.
- Objectively measured physical capability levels and mortality: a systematic review and
meta-analysis.. BMJ: British Medical Journal, 341.
- Comparison of case note review methods for evaluating quality and safety in health care. Health Technology Assessment, 14(10), 1-170.
- What progress has been made towards implementing national guidance on end of life care? A national survey of UK general practices. Palliative Medicine, 24(1), 68-78.
- Accessibility versus confidentiality of information in the emergency department. Emergency Medicine Journal, 26(12), 857-860.
- Information sheets for patients with acute chest pain: Randomised controlled trial. BMJ Online, 338(7696).
- A content analysis of mass media sources in relation to the MMR vaccine scare. Health Informatics Journal, 14(4), 323-334.
- Understanding the information behaviours of carers of people with dementia: A critical review of models from information science. Aging and Mental Health, 12(4), 467-477.
- Health informatics: Current issues and challenges. Journal of Information Science, 34(4), 501-518.
All publications
- Journal articles
- Book chapters
- Conference proceedings
- Reports
- Digital content
- Posters
- Other
- Preprints
Journal articles
- The role of online groups for autistic people in users’ autism information journeys. Journal of Documentation. View this article in WRRO
- Challenges for people with depression in using online mental health communities (OMHCs) in Saudi Arabia. Intelligent Health Systems – From Technology to Data and Knowledge: Proceedings of MIE 2025, 327, 1413-1417. View this article in WRRO
- A network approach to addressing the needs of patients with incurable head and neck cancer and their families. Health Technology Assessment. View this article in WRRO
- The role of paralinguistic digital affordances (PDAs) in online mental health communities (OMHCs) in Saudi Arabia. Information Research, 30(iConf), 941-959. View this article in WRRO
- Estimating the quality of published medical research with ChatGPT. Information Processing & Management, 62(4). View this article in WRRO
- Insights into relationship of environmental inequalities and multimorbidity: a population-based study. Environmental Health, 23. View this article in WRRO
- Prognostic accuracy of eight triage scores in suspected COVID-19 in an Emergency Department low-income setting: an observational cohort study. African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 14(1), 51-57. View this article in WRRO
- Accuracy of telephone triage for predicting adverse outcomes in suspected COVID-19: an observational cohort study. BMJ Quality and Safety, 33(6). View this article in WRRO
- Training and testing of a gradient boosted machine learning model to predict adverse outcome in patients presenting to emergency departments with suspected covid-19 infection in a middle-income setting. PLOS Digital Health, 2(9). View this article in WRRO
- LMIC-PRIEST: Derivation and validation of a clinical severity score for acutely ill adults with suspected COVID-19 in a middle-income setting. PLoS ONE, 18(6). View this article in WRRO
- Can all healthy adults use the current evidential breath alcohol analysers? An investigation using a large spirometry database. Medico-Legal Journal, 91(4), 180-185. View this article in WRRO
- External validation of triage tools for adults with suspected COVID-19 in a middle-income setting: an observational cohort study. Emergency Medicine Journal, 40(7), 509-517. View this article in WRRO
- Socioeconomic background and self-reported sleep quality in older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(5).
- An unsupervised learning approach to diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease using brain magnetic resonance imaging scans. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 173. View this article in WRRO
- Use of online health forums by people living with breast cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic: thematic analysis. JMIR Cancer, 9. View this article in WRRO
- Social support in a diabetes online community: a mixed methods content analysis. JMIR Diabetes, 8. View this article in WRRO
- Association between internet usage and quality of life of elderly people in England: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(23).
- Pre-hospital prediction of adverse outcomes in patients with suspected COVID-19 : development, application and comparison of machine learning and deep learning methods. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 151, Part A. View this article in WRRO
- Accuracy of emergency medical service telephone triage of need for an ambulance response in suspected COVID-19 : an observational cohort study. BMJ Open, 12(5). View this article in WRRO
- Corrigendum: Impact of NHS 111 Online on the NHS 111 telephone service and urgent care system: a mixed-methods study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 9(21), 148-149.
- 965 Accuracy of emergency (999) telephone triage for predicting adverse outcomes in suspected COVID-19 : an observational cohort study. Emergency Medicine Journal, 39(3). View this article in WRRO
- Prognostic accuracy of triage tools for adults with suspected COVID-19 in a prehospital setting : an observational cohort study. Emergency Medicine Journal, 39, 317-324. View this article in WRRO
- Impact of NHS 111 online on the NHS 111 telephone service and urgent care system: a mixed-methods study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 9(21). View this article in WRRO
- Factors affecting general practitioners’ readiness to accept and use an electronic health record system in the Republic of North Macedonia: a national survey of general practitioners. JMIR Medical Informatics, 9(4).
- Sensor-based platforms for remote management of chronic diseases in developing regions: a qualitative approach examining the perspectives of healthcare professionals. Health Informatics Journal, 27(1). View this article in WRRO
- The use of data mining methods for the prediction of dementia : evidence from the English longitudinal study of aging. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 24(2), 345-353.
- ‘Someone like me’ : user experiences of the discussion forums of non-12-step alcohol online support groups, June 2019. Addictive Behaviors, 98. View this article in WRRO
- Online health forums : the role of online support for people living with breast cancer. Breast Cancer Management, 8(2).
- Novel insights into views towards H1N1 during the 2009 Pandemic: a thematic analysis of Twitter data. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 36(1), 60-72. View this article in WRRO
- ‘Berrypicking’ in the formation of ideas about problem drinking amongst users of alcohol online support groups. Information in Contemporary Society, 11420, 806-816.
- Empowering people with type two diabetes through online support groups. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 171(Suppl), 3-3. View this article in WRRO
- Predicting loneliness in older age using two measures of loneliness. International Journal of Computers and Applications, 42(6), 602-615. View this article in WRRO
- CHANGES IN LONELINESS AND PATTERNS OF LONELINESS AMONG OLDER PEOPLE. Innovation in aging, 2(Suppl 1), 480-481.
- Physical activity and long-term survival in older men and women: A 21 year longitudinal study. Activities, Adaptation and Aging, 43(4), 294-314. View this article in WRRO
- Relational regularized risk prediction of acute coronary syndrome using electronic health records. Information Sciences, 465, 118-129. View this article in WRRO
- Predictors of loneliness among older men and women in England. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 72(Supplement 1), A60-A60. View this article in WRRO
- Sharing and empathy in digital spaces: qualitative study of online health forums for breast cancer and motor neuron disease. (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis). JMIR, 20(6). View this article in WRRO
- Evaluation of websites that contain information relating to malaria in pregnancy. Public Health , 157, 50-52. View this article in WRRO
- Factors influencing the quality of vital sign data in electronic health records: A qualitative study. J Clin Nurs.
- Implementation of a metastatic malignancy of unknown primary origin service led by a palliative physician. Hospital Practice, 46(1), 37-42. View this article in WRRO
- Impact of epidemiological publications among health professionals in disease surveillance – experience from Jaffna, Sri Lanka. International Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, 4(2), 23-33. View this article in WRRO
- A ‘gold-centric’ implementation of open access: Hybrid journals, the ‘total cost of publication’ and policy development in the UK and beyond. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(9), 2248-2263. View this article in WRRO
- Development of Trust in an Online Breast Cancer Forum: A Qualitative Study
. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 19(5). View this article in WRRO
- Making sense of dementia: a phenomenographic study of the information behaviours of people diagnosed with dementia. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 69(3), 261-277. View this article in WRRO
- Vital sign documentation in electronic records: The development of workarounds.. Health Informatics J.
- The 'total cost of publication' in a hybrid open-access environment: Institutional approaches to funding journal article-processing charges in combination with subscriptions. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 67(7), 1751-1766.
- Recording signs of deterioration in acute patients: The documentation of vital signs within electronic health records in patients who suffered in-hospital cardiac arrest.. Health Informatics J, 22(1), 21-33.
- A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Holistic Needs Assessment Questionnaire in a Supportive and Palliative Care Service. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 50(5), 587-598.
- On mining latent treatment patterns from electronic medical records. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 29(4), 914-949. View this article in WRRO
- Can comprehensive specialised end-of-life care be provided at home? Lessons from a study of an innovative consultant-led community service in the UK.. Eur J Cancer Care (Engl), 24(2), 253-266.
- Individual Factors Affecting Preferences for Feedback Message Tactics in the Contexts of Physical Activity. Journal of Health Communication, 20(2), 220-229.
- Open-access repositories worldwide, 2005-2012: Past growth, current characteristics, and future possibilities. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 65(12), 2404-2421.
- Reaching health service managers with research. Information Research, 19(4). View this article in WRRO
- Emergency Department Information Systems and Workflows-A Pilot Study. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 205, 1199.
- Wireless monitoring systems for enhancing national health services in developing regions. Healthinf 2014 7th International Conference on Health Informatics Proceedings Part of 7th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies Biostec 2014, 511-516.
- Clinical and neuropsychological aspects of non-fatal self-harm in schizophrenia. European Psychiatry, 28(6), 344-348.
- A structured judgement method to enhance mortality case note review: development and evaluation.. BMJ Quality & Safety, 22(12), 1032-1040.
- Variable documentation of vital signs in an electronic health record in patients at risk of in-hospital cardiac arrest could pose a threat to patient safety. European Journal fo Cardiovascular Nursing, 12, S55-S56.
- Information needs of clinicians and non-clinicians in the Emergency Department: A qualitative study. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 30(3), 191-200.
- A study on the use of Gumbel approximation with the Bernoulli spatial scan statistic. Statistics in Medicine, 32(19), 3300-3313.
- New developments in the spatial scan statistic. Journal of Information Science, 39(1), 36-47.
- An assessment of the quality of information on stroke and speech and language difficulty web sites. Journal of Information Science, 39(1), 113-125.
- Information management and quality of palliative care in general practices: Secondary analysis of a UK study. Journal of Information Science, 39(1), 126-140.
- CICERO: an emergent conceptual model for onco-EPR systems.. Stud Health Technol Inform, 192, 1131.
- The association of geographical location and neighbourhood deprivation with older people's use of NHS direct: A population-based study. Age and Ageing, 42(1), 57-62.
- What factors influence emergency department staff attitudes towards using information technology?. Emergency Medicine Journal, 30(4), 303-307.
- Understanding how information and ICTs can improve health. Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, 12(1), 11-14.
- An analysis of electronic document management in oncology care. Health Informatics Journal, 18(2), 135-146.
- International perspectives on how information and ICT can support healthcare. Health Informatics Journal, 18(2), 79-82.
- Acceptance of health information technology in health professionals: An application of the revised technology acceptance model. Health Informatics Journal, 18(2), 124-134.
- A new, palliative care led, pathway approach to care in metastatic cancer of unknown primary origin. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2(Suppl 1), A46.1-A46.
- Feasibility study of the sheffield profile for assessment and referral for care. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2(Suppl 1), A43.3-A44.
- Patient and carer reports of care in metastatic presentation of cancer of unknown primary origin. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2(Suppl 1), A46.2-A46.
- 'Onco alerts' to support acute oncology services. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 180, 1191-1193.
- The use and usability of EPR systems in oncology. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 180, 398-402.
- Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for examining healthcare professionals' assessments of risk factors: The relative importance of risk factors for falls in community-dwelling older people. Methods of Information in Medicine, 50(5), 435-444.
- Exploring the Relationship between Quality of Life and Mortality in Old Age: A Comparative Study. Gerontologist, 51, 441-442.
- Health and social care information for visually-impaired people. Aslib Proceedings New Information Perspectives, 63(2-3), 256-274.
- Older people's use of NHS Direct. Age and Ageing, 40(3), 335-340.
- Information overload and information poverty: Challenges for healthcare services managers?. Journal of Documentation, 67(2), 238-263.
- Measuring the spatial accuracy of the spatial scan statistic. Spatial and Spatio Temporal Epidemiology, 2(2), 69-78.
- Evaluation and implementation of e-health and health information initiatives: International perspectives. Health Informatics Journal, 16(3), 161-163.
- Factors influencing the use of IT in the emergency department: A qualitative study. Health Informatics Journal, 16(3), 189-200.
- The harmonisation of longitudinal data: A case study using data from cohort studies in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Ageing and Society, 30(8), 1419-1437.
- Objectively measured physical capability levels and mortality: a systematic review and
meta-analysis.. BMJ: British Medical Journal, 341.
- A power-enhanced algorithm for spatial anomaly detection in binary labelled point data using the spatial scan statistic. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, 6277 LNAI(PART 2), 163-172.
- Evaluation of short-term effectiveness of the disease management program "di.Pro.Di." on continuity of care of patients with congestive heart failure. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 58(8), 1603-1604.
- Assessing quality of care from hospital case notes: Comparison of reliability of two methods. Quality and Safety in Health Care, 19(6), e2.
- Comparison of case note review methods for evaluating quality and safety in health care. Health Technology Assessment, 14(10), 1-170.
- What progress has been made towards implementing national guidance on end of life care? A national survey of UK general practices. Palliative Medicine, 24(1), 68-78.
- The development of a clinically useful tool for predicting the development of psychological disorder following injury. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 48(1), 31-45.
- Accessibility versus confidentiality of information in the emergency department. Emergency Medicine Journal, 26(12), 857-860.
- Life satisfaction as a predictor of mortality hazard among elderly people in the United Kingdom and Taiwan.. Gerontologist, 49, 314-314.
- The Information Behaviour of Carers of People with Dementia: What Difference Does a Year Make?. Gerontologist, 49, 395-395.
- The national programme for IT in England: Clinicians' views on the impact of the choose and book service. Health Informatics Journal, 15(3), 167-178.
- Paper-based versus computer-based records in the emergency department: Staff preferences, expectations, and concerns. Health Informatics Journal, 15(3), 199-211.
- Special issue editorial: The changing face of health informatics and health information management. Health Informatics Journal, 15(3), 163-165.
- Effectiveness of a rapid response service for frail older people.. Nursing Older People, 21(5), 25-32.
- A graph-theory method for pattern identification in geographical epidemiology - A preliminary application to deprivation and mortality. International Journal of Health Geographics, 8(1).
- Information sheets for patients with acute chest pain: Randomised controlled trial. BMJ Online, 338(7696).
- Modelling the expected net benefits of interventions to reduce the burden of medication errors. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 13(2), 85-91.
- Special issue: From research to development to implementation: Challenges in health informatics and health information management. Health Informatics Journal, 14(4), 243-245.
- Healthcare managers' decision making: Findings of a small scale exploratory study. Health Informatics Journal, 14(4), 247-258.
- A content analysis of mass media sources in relation to the MMR vaccine scare. Health Informatics Journal, 14(4), 323-334.
- Healthcare services managers: what information do they need and use?. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 3(3), 18-38. View this article in WRRO
- Understanding the information behaviours of carers of people with dementia: A critical review of models from information science. Aging and Mental Health, 12(4), 467-477.
- Health informatics: Current issues and challenges. Journal of Information Science, 34(4), 501-518.
- Development of a patient-oriented tool for evaluating the quality of breast cancer information on the Internet. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 136, 297-302.
- Assessing the quality of websites providing information on multiple sclerosis: evaluating tools and comparing sites.. Health Informatics J., 13, 207-221.
- Welcome to ISHIMR 2007. Information Research, 12(3).
- A prospective hazard and improvement analytic approach to predicting the effectiveness of medication error interventions. Safety Science, 45(4), 523-539.
- Can two established information models explain the information behaviour of visually impaired people seeking health and social care information?. Journal of Documentation, 63(1), 9-32.
- Welcome to ISHIMR 2007. Information Research, 12(2).
- An examination of the levels of confidence that consultants have in routinely collected clinical information. Health Informatics Journal, 12(1), 49-64.
- Mr. Smith has mesothelioma: The typical patient's experience. Journal of Palliative Care, 22(3), 230-230.
- Studying health information from a distance: refining an e-learning case study in the crucible of student evaluation.. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 22 Suppl 2, 8-19.
- Use of graph theory to identify patterns of deprivation and high morbidity and mortality in public health data sets. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 12(6), 630-641.
- Social isolation as a predictor of health outcomes in older people.. Gerontologist, 45, 515-515.
- Factors affecting changes in social engagement among community-dwelling older men and women. Gerontologist, 45, 565-565.
- Persisting differences in levels of self-rated health in older people in the Netherlands and the UK. Gerontologist, 45, 269-269.
- Identification of risk factors for 15-year mortality among community-dwelling older people using cox regression and a genetic algorithm. Journals of Gerontology Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 60(8), 1052-1058.
- Social engagement and health outcomes among older people: Introduction to a special section. European Journal of Ageing, 2(1), 24-30.
- Social engagement and health and social care use and medication use among older people. European Journal of Ageing, 2(1), 56-63.
- Data Mining in Health and Medical Information. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 38, 331-369.
- Predictors of social engagement among community-dwelling older men and women. Gerontologist, 44, 415-416.
- Predictors of long-term physical and psychological health among community-dwelling older people. Gerontologist, 44, 141-141.
- Evaluation of a hospital avoidance scheme for older people with sub-acute illness. Gerontologist, 44, 189-189.
- Risk factors for fifteen-year mortality in older people using genetic algorithms and cox regression (CORGA). Gerontologist, 44, 272-272.
- The use of Cox regression and genetic algorithm (CoRGA) for identifying risk factors for mortality in older people. Health Informatics Journal, 10(3), 221-236.
- The International Observatory on End of Life Care (IOELC): An information resource for palliative care. Health Informatics Journal, 10(2), 121-126.
- The impact of health scares on parents' information needs and preferred information sources: A case study of the MMR vaccine scare. Health Informatics Journal, 10(1), 5-22.
- Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective. Information Research, 9(2).
- Health information needs of visually impaired people: A systematic review of the literature. Health and Social Care in the Community, 12(1), 1-24.
- The International Observatory on End of Life Care: A new research and development initiative in palliative care. Progress in Palliative Care, 11(3), 136-138.
- Social activity as a determinant of health in later life. Gerontologist, 43, 577-578.
- Development and application of a tool designed to evaluate web sites providing information on Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Information Science, 29(4), 279-297.
- Differences between older men and women in the self-rated health-mortality relationship. Gerontologist, 43(3), 387-395.
- The role of the information specialist in the systematic review process: a health information case study.. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 20(2), 65-74.
- Self-rated health, gender, and mortality in older persons: Introduction to a special section. Gerontologist, 43(3), 369-371.
- The provision of information by health promotion units to people of Asian origin living in the UK
. Health Informatics Journal, 9(1), 39-56. View this article in WRRO
- Evaluation of websites that provide information on Alzheimer's disease . Health Informatics Journal, 9(1), 17-32. View this article in WRRO
- Studying health information from a distance: the impact of a multimedia case study . Health Informatics Journal, 9(1), 5-16. View this article in WRRO
- Validation of graph-theoretical methods for pattern identification in public health datasets. Health Informatics Journal, 8(4), 167-173. View this article in WRRO
- Interpersonal sources of health and maternity information for Somali women living in the UK information seeking and evaluation. Journal of Documentation, 58(3), 302-318.
- The maternity information concerns of Somali women in the United Kingdom. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 36(2), 237-245.
- Geriatric assessment in primary care: formulating best practice.. British Journal of Community Nursing, 6(6), 290-295.
- Information-seeking behaviors of women with breast cancer.. Oncology Nursing Forum, 28(5), 899-907.
- Studying health informatics from a distance: issues, problems and experiences. Health Informatics Journal, 7(3-4), 138-145. View this article in WRRO
- The use of between-methods triangulation in cancer nursing research: A case study examining information sources for partners of women with breast cancer. Cancer Nursing, 24(2), 104-111.
- The information needs and source preferences of women with breast cancer and their family members: A review of the literature published between 1988 and 1998. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 31(4), 833-841.
- The psychometric properties of the Miller Behavioural Style Scale with adult daughters of women with early breast cancer: A literature review and empirical study. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 32(2), 366-374.
- Exploring the information flow: partners of women with breast cancer, patients, and healthcare professionals.. Oncology Nursing Forum, 27(8), 1267-1275.
- Mass media sources for breast cancer information: Their advantages and disadvantages for women with the disease. Journal of Documentation, 56(3), 235-249.
- Standardized health check data from community-dwelling elderly people: the potential for comparing populations and estimating need.. Health & Social Care in the Community, 8(1), 17-21.
- Getting the questions right: An example of loss of validity during transfer of a brief screening approach for depression in the elderly. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 15(7), 650-655.
- Meeting the information needs of adult daughters of women with early breast cancer: Patients and health care professionals as information providers. Cancer Nursing, 23(1), 71-79.
- New approach to risk determination: Development of risk profile for new falls among community-dwelling older people by use of a genetic algorithm neural network (GANN). Journals of Gerontology Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 55(1), M17-M21.
- Self-rated health as a risk factor for prescribed drug use and future health and social service use in older people. Journals of Gerontology Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 54(11), M565-M570.
- A cost–outcome evaluation of UK generic Macmillan nursing services: methodological challenges. Palliative Medicine, 13(6), 511-512.
- Sleep, longevity and mental health.. Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie, 32(2), 155-155.
- SheffSCOPE: Using change management to introduce and evaluate health outcome measures in primary health care for older people.. Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie, 32(2), 34-34.
- Differential risk factor profiles for indoor and outdoor falls in older people living at home in Nottingham, UK. European Journal of Epidemiology, 15(1), 65-73.
- The information concerns of spouses of women with breast cancer: Patients' and spouses' perspectives. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 28(6), 1249-1258.
- Location of Fall and Survival in Older People. Age and Ageing, 27(suppl 2), 16-16.
- Customary physical activity and physical health outcomes in later life. Age and Ageing, 27(SUPPL. 3), 29-34.
- Customary physical activity and psychological wellbeing: A longitudinal study. Age and Ageing, 27(SUPPL. 3), 35-40.
- Angular Spectroscopy: Rapid Visualization of Three-Dimensional Substructure Dissimilarity Using Valence Angle or Torsional Descriptors. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 35(2), 261-271.
- The Extent of the Relationship between the Graph-Theoretical and the Geometrical Shape Coefficients of Chemical Compounds. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 35(4), 714-716.
- Response to Comment on “The Extent of the Relationship between the Graph-Theoretical and the Geometrical Shape Coefficients of Chemical Compounds. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 35(6), 1081.
- Similarity Searching in Files of Three-Dimensional Chemical Structures: Comparison of Fragment-Based Measures of Shape Similarity. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 34(1), 141-147.
- ChemInform Abstract: Similarity Searching in Databases of Three‐Dimensional Molecules and Macromolecules.. ChemInform, 24(12).
- Effect of standardization on fragment-based measures of structural similarity. Journal of Chemometrics, 7(6), 543-550.
- Similarity searching in databases of three-dimensional molecules and macromolecules.. J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci., 32, 617-630.
- Why AI struggles with rare catastrophic disease: lessons from the AORTA-AI study of acute aortic syndrome. Emergency Medicine Journal.
- Notifiable disease surveillance in Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom: a comparative study. Sri Lanka Journal of Bio-Medical Informatics, 4(1), 14-14.
- WEB-BASED SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING RISK FACTORS FOR FALLS IN COMMUNITY-DWELLING ELDERLY PEOPLE USING THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS. International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process, 2(2).
- Collaborative, Problem-based Learning On-line. Proceedings of the International Conference on Networked Learning, 3.
Book chapters
- Challenges Faced by People with Depression Using AI Chatbots in Saudi Arabia, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics IOS Press
- Challenges for People with Depression in Using Online Mental Health Communities (OMHCs) in Saudi Arabia, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics IOS Press
- Integrated Surveillance Model for improving Completeness of Notifiable Disease Surveillance in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, Current Innovations in Disease and Health Research Vol. 5 (pp. 109-128). B P International (a part of SCIENCEDOMAIN International)
- A Health Decision Support Framework for the Prediction of Cognitive Ability in Older People, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (pp. 395-405). Springer Singapore
- Zika Outbreak of 2016: Insights from Twitter, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 447-458). Springer International Publishing
- From Sponge to Source: Health Information in the Lives of Gay Men Living with HIV, Meaning Management Challenge Making Sense of Health Illness and Disease (pp. 131-146).
- Chapter 4 Using Twitter as a Data Source: An Overview of Ethical, Legal, and Methodological Challenges In Woodfield K (Ed.), The Ethics of Online Research (pp. 79-107). Emerald View this article in WRRO
- Chapter 4: Using Twitter as a Data Source: An Overview of Ethical, Legal, and Methodological Challenges, Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity (pp. 79-107). Emerald Publishing Limited
- CICERO: An Emergent Conceptual Model for Onco-EPR Systems, MEDINFO 2013 IOS Press
- ‘Onco Alerts’ to support Acute Oncology services, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics IOS Press
- The Use and Usability of EPR systems in Oncology, Quality of Life through Quality of Information IOS Press
- ‘Onco Alerts’ to support Acute Oncology services, Quality of Life through Quality of Information IOS Press
- IT in Palliative Care, Palliative Care in Nursing Maidenhead: McGrawHill.
- Pattern Identification in Public Health Data Sets, Innovations in GIS CRC Press
- Pattern Identification in Public Health Data Sets: The Potential Offered by Graph Theory, GIS and Evidence-Based Policy Making (pp. 183-200). CRC Press
- Pattern identification in public health data sets: The potential offered by graph theory, GIS and Evidence Based Policy Making (pp. 159-176).
Conference proceedings
- Detecting Changes in Mental Health Status via Reddit Posts in Response to Global Negative Events. International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing Ranlp (pp 227-233)
- 1482 Prognostic accuracy of triage tools for adults with suspected COVID-19 in a middle-income setting. Emergency Medicine Journal, Vol. 39(12) (pp A976-A977) View this article in WRRO
- Online support groups as a source of empowerment for people with type 2 diabetes. MEDINFO 2019: Health and Wellbeing e-Networks for All, Vol. 264 (pp 1893-1894). Lyon, France, 25 August 2019 - 30 August 2019.
- Automatic prediction of depression in older age. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics 2019. Xiamen, China, 17 May 2019 - 17 May 2019. View this article in WRRO
- Changes in loneliness and patterns of loneliness among older people. Innovation in Aging, Vol. 2(suppl_1) (pp 480-481). Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 14 November 2018 - 14 November 2018. View this article in WRRO
- Healthcare professionals’ attitudes towards remote patient monitoring through sensor networks. 2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom) (pp 1-6), 17 September 2018 - 20 September 2018.
- Moral Panic through the Lens of Twitter. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society (pp 217-221)
- Using Twitter for insights into the 2009 swine flu and 2014 Ebola outbreaks. iConference 2018 Poster Descriptions. Sheffield, UK, 25 March 2018 - 25 March 2018. View this article in WRRO
- Prediction of loneliness in older people. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics (pp 165-172). Tsukuba, Japan, 8 June 2018 - 8 June 2018. View this article in WRRO
- The Role of Stories in Three Non-12 Step Alcohol Online Support Groups. Transforming Digital Worlds, Vol. 10766 (pp 126-131), 25 March 2018 - 28 March 2018.
- P617 Reasons for poor vital sign documentation in electronic health records: a qualitative study. European Heart Journal, Vol. 38(Suppl 1) (pp 113-114). Barcelona, Spain, 26 August 2017 - 26 August 2017. View this article in WRRO
- Topics Discussed on Twitter at the Beginning of the 2014 Ebola Epidemic in United States. iConference 2017 Proceedings (pp 774-777). Wuhan, China, 22 March 2017 - 22 March 2017. View this article in WRRO
- Comparison of Twitter APIs and tools for analysing Tweets related to the Ebola Virus Disease. iFutures 2015. https://conferencepapers.shef.ac.uk/index.php/index/index/index/index View this article in WRRO
- Impact of health informatics implementation on clinical workflow: A review. Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science, Vol. 2 (pp 1352-1360)
- THE USE OF ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS FOR THE PRIORITIZATION OF FACTORS AFFECTING WELLBEING IN ELDERLY. Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process
- Threats identification in healthcare information systems using Genetic Algorithm and Cox regression. 5th International Conference on Information Assurance and Security IAS 2009, Vol. 2 (pp 757-760)
- It in the emergency department:What is the impact of technology?. Healthinf 2009 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Health Informatics (pp 454-457)
- The National Programme for IT (NPFIT) in England: How Can Clinicians be Encouraged to Use the Choose and Book Service. HEALTHINF 2009 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Health Informatics (pp 211-215)
- Use of graph theory for data mining in public health. Management Information Systems, Vol. 6 (pp 819-828)
- Knowledge discovery in the WHO health for all database: Developing a taxonomy of mortality patterns for European countries. Conference Proceedings of Current Perspectives in Healthcare Computing (pp 551-556)
- The Benefits of Using Online Health Support Groups for Information Acquisition for People with Type 2 Diabetes in the UK. Proceedings of the 18th international symposium on health information management research
- The sustainability of non-12-step alcohol online support groups: views from group users. Proceedings of the 18th international symposium on health information management research
- Measuring the effect of public health campaigns on Twitter: the case of World Autism Awareness Day. Transforming Digital Worlds (pp 10-16). Sheffield, UK, 25 March 2018 - 25 March 2018. View this article in WRRO
- The Ebola epidemic on Twitter: challenges for health informatics. Proceedings of;. 25-26 June 2015 View this article in WRRO
Reports
- Monitoring the transition to open access: A report for Universities UK View this article in WRRO
Digital content
Posters
- “Access denied”? Managing access to the World Wide Web within the National Health Service (NHS) in England: technology, risk, culture, policy and practice. ISHIMR, York, UK. View this article in WRRO
- Exploring variation in ED attendances and acute hospital admissions for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions.
Other
- Response to performance of the Hull Salford Cambridge Decision Rule: the start of the traumatic brain injury (TBI) assessment and recovery journey. Emergency Medicine Journal, 39(11), 875.2-876.
- Scoping review of equity in the health needs and service coverage of older people.
- Health information literacy in marginalised communities: Final report.
Preprints
- Sensitivity, net benefit, and informedness of models predicting acute aortic syndrome. (Preprint), JMIR Publications Inc..
- Evaluating the quality of published medical research with ChatGPT, arXiv.
- LMIC-PRIEST: Derivation and validation of a clinical severity score for acutely ill adults with suspected COVID-19 in a middle-income setting, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Prognostic accuracy of triage tools for adults with suspected COVID-19 in a middle-income setting: an observational cohort study, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Social Support in a Diabetes Online Community: A Mixed Methods Content Analysis (Preprint), JMIR Publications Inc..
- Accuracy of emergency medical service telephone triage of need for an ambulance response in suspected COVID-19: An observational cohort study, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Accuracy of telephone triage for predicting adverse outcome in suspected COVID-19: An observational cohort study, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
- Feasibility of sensor-based technology for monitoring health in developing countries - cost analysis and user perception aspects, arXiv.
- Pre-hospital prediction of adverse outcomes in patients with suspected COVID-19 : development, application and comparison of machine learning and deep learning methods. View this article in WRRO
- Factors Affecting General Practitioners’ Readiness to Accept and Use an Electronic Health Record System in the Republic of North Macedonia: A National Survey of General Practitioners (Preprint).
- Feasibility of sensor-based technology for monitoring health in developing countries - cost analysis and user perception aspects. View this article in WRRO
- Sharing and Empathy in Digital Spaces: Qualitative Study of Online Health Forums for Breast Cancer and Motor Neuron Disease (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) (Preprint).
- The role of online groups for autistic people in users’ autism information journeys. Journal of Documentation. View this article in WRRO
- Teaching interests
-
I supervise PhD students who are investigating how (digital) information can be used to support people's health and well-being, and analysing data relating to health and well being in older people.
- Teaching activities
-
- IJC466 - Data Analysis
- IJC470 - Research Methods and Dissertation Prep
I teach statistics on the Data Analysis module (IJC466) for the MSc Data Science students.
- Professional activities and memberships
-
I am Co-Director of the School for Social Care Research (SSCR) at Sheffield and I am lead for the Data Infrastructure and Analytics thematic priority.
I am Deputy Editor of the Health Informatics Journal.
I am External Examiner at the University of Manchester.