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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sir John Armstrong Muir Gray is a British physician, who has held senior positions in screening, public health, information management. and value in healthcare. He is the Chief Knowledge Officer for EXI, a digital health therapeutic company prescribing exercise to people with or at risk of up to 23 long-term health conditions, and Chief Wellbeing Officer for Learning with Experts, a health related online learning company working with the NHS.
Muir Gray's Published Works
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Published Works
- Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't (1996) (13755)
- Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't. 1996. (2007) (285)
- Efficiency and productivity (1997) (233)
- The doctor, the patient and the world-wide web: how the internet is changing healthcare. (2003) (232)
- Better Doctors, Better Patients, Better Decisions: Envisioning Health Care 2020 (2011) (165)
- Promoting prevention in primary care: controlled trial of low technology, low cost approach. (1987) (162)
- Clinical governance: a quality duty for health organisations. (1998) (105)
- Strategies to reduce variation in the use of surgery (2013) (98)
- Facilitating prevention in primary care. (1984) (94)
- National electronic Library for Health (NeLH) (1999) (85)
- Maximising benefit and minimising harm of screening (2008) (84)
- Breast screening programme. (1989) (79)
- New concepts in screening. (2004) (78)
- Value based healthcare (2017) (74)
- Transferring evidence from research into practice: 4. Overcoming barriers to application (1997) (62)
- Transferring evidence from research into practice: 2. Getting the evidence straight (1997) (56)
- The use of PROMs and shared decision‐making in medical encounters with patients: An opportunity to deliver value‐based health care to patients (2019) (54)
- Screening: Evidence and Practice (2019) (52)
- Launching the century of the patient (2011) (49)
- National electronic Library for Health (1999) (44)
- Mass testing for covid-19 in the UK (2020) (43)
- Better Doctors, Better Patients, Better Decisions (2011) (42)
- A first class knowledge service: developing the National electronic Library for Health. (2002) (40)
- Severe Salmonella Gastroenteritis Associated with Hypochlorhydria (1971) (37)
- The NHS economic evaluation database (1997) (33)
- The Doctor, The Patient and the World-Wide Web: How the Internet is Changing Healthcare (2003) (32)
- Evidence-based public health--what level of competence is required? (1997) (32)
- Screening for genital chlamydial infection (2000) (31)
- A 15th grand challenge for global public health (2006) (29)
- Beyond public health genomics: proposals from an international working group (2014) (28)
- Cancer Risks and Prevention (1987) (27)
- Unwarranted variation in health care for children and young people (2012) (26)
- Optimising the value of interventions for populations (2012) (24)
- Applying systems modelling to public health (2004) (24)
- ABC of Health Informatics (2006) (23)
- Recurrent Guillain-Barré syndrome after multiple exposures to cytomegalovirus. (1989) (23)
- Science on Trial: The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case (1996) (23)
- How to Integrate Personalized Medicine into Prevention? Recommendations from the Personalized Prevention of Chronic Diseases (PRECeDI) Consortium (2019) (22)
- Caring for older people (1986) (21)
- The first report of the National Screening Committee (1998) (20)
- Promoting Triple Value Healthcare in Countries with Universal Healthcare. (2016) (20)
- Advancing Transplantation: New Questions, New Possibilities in Kidney and Liver Transplantation (2017) (20)
- It’s a long shot, but it just might work! Perspectives on the future of medicine (2016) (19)
- Focus on physical activity can help avoid unnecessary social care (2017) (19)
- Housing, health, and illness. (1978) (18)
- Summarizing health status (2006) (18)
- Authors' reply (1996) (17)
- Geographical variation in certification rates of blindness and sight impairment in England, 2008–2009 (2012) (17)
- Providing Quality Care - The Challenge to Physicians (1992) (16)
- What is the role of the librarian in 21st century healthcare? (2004) (16)
- Value: Operations Research and the new health care paradigm (2012) (16)
- Creating a common language: defining individualized, personalized and precision prevention in public health (2018) (16)
- Shifting to triple value healthcare: Reflections from England. (2018) (16)
- The National Screening Committee review of diabetic retinopathy screening (2001) (15)
- Better value primary care is needed now more than ever (2017) (15)
- Quality assurance in screening programmes. (1998) (14)
- Viral Meningitis (1969) (14)
- Evidence-based, locally owned, patient-centred guideline development. (1997) (14)
- Equity and Value in ‘Precision Medicine’ (2017) (13)
- Word for word (1979) (13)
- Early Intervention for Psychotic Disorders: Building Population Health Systems. (2016) (12)
- The 1960s cervical screening incident at National Women's Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand: insights for screening research, policy making, and practice. (2020) (12)
- Time trends over five decades, and recent geographical variation, in rates of childhood squint surgery in England (2013) (12)
- User requirements and understanding of public health networks in England (2003) (12)
- Value based maternal and newborn care requires alignment of adequate resources with high value activities (2019) (11)
- Preparing a leaflet for patient education. (1982) (11)
- Screening (2019) (11)
- Cervical cancers diagnosed after negative results on cervical cytology. (1990) (11)
- Population healthcare: designing population-based systems (2017) (11)
- From public health to population medicine: the contribution of public health to health care services. (2010) (11)
- Making the future of healthcare. (2008) (11)
- Assessing health impacts on a population (2006) (11)
- Why ‘case finding’ is bad science (2019) (10)
- Making social prescriptions mainstream (2019) (10)
- Practising prevention: in old age. (1982) (10)
- EVIDENCE-BASED SCREENING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (2001) (10)
- Optimising allocative value for populations (2017) (9)
- Better value eye care for the 21st century: the population approach (2012) (9)
- Population healthcare: a new clinical responsibility (2016) (9)
- Managing population healthcare (2017) (9)
- Population healthcare: the third dimension (2017) (9)
- Promoting prevention in primary care (1987) (8)
- Plunkett ' s Health Care Industry Almanac (7)
- Section 47: Bradford 1925--United Kingdom 1988. (1990) (7)
- Public health leadership: creating the culture for the twenty-first century. (2009) (7)
- Designing healthcare for a different future (2016) (7)
- Reducing chronic stress to promote health in adults: the role of social prescriptions and social movements (2020) (7)
- Depression in men and women (1977) (7)
- Evidence based policy making. (2004) (7)
- 'Section 47'. (1981) (7)
- Healthcare organizational performance: why changing the culture really matters. Commentary. (2018) (6)
- Long-stay care for elderly people: its continuing evolution. (1982) (6)
- Information Communication Technology in Public Health: The Role of Systems Modelling (2003) (6)
- Translating indicators and targets into public health action (2006) (6)
- The limitations of cytomegalovirus screening (2006) (5)
- Deriving optimal value from each system (2017) (5)
- Two classes of creativity--improving systematic reviews. (1994) (5)
- Understanding data, information, and knowledge (2006) (5)
- Psychiatry Observed (1978) (5)
- Poly pharmacy in the Elderly: Implications for Nursing (1990) (5)
- Smart cities: health and safety for all. (2017) (5)
- Personalised and population healthcare for higher value (2018) (4)
- Problems of evidence-based patient choice in screening programmes. (2006) (4)
- Broadening the concept of patient safety culture through value-based healthcare. (2021) (4)
- Influencing government policy: a framework (2006) (4)
- Using technology-enabled social prescriptions to disrupt healthcare (2020) (4)
- Resetting priorities in precision medicine: the role of social prescribing (2020) (4)
- Evidence based medicine - Reply (1996) (4)
- Value-based genomic screening: exploring genomic screening for chronic diseases using triple value principles (2019) (4)
- How screening started (2007) (4)
- Self-medication by Jockeys (1972) (4)
- Protecting and promoting health in the workplace (2006) (4)
- National electronic Library for Health: progress and prospects. (2000) (4)
- What to do with a sick elderly woman who refuses to go to hospital. (1984) (4)
- Preventing weakness and stiffness - A top priority for health and social care. (2017) (4)
- Section 47 and the community physician (1980) (4)
- Section 47--assault on or protection of the freedom of the individual? A short response to Greaves. (1991) (4)
- Evidence-based surgical practice and patient-centered care: inevitable. (2006) (4)
- Breast cancer screening: the current position. (1991) (4)
- Epidemiological understanding: an overview of basic concepts and study designs (2006) (4)
- Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results (2006) (3)
- Visualizing value for money in public health interventions (2018) (3)
- Echo Virus Type 30 Meningitis in Edinburgh (1983) (3)
- Mumps meningitis after mumps, measles, and rubella vaccination. (1989) (3)
- Morality in the NHS marketplace (2013) (3)
- Opportunity value. (2009) (3)
- Facilitating prevention in primary care. (1984) (3)
- Systems of evidence-based healthcare and personalised health information: some international and national trends. (2000) (3)
- What is needed for better health care: Better systems, better patients or both? (2011) (3)
- Seven years of famine: health care after the crunch (2009) (3)
- Living Environments for the Elderly. 1: Living at Home (1988) (3)
- Strategic approaches to planning health services (2006) (3)
- What screening is, and is not (2007) (3)
- Improving professional practice (2006) (3)
- [What is EBM and what is not?]. (2012) (3)
- The art and science of a behavioural approach to care. (1999) (3)
- Personalised healthcare and population healthcare (2018) (3)
- screening Maximising benefit and minimising harm of (2008) (3)
- Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (1988) (2)
- Breast implants: evidence based patient choice and litigation (1999) (2)
- Learning from international models of funding and delivering health care (2006) (2)
- Planning for quality in the NHS breast screening programme. (1992) (2)
- Precision social prescriptions to promote active ageing in older people (2020) (2)
- Quality Assurance in Medical Care (1994) (2)
- Admission of old people to hospital. (1976) (2)
- The use of computerized communication may reduce the risk of adverse events during medical cross-cover (1999) (2)
- Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm (Br J Surg 2003; 90: 515-516). (2003) (2)
- Breast implants: evidence based patient choice and litigation. (1999) (2)
- The NHS must achieve better value from musculoskeletal services. (2017) (2)
- Better Allocation for Better Health and Healthcare: The First Annual Population Value Review (2007) (2)
- Health for All: A Challenge to Research in Health Manpower Development (1985) (2)
- Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm (2003) (2)
- Managing disasters and other public health crises (2006) (2)
- Improving equity in health care (2006) (2)
- Letter: The elderly mentally ill--whose responsibility? (1976) (2)
- Correction: National electronic library for health (NeLH) (British Medical Journal (1999) 4 December (1476-9)) (2000) (2)
- 2021—the year of reconditioning (2021) (2)
- Developing a culture of stewardship: how to prevent the Tragedy of the Commons in universal health systems (2020) (2)
- Beginnings Count: The Technological Imperative in American Health Care, David J Rothman. Oxford University Press (1997), 0-19-511118-4 £18.95, hbk (1998) (2)
- Investing resources to address social factors affecting health: the essential role of social prescribing (2020) (2)
- [Brief introduction of population medicine and value-based healthcare]. (2021) (2)
- Leadership of population healthcare (2017) (2)
- Sustainability in Ophthalmology (2014) (2)
- Ethics of antenatal and neonatal screening (2000) (2)
- Specialties within community medicine (1976) (2)
- Law in public health practice (2006) (2)
- Knowledge-based commissioning (2007) (1)
- Use of benzodiazepines in private nursing homes: a drug 'index' as an indicator of quality in nursing home care. (1991) (1)
- Viva the revolution. (2008) (1)
- The public health response to 'hard to reach' populations (2006) (1)
- Communities of Influence (2021) (1)
- Genetics in disease prevention (2006) (1)
- Operational and business planning (2006) (1)
- A SOCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLISH CHILDHOOD (2015) (1)
- Viewpoint: The need for activity therapy. (2017) (1)
- Setting priorities in health care (2006) (1)
- Journals and the quality of peer reviewing : a customer's perspective (2008) (1)
- Variations in health‐care activity and quality (2006) (1)
- Containing escalating referrals by bringing optometrists into the NHS (2014) (1)
- Monitoring disease and risk factors: surveillance (2006) (1)
- The accreditation system of Italian medical residency programs: fostering quality and sustainability of the National Health Service (2019) (1)
- Digitally enabled social prescriptions: adaptive interventions to promote health in children and young people (2020) (1)
- The practice of public health in primary care (2006) (1)
- Money isn’t the most critical resource—we need to consider time and carbon (2022) (1)
- Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke (1988) (1)
- Assessing health needs (2006) (1)
- Measuring and monitoring health inequalities and auditing inequity (2006) (1)
- Basic Health Education (1978) (1)
- Translating policy into indicators and targets (2006) (1)
- Practical Guide for Medical Officers for Environmental Health (1981) (1)
- Smoking cessation is associated with a significant decrease in postpartum relapse rates (2000) (1)
- Falling rate of provision of residential care for the elderly (1982) (1)
- The Ethics of Resource Allocation in Health Care (1980) (1)
- Antibacterial prophylaxis--a clinician's view. (1979) (1)
- National electronic library for dentists (2000) (1)
- Rugby football injuries to the cervical spine (1983) (1)
- Section 47 : The compulsory removal of old people from their homes (1980) (1)
- Measuring what screening does (2007) (1)
- Quality assuring screening programmes (2007) (1)
- Taking action to improve quality (2006) (0)
- Understanding health‐care quality (2006) (0)
- Evaluating health‐care systems (2006) (0)
- Turning public health problems into answerable questions (2006) (0)
- Scoping public health problems (2006) (0)
- Keep Your Brain Tissue Healthy (0)
- Managed care was more cost-effective than fee-for-service in treating the frail elderly (1998) (0)
- [The impact of dental research on health promotion and the advancement of science in general]. (1988) (0)
- Improving health and health care through informatics (2006) (0)
- Postmenopausal osteoporosis (1982) (0)
- Providing data and evidence for practitioners and policy makers (2006) (0)
- An introduction to health‐care strategy (2006) (0)
- Admission of old people to hospital. (1976) (0)
- Is Prevention Better than Cure?, Louise Russell. The Brookings Institute (1986), ISBN 0-8157-7631-4 (pbk), 134 pp, ISBN: 0-8157-7632-2 (hbk) (1998) (0)
- Commissioning health care (2006) (0)
- Investigating changes in occurrence (2006) (0)
- Universal ante-natal HIV screening is more cost-effective than selective screening (2000) (0)
- Maintain and Increase Blood Supply to the Brain (0)
- Reviews : A welcome new series (1982) (0)
- Long-term care of old people (1981) (0)
- Letter to readers (1997) (0)
- Medical manpower (1977) (0)
- Facilitating community action (2006) (0)
- Using qualitative methods (2006) (0)
- High value genetic services through outcomes-based systems specifications (2018) (0)
- Considering the curricular impact of lactation consulting/counseling on breastfeeding decisions within two West Virginia county WIC programs (2010) (0)
- Housing, health, and illness. (1978) (0)
- Influence of misleading publications on general practitioners and purchasers (1996) (0)
- Investigating alleged clusters (2006) (0)
- The need for a new healthcare paradigm: patient-centered and knowledge-driven (2004) (0)
- Innovation and efficiency. Diagnostic services: the bigger picture. (2014) (0)
- Comment: 'Section 47'. (1980) (0)
- The correct name for hypertension (2014) (0)
- Implementing screening programmes (2019) (0)
- Understanding ethics in public health (2006) (0)
- Plenary: Slides to accompany the key-note speech (2009) (0)
- Economic evaluation—the science behind the art of making choices (2006) (0)
- Informing Healthier Choices - Delivering Clean Clear Intelligence for Commissioning - Just Like Water (2008) (0)
- Philosophy in Medicine: Conceptual and Ethical Issues in Medicine and Psychiatry (1983) (0)
- Sustainability and transformation plans: light a candle rather than cursing the dark? (2017) (0)
- The long and the short of medicine (1976) (0)
- Influencing international policy (2006) (0)
- A population-based approach to end of life care and advance care planning (2018) (0)
- Mumps. (1973) (0)
- Effect of printed educational materials alone is at best small and of uncertain clinical significance in changing the behavior of health care professionals (1998) (0)
- Spring Books: Word for word (1979) (0)
- Training for population and personalised healthcare (2017) (0)
- Financial incentives lowered health care utilization in managed care plans but some aspects of clinical practice did not appear to be price-sensitive (1997) (0)
- Audit and patient care (1988) (0)
- The Future of Brainability (0)
- Harry T. Phillips and Susan A. Gaylord (eds.), Aging and Public Health, Springer Publishing Company, New York, 1985, 325 pp., $27.95, ISBN 0 8261 4380 6. (1986) (0)
- Public health in poorer countries (2006) (0)
- D. S. Byrne, S. P. Harrisson, J. Keithley and P. McCarthy, Housing and Health: The Relationship between Housing Conditions and the Health of Council Tenants. London: Gower Press, 1986, 149 pages. Price (UK) £15.00 (1986) (0)
- Influencing governments via media advocacy (2006) (0)
- What to do when you don't trust your doctor. (1987) (0)
- The use of car telephones, including hand-free units, was associated with a quadrupling of the risk of a collision during the call (1997) (0)
- Golden rules of public health practice (2006) (0)
- Shaping your organization's policy (2006) (0)
- Is a Constructive Discharge Resulting from a Supervisor's Environmental Harassment a Tangible Employment Action? (2004) (0)
- Muir Gray: Evangelist for walking (2014) (0)
- Quality improvement through chronic disease management (2006) (0)
- Getting research into practice (2006) (0)
- Publishing information about deaths from cardiac surgery changed hospital management, clinical care and patient preference (1999) (0)
- Section 47 and the community physician. (1980) (0)
- Anna Donald (2009) (0)
- Spring Books: Word for word (1979) (0)
- Assessing health status (2006) (0)
- The development of logical and rational criteria for rationing chronic dialysis is problematic (1999) (0)
- Training for community medicine: A worm's eye view (1976) (0)
- Tom Arie (ed.), Health Care of the Elderly: Essays in Old Age, Medicare, Psychiatry and Services, Groom Helm, London, 1981. 240 pp. No price. ISBN 0 7099 0252 2. (1982) (0)
- Housing, health, and illness. (1978) (0)
- Evaluating patient experience and health‐care process data (2006) (0)
- Employing more doctors in a health care system did not result in fewer admissions (1997) (0)
- Medicine and the media (1982) (0)
- The impact of community-based health promotion program is greatest on discrete sub-groups within the population (1999) (0)
- Criteria for assessing effective public health action (2006) (0)
- Dave and Barbara Sackett in Oxford. (2016) (0)
- Public health policy at a European level (2006) (0)
- Preventing epidemics of communicable disease (2006) (0)
- Involving the public (2006) (0)
- Changing attitudes in medicine. (1978) (0)
- Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm (Br J Surg 2003; 90: 515‐516) (2003) (0)
- Dan Blazer and Ilene C. Siegler (eds), A Family Approach to Health Care of the Elderly . Addison Wesley, New York, 1984, 242 pp., ISBN 0 201 03991 5. (1984) (0)
- Evidence for Population Health. Richard Heller, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. £19.95. ISBN 0-19-852974-0. (2006) (0)
- Developing healthy public policy (2006) (0)
- Empower young people with type 1 diabetes (2022) (0)
- Clinical quality, governance, and accountability (2006) (0)
- Increase your Brainability—and Reduce your Risk of Dementia (0)
- Coronary heart disease--planning for prevention. (1984) (0)
- The public health physician and the provider. (1992) (0)
- The Elderly in Scandinavia Demographic, Economic, Social and Health Conditions in 1834 (1984) (0)
- Consultancy in a national strategy (2020) (0)
- A chronology of public health practice (2006) (0)
- Assuring screening programmes (2020) (0)
- Public health leadership (2006) (0)
- Being a political activist (2006) (0)
- Assessing longer‐term health trends: registers (2006) (0)
- Blanks screening Maximising benefit and minimising harm of (2008) (0)
- 3.6 Assuring screening programmes (2006) (0)
- Using Programme Budgeting To Tackle Unwarranted Variation And Improve Outcomes In COPD (2011) (0)
- Identification of Organisational Models for the Provision of Predictive Genomic Applications (2020) (0)
- SUSTAINING CANCER CARE THROUGH COLLABORATIVE STEWARDSHIP This symposium took place on 9 th September 2017 , as part of the European Society for Medical Oncology ( ESMO ) meeting in Madrid , Spain (2017) (0)
- Reviews : Putting the facts across (1981) (0)
- How this journal works (1998) (0)
- Measuring what a screening programme does (2019) (0)
- 1.8 Innovative ways to solve public health problems (2006) (0)
- 643: MRSA screening in obstetrics (2011) (0)
- Dementia prevention needs funding. (2021) (0)
- Living Longer Better (0)
- Sources of reference (2006) (0)
- The atlas of variation in healthcare Brazil: remarkable findings from a middle-income country (2023) (0)
- 3.2 Protecting health, sustaining the environment (2006) (0)
- Quality-assuring screening programmes (2019) (0)
- Response to above Commentaries and Letters by the authors of "The 1960s cervical screening incident at National Women's Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand: insights for screening research, policy making, and practice". (2020) (0)
- Making screening policy (2007) (0)
- The AMA should not mix its own politics with science (2018) (0)
- Working in teams (2006) (0)
- The need for healthcare public health to be the third domain (2023) (0)
- Making policy on screening programmes (2019) (0)
- What screening does (2007) (0)
- The words-numbers continuum. (1979) (0)
- Day-to-day management of screening programmes for public health practitioners and managers (2019) (0)
- Abbreviations and glossary (2006) (0)
- Breast cancer screening. (1991) (0)
- Leisure-Related Cancer and its Control (1989) (0)
- Visualising value for money in public health interventions (2018) (0)
- Evaluating health‐care technologies (2006) (0)
- Foreword to the first edition (2006) (0)
- Stewardship for surgery. (2022) (0)
- Being explicit about values in public health (2006) (0)
- Finding and appraising evidence (2006) (0)
- Understanding the Potential for Protecting and Improving Brainability (0)
- Public health: covert operations division. (2009) (0)
- Using guidance and frameworks (2006) (0)
- Increase Your Ability to Interact with People and Ideas (0)
- Day to day management of screening for public health practitioners and programme managers (2007) (0)
- Forty years on (2009) (0)
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