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Elaine McColl
Researcher at Newcastle University
Publications - 256
Citations - 10635
Elaine McColl is an academic researcher from Newcastle University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Randomized controlled trial & Psychological intervention. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 242 publications receiving 9156 citations. Previous affiliations of Elaine McColl include Royal Victoria Infirmary & University of Newcastle.
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Design and use of questionnaires: a review of best practice applicable to surveys of health service staff and patients
Elaine McColl,Ann Jacoby,Lois H Thomas,J Soutter,Claire Bamford,Nick Steen,Robert P. Thomas,E Harvey,A Garratt,John H. Bond +9 more
TL;DR: The aim is to gather valid, reliable, unbiased and discriminatory data from a representative sample of respondents, but the information yielded is subject to error and bias from a range of sources.
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Dexamethasone and supportive care with or without whole brain radiotherapy in treating patients with non-small cell lung cancer with brain metastases unsuitable for resection or stereotactic radiotherapy (QUARTZ): results from a phase 3, non-inferiority, randomised trial.
P. Mulvenna,Matthew Nankivell,Rachael Barton,Corinne Faivre-Finn,P. Wilson,Elaine McColl,Barbara Moore,Iona Brisbane,David Ardron,Tanya Holt,Sally Morgan,C. Lee,Kathryn Waite,Neil A Bayman,C. Pugh,Benjamin Sydes,Richard Stephens,Mahesh K.B. Parmar,Ruth E Langley +18 more
TL;DR: Significantly more episodes of drowsiness, hair loss, nausea, and dry or itchy scalp were reported while patients were receiving WBRT, although there was no evidence of a difference in the rate of serious adverse events between the two groups.
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The effectiveness of financial incentives for health behaviour change: systematic review and meta-analysis.
TL;DR: The available evidence suggests that financial incentive interventions are more effective than usual care or no intervention for encouraging healthy behaviour change.
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Effect of computerised evidence based guidelines on management of asthma and angina in adults in primary care
Martin P Eccles,Elaine McColl,Nick Steen,Nikki Rousseau,Jeremy M. Grimshaw,David Parkin,Ian Purves +6 more
TL;DR: No effect was found of computerised evidence based guidelines on the management of asthma or angina in adults in primary care, despite the system being optimised as far as was technically possible.