Rachel Cooper

ObjectivesTo estimate the prevalence of multiple long-term conditions (MLTC) among people accessing hospital care in North East England, and to assess associations with age, sex, ethnicity and neighbourhood deprivation.DesignAnalysis of ele…

ObjectivesTo evaluate how UK guidelines for individual health conditions consider coexisting multiple long term conditions and to propose improvements to guideline development processes so that guidelines appropriately account for and consi…

Background The transformation of the National Health Service (NHS), outlined in the 10 Year Health Plan for England, must take account of the inexorable rise in the prevalence of multiple long-term conditions (MLTC). However, most evidence…

ObjectivesThis study aims to determine whether machine learning can identify specific combinations of long-term conditions (LTC) associated with increased sarcopenia risk and hence address an important evidence gap-people with multiple LTC …

PurposeGreater transparency and consistency when defining multimorbidity in different settings is needed. We aimed to: (1) adapt published principles that can guide the selection of long-term conditions for inclusion in research studies of …

BackgroundPostal and electronic questionnaires are widely used for data collection in epidemiological studies but non-response reduces the effective sample size and can introduce bias. Finding ways to increase response to postal and electro…

BACKGROUND: The association between hysterectomy and subsequent, long-term psychological health is still not well characterised. We aimed to test the association between hysterectomy and subsequent psychological health and examine variation…

OBJECTIVES: To examine the associations between indicators of socioeconomic position (SEP) and hysterectomy in two Australian and two British cohorts. STUDY POPULATION: Women participating in the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Hea…

ObjectivesTo examine the associations of age at menarche, timing of first birth and parity with hysterectomy rates; to investigate whether these associations were independent of each other and other potential confounders and varied by reaso…

The epidemiology of hysterectomy is not fully understood. This has allowed a long standing, emotive debate about the necessity of this common surgical procedure to continue without resolution. This thesis informs the debate by examining som…

OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between indicators of lifetime socio-economic position and rates of hysterectomy in three British cohorts. DESIGN: Cross-cohort comparative study. SETTING: Two cohorts: England, Scotland and Wales. Thir…