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Mary Dixon-Woods

Professor of Medical Sociology

 

Professor Mary Dixon-Woods

 

CONTACT DETAILS

Department of Health Sciences
University of Leicester
22-28 Princess Road West
Leicester, LE1 6TP

Tel: 00 44 116 229 7262
Email: md11@le.ac.uk    

 

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Research Interests

Research Projects

Professional Activities

Postgraduate Supervision and Teaching

Selected Publications

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

My research focuses on:

  • Development of methods for synthesising diverse forms of evidence
  • Quality and safety in healthcare, using a distinctively sociological approach
  • Sociology of childhood illness, especially childhood cancer
  • Sociology of regulation and bioethics

 

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Dixon-Woods M, Holmes A. Spotlight report on healthcare acquired infections. Health Foundation 2013

Dixon-Woods M, Martin G, Tarrant C, Bion J, Goeschel C (Armstrong Institute). Evaluation of the Health Foundation’s Safer Clinical Systems Programme Phase 2. Health Foundation. 2011-2013

Dixon-Woods M, Burton P, Wallace S. Commercial use of tissue samples in the 1958 birth cohort: a study of participants' views. Wellcome Trust. 2011 -2013

Dixon-Woods M, Martin G, Armstrong N, Banerjee J. Evaluation of Closing The Gaps Through Clinical Communities. The Health Foundation. 2010-2012 

Dixon-Woods M, West M, Baker R, Murtagh M, Martin G,McKee L, Box G, Lilford R. Evaluating High Quality Care for All: from the blunt end to the sharp end and in between. Department of Health 2010-2012.

Dixon-Woods M, Tarrant C, Lilford R, Bion J. An ethnographic study of efforts to reduce central venous catheter blood stream infections in intensive care units in England. Health Foundation 2009-2011.

Further analysis of applications to conduct cancer trials. 2009. Dixon-Woods M, Tarrant C. National Research Ethics Service.

Analysis of Research Ethics Committees' letters about studies involving issues related to mental incapacity. 2008 Dixon-Woods M, Robertson N, Ashcroft R, Angell E. National Research Ethics Service.

Design of training modules and awareness days for researchers, REC members and REC coordinators. 2008 Dixon-Woods M, Angell E. National Research Ethics Service.

Regulating doctors: between performance and practice. Economic and Social Research Council Public Services Programme Fellowship. 2007-2008. Dixon-Woods, M.

Trust, confidence and the regulation of risk: examining the Research Governance Framework for Health and Social Care. Economic and Social Research Council 2007-2008 Dixon-Woods M, Bryman A, Ashcroft R.

Review of regulation of medical research. Medical Research Council. 2006-2007 Dixon-Woods M, Ashcroft R, Brownsword A, Bryman A, Yeung K.

Analysis of Research Ethics Committees’ letters about cancer trials and human tissue. 2007-2008 Dixon-Woods M, Ashcroft R, Bryman A, Angell E. Central Office for Research Ethics Committees.

Qualitative analysis of Research Ethics Committees’ letters and accreditation reports. Central Office for Research Ethics 2006 Dixon-Woods M, Ashcroft R, Angell E. Committees.

Consistency of Research Ethics Committee decision-making. 2006 East Midlands Innovation Hub. Dixon-Woods M.

Qualitative evaluation of Health Foundation Safer Patients Initiative. 2005-2008 Dixon-Woods M, Lilford RJ. Health Foundation via University of Birmingham

Childhood cancer tissue donations: a gift relationship? 2004-2007 Dixon-Woods M, Seale C, Young B, Pritchard-Jones K, McHale J, Tobin M, Heney D, Forster J, Habiba M. Economic and Social Research Council.

Qualitative study of the DESMOND randomised controlled trial. 2004-2005 Dixon-Woods M, Shaw R. DESMOND Trial Collaboration.

Access to healthcare by vulnerable groups: a meta-ethnographic literature review. 2002-2003 Dixon-Woods M, Annandale E, Arthur A, Harvey J, Hsu R, Katbamna S, Olsen R, Riley R, Smith S. Funded by the NHS Service Delivery and Organisation Programme.

Collins R, Atkinson M, Landray M, Burton P, Williams B, Cobbe S, Darlington J, Elliott P, Ford I, Majeed A, Dixon-Woods M, Newton J, Parker M, Pell J, Rodden T, Sinnott R. Virtual organisations for trials and epidemiological studies: using e-science for efficient recruitment, data collection, and management  in large-scale randomised trials and observational studies. Medical Research Council 2005-2009

Development of an educational intervention for amblyopia treatment. Gottlob I, Harrad RA, Dixon-Woods M, Collier J, Proudlock F. National Eye Research Centre. 2004-2005

Quality of life and childhood disability. Young B, Parkinson K, Clover A, Dixon-Woods M. ESRC  2004-2006

Cross Research Council Networks in Patient Safety. Lilford R, Dixon-Woods M et al. MRC/ESRC/EPSRC 2003-2004

Informed consent: ascertaining patients’ requirements, and comparing methods of delivery. Habiba M, Dixon-Woods M, Akkad A, Kenyon S.  NHS Executive Trent (2001-2003)

Meta-analysis of qualitative and quantitative research. Jones DR, Abrams K, Dixon-Woods M, Fitzpatrick R. ESRC 1997-2000

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Editorial Roles

Co-editor of Chronic Illness

Associate editor of Quality and Safety in Healthcare

Editorial Board member, Chronic Respiratory Disease

Editorial Board member, International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches

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POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISION AND TEACHING
Research

I welcome applications to undertake doctoral work in areas related to my research interests.

Taught Postgraduate

I help to run the MSc in Social Science applied to Health, an exciting postgraduate qualification offering a sound grounding in theory and methods.

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000 and earlier

Books

Dixon-Woods M, Young B, Heney D. (2005) Rethinking experiences of childhood cancer: a multidisciplinary approach Milton Keynes: Open University Press

Peer Reviewed Publications
2013
  1. Dixon-Woods M, Perencevich E. When counting central line infections counts. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
  2. Kazimierczak KA, Skea ZC, Dixon-Woods M, Entwistle VA, Feldman-Stewart D, N'Dow JMO, MacLennan SJ.Provision of cancer information as a "support for navigating the knowledge landscape": Findings from a critical interpretive literature synthesis. European Journal of Oncology Nursing 
  3. McKee L, K Charles, J Willars, M. Dixon-Woods, G. Martin (in press) ‘New’ and distributed leadership in quality and safety in healthcare, or ‘old’ and hierarchical? An interview study with strategic stakeholders. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy
  4. Armstrong N, Herbert G, Aveling EL, Dixon-Woods M, Martin G. Optimizing patient involvement in quality improvement. Health Expectations
  5. Armstrong N, Jackson C, McNicol S, Dixon-Woods M, Kenyon S, Tarrant C. (in press) Unblinding following trial participation: qualitative study of participants’ perspectives. Clinical Trials
  6. Marshall M, Pronovost P, Dixon-Woods M. Promotion of improvement as a science. The Lancet

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2012
  1. Armstrong N, Jackson C, McNicol S, Dixon-Woods M, Kenyon S, Tarrant C. (in press) Unblinding following trial participation: qualitative study of participants’ perspectives. Clinical Trials
  2. Armstrong, N; Dixon-Woods, M; Thomas, A; Rusk, G; Tarrant, C. Do informed consent documents for cancer trials do what they should? A study of manifest and latent functions. Sociology of Health and Illness
  3. Armstrong, N; James, V; Dixon-Woods, M. The role of primary care professionals in women's experiences of cervical cancer screening: A qualitative study. Family Practice
  4. Kazimierczak, K.A; Skea, Z.C; Dixon-Woods, M; Entwistle, V.A; et al. Provision of cancer information as a "support for navigating the knowledge landscape": Findings from a critical interpretive literature synthesis. European Journal of Oncology Nursing
  5. Aveling EL, Martin GP, García SJ, Martin L, Herbert G, Armstrong N, Dixon-Woods M, Woolhouse I. Reciprocal peer review for quality improvement: an ethnographic case study of the Improving Lung Cancer Outcomes Project. BMJ Quality & Safety
  6. Dixon-Woods M, Leslie M, Bion J, Tarrant C. What counts? An ethnographic study of infection data reported to a patient safety program. Milbank Quarterly
  7. Dixon-Woods M, McNicol S, Martin GP. Ten challenges in improving quality in health care: lessons from the Health Foundation’s programme evaluations and relevant literature. BMJ Quality & Safety
  8. Soto C, Tarrant C, Pritchard-Jones K, Dixon-Woods M. Good practice in consenting to tissue banking for research: qualitative study.  Arch Dis Child

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2011
  1. Natalie Armstrong, Veronica James, Mary Dixon-Woods. The role of primary care professionals in women’s experiences of cervical cancer screening: a qualitative study. Family Practice
  2. Aveling E, Martin G, Armstrong N, Banerjee J, Dixon-Woods M. Quality improvement through clinical communities: eight lessons for practice. Journal of Health Organization and Management
  3. Pitchforth E, Weaver S, Willars J, Wawrzkowicz E, Luyt D, Dixon-Woods M. A qualitative study of families of a child with a nut allergy. Chronic Illness
  4. Dixon-Woods M, Bosk CL, Aveling EL, Goeschel CA, Pronovost PJ. Explaining Michigan: developing an ex post theory of a quality improvement program. Milbank Quarterly 89: 167-205
  5. Dixon-Woods M, Tarrant C, Jackson CJ, Jones DR, Kenyon S. Providing the results of research to participants: a mixed-method study of the benefits and challenges of a consultative approach. Clinical Trials 8: 330-341
  6. Coleman JJ, Hemming K, Nightingale PG, Clark IR, Dixon-Woods M, Ferner RE, Lilford RJ. Can an electronic prescribing system detect doctors who are more likely to make a serious prescribing error? A retrospective analysis of routine data. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 104: 208-218
  7. Benning A, Ghaleb M, Suokas A, Dixon-Woods M, Dawson JF, Barber N, Dean Franklin B, Girling A, Hemming K, Carmalt M, Rudge GM, Naicker T, Nwulu U, Choudhury S, Lilford RJ. Mixed-method evaluation of a large-scale organisational intervention to improve patient safety in four UK hospitals. BMJ 2011; 2011; 342:d195
  8. Benning A, Dixon-Woods M, Nwulu U, Ghaleb M, Dawson JF, Barber N, Dean Franklin B, Girling A, Carmalt M, Rudge G, Naicker T, Kotecha A, Derrington MC, Lilford RJ. A controlled evaluation of the second phase of a multi-component patient safety intervention in English hospitals. BMJ 2011; 2011; 342:d199
  9. Dixon-Woods M.  Using framework-based synthesis for conducting reviews of qualitative studies. BMC Medicine, 9:39
  10. Dixon-Woods M, Amalberti R, Goodman S, Bergman B, Glasziou P. Problems and promises of innovation in healthcare: why healthcare needs to rethink its love/hate relationship with the new. BMJ Quality and Safety Supp1: i47-51
  11. Dixon-Woods M,  Bosk CL. (2011)  Defending rights or defending privileges? Rethinking the ethics of research in public service organisations. Public Management Review 13: 257-272

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2010

  1. Waring J, Dixon-Woods M, Yeung K. (2010) Modernising medical regulation: where are we now? Journal of Health Organization and Management 24: 540-555

  2. Dixon-Woods M,  Bosk CL. (210) Learning through observation: the role of ethnography in improving critical care. Current Opinion in Critical Care.

  3. Jackson C, Dixon-Woods M, Eborall H, Kenyon S, Toozs-Hobson P, Tincello DG. Women’s views and experiences of a patient preference trial in surgery: a qualitative study of the CARPET1 trial. Clinical Trials (accepted July 2010)

  4. Angell E, Biggs H, Gahleitner F, Dixon-Woods M. (2010) What do research ethics committees say about applications to conduct research involving children? Archives of Disease in Childhood doi:10.1136/adc.2009.172395

  5. Yeung K, Dixon-Woods M.  (2010) Design-based regulation and patient safety: a regulatory studies perspective. Social Science and Medicine 71: 502-9

  6. Tarrant C, Dixon-Woods M, Colman A, Stokes T.(2010) Continuity and trust in primary care: a qualitative study informed by game theory. Annals of Family Medicine 8: 440-6

  7. Dixon-Woods M. (2010) Why is patient safety so hard? A selective review of ethnographic studies conducted as part of the Patient Safety Research Programme. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 15 Supp 1: 11-6

  8. Dixon-Woods M, Tarrant C, Willars J, Suokas A. (2010) How will it work? A qualitative study of strategic stakeholders’ account of a patient safety initiative. Quality and Safety in Health Care  19:74-78

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2009
  1. Jackson CJ, Dixon-Woods M, Tobin M, Young B, Heney D, Pritchard-Jones K.  Seeking consent to tissue banking: a survey of health professionals in childhood cancer. European Journal of Cancer Care 18; 391-400
  2.  Angell E, Tarrant C, Dixon-Woods M.  Research involving storage and use of human tissue: how did the Human Tissue Act 2004 affect decisions by Research Ethics Committees? Journal of Clinical Pathology 62: 825-9
  3. Angell E, Tarrant C, Dixon-Woods M.  Research involving storage and use of human tissue: how did the Human Tissue Act 2004 affect decisions by Research Ethics Committees? Journal of Clinical Pathology 62: 825-9
  4. Dixon-Woods M, Suokas A, Pitchforth E, Tarrant C.  An ethnographic study of classifying and accounting for risk at the sharp end of medical wards. Social Science and Medicine 69: 362-269
  5. O'Reilly M, Armstrong N, Dixon-Woods M. Subject positions in research ethics committee letters: a discursive analysis. Clinical Ethics 4: 187-194
  6. Dixon-Woods M, Tarrant C. Why do people cooperate with medical research? Social Science and Medicine 68: 2215-2222 
  7. Dixon-Woods M, Angell E. Research involving adults who lack capacity: how have research ethics committees interpreted the requirements? Journal of Medical Ethics 35: 377-381
  8. O'Reilly M, Dixon-Woods M, Angell E, Ashcroft RE, Bryman A. Doing accountability: a discourse analysis of Research Ethics Committee letters. Sociology of Health and Illness 31: 246-261.
  9. Angell E, Dixon-Woods M. Do Research Ethics Committees identify process errors in applications for ethical approval? Journals of Medical Ethics 35: 130-132
  10. Ashcroft RE, Dixon-Woods M. The social forms and functions of bioethics in the United Kingdom. In Meyser C (ed.) Bioethics Around the Globe. Oxford: Oxford University Press (accepted August 2008)

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2008
  1. Angell E, Dixon-Woods M. Style matters: an analysis of 100 Research Ethics Committee letters. Research Ethics Review 4: 101-105  
  2. Dixon-Woods M, Angell E, Tarrant C, Thomas A.  What do Research Ethics Committees say about applications to do cancer trials?  The Lancet Oncology 9(8): 700-701
  3. Dixon-Woods M, Ashcroft RE. Regulation and the social licence for medical research. Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy
  4. Dixon-Woods M, Ashcroft RE. Regulation and the social licence for medical research. Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy epub July 2008
  5. Brown L, Parker M, Dixon-Woods M. Whose interest? UK newspaper reporting of use of medical records for research. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 13:140-145
  6. Angell E, Bryman A, Ashcroft R, Dixon-Woods M. (2008). An analysis of decision letters by Research Ethics Committees: the ethics/scientific quality boundary examined. Quality and Safety in Healthcare 17: 131-136
  7. Pritchard-Jones K, Dixon-Woods M, Naafs-Wilstra MA, Valscecchi MG. (2008) Improving recruitment to clinical trials in childhood cancer. The Lancet Oncology 9: 392-9 
  8. Ockleford E, Shaw RL, Willars J, Dixon-Woods M. (2008) Education and self-management for people newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes: a qualitative study of patients' views. Chronic Illness 4: 28-37
  9. Dixon-Woods M, Wilson D, Jackson C, Cavers D, Pritchard-Jones K. (2008) Human tissue and “the public”: the case of childhood cancer tumour banking. Biosocieties 3: 57-80  
  10. Dixon-Woods M, Cavers D, Jackson CJ, Young B, Forster J, Heney D, Pritchard-Jones K. (2008) Tissue samples as "gifts" for research: a qualitative study of families and professionals.  Medical Law International 9: 131-150

 

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2007
  2. Sebire N, Dixon-Woods M. (2007) Towards a new era of tissue-based diagnosis and research Chronic Illness 3(4): 301-309
  6. Young B, Rice H, Dixon-Woods M, Colver A, Parkinson K. (2007) A qualitative study of health-related quality of life in disabled children. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology. 49: 660-664 

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2006
  1. Dixon-Woods M, Young B, Ross E. (2006) Researching chronic childhood illness: the example of childhood cancer. Chronic Illness 2: 165-177 Leicester Research Archive
  2. Dixon-Woods M,  Cavers D, Agarwal S, Annandale E, Arthur A, Harvey J, Hsu R, Katbamna S, Olsen R, Smith LK, Riley R, Sutton AJ (2006) Conducting a critical interpretive review of the literature on access to healthcare by vulnerable groups. BMC Medical Research Methodology  6: 35
  3. Akkad A, Jackson C, Kenyon S, Dixon-Woods M, Taub N, Habiba M. (2006) Patients’ perceptions of written consent: questionnaire study. BMJ 333: 528
  4. Jackson CJ, Bosio P, Habiba M, Waugh J, Kamal P, Dixon-Woods M. (2006) Referral and attendance at a specialist ante-natal clinic: qualitative study of women’s views. BJOG 113: 909-913
  5. Angell E, Sutton AJ, Windridge K, Dixon-Woods M. (2006) Consistency in Research Ethics Committee decision-making: a controlled comparison. Journal of Medical Ethics 32: 662-664
  6. Dixon-Woods M, Awan M, Gottlob I. (2006) Why is compliance with occlusion therapy for amblyopia so hard? A qualitative study. Archives of Disease in Childhood 91: 491-4
  7. Pitchforth E, Van Teijlingen E, Graham W, Dixon-Woods M, Chowdhury M. (2006) Getting women to hospital is not enough: a qualitative study of access to emergency obstetric care in Bangladesh. Quality and Safety in Healthcare 15: 214-9 Leicester Research Archive
  8. Altaf S, Oppenheimer C, Waugh J, Shaw RL, Dixon-Woods M. (2006) Practices and views on fetal heart monitoring: a structured observation and interview study. BJOG 113: 409-4118
  9. Kenyon S, Dixon-Woods M, Jackson CJ, Windridge K, Pitchforth E. (2006) Participating in a trial in a critical situation: a qualitative study in pregnancy. Quality and Safety in Health Care 15: 98-101
  10. Dixon-Woods M, Bonas S, Booth A, Jones DR, Miller T, Shaw RL, Smith J, Sutton A, Young B. (2006) How can systematic reviews incorporate qualitative research? A critical perspective. Qualitative Research 6: 27-44.
  11. Dixon-Woods M, Jackson CJ, Windridge KC, Kenyon S. (2006) Receiving a summary of the results of a trial: qualitative study of participants’ views.  BMJ 332: 206-10
  12. Dixon-Woods M, Williams SJ, Jackson CJ, Akkad A, Kenyon S, Habiba M (2006) Why do women consent to surgery, even when they do not want to? An interactionist and Bourdieusian analysis. Social Science and Medicine  62: 2742-53 * Reprinted in shortened form as: Dixon-Woods M, Williams SJ, Jackson SJ, Akkad A, Kenyon S, Habiba M (2006) Why women consent to surgery, even when they don’t want to: a qualitative study. Clinical Ethics 1: 153-15
  13. Seale C, Dixon-Woods M, Kirk D. (2006) Commodification of body parts: by medicine or by media? Body and Society 12: 25-42
  14. Stokes T, Dixon-Woods M, Williams SJ. (2006) Breaking the ceremonial order: patients’ and general practitioners’ accounts of removal from a GP’s list. Sociology of Health and Illness 28: 611-636

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2005
  1. Seale C, Kirk D, Tobin M, Burton P, Grundy R, Pritchard-Jones J, Dixon-Woods M.  (2005) Effect of media portrayals of removal of children’s tissue on a UK tumour bank. BMJ 331: 401-403
  2. Dixon-Woods M, Kirk D, Agarwal S, Arthur T, Harvey J, Hsu R, Katbamna S, Olsen R, Smith L, Sutton AJ, Riley R. (2005) Vulnerable groups and access to health care: a critical interpretive review London: NHS SDO R&D Programme
  3. Kamal P, Dixon-Woods M,  Kurinczuk JJ, Oppenheimer C, Squire P, Waugh J (2005) Factors influencing repeat caesarean section: qualitative exploratory study of obstetricians’ and midwives’ accounts. BJOG 112:1054-60
  4. Dixon-Woods M, Agarwal S, Jones DR, Young B, Sutton AJ. (2005) Synthesising qualitative and quantitative evidence: a review of methods. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 10: 45-53 * Reprinted in: Bryman A (ed) (2006) Mixed Methods (Vol 3) London: Sage
  5.  Jackson C, Dixon-Woods M, Hsu R, Kurinczuk J (2005) A qualitative study of choosing and using an NHS Walk-in Centre. Family Practice 22:269-274
  6.  Habiba M, Jackson C, Akkad A, Kenyon S, Dixon-Woods M. Women’s accounts of consenting to surgery: is consent a quality problem? (2004) Quality and Safety in Healthcare 13:422-427

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2004
  1. Kenyon S, Dixon-Woods M. (2004) What do they know? A content analysis of women’s perceptions of trial information. BJOG 111: 1341-1345
  2. Shaw RL, Booth A, Sutton AJ, Miller T, Smith JA, Young B, Jones DR, Dixon-Woods M. (2004) Finding qualitative research: an evaluation of search strategies. BMC Medical Research Methodology 4:5
  3. Akkad A, Jackson C, Kenyon S, Dixon-Woods M, Taub N, Habiba M. (2004)  Informed consent for elective and emergency surgery: questionnaire study. BJOG 111: 1133-1138
  4. Stokes T, Dixon-Woods M, McKinley RK (2004) Ending the doctor-patient relationship in general practice: a proposed model. Family Practice 21: 507-514
  5. Dixon-Woods M, Shaw RL, Agarwal S, Smith JA (2004) The problem of appraising qualitative research. Quality and Safety in Healthcare 13: 223-5
  6. Dixon-Woods M, Browne H, Arthur A, Matthews R, Jagger C. Organising services for influenza vaccination for older people (2004) Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 9: 85-90
  7. Dixon-Woods M, Agarwal S, Young B, Jones D, Sutton A. (2004) Integrative approaches to qualitative and quantitative evidence. London: Health Development Agency

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2003
  1. Stokes T, Dixon-Woods M, McKinley RK. (2003) Breaking up is never easy: GPs’ accounts of removing patients from their lists. Family Practice 20: 628-634
  2. Stokes T, Dixon-Woods M, Windridge K, McKinley RK. (2003) Patients’ accounts of being removed from their general practitioners’ list: qualitative study BMJ 326: 1316
  3. Hsu R, Lambert PC, Dixon-Woods M, Kurinczuk JK (2003) An evaluation of the impact of an NHS walk-in centre on local primary health care services. BMJ 326:530
  4. Young B, Dixon-Woods M, Windridge K, Heney D. (2003) Managing communication with children who have a potentially life-threatening chronic illness: children’s and parents’ accounts. BMJ 326: 305-308
  5. Dixon-Woods M, Seale C, Young B, Findlay M, Heney D. (2003) Representing childhood cancer: accounts from newspapers and parents. Sociology of Health and Illness 15: 143-164

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 2002
  1. Young B, Dixon-Woods M, Heney D (2002) Identity and role in parenting a child with cancer. Pediatric Rehabilitation 5:209-214
  2. Dixon-Woods M, Anwar Z, Young B, Brooke A. (2002) Lay evaluation of services for childhood asthma. Health and Social Care in the Community 10: 503-511
  3. Dixon-Woods M, Young B, Heney D. (2002) Childhood cancer and users’ views: a critical perspective. European Journal of Cancer Care 11; 173-77
  4. Thornton H, Dixon-Woods M. (2002) Prostate specific antigen testing for prostate cancer (editorial). BMJ 325;725-6
  5. Roberts K, Dixon-Woods M, Fitzpatrick R, Abrams K, Jones DR. (2002) Factors affecting uptake of childhood immunisation: an example of Bayesian synthesis of qualitative and quantitative evidence. The Lancet 360: 1596-1599
  6. Young B, Fitch G, Dixon-Woods M, Lambert P, Brooke A. (2002) Parents’ accounts of wheeze and asthma-related symptoms: a qualitative study. Archives of Disease in Childhood  87: 131-134
  7. Young B, Dixon-Woods M, Findlay M, Heney D. (2002) Parenting in a crisis: conceptualising mothers of children with cancer. Social Science and Medicine 55: 1835-1847
  8. Dixon-Woods M, Regan J, Robertson N, Young B, Cordle C, Tobin M. (2002) Teaching and learning about human sexuality in undergraduate medical education Medical Education 36(5):432-440
  9. McKinley RK, Dixon-Woods M, Thornton H (2002) Participating in primary care research (editorial). British Journal of General Practice 52:971-972

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2001
  1. Dixon-Woods M, Findlay M, Young B, Cox H, Heney D. (2001) Parents’ accounts of obtaining a diagnosis of childhood cancer. The Lancet 357: 670-674
  2. Dixon-Woods M, Fitzpatrick R, Roberts K. (2001) Including qualitative research in systematic reviews: problems and opportunities. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 7: 125-133
  3. Dixon-Woods M. (2001) Writing wrongs? An analysis of published discourses about the use of patient information leaflets. Social Science and Medicine 52(9): 1417-143
  4. Dixon-Woods M, Fitzpatrick R. (2001) Qualitative research in systematic reviews has established a place for itself. (editorial) BMJ  323: 765-766
  5. Dixon-Woods M, Stokes T, Young B, Phelps K, Windridge K, Shukla R. (2001) Choosing and using services for sexual health: a qualitative study of women’s views. Sexually Transmitted Infections 82:335-339

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 2000 and earlier
  1. Dixon-Woods M, Critchley S. (2000) Medical and lay views of irritable bowel syndrome. Family Practice 17: 108-113
  2. Dixon-Woods M. (2000) The production of printed consumer health information: order from chaos Health Education Journal 59: 108-115
  3. Dixon-Woods M, Young B, Heney D. (1999) Partnerships with children BMJ  319: 778-80
  4. Dixon-Woods M. (1998) Dissemination of printed information for patients: a qualitative study of general practices Health Education Journal 57: 16-30
  5. Dixon M, Johnson R. (1994) Health visitors’ use of health education material   Health Visitor: 67(5): 167-168

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