Dr Jon Dickson

All publications

• Journal articles
• Chapters
• Conference proceedings papers
• Reports
• Posters
• Theses / Dissertations
• Presentations
• Other
• Preprints

Journal articles

• Dickson J (2025) Assessment and treatment of headache in primary care: a scoping review. BJGP Open.
• Windeatt-Harrison IL, Walker T, Bell SM, Blackburn D, Dickson JM, Jones S, Wardrope A & Reuber M (2024) The First Step in Triadic Decision-Making Involving People with Dementia: Determining Who Talks When. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 57(4), 399-416.
• Lassa S, Burton C & Dickson JM (2024) GPs' experience of difficult decisions in patients with dementia and an acute illness.. BJGP open, BJGPO.2024.0074.
• Cotterill CL, Booth A, Dickson JM & Hind D (2024) Patient's perspectives of epilepsy care by specialists and generalists: qualitative evidence synthesis.. BJGP Open.
• Noble AJ, Dixon P, Mathieson A, Ridsdale L, Morgan M, McKinlay A, Dickson J, Goodacre S, Jackson M, Morris B , Hughes D et al (2024) Developing feasible person-centred care alternatives to emergency department responses for adults with epilepsy: a discrete choice analysis mixed-methods study. Health and social care delivery research, 12(24), 1-158.
• Noble AJ, Morris B, Dixon P, Mathieson A, Ridsdale L, Morgan M, Dickson J, Goodacre S, Jackson M, Hughes D , Marson A et al (2024) Service users' preferences and feasibility – which alternative care pathway for adult ambulance users achieves the optimal balance? Workshops for the COLLABORATE project. Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy, 118, 17-27. View this article in WRRO
• Holmes E, Dixon P, Mathieson A, Ridsdale L, Morgan M, McKinlay A, Dickson J, Goodacre S, Jackson M, Foster D , Hardman K et al (2024) Developing an alternative care pathway for emergency ambulance responses for adults with epilepsy: A Discrete Choice Experiment to understand which configuration service users prefer. Part of the COLLABORATE project. Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy, 118, 28-37. View this article in WRRO
• Fox MN, Dickson JM, Burch P, Hind D & Hawksworth L (2024) Delivering relational continuity of care in UK general practice: a scoping review. BJGP Open. View this article in WRRO
• Goodacre S, Sutton L, Ennis K, Thomas B, Hawksworth O, Iftikhar K, Croft SJ, Fuller G, Waterhouse S, Hind D , Stevenson M et al (2024) Prehospital early warning scores for adults with suspected sepsis: the PHEWS observational cohort and decision-analytic modelling study. Health Technology Assessment, 28(16), 1-93. View this article in WRRO
• Noble AJ, Morris B, Bonnet LJ, Reuber M, Mason S, Wright J, Pilbery R, Bell F, Shillito T, Marson AG & Dickson JM (2024) ‘Knowledge exchange’ workshops to optimise development of a risk prediction tool to assist conveyance decisions for suspected seizures – Part of the Risk of ADverse Outcomes after a Suspected Seizure (RADOSS) project.. Epilepsy & Behavior, 151. View this article in WRRO
• Peacock M, Bissell P, Ellis J, Dickson JM, Wardrope A, Grünewald R & Reuber M (2023) ‘I just need to know what they are and if you can help me’: medicalization and the search for legitimacy in people diagnosed with non-epileptic attack disorder. Epilepsy and Behavior, 148. View this article in WRRO
• Goodacre S, Sutton L, Thomas B, Hawksworth O, Iftikhar K, Croft S, Fuller G, Waterhouse S, Hind D, Bradburn M , Smyth MA et al (2023) Prehospital early warning scores for adults with suspected sepsis: retrospective diagnostic cohort study. Emergency Medicine Journal, 40(11), 768-776. View this article in WRRO
• Wardrope A, Bell S, Blackburn D, Dickson J, Reuber M & Walker T (2023) Understanding the autonomy of adults with impaired capacity through dialogue. Journal of Medical Ethics, 49(7), 493-494.
• Dickson JM, Hilton A, Kelsall C & Cormack L (2023) Primary care: the sleeping giant of research delivery. British Journal of General Practice, 73(730), 198-199. View this article in WRRO
• Wigglesworth S, Neligan A, Dickson JM, Pullen A, Yelland E, Anjuman T & Reuber M (2023) The incidence and prevalence of epilepsy in the United Kingdom 2013–2018: a retrospective cohort study of UK primary care data. Seizure - European Journal of Epilepsy, 105, 37-42. View this article in WRRO
• Noble AJ, Mason SM, Bonnett LJ, Reuber M, Wright J, Pilbery R, Jacques RM, Simpson RM, Campbell R, Fuller A , Marson AG et al (2022) Supporting the ambulance service to safely convey fewer patients to hospital by developing a risk prediction tool: Risk of Adverse Outcomes after a Suspected Seizure (RADOSS)—protocol for the mixed-methods observational RADOSS project. BMJ Open, 12(11). View this article in WRRO
• Peacock M, Dickson J, Bissell P, Grunewald R & Reuber M (2022) Beyond the medical encounter: can the free association narrative interview method extend psychosocial understandings of non-epileptic attack disorder?. Journal of Psychosocial Studies, 15(1), 36-51. View this article in WRRO
• Clark J, Copsey B, Wright-Hughes A, McNaught E, Bijsterveld P, McCormack T, Foy R, Wilkes S, Dickson J, Meads D , Farrin A et al (2022) Cancer patients’ needs assessment in primary care : study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial (cRCT), economic evaluation and normalisation process theory evaluation of the needs assessment tool cancer (CANAssess). BMJ Open, 12(5). View this article in WRRO
• Burton C, Stone T, Oliver P, Dickson JM, Lewis J & Mason SM (2022) Frequent attendance at the emergency department shows typical features of complex systems: analysis of multicentre linked data. Emergency Medicine Journal, 39(1), 3-9.
• Goodacre S, Thomas B, Smyth M & Dickson JM (2021) Should prehospital early warning scores be used to identify which patients need urgent treatment for sepsis?. BMJ, 2021(375). View this article in WRRO
• Quah MCH, Marney BC, Cooper RJ & Dickson JM (2021) Chronic pain and opioid analgesic use : a case report. Clinical Case Reports, 9(7). View this article in WRRO
• Andrews J, Weiner K, Will C, Henwood F & Dickson J (2020) Healthcare practitioner views and experiences of patients self-monitoring blood pressure: vignette study. British Journal of General Practice Open (BJGP Open), 4(5). View this article in WRRO
• Hughes-Gooding T, Dickson J, O'Keeffe C & Mason S (2020) A data-linkage study of suspected seizures in the urgent and emergency care system in the UK. Emergency Medicine Journal, 37(10), 605-610. View this article in WRRO
• Davies P, Reuber M, Grunewald R, Howell S, Dickson J, Dennis G, Shanmugarajah P, Tsironis T & Brockington A (2020) The impact and challenges of the 2018 MHRA statement on the use of sodium valproate in women of childbearing age during the first year of implementation, in a UK epilepsy centre. Seizure, 79, 8-13.
• O'Cathain A, Simpson R, Phillips M & Dickson J (2020) Tendency to contact general practice instead of self-care : a population vignette study. British Journal of General Practice Open (BJGP Open), 4(2). View this article in WRRO
• Mathieson A, Marson AG, Jackson M, Ridsdale L, Goodacre S, Dickson JM & Noble AJ (2020) Clinically unnecessary and avoidable emergency health service use for epilepsy : a survey of what English services are doing to reduce it. Seizure, 76, 156-160. View this article in WRRO
• O'Cathain A, Knowles E, Dickson J, Long J, Connell J, Bishop-Edwards L, Simpson R, Coster J, Abouzeid L, Bennett S , Croot E et al (2020) Drivers of 'clinically unnecessary' use of emergency and urgent care: the DEUCE mixed-methods study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 8(15).
• Noble AJ, Mathieson A, Ridsdale L, Holmes EA, Morgan M, McKinlay A, Dickson JM, Jackson M, Hughes DA, Goodacre S & Marson AG (2019) Developing patient-centred, feasible alternative care for adult emergency department users with epilepsy : protocol for the mixed-methods observational ‘collaborate’ project. BMJ Open, 9(11). View this article in WRRO
• Goldstein LH, Robinson EJ, Reuber M, Chalder T, Callaghan H, Eastwood C, Landau S, McCrone P, Medford N, Mellers JDC , Moore M et al (2019) Characteristics of 698 patients with dissociative seizures: A UK multicenter study. Epilepsia, 60(11), 2182-2193. View this article in WRRO
• Dickson J & Hart A (2019) Expert medical generalism - ecological insights. British Journal of General Practice, 69(684), 174-175. View this article in WRRO
• Dickson JM, Jacques RM, Reuber M, Hick J, Campbell MJ, Morley R & Grunewald RA (2018) Emergency hospital care for adults with suspected seizures in the NHS in England 2007-2013: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open, 8(10). View this article in WRRO
• Narice BF, Delaney B & Dickson JM (2018) Endometrial sampling in low-risk patients with abnormal uterine bleeding: a systematic review and meta-synthesis. BMC Family Practice, 19. View this article in WRRO
• Dickson JM (2018) The importance of GPs for people with epilepsy. Epilepsy Professional, 49, 20-25. View this article in WRRO
• Dickson JM, Asghar ZB & Siriwardena AN (2018) Pre-hospital ambulance care of patients following a suspected seizure: A cross sectional study . Seizure , 57, 38-44. View this article in WRRO
• Dickson JM, Rawlings GH, Grünewald RA, Miles K, Mack C, Heywood T & Reuber M (2017) An alternative care pathway for suspected seizures in pre-hospital care: a service evaluation. British Paramedic Journal, 2(2), 22-28. View this article in WRRO
• Dickson JM, Mason SM & Bailey A (2017) Emergency Department Diagnostic Codes – Useful Data?. Emergency Medicine Journal, 34(9), 627-627. View this article in WRRO
• Dickson JM, Delaney B & Connor ME (2017) Primary care endometrial sampling for abnormal uterine bleeding: a pilot study.. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care, 43(4), 296-301.
• Dickson JM, Dudhill H, Shewan J, Mason S, Grϋnewald RA & Reuber M (2017) Cross-sectional study of the hospital management of adult patients with a suspected seizure (EPIC2). BMJ Open, 7(7). View this article in WRRO
• Dickson JM, Peacock M, Grünewald RA, Howlett S, Bissell P & Reuber M (2017) Non-epileptic attack disorder: the importance of diagnosis and treatment.. BMJ Case Reports, 2017. View this article in WRRO
• Dickson JM, Taylor LH, Shewan J, Baldwin T, Grünewald RA & Reuber M (2016) Cross-sectional study of the prehospital management of adult patients with a suspected seizure (EPIC1).. BMJ Open, 6(2). View this article in WRRO
• Dickson JM, Scott PA & Reuber M (2015) Epilepsy service provision in the National Health Service in England in 2012. SEIZURE-EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EPILEPSY, 30, 26-31.
• Bell S, Harkness K, Dickson JM & Blackburn D (2015) A diagnosis for £55: what is the cost of government initiatives in dementia case finding. Age and Ageing, 44(2), 344-345.
• Osborne A, Taylor L, Reuber M, Grünewald RA, Parkinson M & Dickson JM (2015) Pre-hospital care after a seizure: Evidence base and United Kingdom management guidelines. Seizure, 24, 82-87.
• Dickson JM, Naylor G, Colver G, Powers HJ & Masters P (2014) Multiple vitamin deficiencies in a patient with a history of chronic alcohol excess and self-neglect in the UK. BMJ Case Reports, 2014.
• Smithson WH, Hukins D, Buelow JM, Allgar V & Dickson JM (2013) Adherence to medicines and self-management of epilepsy: A community-based study. Epilepsy and Behavior, 26, 109-113.
• Dickson JM, Harrington R & Carter MJ (2011) Teaching clinical examination using peer-assisted learning amongst graduate-entry students.. Clin Teach, 8(1), 8-12.
• Dickson JM, Warren DJ, Chapman ALN, Anoop U, Hayat H & Bhattacharya D (2010) Spontaneous abscess of the lumbar spine presenting as subacute back pain.. BMJ Case Rep, 2010.
• Farrow TFD, Dickson JM & Grünewald RA (2006) A six-year follow-up MRI study of complicated early childhood convulsion.. Pediatr Neurol, 35(4), 257-260.
• Dickson JM (2006) The Author's Reply - Letter to the Editor. International Journal of Sports Medicine, 27(4), 342-342.
• Dickson JM, Wilkinson ID, Howell SJL, Griffiths PD & Grünewald RA (2006) Idiopathic generalised epilepsy: a pilot study of memory and neuronal dysfunction in the temporal lobes, assessed by magnetic resonance spectroscopy.. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 77(7), 834-840.
• Reynders HJ, Broks P, Dickson JM, Lee CE & Turpin G (2005) Investigation of social and emotion information processing in temporal lobe epilepsy with ictal fear.. Epilepsy Behav, 7(3), 419-429.
• Dickson JM, Weavers HM, Mitchell N, Winter EM, Wilkinson ID, Van Beek EJR, Wild JM & Griffiths PD (2005) The effects of dehydration on brain volume -- preliminary results.. Int J Sports Med, 26(6), 481-485.
• Wilkinson ID, Hadjivassiliou M, Dickson JM, Wallis L, Grünewald RA, Coley SC, Widjaja E & Griffiths PD (2005) Cerebellar abnormalities on proton MR spectroscopy in gluten ataxia.. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 76(7), 1011-1013.
• Dickson JM & Grunewald RA (2004) Somatic symptom progression in idiopathic Parkinson's disease. PARKINSONISM RELAT D, 10(8), 487-492.
• Wignall EL, Dickson JM, Vaughan P, Farrow TFD, Wilkinson ID, Hunter MD & Woodruff PWR (2004) Smaller hippocampal volume in patients with recent-onset posttraumatic stress disorder.. Biol Psychiatry, 56(11), 832-836.
• Dickson JM (2004) Choice of cross size in stereology. Neuroradiology, 46(4), 333-333.
• Reilly JF (2004) Choice of cross size in stereology. Neuroradiology, 46(4), 332-332.
• Dickson JM, Weavers HM, Mitchell N, Winter EM, Wilkinson ID, VanBeek EJR & Griffiths PD (2003) Choice of cross size in stereology--a cautionary note.. Neuroradiology, 45(12), 896-899.
• Dickson JM, Kimaro A, Sxe Chang C & Hind D () Assessment and treatment of headache in primary care: a scoping review. BJGP Open, BJGPO.2025.0064-BJGPO.2025.0064.

Chapters

• Dickson J, Wilmer I, James C, Grunewald R, Siriwardena N, Reuber M, Wiles J & England E (2019) Convulsions in Adults In Brown SN, Kumar D, James C & Mark J (Ed.), United Kingdom Ambulance Services Clinical Practice Guidelines Bridgwater: Class Professional Publishing.

Conference proceedings papers

• Norton AC, Twohig-Bennett C, Smeaton M, Marson A, Armstrong J, Kovac A, Ashby S, Cock H, Coxon A, Dickson JM , Fearon A et al (2024) Top Ten Epilepsy Research Priorities: A UK Priority Setting Partnership. Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy
• Dickson J, Grunewald R, Reuber M, Gray C, Peacock M, Bissell P, Carusi A & Bracken P (2020) Non-Epileptic Attack Disorder: Metaphysics, Epistemology and Ontology. Non-Epileptic Attack Disorder: Metaphysics, Epistemology and Ontology, 18 October 2019.
• Grunewald RA, Dickson JM, Hick J, Jacques R, Campbell M, Morely R & Reuber M (2018) UK Unscheduled Admissions for Adults with Suspected Seizures. JNNP(Suppl 1) (pp A8-A8), 3 May 2017.
• Dickson JM, Howell SJ, Griffiths P, Wilkinson I & Grunewald RA (2003) Memory performance and magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the temporal lobes in idiopathic generalised epilepsy. JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY, Vol. 74(10) (pp 1449-1450)

Reports

• Dickson J (2023) A new tool for inclusive participation in primary care research
• Campbell F, Sworn K, Booth A, Reuber M, Grunewald R, Mack C & Dickson J (2019) Epilepsy Specialist Nurses The Evidence (ESPENTE): a Systematic Mapping Review View this article in WRRO

Posters

• McNaught E & Dickson J (2022) Comparing two different models of Research Nurse deployment to a multi-centre clinical trial in primary care: experiences from the CANAssess 2 Trial. 6th International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference.
• Hughes-Gooding TA, Mason S, Dickson JM & Stone T (2017) Modelling the Flow of Seizure Patients in the Urgent and Emergency Care System. ILAE British Chapter Annual Scientific Meeting.
• Dickson JM (2017) Can free association narrative interviews help to extend understandings of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. 3rd International Conference on Functional (Psychogenic) Neurological Disorders, 6-8 September 2017,.

Theses / Dissertations

• Dickson J (2000) The neuropathology of Parkinson's disease : cognitive and motor consequences..

Presentations

• Dickson J Primary/secondary care interface and care pathways in neurology, Neurology Service Managers network meeting.. Manchester.
• Dickson JM, Simpson R, Jacques R, Ahmed N, Grunewald R, Reuber M & Mason S Exploring Discordance Between Epilepsy Prevalence and Age-Specific Admission Rates for Seizures. Sheffield.
• Hughes-Gooding TH, Mason S, Dickson JM & Stone T Stone Modelling the Flow of Seizure Patients in the Urgent and Emergency Care System. Sheffield.
• Dickson JM Emergency Health Services for Epilepsy, Plenary Presentation, ILAE British Chapter Annual Scientific Meeting. Leeds.
• Grunewald R, Dickson J, Hick J, Jacques R, Campbell M, Morley R, Reuber M, Dickson JM, Hick J, Jacques R , Grünewald RA et al 1800 Uk unscheduled admissions for adults with suspected seizures.

Other

• Dickson J, Grunewald R, Reuber M, Gray C, Bracken P, Peacock M, Bissell P & Carusi A () Non-Epileptic Attack Disorder: Metaphysics, Epistemology and Ontology.

Preprints

• Burton C, Stone T, Oliver P, Dickson J, Lewis J & Mason S (2020) High use of the emergency department shows typical features of complex systems: analysis of multicentre linked data, medRxiv.