Cohort Profile: Generation Scotland: Scottish Family Health Study (GS: SFHS). The study, its participants and their potential for genetic research on health and illness

…, A Campbell, P Linksted, B Fitzpatrick… - International journal …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
GS:SFHS is a family-based genetic epidemiology study with DNA and socio-demographic
and clinical data from about 24 000 volunteers across Scotland aged 18–98 years, from …

[HTML][HTML] Management of multimorbidity using a patient-centred care model: a pragmatic cluster-randomised trial of the 3D approach

…, K Chaplin, DM Gaunt, S Brookes, B Fitzpatrick… - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background The management of people with multiple chronic conditions challenges health-care
systems designed around single conditions. There is international consensus that care …

[HTML][HTML] Generation Scotland: the Scottish Family Health Study; a new resource for researching genes and heritability

…, M Connor, IJ Deary, AF Dominiczak, B Fitzpatrick… - BMC medical …, 2006 - Springer
Background Generation Scotland: the Scottish Family Health Study aims to identify genetic
variants accounting for variation in levels of quantitative traits underlying the major common …

General practitioner empathy, patient enablement, and patient-reported outcomes in primary care in an area of high socio-economic deprivation in Scotland—a pilot …

SW Mercer, M Neumann, M Wirtz, B Fitzpatrick… - Patient education and …, 2008 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this pilot prospective study was to investigate the relationships
between general practitioners (GPs) empathy, patient enablement, and patient-assessed …

Sex differences in myocardial infarction and coronary deaths in the Scottish MONICA population of Glasgow 1985 to 1991: presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and 28 …

…, C Morrison, M Woodward, B Fitzpatrick… - Circulation, 1996 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Scottish MONICA used medical and medicolegal records and World Health
Organization MONICA Project criteria to register coronary events in 25- to 64-year-old residents …

General practitioners' empathy and health outcomes: a prospective observational study of consultations in areas of high and low deprivation

…, M Higgins, AM Bikker, B Fitzpatrick… - The Annals of Family …, 2016 - Annals Family Med
PURPOSE We set out to compare patients’ expectations, consultation characteristics, and
outcomes in areas of high and low socioeconomic deprivation, and to examine whether the …

[HTML][HTML] The CARE Plus study–a whole-system intervention to improve quality of life of primary care patients with multimorbidity in areas of high socioeconomic …

SW Mercer, B Fitzpatrick, B Guthrie, E Fenwick… - BMC medicine, 2016 - Springer
Background Multimorbidity is common in deprived communities and reduces quality of life.
Our aim was to evaluate a whole-system primary care-based complex intervention, called …

[HTML][HTML] More time for complex consultations in a high-deprivation practice is associated with increased patient enablement

SW Mercer, B Fitzpatrick, G Gourlay, G Vojt… - British Journal of …, 2007 - bjgp.org
Background Evidence of the beneficial effects of longer consultations in general practice is
limited. Aim To evaluate the effect of increasing consultation length on patient enablement in …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring empathic, person-centred communication in primary care nurses: validity and reliability of the Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) …

AP Bikker, B Fitzpatrick, D Murphy, SW Mercer - BMC Family Practice, 2015 - Springer
Background Empathic patient-centred care is central to high quality health encounters. The
Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) Measure is a patient-rated experience …

Multimorbidity and socioeconomic deprivation in primary care consultations

…, M Higgins, P Little, B Fitzpatrick… - The Annals of Family …, 2018 - Annals Family Med
PURPOSE The influence of multimorbidity on the clinical encounter is poorly understood,
especially in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation where burdensome multimorbidity is …