Mark Strong's publications
Peer reviewed publications
Strong M, Pearson T, MacNab YC, Maheswaran R. Mapping gender variation in the spatial pattern of alcohol-related mortality: A Bayesian analysis using data from South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. 2012. doi: 10.1016/j.sste.2012.04.007
Strong M,, Oakley JE, Chilcott J. Managing structural uncertainty in health economic decision models: a discrepancy approach. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C. 2012;61(1):25-45. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2011.01014.x
Sampson F, O’Cathain A, Strong M, Pickin M, Esmonde L. Commissioning processes in primary care trusts: A repeated cross sectional survey of health care commissioners in England. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy. 2012; 17(S1):31-39. doi: 10.1258/jhsrp.2011.010191
Relton C, Strong M, Li J. The "Pounds for Pounds" weight loss financial incentive scheme: an evaluation of a pilot in NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent. Journal of Public Health. 2011;33(4):536-542. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdr030
Kharroubi SA, Brennan A, Strong M. Estimating expected value of sample information for incomplete data models using Bayesian approximation. Medical Decision Making. 2011;31(6):839-852. doi: 10.1177/0272989X11399920
Strong M, Oakley J. Bayesian inference for comorbid disease risks using marginal disease risks and correlation information from a separate source. Medical Decision Making 2011;31(4):571-581. doi: 10.1177/0272989X10391269 (preprint here)
Strong M. Coalition plans for English NHS: A poisoned chalice? BMJ 2010;341:c4179
Strong M, Burrows J, Stedman E, Redgrave P. Adverse drug effects following oseltamivir mass treatment and prophylaxis in a school outbreak of 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) in June 2009, Sheffield, United Kingdom. Eurosurveillance 2010;15(19):pii=19565
Strong M, Burrows J, Redgrave P. A/H1N1 pandemic: Oseltamivir’s adverse events. BMJ 2009;339:b3249
Strong M, South G, Carlisle R. The UK Quality and Outcomes Framework pay-for-performance scheme and spirometry: rewarding quality or just quantity? A cross-sectional study in Rotherham, UK. BMC Health Services Research 2009;9:108
Strong M. QOFing whine: Accurate deprivation scores are needed. BMJ 2008;337(7683):1369
Johnstone P, Strong M. Scabies. BMJ Clinical Evidence 2008
Strong M, Johnstone PW. Treating Scabies: Results From an Updated Cochrane Review – In reply. Archives of Dermatology 2008;144(12):1640-1
Strong M, Maheswaran R, Pearson T, Fryers P. A method for modelling GP practice level deprivation scores using GIS. International Journal of Health Geographics 2007;6:38
Strong M, Johnstone PW. Interventions for treating scabies. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews: Reviews 2007 Issue 3 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Chichester, UK Art. No.: CD000320. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD000320.pub2.
Walker O, Strong M, Atchinson R, Saunders J, Abbott J. A qualitative study of primary care clinicians' views of treating childhood obesity. BMC Family Practice 2007;8:50
Strong M, Radford J. Financial incentives and GPs: What about the impact on patient health? BMJ 2007;335(7610):60
Strong M, Maheswaran R, Pearson T. A comparison of methods for calculating general practice level socioeconomic deprivation. International Journal of Health Geographics 2006;5:29
Strong M, Maheswaran R, Radford J. The QOF equity window: an illusion or a different view? Authors’ reply. Journal of Public Health 2006;28(3):294
Strong M, Maheswaran R, Radford J. Socioeconomic deprivation, coronary heart disease prevalence and quality of care: a practice-level analysis in Rotherham using data from the new UK general practitioner Quality and Outcomes Framework. Journal of Public Health 2006;28(1):39-42
Strong M, Maheswaran R, Fryers PR, White PS. Are socio-economic inequalities in mortality decreasing in Trent Region, UK? An observational study, 1988-1998. Journal of Public Health Medicine 2002;24(2):120-122
Other reports
Strong M, Pilgrim H, Oakley J, Chilcott J. Structural uncertainty in health economic decision models. ScHARR Occasional Paper. ISBN 1 900752 27 1. 2009.