2023

Mercer, S. W., Lunan, C. J., MacRae, C., Henderson, D. A.G., Fitzpatrick, B., Gillies, J., Guthrie, B. and Reilly, J. (2023) Half a century of the inverse care law: a comparison of general practitioner job satisfaction and patient satisfaction in deprived and affluent areas of Scotland. Scottish Medical Journal, 68(1), pp. 14-20. (doi: 10.1177/00369330221132156) (PMID:36250546)

2021

Chng, N. R. , Hawkins, K., Fitzpatrick, B., O'Donnell, C. , Mackenzie, M. , Wyke, S. and Mercer, S. (2021) Implementing social prescribing in primary care in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation: process evaluation of the ‘Deep End’ community links worker programme. British Journal of General Practice, 71(713), e912-e920. (doi: 10.3399/BJGP.2020.1153) (PMID:34019479) (PMCID:PMC8463130)

2020

Hayes, H., Gibson, J., Fitzpatrick, B., Checkland, K., Guthrie, B., Sutton, M., Gillies, J. and Mercer, S. W. (2020) Working lives of GPs in Scotland and England: cross-sectional analysis of national surveys. BMJ Open, 10(10), e042236. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-042236) (PMID:33127639) (PMCID:PMC7604859)

Thorn, J. et al. (2020) Cost-effectiveness of a patient-centred approach to managing multimorbidity in primary care: a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open, 10(1), e030110. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030110) (PMID:31959601) (PMCID:PMC7044971)

2019

Mercer, S. W. , Fitzpatrick, B., Grant, L., Chng, N. R. , McConnachie, A. , Bakhshi, A., James-Rae, G., O'Donnell, C. A. and Wyke, S. (2019) Effectiveness of community-links practitioners in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation. Annals of Family Medicine, 17(6), pp. 518-525. (doi: 10.1370/afm.2429) (PMID:31712290)

Noble-Jones, R. , Jamieson, S. and Fitzpatrick, B. (2019) The Asset-based Collaborative Working model (ACW model): pragmatic action research in healthcare service development. British Journal of Healthcare Management, 25(1), pp. 32-40. (doi: 10.12968/bjhc.2019.25.1.32)

2018

Salisbury, C. et al. (2018) Management of multimorbidity using a patient-centred care model: a pragmatic cluster-randomised trial of the 3D approach. Lancet, 392(10141), pp. 41-50. (doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31308-4) (PMID:29961638) (PMCID:PMC6041724)

Mercer, S. W. , Zhou, Y., Humphris, G. M., McConnachie, A. , Bakhshi, A., Bikker, A., Higgins, M., Little, P., Fitzpatrick, B. and Watt, G. C.M. (2018) Multimorbidity and socioeconomic deprivation in primary care consultations. Annals of Family Medicine, 16(2), pp. 127-131. (doi: 10.1370/afm.2202) (PMID:29531103)

2017

Bikker, A. P., Fitzpatrick, B., Murphy, D., Forster, L. and Mercer, S. W. (2017) Assessing the Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) Measure in sexual health nurses' consultations. BMC Nursing, 16, 71. (doi: 10.1186/s12912-017-0265-8) (PMID:29204104) (PMCID:PMC5702142)

Mercer, S. W. , Fitzpatrick, B., Grant, L., Chng, N. R. , O'Donnell, C. , Mackenzie, M. , McConnachie, A. , Bakhshi, A. and Wyke, S. (2017) The Glasgow ‘Deep End’ Links Worker Study Protocol: a quasi-experimental evaluation of a social prescribing intervention for patients with complex needs in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation. Journal of Comorbidity, 7(1), pp. 1-10. (doi: 10.15256/joc.2017.7.102)

Welch, V., Turner-Halliday, F., Watson, N. , Wilson, P., Fitzpatrick, B., Cotmore, R. and Minnis, H. (2017) Randomisation before consent: avoiding delay to time-critical intervention and ensuring informed consent. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 20(4), pp. 357-371. (doi: 10.1080/13645579.2016.1176751)

2016

Mercer, S. W. , O'Brien, R., Fitzpatrick, B., Higgins, M., Guthrie, B., Watt, G. and Wyke, S. (2016) The development and optimisation of a primary care-based whole system complex intervention (CARE Plus) for patients with multimorbidity living in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation. Chronic Illness, 12(3), pp. 165-181. (doi: 10.1177/1742395316644304) (PMID:27068113) (PMCID:PMC4995497)

Man, M.-S. et al. (2016) Improving the management of multimorbidity in general practice: protocol of a cluster randomised controlled trial (The 3D Study). BMJ Open, 6(4), e011261. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011261) (PMID:27113241) (PMCID:PMC4854003)

Mercer, S. W. , Higgins, M., Bikker, A. M., Fitzpatrick, B., McConnachie, A. , Lloyd, S. M. , Little, P. and Watt, G. C. M. (2016) General practitioners empathy and health outcomes: a prospective observational study of consultations in areas of high and low deprivation. Annals of Family Medicine, 14(2), pp. 117-124. (doi: 10.1370/afm.1910) (PMID:26951586) (PMCID:PMC4781514)

Mercer, S. W. et al. (2016) The Care Plus study- a whole system intervention to improve quality of life of primary care patients with multimorbidity in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation: exploratory cluster randomised controlled trial and cost-utility analysis. BMC Medicine, 14, 88. (doi: 10.1186/s12916-016-0634-2) (PMID:27328975) (PMCID:PMC4916534)

2015

Bikker, A. P., Fitzpatrick, B., Murphy, D. and Mercer, S. W. (2015) Measuring empathic, person-centred communication in primary care nurses: validity and reliability of the consultation and relational empathy (CARE) measure. BMC Family Practice, 16, 149. (doi: 10.1186/s12875-015-0374-y) (PMID:26493072) (PMCID:PMC4619021)

2014

Noble-Jones, R., Fitzpatrick, B., Sneddon, M. C., Hendry, D. S. and Leung, H. Y., (2014) Development of the Lymphoedema Genito-Urinary Cancer Questionnaire. British Journal of Nursing, 23(S18), pp. 14-19. (doi: 10.12968/bjon.2014.23.Sup18.S14)

2013

Smith, B. H. et al. (2013) Cohort Profile: Generation Scotland: Scottish Family Health Study (GS:SFHS). The study, its participants and their potential for genetic research on health and illness. International Journal of Epidemiology, 42(3), pp. 689-700. (doi: 10.1093/ije/dys084)

Pritchett, R. et al. (2013) A feasibility randomised controlled trial of the New Orleans intervention of infant mental health: a study protocol. Scientific World Journal, 2013(838042), (doi: 10.1155/2013/838042)

2012

Murie, J., Messow, C.-M. and Fitzpatrick, B. (2012) The feasibility of screening for and treating vitamin D deficiency in forensic psychiatric inpatients. Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 19(8), pp. 457-464. (doi: 10.1016/j.jflm.2012.04.003)

Davies, R., Fitzpatrick, B., O'Neill, A. and Sneddon, M. (2012) Lymphoedema education needs of clinicians: a national study. Journal of Lymphoedema, 7(2), pp. 14-24.

Hocking, L.J. et al. (2012) Heritability of chronic pain in 2195 extended families. European Journal of Pain, 16(7), pp. 1053-1063. (doi: 10.1002/j.1532-2149.2011.00095.x)

Jani, B. , Bikker, A., Higgins, M., Fitzpatrick, B., Little, P., Watt, G.C.M. and Mercer, S.W. (2012) Patient-centredness and the outcome of consultations with depressed patients in areas of high and low socioeconomic deprivation. British Journal of General Practice, 62(601), e576-e581. (doi: 10.3399/bjgp12X653633)

2010

Luciano, M. et al. (2010) Shared genetic aetiology between cognitive ability and cardiovascular disease risk factors: Generation Scotland's Scottish family health study. Intelligence, 38(3), pp. 304-313. (doi: 10.1016/j.intell.2010.03.002)

2008

Mercer, S.W., Neumann, M., Wirtz, M., Fitzpatrick, B. and Vojt, G. (2008) General practitioner empathy, patient enablement, and patient-reported outcomes in primary care in an area of high socio-economic deprivation in Scotland - a pilot prospective study using structural equation modelling. Patient Education and Counseling, 73(2), pp. 240-245. (doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2008.07.022)

2007

Mercer, S.W. , Fitzpatrick, B., Gourlay, G., Vojt, G., Mcconnachie, A. and Watt, G.C.M. (2007) More time for complex consultations in a high deprivation practice is associated with increased patient enablement. British Journal of General Practice, 57(545), pp. 960-966. (doi: 10.3399/096016407782604910)

2006

Cunningham, D., Fitzpatrick, B. and Kelly, D. (2006) Administration and clerical staff perceptions and experiences of protected learning time: a focus group study. Quality in Health Care, 14(3), pp. 177-184.

Cunningham, D., Fitzpatrick, B. and Kelly, D. (2006) Practice managers' perceptions and experiences of protected learning time: a focus group study. Quality in Health Care, 14(3), pp. 169-175.

Smith, B.H. et al. (2006) Generation Scotland: the Scottish family health study; a new resource for researching genes and heritability. BMC Medical Genetics, 7, p. 74. (doi: 10.1186/1471-2350-7-74)

2005

Senok, A., Wilson, P., Reid, M., Scoular, A., Craig, N., McConnachie, A. , Fitzpatrick, B. and MacDonald, A. (2005) Can we evaluate population screening strategies in UK general practice? A pilot randomised controlled trial comparing postal and opportunistic screening for genital chlamydial infection. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 59(3), pp. 198-204. (doi: 10.1136/jech.2004.021584)

1996

Leslie, W.S., Fitzpatrick, B., Morrison, C.E., Watt, G.C. and Tunstall-Pedoe, H. (1996) Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest due to coronary heart disease: a comparison of survival before and after the introduction of defibrillators in ambulances. Heart, 75(2), pp. 195-199. (doi: 10.1136/hrt.75.2.195)

Tunstall-Pedoe, H., Morrison, C., Woodward, M., Fitzpatrick, B. and Watt, G. (1996) Sex Differences in Myocardial Infarction and Coronary Deaths in the Scottish MONICA Population of Glasgow 1985 to 1991: Presentation, Diagnosis, Treatment, and 28-Day Case Fatality of 3991 Events in Men and 1551 Events in Women. Circulation, 93(1), pp. 1981-1992. (doi: 10.1161/01.CIR.93.11.1981)

1994

Fitzpatrick, B. and Taylor, R. (1994) A comparative study of quality criteria. Nursing Standard, 8(37), pp. 25-29.

Fitzpatrick, B. and Taylor, R. (1994) Patients' criteria in assessing quality. Nursing Standard, 8(38), pp. 34-39.

Fitzpatrick, B. and Taylor, R. (1994) User evaluations in the National Health Service. In: Connor, A. and Black, S. (eds.) Performance Review and Quality in Social Care. Series: Research Highlights in Social Work (20). Jessica Kingsley Publishers: London, England, pp. 109-121. ISBN 9781853020179

1992

Fitzpatrick, B., Watt, G. and Tunstall-Pedoe, H. (1992) Potential impact of emergency intervention on sudden deaths from coronary heart disease in Glasgow. British Heart Journal, 67(3), pp. 250-254.

Articles

Mercer, S. W., Lunan, C. J., MacRae, C., Henderson, D. A.G., Fitzpatrick, B., Gillies, J., Guthrie, B. and Reilly, J. (2023) Half a century of the inverse care law: a comparison of general practitioner job satisfaction and patient satisfaction in deprived and affluent areas of Scotland. Scottish Medical Journal, 68(1), pp. 14-20. (doi: 10.1177/00369330221132156) (PMID:36250546)

Chng, N. R. , Hawkins, K., Fitzpatrick, B., O'Donnell, C. , Mackenzie, M. , Wyke, S. and Mercer, S. (2021) Implementing social prescribing in primary care in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation: process evaluation of the ‘Deep End’ community links worker programme. British Journal of General Practice, 71(713), e912-e920. (doi: 10.3399/BJGP.2020.1153) (PMID:34019479) (PMCID:PMC8463130)

Hayes, H., Gibson, J., Fitzpatrick, B., Checkland, K., Guthrie, B., Sutton, M., Gillies, J. and Mercer, S. W. (2020) Working lives of GPs in Scotland and England: cross-sectional analysis of national surveys. BMJ Open, 10(10), e042236. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-042236) (PMID:33127639) (PMCID:PMC7604859)

Thorn, J. et al. (2020) Cost-effectiveness of a patient-centred approach to managing multimorbidity in primary care: a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open, 10(1), e030110. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-030110) (PMID:31959601) (PMCID:PMC7044971)

Mercer, S. W. , Fitzpatrick, B., Grant, L., Chng, N. R. , McConnachie, A. , Bakhshi, A., James-Rae, G., O'Donnell, C. A. and Wyke, S. (2019) Effectiveness of community-links practitioners in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation. Annals of Family Medicine, 17(6), pp. 518-525. (doi: 10.1370/afm.2429) (PMID:31712290)

Noble-Jones, R. , Jamieson, S. and Fitzpatrick, B. (2019) The Asset-based Collaborative Working model (ACW model): pragmatic action research in healthcare service development. British Journal of Healthcare Management, 25(1), pp. 32-40. (doi: 10.12968/bjhc.2019.25.1.32)

Salisbury, C. et al. (2018) Management of multimorbidity using a patient-centred care model: a pragmatic cluster-randomised trial of the 3D approach. Lancet, 392(10141), pp. 41-50. (doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31308-4) (PMID:29961638) (PMCID:PMC6041724)

Mercer, S. W. , Zhou, Y., Humphris, G. M., McConnachie, A. , Bakhshi, A., Bikker, A., Higgins, M., Little, P., Fitzpatrick, B. and Watt, G. C.M. (2018) Multimorbidity and socioeconomic deprivation in primary care consultations. Annals of Family Medicine, 16(2), pp. 127-131. (doi: 10.1370/afm.2202) (PMID:29531103)

Bikker, A. P., Fitzpatrick, B., Murphy, D., Forster, L. and Mercer, S. W. (2017) Assessing the Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) Measure in sexual health nurses' consultations. BMC Nursing, 16, 71. (doi: 10.1186/s12912-017-0265-8) (PMID:29204104) (PMCID:PMC5702142)

Mercer, S. W. , Fitzpatrick, B., Grant, L., Chng, N. R. , O'Donnell, C. , Mackenzie, M. , McConnachie, A. , Bakhshi, A. and Wyke, S. (2017) The Glasgow ‘Deep End’ Links Worker Study Protocol: a quasi-experimental evaluation of a social prescribing intervention for patients with complex needs in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation. Journal of Comorbidity, 7(1), pp. 1-10. (doi: 10.15256/joc.2017.7.102)

Welch, V., Turner-Halliday, F., Watson, N. , Wilson, P., Fitzpatrick, B., Cotmore, R. and Minnis, H. (2017) Randomisation before consent: avoiding delay to time-critical intervention and ensuring informed consent. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 20(4), pp. 357-371. (doi: 10.1080/13645579.2016.1176751)

Mercer, S. W. , O'Brien, R., Fitzpatrick, B., Higgins, M., Guthrie, B., Watt, G. and Wyke, S. (2016) The development and optimisation of a primary care-based whole system complex intervention (CARE Plus) for patients with multimorbidity living in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation. Chronic Illness, 12(3), pp. 165-181. (doi: 10.1177/1742395316644304) (PMID:27068113) (PMCID:PMC4995497)

Man, M.-S. et al. (2016) Improving the management of multimorbidity in general practice: protocol of a cluster randomised controlled trial (The 3D Study). BMJ Open, 6(4), e011261. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011261) (PMID:27113241) (PMCID:PMC4854003)

Mercer, S. W. , Higgins, M., Bikker, A. M., Fitzpatrick, B., McConnachie, A. , Lloyd, S. M. , Little, P. and Watt, G. C. M. (2016) General practitioners empathy and health outcomes: a prospective observational study of consultations in areas of high and low deprivation. Annals of Family Medicine, 14(2), pp. 117-124. (doi: 10.1370/afm.1910) (PMID:26951586) (PMCID:PMC4781514)

Mercer, S. W. et al. (2016) The Care Plus study- a whole system intervention to improve quality of life of primary care patients with multimorbidity in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation: exploratory cluster randomised controlled trial and cost-utility analysis. BMC Medicine, 14, 88. (doi: 10.1186/s12916-016-0634-2) (PMID:27328975) (PMCID:PMC4916534)

Bikker, A. P., Fitzpatrick, B., Murphy, D. and Mercer, S. W. (2015) Measuring empathic, person-centred communication in primary care nurses: validity and reliability of the consultation and relational empathy (CARE) measure. BMC Family Practice, 16, 149. (doi: 10.1186/s12875-015-0374-y) (PMID:26493072) (PMCID:PMC4619021)

Noble-Jones, R., Fitzpatrick, B., Sneddon, M. C., Hendry, D. S. and Leung, H. Y., (2014) Development of the Lymphoedema Genito-Urinary Cancer Questionnaire. British Journal of Nursing, 23(S18), pp. 14-19. (doi: 10.12968/bjon.2014.23.Sup18.S14)

Smith, B. H. et al. (2013) Cohort Profile: Generation Scotland: Scottish Family Health Study (GS:SFHS). The study, its participants and their potential for genetic research on health and illness. International Journal of Epidemiology, 42(3), pp. 689-700. (doi: 10.1093/ije/dys084)

Pritchett, R. et al. (2013) A feasibility randomised controlled trial of the New Orleans intervention of infant mental health: a study protocol. Scientific World Journal, 2013(838042), (doi: 10.1155/2013/838042)

Murie, J., Messow, C.-M. and Fitzpatrick, B. (2012) The feasibility of screening for and treating vitamin D deficiency in forensic psychiatric inpatients. Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 19(8), pp. 457-464. (doi: 10.1016/j.jflm.2012.04.003)

Davies, R., Fitzpatrick, B., O'Neill, A. and Sneddon, M. (2012) Lymphoedema education needs of clinicians: a national study. Journal of Lymphoedema, 7(2), pp. 14-24.

Hocking, L.J. et al. (2012) Heritability of chronic pain in 2195 extended families. European Journal of Pain, 16(7), pp. 1053-1063. (doi: 10.1002/j.1532-2149.2011.00095.x)

Jani, B. , Bikker, A., Higgins, M., Fitzpatrick, B., Little, P., Watt, G.C.M. and Mercer, S.W. (2012) Patient-centredness and the outcome of consultations with depressed patients in areas of high and low socioeconomic deprivation. British Journal of General Practice, 62(601), e576-e581. (doi: 10.3399/bjgp12X653633)

Luciano, M. et al. (2010) Shared genetic aetiology between cognitive ability and cardiovascular disease risk factors: Generation Scotland's Scottish family health study. Intelligence, 38(3), pp. 304-313. (doi: 10.1016/j.intell.2010.03.002)

Mercer, S.W., Neumann, M., Wirtz, M., Fitzpatrick, B. and Vojt, G. (2008) General practitioner empathy, patient enablement, and patient-reported outcomes in primary care in an area of high socio-economic deprivation in Scotland - a pilot prospective study using structural equation modelling. Patient Education and Counseling, 73(2), pp. 240-245. (doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2008.07.022)

Mercer, S.W. , Fitzpatrick, B., Gourlay, G., Vojt, G., Mcconnachie, A. and Watt, G.C.M. (2007) More time for complex consultations in a high deprivation practice is associated with increased patient enablement. British Journal of General Practice, 57(545), pp. 960-966. (doi: 10.3399/096016407782604910)

Cunningham, D., Fitzpatrick, B. and Kelly, D. (2006) Administration and clerical staff perceptions and experiences of protected learning time: a focus group study. Quality in Health Care, 14(3), pp. 177-184.

Cunningham, D., Fitzpatrick, B. and Kelly, D. (2006) Practice managers' perceptions and experiences of protected learning time: a focus group study. Quality in Health Care, 14(3), pp. 169-175.

Smith, B.H. et al. (2006) Generation Scotland: the Scottish family health study; a new resource for researching genes and heritability. BMC Medical Genetics, 7, p. 74. (doi: 10.1186/1471-2350-7-74)

Senok, A., Wilson, P., Reid, M., Scoular, A., Craig, N., McConnachie, A. , Fitzpatrick, B. and MacDonald, A. (2005) Can we evaluate population screening strategies in UK general practice? A pilot randomised controlled trial comparing postal and opportunistic screening for genital chlamydial infection. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 59(3), pp. 198-204. (doi: 10.1136/jech.2004.021584)

Leslie, W.S., Fitzpatrick, B., Morrison, C.E., Watt, G.C. and Tunstall-Pedoe, H. (1996) Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest due to coronary heart disease: a comparison of survival before and after the introduction of defibrillators in ambulances. Heart, 75(2), pp. 195-199. (doi: 10.1136/hrt.75.2.195)

Tunstall-Pedoe, H., Morrison, C., Woodward, M., Fitzpatrick, B. and Watt, G. (1996) Sex Differences in Myocardial Infarction and Coronary Deaths in the Scottish MONICA Population of Glasgow 1985 to 1991: Presentation, Diagnosis, Treatment, and 28-Day Case Fatality of 3991 Events in Men and 1551 Events in Women. Circulation, 93(1), pp. 1981-1992. (doi: 10.1161/01.CIR.93.11.1981)

Fitzpatrick, B. and Taylor, R. (1994) A comparative study of quality criteria. Nursing Standard, 8(37), pp. 25-29.

Fitzpatrick, B. and Taylor, R. (1994) Patients' criteria in assessing quality. Nursing Standard, 8(38), pp. 34-39.

Fitzpatrick, B., Watt, G. and Tunstall-Pedoe, H. (1992) Potential impact of emergency intervention on sudden deaths from coronary heart disease in Glasgow. British Heart Journal, 67(3), pp. 250-254.

Book Sections

Fitzpatrick, B. and Taylor, R. (1994) User evaluations in the National Health Service. In: Connor, A. and Black, S. (eds.) Performance Review and Quality in Social Care. Series: Research Highlights in Social Work (20). Jessica Kingsley Publishers: London, England, pp. 109-121. ISBN 9781853020179