Thomas Fanshawe

MPhil MA PhD

Senior Medical Statistician

Departmental Lecturer

My current research is based on the development and application of statistical methods to studies in primary care. Areas of current interest include diagnosis, prognostic modelling and meta-analysis methodology.

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; joint and hierarchical modelling; spatial and spatio-temporal modelling.

I am a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and a Member of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Gastrointestinal Infections.

Key publications

A large-scale assessment of temporal trends in meta-analyses using systematic review reports from the Cochrane Library
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Fanshawe TR. et al, (2017), Research Synthesis Methods, 8, 404 - 415
An empirical investigation into the role of subjective prior probability in searching for potentially missing items
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Fanshawe TR., (2015), Royal Society Open Science, 2
A Bayesian approach to sequential meta-analysis
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Spence GT. et al, (2016), Statistics in Medicine, 35, 5356 - 5375
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
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

Post-imaging colorectal cancer or interval cancer rates after CT colonography: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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Obaro AE. et al, (2018), The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 3, 326 - 336
Sepsis recognition tools in acute ambulatory care: associations with process of care and clinical outcomes in a service evaluation of an Emergency Multidisciplinary Unit in Oxfordshire.
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Camm CF. et al, (2018), BMJ Open, 8
Serotype-Specific Correlates of Protection for Pneumococcal Carriage: An Analysis of Immunity in 19 Countries
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Voysey M. et al, (2018), Clinical Infectious Diseases, 66, 913 - 920
Comparative efficacy of drugs for treating giardiasis: A systematic update of the literature and network meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials
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Ordóñez-Mena JM. et al, (2018), Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 73, 596 - 606
Interactive visualisation for interpreting diagnostic test accuracy study results.
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Fanshawe TR. et al, (2018), BMJ Evid Based Med, 23, 13 - 16

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