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Thomas Fanshawe
MPhil MA PhD
Senior Medical Statistician
- Departmental Lecturer
- University Research Lecturer
My research is based on the development and application of statistical methods to studies in primary care. My main areas of current interest include diagnosis and clinical risk prediction, and the application of meta-analytic methods.
I provide statistical support for the RAPTOR-C19 workstream of the CONDOR (COVID-19 National Diagnostic Research and Evaluation) Platform, the NIHR Community Healthcare MedTech and In Vitro Diagnostics Co-operative, the OxRisk forensic psychiatry risk prediction programme and the RAPSS study in collaboration with the Department of Psychiatry, and the Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group.
I have previously worked on studies in a diverse range of application areas, including oncology, radiology, gastrointestinal disease, psychiatry, smoking cessation, mental health and environmental epidemiology.
Methodological research topics that have featured in my current or previous research include models for inter-rater reliability and diagnostic accuracy; clinical risk prediction; joint and hierarchical modelling; geostatistical modelling.
I coordinate the Year 1 & 2 medical statistics teaching of the Oxford pre-clinical (First BM) course, an accredited short course on Clinical Prediction Rules, and contribute to several other modules on the postgraduate programmes in Evidence-Based Health Care.
Key publications
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A Bayesian approach to sequential meta-analysis
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Spence GT. et al, (2016), Statistics in Medicine, 35, 5356 - 5375
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Evidence synthesis to inform model-based cost-effectiveness evaluations of diagnostic tests: A methodological review of health technology assessments
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Shinkins B. et al, (2017), BMC Medical Research Methodology, 17
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The Comparative Interrupted Time Series design for assessment of diagnostic impact: methodological considerations and an example using point-of-care C-Reactive Protein testing
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FANSHAWE T. et al, (2022), Diagnostic and Prognostic Research
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Pre-analytical error for three point of care venous blood testing platforms in acute ambulatory settings: A mixed methods service evaluation
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Fanshawe TR. et al, (2020), PLoS ONE, 15
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Feasibility and Acceptability of Community Coronavirus Disease 2019 Testing Strategies (FACTS) in a University Setting
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Hirst JA. et al, (2021), Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 8
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Prediction of violent reoffending on release from prison: Derivation and external validation of a scalable tool
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Fazel S. et al, (2016), The Lancet Psychiatry, 3, 535 - 543
Recent publications
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Diagnostic Accuracy of the Rapid Xpert HIV-1 Viral Load XC, Xpert HIV-1 Viral Load, & m-PIMA HIV-1/2 Viral Load in South African Clinics.
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Dorward J. et al, (2022), J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr, 91, 189 - 196
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Longer-term use of electronic cigarettes when provided as a stop smoking aid: Systematic review with meta-analyses.
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Butler AR. et al, (2022), Prev Med
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The predictive performance of criminal risk assessment tools used at sentencing: Systematic review of validation studies
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Fazel S. et al, (2022), Journal of Criminal Justice, 81
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Pharmacological and electronic cigarette interventions for smoking cessation in adults: component network meta-analyses
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Lindson N. et al, (2022), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2022
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Electronic cigarettes and subsequent cigarette smoking in young people
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Hartmann-Boyce J. et al, (2022), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2022