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Full NameProfessor John Patrick Browne

Epidemiology and Public Health

University College Cork

Webpage:www.ucc.ie

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Research Fields
  • epidemiology/population health research
Postgrad Medical Specialties
  • Medicine
  • Surgery
  • Emergency Medicine
  • General Practice
  • Public Health
Medical Subspecialties
  • Cardiology
  • Community Medicine
  • Oncology
  • Orthopaedic surgery
  • Otorhinolaryngology
My Work

Health services research
- Quality of care achieved by healthcare providers, particularly with respect to surgical outcomes.
- Comparing models of urgent and emergency care provision.
- Implementation of quality improvement solutions in elective surgery, emergency medicine and primary care.

Patient centered outcomes research
- The use of patient-reported outcome measures in the quality improvement field.
- Psychometric development of new measures of health-related quality of life.

Secondary research
- Use of large routine datasets to compare quality of health care providers and conduct comparative effectiveness research.
- Systematic review and meta-analysis methods.

Cadogan S, Browne JP, Bradley C, Cahill MR. The effectiveness of interventions to improve laboratory requesting patterns among primary care physicians: a systematic review. Implementation Science. 2015;10:167.

Jeevan R, Browne JP, Pereira J, Caddy CM, Sheppard C, van der Meulen JHP, Cromwell DA. Socioeconomic deprivation and inpatient complication rates following mastectomy and breast reconstruction surgery in the English National Health Service. British Journal of Surgery 2015;9:1064-70.

Boyce M, Browne JP. The effectiveness of providing peer benchmarked feedback to hip replacement surgeons based on patient-reported outcome measures - results from the PROFILE (Patient-Reported Outcomes: Feedback Interpretation and Learning Experiment) trial: a cluster randomised controlled study. BMJ Open 2015;5:e008325.