Dr Phil Edwards BSc CStat PhD
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Phil is a senior lecturer and chartered statistician. After studying Mathematics and Statistics at Warwick University, he worked for a public services research consultancy based in Birmingham, UK. In 1994 he moved into academia to research injury epidemiology, first in Department of Child Health at Newcastle University, and then at Institute of Child Health at University College London. In 2001 he moved to London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Affiliation
Teaching
Phil is a co-organiser of the Term 1 foundation module ‘Statistics for Epidemiology and Population Health (STEPH)’. He also lectures on Sample Size, Sampling and Outcome Assessment for the Study Design module and for the Intensive Course in Epidemiology & Medical Statistics. He is a tutor on the MSc Epidemiology by distance learning.
Research
Phil’s research is in two areas: participation in research studies; and the epidemiology of injury. His research into methods to increase response to postal questionnaires has been widely cited. He has recently completed several research studies in child injury mortality and morbidity in England and Wales, and the links with deprivation, and is currently researching the relationship between road injury, deprivation and ethnicity in London. He also contributes to the team that co-ordinates the CRASH-2 trial of anti-fibrinolytic agents in patients at risk of serious haemorrhage.
Research areas
- Clinical trials
- Health inequalities
- Injuries
- Systematic reviews
Disciplines
- Epidemiology
- Statistics
Other interests
- Accidents
- Clustered Data
- Complex Surveys
- Cycling
- ELearning
- Ethnicity And Health
- Health Survey Methods
- Obesity
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Selected publications
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Young men were at risk of becoming lost to follow-up in a cohort of head-injured adults.
Edwards, P.; Fernandes, J.; Roberts, I.; Kuppermann, N.;
J Clin Epidemiol, 2007; 60(4):417-24
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Energy and transport.
Woodcock, J.; Banister, D.; Edwards, P.; Prentice, A.M.; Roberts, I.;
Lancet, 2007; 370(9592):1078-88
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Deaths from injury in children and employment status in family: analysis of trends in class specific death rates.
Edwards, P.; Roberts, I.; Green, J.; Lutchmun, S.;
BMJ, 2006; 333(7559):119
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Final results of MRC CRASH, a randomised placebo-controlled trial of intravenous corticosteroid in adults with head injury-outcomes at 6 months.
Edwards, P.; Arango, M.; Balica, L.; Cottingham, R.; El-Sayed, H.; Farrell, B.; Fernandes, J.; Gogichaisvili, T.; Golden, N.; Hartzenberg, B.; Husain, M.; Ulloa, M.I.; Jerbi, Z.; Khamis, H.; Komolafe, E.; Laloe, V.; Lomas, G.; Ludwig, S.; Mazairac, G.; Munoz Sanchez, M.d.e. .L.; Nasi, L.; Olldashi, F.; Plunkett, P.; Roberts, I.; Sandercock, P.; Shakur, H.; Soler, C.; Stocker, R.; Svoboda, P.; Trenkler, S.; Venkataramana, N.K.; Wasserberg, J.; Yates, D.; Yutthakasemsunt, S.;
Lancet, 2005; 365(9475):1957-9
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Meta-analysis of randomised trials of monetary incentives and response to mailed questionnaires.
Edwards, P.; Cooper, R.; Roberts, I.; Frost, C.;
J Epidemiol Community Health, 2005; 59(11):987-99
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Follow-up by mail in clinical trials: does questionnaire length matter?
Edwards, P.; Roberts, I.; Sandercock, P.; Frost, C.
Controlled Clinical Trials, 2004; 25(1):31-52
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Increasing response rates to postal questionnaires: systematic review
Edwards, P.; Roberts, I.; Clarke, M.; DiGuiseppi, C.; Pratap, S.; Wentz, R.; Kwan, I.
British Medical Journal, 2002; 324(7347):1183-5
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Identification of randomized controlled trials in systematic reviews: accuracy and reliability of screening records
Edwards, P.; Clarke, M.; DiGuiseppi, C.; Pratap, S.; Roberts, I.; Wentz, R.
Statistics in Medicine, 2002; 21(11):1635-40
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