Objectives To establish the role and value of written information available to patients about
individual medicines from the perspective of patients, carers and professionals. To determine …

… Simon M Gilbody, MRC fellow in health services research (smgilbody{at}leeds.ac.uk)a, …
Correspondence to: SM Gilbody Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, …

… No direct evidence exists that there is a benefit in this respect for those working and
being cared for in either primary care or specialist psychiatric services Gilbody et al, 2001a,b). …

Meta-analysis is now a widely used technique for summarizing evidence from multiple
studies. Publication bias, the bias induced by the fact that research with statistically significant …

Objectives. To investigate which methods to identify post-natal depression are the most
extensively validated, in what setting and in what language. Methods. A systematic search of the …

BackgroundOutcomes research involves the secondary analysis of data collected routinely
by clinical services, in order to judge the effectiveness of interventions and policy initiatives. It …

… SM Gilbody and others … The results of the present review should be considered alongside
the results of our previous review (Gilbody et al. 2001a), which found that specific mood …

Objective To investigate the links between vegetarianism (meat avoidance) and weight
control in young women. Methods Self‐reported food habits (indicating meat avoidance and …

Objective: Publication bias threatens the validity of published research, although this topic
has received little attention in psychiatry. The purpose of this article is to produce a systematic …

Background Postnatal depression (PND) is a common mental health problem, which is
associated with adverse consequences beyond the individual with depression. It is not known …