Publications
Edited collections
- Mackintosh N, Armstrong N. (2020) Understanding and Managing Uncertainty in Healthcare: Revisiting and Advancing Sociological Contributions. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Armstrong N, Eborall H. (2012) The Sociology of Medical Screening: Critical Perspectives, New Directions. Wiley-Blackwell.
Chapters in edited collections
- Armstrong N. (2021) Population-based screening for detection and prevention. In K. Chamberlain & A. Lyons (eds.) Routledge International Handbook of Critical Issues in Health and Illness. Routledge.
- Armstrong N. (2014) Screening for disease: challenges. In WC. Cockerham, R. Dingwall, S. Quah (eds.) The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Armstrong N, Eborall H. (2012) The sociology of medical screening: past, present and future. In N. Armstrong and H. Eborall (eds.) The Sociology of Medical Screening: Critical Perspectives, New Directions. Wiley-Blackwell.
Journal articles
- Cupit C, Armstrong N. (accepted, in press) A win-win scenario? Restrictive policies from alternative standpoints. Journal of Health Organization & Management
- Brown KJ, Armstrong N, Potdar N. (in press, available online) Fertility preservation discussions in young women with breast cancer: a qualitative study of health care professionals' views and experiences. Human Fertility
- Doe G, Chantrell S, Williams M, Steiner MC, Armstrong N, Hutchinson A, Evans RA. (2021) Breathless and awaiting diagnosis in UK lockdown for COVID-19…We’re stuck. npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine 31, 21
- Chew S, Armstrong N, Martin GP. (in press, available online) Understanding knowledge brokerage and its transformative potential: a Bourdieusian perspective. Evidence & Policy
- Cupit C, Rankin J, Armstrong N. (2021) Taking sides with patients using institutional ethnography. Journal of Organizational Ethnography 10(1): 21-35
- Armstrong N. (2021) Overdiagnosis and overtreatment: A sociological perspective on tackling a contemporary healthcare issue. Sociology of Health & Illness 43(1): 58-64
- Paton A, Armstrong N, Smith LK, Lotto R. (2020) Parents' decision-making following diagnosis of a severe congenital anomaly in pregnancy: practical, theoretical and ethical tensions. Social Science & Medicine 266: 113362
- Mackinosh N, Agarwal S, Adcock K, Armstrong N, Briley A, Patterson M, Sandall J, Gong Q. (2020) Online resources and apps to aid self-diagnosis and help seeking in the perinatal period: a descriptive survey of women's experiences. Midwifery 90: 102803
- Sturdy S, Miller F, Hogarth S, Armstrong N et al. (2020) Half a century of Wilson & Junger: reflections on the governance of population screening. Wellcome Open Research 5:158.
- Mackintosh N, Armstrong N. (2020) Understanding and managing uncertainty in healthcare: revisiting and advancing sociological contributions. Sociology of Health & Illness 42(S1): 1-20
- Hinton L, Armstrong N. (2020) "They don't know themselves, so how can they tell us?": Parents navigating uncertainty at the frontiers of neonatal surgery. Sociology of Health & Illness 42(S1): 51-68
- Cupit C, Rankin J, Armstrong N, Martin G. (2020) Overruling uncertainty about preventative medications: the social organisation of healthcare professionals’ knowledge and practices. Sociology of Health & Illness 42(S1): 114-129
- Armstrong N. (2019) Navigating the uncertainties of screening: the contribution of social theory. Social Theory & Health 17(2): 158-171
- Pillay T, Modi N, Rivero-Arias O, Manktelow B, Seaton S, Armstrong N, Draper E, Dawson K, Paton A, Ismail AQ, Yang M, Boyle EM. (2019) Optimising neonatal service provision for preterm babies born between 27 and 31 weeks gestation in England (OPTIPREM), using national data, qualitative research and economic analysis: a study protocol. BMJ Open 9(8)
- Armstrong N, Swinglehurst D. (2018) Understanding medical overuse: the case of problematic polypharmacy and the potential of ethnography. Family Practice 35(5): 526-527
- McEwan H, Baker R, Armstrong N, Banerjee J. (2018) A qualitative study of the determinants of adherence to NICE falls guideline in managing older fallers attending an Emergency Department. International Journal of Emergency Medicine 11:33
- Armstrong N. (2018) Overdiagnosis and overtreatment as a quality problem: insights from healthcare improvement research. BMJ Quality & Safety 27: 571-574
- Cupit C, Mackintosh N, Armstrong N. (2018) Using ethnography to study improving healthcare: reflections on the ‘ethnographic’ label. BMJ Quality & Safety 27: 258–260
- Armstrong N, Brewster L, Tarrant C, Dixon R, Willars J, Power M, Dixon-Woods M. (2018) Taking the heat or taking the temperature? A qualitative study of a large-scale exercise in seeking to measure for improvement, not blame. Social Science & Medicine 198: 157-164
- Tincello DG, Armstrong N, Hilton P, Buckley B, Mayne C. (2018) Surgery for recurrent stress urinary incontinence: the views of surgeons and women. International Urogynecology Journal 29: 45-54
- Lotto RR, Smith LK, Armstrong N. (2018) Diagnosis of a severe congenital anomaly: a qualitative analysis of parental decision-making and the implications for healthcare encounters. Health Expectations 21:678-684
- Chew S, Brewster L, Tarrant C, Martin G, Armstrong N. (2018) Fidelity or flexibility: An ethnographic study of the implementation and use of the Patient Activation Measure in practice. Patient Education & Counselling 101: 932-937
- Brewster L, Tarrant C, Willars J, Armstrong N. (2018) Measurement of harms in community care: a qualitative study of use of the NHS Safety Thermometer. BMJ Quality & Safety 27: 625-632
- Lotto RR, Smith LK, Armstrong N. Clinicians' perspectives of parental decision-making following diagnosis of a severe congenital anomaly: a qualitative study. BMJ Open 7 (2017)
- Aveling E-L, Martin GP, Herbert G, Armstrong N. (2017) Optimising the community-based approach to healthcare improvement: Comparative case studies of the clinical community model in practice. Social Science & Medicine 173: 96-103
- Armstrong N, Kenyon S. (2017) When choice becomes limited: women's experiences of delay in labour. Health 21(2): 223-238
- Lotto RR, Armstrong N, Smith LK. (2016) Care provision during termination of pregnancy following diagnosis of a severe congenital anomaly: a qualitative study of what is important to parents. Midwifery 43: 14-20
- Armstrong N, Herbert G, Brewster L. (2016) Contextual barriers to implementation in primary care: an ethnographic study of a programme to improve chronic kidney disease care. Family Practice 33(4): 426-431
- Armstrong N, Shaw E, McColl E, Tincello DG, Hilton P. (2016) Trial participation as avoidance strategy: a qualitative study. Health Expectations 19(6): 1346–1354
- Gourna EG, Armstrong N, Wallace SE. (2016) Compare and contrast: A cross-national study across UK, USA and Greek experts regarding return of incidental findings from clinical sequencing. European Journal of Human Genetics 24(3): 344-349
- Hilton P, Armstrong N, Brennand C, Howel D, Shen J, Bryant A, Tincello DG, Lucas MG, Buckley BS, Chapple CR, Homer T, Vale L, McColl E. (2015) A mixed methods study to assess the feasibility of a randomized controlled trial of invasive urodynamic testing versus clinical assessment and non-invasive tests prior to surgery for stress urinary incontinence in women: the INVESTIGATE-I study. Trials 16:400
- Brewster L, Tarrant C, Armstrong N. (2015) Editorial: ‘Patient activation’ as an outcome measure for primary care? Family Practice 32(5): 481-482
- Tarrant C, Jackson C, Dixon-Woods M, McNicol S, Kenyon S, Armstrong N. (2015) Consent revisited: the impact of return of results on participants’ views and expectations about trial participation. Health Expectations 18(6): 2042-2053
- Martin GP, Armstrong N, Aveling E-L, Herbert, G, Dixon-Woods M. (2015) Professionalism redundant, reshaped, or reinvigorated? Realizing the ‘Third Logic’ in contemporary healthcare. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 56(3): 378-397
- Armstrong N, Hilton P. (2014) Doing diagnosis: whether and how clinicians use a diagnostic tool of uncertain clinical utility. Social Science and Medicine 120: 208-214
- Gourna EG, Armstrong N, Wallace SE. (2014) Incidental findings from clinical sequencing in Greece: reporting experts' attitudes. Journal of Community Genetics 5(4): 383-393
- Chen JY, Eborall H, Armstrong N. 2014) Stakeholders' positions in the breast screening debate, and media coverage of the debate: A qualitative study. Critical Public Health 24(1): 62-72
- Kenyon S, Armstrong N, Johnston T, Walkinshaw S, Petrou S, Howman A, Cheed V, Markham C, McNicol S, Willars J, Waugh J on behalf of the HOLDS Collaborative Group (2013) Standard or high dose oxytocin for nulliparous women with confirmed delay in labour: quantitative and qualitative results from a pilot randomised controlled trial. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 120(11): 1403-1412
- Chew SE, Armstrong N, Martin GP. (2013) Institutionalising knowledge brokering as a sustainable knowledge translation solution in healthcare: how can it work in practice? Evidence and Policy 9(3): 335-351
- Armstrong N, Herbert G, Aveling E-L, Dixon-Woods M, Martin G. (2013) Optimising patient involvement in quality improvement. Health Expectations 16(3): 36-47
- Armstrong N, Jackson C, McNicol S, Dixon-Woods M, Kenyon S, Tarrant C. (2013) Unblinding following trial participation: qualitative study of participants' perspectives. Clinical Trials 10(1): 97-103
- Hilton P, Bryant A, Howel D, McColl E, Buckley B, Lucas M, Tincello DG, Armstrong N. (2012) Assessing professional equipoise and views about a future clinical trial of invasive urodynamics prior to surgery for stress urinary incontinence in women: a survey within a mixed methods feasibility study. Neurology and Urodynamics 31(8): 1223-1230 (2013)
- Armstrong N, Baines D, Baker R, Crossman R, Davies M, Hardy A, Khunti K, Kumar S, O'Hare JP, Raymond NT, Saravanan P, Stallard N, Szczepura A, Wilson A. (2012) A cluster randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Intermediate Care Clinics for Diabetes (ICCD): Study protocol for a randomised trial. Trials 13:164
- Aveling E-L, Martin G, Jimenez Garcia S, Martin L, Herbert G, Armstrong N, Dixon-Woods M, Woolhouse I. (2012) Reciprocal peer review for quality improvement: An ethnographic case study of the Improving Lung Cancer Outcomes Project. BMJ Quality and Safety 21(12): 1034-1041
- Armstrong N, Dixon-Woods M, Rusk G, Thomas A, Tarrant C. (2012) Do informed consent documents for cancer trials do what they should? A study of manifest and latent functions. Sociology of Health and Illness 34(8): 1230-1245
- Armstrong N, James V, Dixon-Woods M. (2012) The role of primary care professionals in women's experiences of cervical cancer screening: a qualitative study. Family Practice 29(4): 462-466
- Armstrong N, Koteyko N, Powell J. (2012) "Oh dear, should I really be saying that on here?" Issues of identity and authority in an online diabetes community. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 16(4): 347-365
- Armstrong N, Murphy E. (2012) Conceptualising resistance. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 16(3): 311-323
- Armstrong N, Eborall H. (2012) The sociology of medical screening: past, present and future. Sociology of Health and Illness 34(2): 161-176
- Murdoch M, McColl E, Howel D, Deverill M, Buckley BS, Lucas M, Chapple CR, Tincello DG, Armstrong N, Brennand C, Shen J, Vale L, Hilton P. (2011) INVESTIGATE-I (INVasive Evaluation before Surgical Treatment of Incontinence Gives Added Therapeutic Effect?): study protocol for a mixed methods study to assess the feasibility of a future randomised controlled trial of the clinical utility of invasive urodynamic testing. Trials 12:169
Other publications
- Armstrong N, Tarrant C, Martin G, Manktelow B, Brewster L, Chew S. (2017) Independent evaluation of the feasibility of using the Patient Activation Measure in the NHS in England: Final report. University of Leicester
- Tincello D, Armstrong N, Hilton P, Buckley B, Mayne C. (2016) Surgery for recurrent stress urinary incontinence: surgeons’ and women’s view. The Three S Study. Neurology & Urodynamics 35:S256-257 (published abstract)
- Armstrong N. (2016) Patient Activation Measure: Learning from early adopters. National Health Executive May/June 2016: 48-49
- Armstrong N, Tarrant C, Martin G, Manktelow B, Brewster L, Chew S. (2016) Independent evaluation of the feasibility of using the Patient Activation Measure in the NHS in England: Summary Interim Report. NHS England / The Health Foundation
- Armstrong N, Tarrant C, Martin G, Manktelow B, Brewster L. (2015) Independent evaluation of the feasibility of using the Patient Activation Measure in the NHS in England: Early Findings. NHS England / The Health Foundation
- Hilton P, Bryant A, Howel D, McColl E, Shen J, Homer T, Vale L, Buckley BS, Lucas MG, Tincello DG, Armstrong N, on behalf of the INVESTIGATE studies group. (2016) Letter to the Editor Re: Hilton P, Bryant A, Howel D, McColl E, Buckley BS, Lucas MG, et al. Assessing professional equipoise and views about a future clinical trial of invasive urodynamics prior to surgery for stress urinary incontinence in women: a survey within a mixed methods feasibility study. Neurology and Urodynamics 35(6): 750-751
- Hilton P, Armstrong N, Brennand C, Howel D, Shen J, Bryant A, Tincello D, Lucas M, Buckley B, Chapple C, Homer T, Vale L, McColl E. (2015) INVESTIGATE-I (INVasive Evaluation before Surgical Treatment of Incontinence Gives Added Therapeutic Effect?): a mixed-methods study to assess the feasibility of a future randomised controlled trial of invasive urodynamic testing prior to surgery for stress urinary incontinence in women. Health Technology Assessment 19(15)
- Hilton P, Armstrong N, Brennand C, Howel D, Shen J, Bryant A, Tincello DG, Lucas MG, Buckley BS, Chapple CR, Homer T, Vale L, McColl E, on behalf of the INVESTIGATE studies group. (2014) INVESTIGATE-I: a mixed methods study to assess the feasibility of a future randomised controlled trial of invasive urodynamic testing prior to surgery for stress urinary incontinence in women. International Urogynecology Journal 25 (suppl.1):S182-S183 (Published abstract).
