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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine2015

Challenges of harmonising data from UK national health surveys: a case study of attempts to estimate the UK prevalence of asthma.

Bright I Nwaru, Mome Mukherjee, Ramyani P Gupta, Angela Farr, Martin Heaven, Andrew Stoddart, Amrita Bandyopadhyay, Deborah Fitzsimmons, Michael Shields, Ceri Phillips and 10 more

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Prevalence trends and risk factors for allergic rhinoconjunctivitis, asthma and eczema in the UK.Allergy, asthma, and clinical immunology : official journal of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors.

Bright I NwaruAsthma UK Centre for Applied Research, Centre for Medical Informatics, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, UK.
Mome MukherjeeAsthma UK Centre for Applied Research, Centre for Medical Informatics, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, UK Edinburgh Health Services Research Unit, Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Ramyani P GuptaPopulation Health Research Institute, St George's, University of London, UK.
Angela FarrSwansea Centre for Health Economics (SCHE), College of Human and Health Science, Swansea University, UK.
Martin HeavenCIPHER - Centre for the Improvement of Population Health through e-Records Research, Centre for Health Information, Research and Evaluation (CHIRAL), College of Medicine, Institute of Life Science 2 (ILS2), Swansea University, UK.
Andrew StoddartEdinburgh Health Services Research Unit, Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Amrita BandyopadhyayCIPHER - Centre for the Improvement of Population Health through e-Records Research, Centre for Health Information, Research and Evaluation (CHIRAL), College of Medicine, Institute of Life Science 2 (ILS2), Swansea University, UK.
Deborah FitzsimmonsSwansea Centre for Health Economics (SCHE), College of Human and Health Science, Swansea University, UK.
Michael ShieldsCentre for Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Health Sciences Building, Queen's University Belfast, UK.
Ceri PhillipsSwansea Centre for Health Economics (SCHE), College of Human and Health Science, Swansea University, UK.
George ChamberlainSwansea Centre for Health Economics (SCHE), College of Human and Health Science, Swansea University, UK.
Colin FischbacherInformation Services Division (ISD), NHS National Services Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.
Christopher DibbenSchool of Geography & Geosciences, Department of Geography & Sustainable Development, The University of Edinburgh, UK.
Chantelle AftabAsthma UK Centre for Applied Research, Centre for Medical Informatics, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, UK.
Colin R SimpsonAsthma UK Centre for Applied Research, Centre for Medical Informatics, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, UK.
Ronan LyonsCIPHER - Centre for the Improvement of Population Health through e-Records Research, Centre for Health Information, Research and Evaluation (CHIRAL), College of Medicine, Institute of Life Science 2 (ILS2), Swansea University, UK.
David StrachanPopulation Health Research Institute, St George's, University of London, UK.
Gwyneth A DaviesAsthma & Allergy Group, Institute of Life Science, College of Medicine, Swansea University, UK.
Brian McKinstryAsthma UK Centre for Applied Research, Centre for Medical Informatics, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, UK Edinburgh Health Services Research Unit, Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Aziz SheikhAsthma UK Centre for Applied Research, Centre for Medical Informatics, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, UK aziz.sheikh@ed.ac.uk.

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/K006525/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Health SurveysAsthmaHumansPrevalenceUnited Kingdom

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PMID26432811
PMCPMC4672253

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