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2026

• Sanders, J. et al. 2026. Characteristics of women, intrapartum interventions, and maternal and neonatal outcomes among users of intrapartum water immersion: The UK POOL Cohort Study. Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care 53 (1), pp.55-66. (10.1111/birt.12921)

2025

• Sanders, J. et al. 2025. Authors' Reply [Letter to the Editor]. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 132 (2), pp.226-227. (10.1111/1471-0528.17960)

2024

• Lowthian, E. et al. 2024. Receipt of social services intervention in childhood, educational attainment and emergency hospital admissions: longitudinal analyses of national administrative health, social care, and education data in Wales, UK. BMC Public Health 24 2912. (10.1186/s12889-024-20204-6)
• Ali, O. et al. 2024. Acceptability of alternative technologies compared with faecal immunochemical test and/or colonoscopy in colorectal cancer screening: A systematic review. Journal of Medical Screening 30 (1), pp.14-27. (10.1177/09691413221109999)

2023

• Anthony, R. et al. 2023. Adversity profiles of children receiving care and support from social services: A Latent-class analysis of school-aged children in Wales. Child: Care, Health and Development 49 (5), pp.889-897. (10.1111/cch.13097)
• Langley, K. et al. 2023. Can a nation-wide e-cohort of ADHD and ASD in childhood be established using Welsh routinely available datasets?. BMJ Open 13 e071851. (10.1136/bmjopen-2023-071851)
• Hurt, L. et al. 2023. Childhood outcomes in children with and without cardiac echogenic foci: An electronic birth cohort study in Wales, UK. Children 10 (7) 1233. (10.3390/children10071233)

2022

• Carter, B. et al. 2022. Mediators and effect modifiers of the causal pathway between child exposure to domestic violence and internalizing behaviors among children and adolescents: a systematic literature review. Trauma, Violence, and Abuse 23 (2), pp.594-604. (10.1177/1524838020965964)
• Esperanza, R. et al. 2022. Hospital admissions in infants with Down syndrome: a record-linked population-based cohort study in Wales. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research 66 , pp.225-239. (10.1111/jir.12903)
• Bandyopadhyay, A. et al., 2022. Health and household environment factors linked with early alcohol use in adolescence: a record-linked, data-driven, longitudinal cohort study. International Journal of Population Data Science 7 (1) 13. (10.23889/ijpds.v7i1.1717)

2021

• Currie, J. et al. 2021. Life expectancy inequalities in Wales before COVID-19: an exploration of current contributions by age and cause of death and changes between 2002 and 2018. Public Health 193 , pp.48-56. (10.1016/j.puhe.2021.01.025)
• Evans, A. et al. 2021. Association of asthma severity and educational attainment at age 6-7 years in a birth cohort: population-based record-linkage study. Thorax 76 (2)(10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-215422)

2020

• Evans, A. et al. 2020. Adverse childhood experiences during childhood and academic attainment at age 7 and 11 years: an electronic birth cohort study. Public Health 189 , pp.37-47. (10.1016/j.puhe.2020.08.027)
• Greene, G. et al. 2020. Improving mental health through neighbourhood regeneration: the role of cohesion, belonging, quality and disorder. European Journal of Public Health 30 (5), pp.964-966. (10.1093/eurpub/ckz221)
• Sanders, J. et al. 2020. Pregnancy and weight monitoring: a feasibility study of weightcharts and midwife support. Maternal and Child Nutrition 16 (4) e12996. (10.1111/mcn.12996)
• Townson, J. et al. 2020. Developing and evaluating a model of public involvement and engagement embedded in a national longitudinal study: HealthWise Wales. International Journal of Population Data Science 5 (3) 03. (10.23889/ijpds.v5i3.1356)
• Gartner, A. et al. 2020. Demographic and socioeconomic patterns in the risk of alcohol-related hospital admission in children and young adults with childhood onset type-1 diabetes from a record-linked longitudinal population cohort study in Wales. Pediatric Diabetes 21 (7), pp.1333-1342. (10.1111/pedi.13089)
• Bauermeister, S. et al., 2020. The Dementias Platform UK (DPUK) data portal. European Journal of Epidemiology 35 , pp.601-611. (10.1007/s10654-020-00633-4)
• McQuire, C. et al. 2020. The causal web of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: a review and causal diagram. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 29 , pp.575-594. (10.1007/s00787-018-1264-3)
• Allen, L. A. et al. 2020. Pregnancy in teenagers diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus in childhood: a national population based e-cohort study. Diabetologia 63 , pp.799-810. (10.1007/s00125-019-05063-w)
• Greene, G. et al. 2020. Mental health selection: common mental disorder and migration between multiple states of deprivation in a UK cohort. BMJ Open 10 (2) e033238. (10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033238)
• Lugg-Widger, F. V. et al. 2020. Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Family Nurse Partnership home visiting programme in first time young mothers in Scotland: a protocol for a natural experiment. International Journal of Population Data Science 5 (1) 12. (10.23889/ijpds.v5i1.1154)

2019

• Hurt, L. et al. 2019. Cohort Profile: HealthWise Wales. A research register and population health data platform with linkage to National Health Service datasets in Wales. BMJ Open 9 (12) e031705. (10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031705)
• Gartner, A. et al. 2019. Drinking beer, wine or spirits - does it matter for inequalities in alcohol-related hospital admission? A record-linked longitudinal study in Wales. BMC Public Health 19 1651. (10.1186/s12889-019-8015-3)
• Tseliou, F. et al. 2019. Do carers care for themselves? A population-based study. International Journal of Population Data Science 4 (3) 54. (10.23889/ijpds.v4i3.1215)
• Evans, A. et al. 2019. The role of health and social factors in education outcome: a record-linked electronic birth cohort analysis. PLoS ONE 14 (8) e0220771. (10.1371/journal.pone.0220771)
• Hurt, L. et al. 2019. Mild-to-moderate renal pelvis dilatation identified during pregnancy and hospital admissions in childhood: an electronic birth cohort study in Wales, UK. PLoS Medicine 16 (7) e1002859. (10.1371/journal.pmed.1002859)
• Ahmed, H. et al. 2019. Impact of antibiotic treatment duration on outcomes in older men with suspected urinary tract infection: retrospective cohort study. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety 28 (6), pp.857-866. (10.1002/pds.4791)
• Trefan, L. et al. 2019. Epidemiology of alcohol-related emergency hospital admissions in children and adolescents: an e-cohort analysis in Wales in 2006-2011. PLoS ONE 14 (6) e0217598. (10.1371/journal.pone.0217598)
• Lugg-Widger, F. V. et al. 2019. Long-term outcomes of urinary tract infection (UTI) in Childhood (LUCI): protocol for an electronic record-linked cohort study. BMJ Open 9 e024210. (10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024210)
• Schlüter, D. K. et al., 2019. Impact of cystic fibrosis on birthweight: a population based study of children in Denmark and Wales. Thorax 74 , pp.447-454. (10.1136/thoraxjnl-2018-211706)
• Copeland, L. et al. 2019. Feasibility and acceptability of a motivational interviewing breastfeeding peer support intervention. Maternal and Child Nutrition 15 (2) e12703. (10.1111/mcn.12703)
• Ahmed, H. et al. 2019. Choice of empirical antibiotic therapy and adverse outcomes in older adults with suspected urinary tract infection: cohort study. Open Forum Infectious Diseases 6 (3), pp.-. ofz039. (10.1093/ofid/ofz039)
• Ahmed, H. et al. 2019. Antibiotic prophylaxis and clinical outcomes among older adults with recurrent urinary tract infection: cohort study. Age and Ageing 48 (2), pp.228-234. (10.1093/ageing/afy146)
• McQuire, C. et al. 2019. Screening prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in a region of the United Kingdom: a population-based birth-cohort study. Preventive Medicine 118 , pp.344-351. (10.1016/j.ypmed.2018.10.013)
• Trefan, L. et al. 2019. Electronic Longitudinal Alcohol Study in Communities (ELAStiC) Wales - protocol for platform development. International Journal of Population Data Science 4 (1) 14. (10.23889/ijpds.v4i1.581)

2018

• Ahmed, H. et al. 2018. Risk of adverse outcomes following urinary tract infection in older people with renal impairment: retrospective cohort study using linked health record data. PLoS Medicine 15 (9) e1002652. (10.1371/journal.pmed.1002652)
• Sanders, J. et al. 2018. Evaluating the Family Nurse Partnership Programme in Scotland: a natural experiment approach. International Journal of Population Data Science 3 (4) 994. (10.23889/ijpds.v3i4.994)
• Smits, S. et al. 2018. Development of a behaviour change intervention to encourage timely cancer symptom presentation among people living in deprived communities using the Behaviour Change Wheel. Annals of Behavioral Medicine 52 (6), pp.474-488. (10.1007/s12160-016-9849-x)
• Paranjothy, S. et al. 2018. Risk of emergency hospital admission in children associated with mental disorders and alcohol misuse in the household: an electronic birth cohort study. Lancet Public Health 3 (6), pp.e279-e288. (10.1016/S2468-2667(18)30069-0)
• Gartner, A. et al. 2018. Does selective migration alter socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in Wales?: a record-linked total population e-cohort study. SSM - Population Health 5 , pp.48-54. (10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.05.004)
• Phillips, R. et al. 2018. Development of a novel motivational interviewing (MI) informed peer-support intervention to support mothers to breastfeed for longer. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 18 90. (10.1186/s12884-018-1725-1)
• Hurt, L. et al. 2018. Interventions that enhance health services for parents and infants to improve child development and social and emotional well-being in high-income countries: a systematic review. BMJ Open 8 (2) e014899. (10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014899)
• Gobat, N. et al. 2018. 'Focusing' in motivational interviewing: development of a training tool for practitioners. European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare 6 (1), pp.37-49. (10.5750/ejpch.v6i1.1389)
• Ahmed, H. et al. 2018. Incidence and antibiotic prescribing for clinically diagnosed urinary tract infection in older adults in UK primary care, 2004-2014. PLoS ONE 13 (1) e0190521. (10.1371/journal.pone.0190521)
• Grant, A. et al. 2018. Availability of breastfeeding peer-support in the UK: a cross-sectional survey. Maternal and Child Nutrition 14 (1) e12476. (10.1111/mcn.12476)
• Trickey, H. et al. 2018. A realist review of one-to-one breastfeeding peer support experiments conducted in developed country settings. Maternal & Child Nutrition 14 (1) e12559. (10.1111/mcn.12559)
• Paljarvi, T. et al. 2018. Feasibility of consumer-level activity monitors: Attitudes, user experiences, and accuracy of activity data. Presented at: 7th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress London, England 15-17 October 2018. Human Kinetics. (10.1123/jpah.2018-0535)

2017

• Paranjothy, S. et al. 2017. A novel peer-support intervention using motivational interviewing for breastfeeding maintenance: a UK feasibility study. Health Technology Assessment 21 (77), pp.1-138. (10.3310/hta21770)
• Ahmed, H. et al. 2017. Long-term antibiotics for prevention of recurrent urinary tract infection in older adults: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials. BMJ Open 7 (5), pp.e015233. (10.1136/bmjopen-2016-015233)
• Demmler, J. et al., 2017. Educational attainment at age 10–11 years predicts health risk behaviors and injury risk during adolescence. Journal of Adolescent Health (10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.02.003)
• Johnson, C. D. , Jones, S. and Paranjothy, S. 2017. Reducing low birth weight: prioritizing action to address modifiable risk factors. Journal of Public Health 39 (1), pp.122-131. (10.1093/pubmed/fdv212)

2016

• McQuire, C. et al. 2016. Objective measures of prenatal alcohol exposure: a systematic review. Pediatrics 138 (3) e20160517. (10.1542/peds.2016-0517)
• Hutchings, H. A. et al., 2016. Does frequent residential mobility in early years affect the uptake and timeliness of routine immunisations? An anonymised cohort study. Vaccine 34 (15), pp.1773-1777. (10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.02.049)
• Hurt, L. et al. 2016. Prevalence of defined ultrasound findings of unknown significance at the second trimester fetal anomaly scan and their association with adverse pregnancy outcomes: the Welsh study of mothers and babies population-based cohort. Prenatal Diagnosis 36 (1), pp.40-48. (10.1002/pd.4708)

2015

• Greene, G. , Paranjothy, S. and Palmer, S. R. 2015. Resilience and vulnerability to the psychological harm from flooding: The role of social cohesion. American Journal of Public Health 105 (9), pp.1792-1795. (10.2105/AJPH.2015.302709)
• Copeland, L. and Paranjothy, S. 2015. Motivational interviewing: a key approach for supporting the transition to parenthood including breastfeeding?. Perspective – NCT’s journal on preparing parents for birth and early parenthood 27 , pp.17-20.
• Aawar, N. et al. 2015. Fibrinogen concentrate versus placebo for treatment of postpartum haemorrhage: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials 16 (1), pp.1-11. (10.1186/s13063-015-0670-9)

2014

• Paranjothy, S. et al. 2014. Perinatal outcomes and travel time from home to hospital: Welsh data 1995 to 2009. Acta Paediatrica 103 (12), pp.e522-e527. (10.1111/apa.12800)
• Collins, P. W. et al. 2014. Fibrin-based clot formation as an early and rapid biomarker for progression of postpartum hemorrhage: a prospective study. Blood 124 (11), pp.1727-1736. (10.1182/blood-2014-04-567891)
• Beer, H. et al., 2014. Does the HPV vaccination programme have implications for cervical screening programmes in the UK?. Vaccine 32 (16), pp.1828-1833. (10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.01.087)
• Morgan, K. et al. 2014. Obesity in pregnancy: a retrospective prevalence-based study on health service utilisation and costs on the NHS. BMJ Open 4 e003983. (10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003983)
• Paranjothy, S. et al. 2014. Interventions at caesarean section for reducing the risk of aspiration pneumonitis. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2) CD004943. (10.1002/14651858.CD004943.pub4)
• Selo-Ojeme, D. O. , Paranjothy, S. and Onwude, J. L. 2014. Interstitial cystitis coexisting with vulvar vestibulitis in a 4-year-old girl. International Urogynecology Journal 13 (4) 261. (10.1007/s001920200054)
• Hurt, L. et al. 2014. The Welsh study of mothers and babies: protocol for a population-based cohort study to investigate the clinical significance of defined ultrasound findings of uncertain significance. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 14 164. (10.1186/1471-2393-14-164)
• Reilly, R. , Paranjothy, S. and Fone, D. 2014. Adolescent pregnancy in the United Kingdom. In: International Handbook of Adolescent Pregnancy. Springer
• Thomas, R. et al., 2014. Pharmacist-led interventions to reduce unplanned admissions for older people: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Age and Aging (10.1093/ageing/aft169)

2013

• Paranjothy, S. et al. 2013. Gestational age, birth weight, and risk of respiratory hospital admission in childhood. Pediatrics 132 (6), pp.e1562-e1569. (10.1542/peds.2013-1737)
• Palmer, S. R. et al. 2013. The role of maternal stress in early pregnancy in the aetiology of gastroschisis: an incident case control study. PLoS ONE 8 (11) e80103. (10.1371/journal.pone.0080103)
• Hutchings, H. A. et al., 2013. Do children who move home and school frequently have poorer educational outcomes in their early years at school? An anonymised cohort study. PLoS ONE 8 (8) e70601. (10.1371/journal.pone.0070601)
• Kotecha, S. J. et al. 2013. Effect of preterm birth on later FEV1: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Thorax 68 (8), pp.760-766. (10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012-203079)
• Huntley, A. L. et al., 2013. Is case management effective in reducing the risk of unplanned hospital admissions for older people? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Family Practice 30 (3), pp.266-275. (10.1093/fampra/cms081)
• Paranjothy, S. et al. 2013. Perinatal outcomes and travel time to maternity services: analysis of birth outcome data in Wales from 1995 to 2009. Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition 98 (Suppl), pp.A94. (10.1136/archdischild-2013-303966.323)
• Thomas, R. L. et al. 2013. Specialist clinics for reducing emergency admissions in patients with heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Heart 99 (4), pp.233-239. (10.1136/heartjnl-2012-302313)

2012

• Griffiths, J. D. et al., 2012. Interventions for preventing nausea and vomiting in women undergoing regional anaesthesia for caesarean section. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 9 CD007579. (10.1002/14651858.CD007579.pub2)
• Lyons, R. A. et al., 2012. Development and use of a privacy-protecting total population record linkage system to support observational, interventional, and policy relevant research. The Lancet 380 S6. (10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60362-1)
• Paranjothy, S. et al. 2012. The role of maternal nutrition in the aetiology of gastroschisis: an incident case-control study. International Journal of Epidemiology 41 (4), pp.1141-1152. (10.1093/ije/dys092)
• Patel, A. et al., 2012. Cervical cancer incidence in young women: a historical and geographic controlled UK regional population study. British Journal of Cancer 106 (11), pp.1753-1759. (10.1038/bjc.2012.148)
• Purdy, S. et al., 2012. Interventions to reduce unplanned hospital admission: a series of systematic reviews. Project Report.National Institute for Health Research.
• Reilly, R. et al., 2012. Birth outcomes following treatment for precancerous changes to the cervix: a population-based record linkage study. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 119 (2), pp.236-244. (10.1111/j.1471-0528.2011.03052.x)
• Roberts, J. R. et al., 2012. The transmission of tuberculosis in schools involving children 3 to 11 years of age. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 31 (1), pp.82-84. (10.1097/INF.0b013e31823378c9)

2011

• MacArthur, G. J. et al., 2011. Impact of media reporting of cervical cancer in a UK celebrity on a population-based cervical screening programme. Journal of Medical Screening 18 (4), pp.204-209. (10.1258/jms.2011.011092)
• Kotecha, S. J. et al. 2011. Effect of late preterm birth on longitudinal lung spirometry in school age children and adolescents. Thorax 67 (1), pp.54-61. (10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-200329)
• Paranjothy, S. et al. 2011. Psychosocial impact of the summer 2007 floods in England. BMC Public Health 11 , pp.145-152. (10.1186/1471-2458-11-145)
• Paranjothy, S. et al. 2011. Interventions at caesarean section for reducing the risk of aspiration pneumonitis. International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia 20 (2), pp.142-148. (10.1016/j.ijoa.2010.12.006)

2010

• Fone, D. L. , Paranjothy, S. and Stiff, R. 2010. Innovation and change in public health. In: Watkins, D. and Cousins, J. eds. Public Health and Community Nursing: Frameworks for practice 3rd Edition. Elsevier Bailliere Tindall. , pp.27-46.
• Hill, R. A. et al., 2010. Protocol of the baseline assessment for the Environments for Healthy Living (EHL) Wales cohort study. BMC Public Health 10 , pp.150-157. (10.1186/1471-2458-10-150)

2009

• Paranjothy, S. et al. 2009. The incidence and aetiology of epistaxis in infants: a population-based study. Archives of Disease in Childhood 94 (6), pp.421-424. (10.1136/adc.2008.144881)
• Paranjothy, S. et al. 2009. Teenage pregnancy: who suffers?. Archives of Disease in Childhood 94 (3), pp.239-245. (10.1136/adc.2007.115915)
• Brown, H. C. et al., 2009. Package of care for active management in labour for reducing caesarean section rates in low-risk women (Review). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2009 (3) CD004907. (10.1002/14651858.CD004907.pub2)
• Eisenhut, M. et al., 2009. BCG vaccination reduces risk of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis as detected by gamma interferon release assay. Vaccine 27 (44), pp.6116-6120. (10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.08.031)
• Griffiths, J. D. et al., 2009. Interventions for reducing nausea and vomiting at caesarean section. The Cochrane Library 1 , pp.1-9. (10.1002/14651858.CD007579)

2008

• Joffe, M. et al., 2008. Use of time to pregnancy in environmental epidemiology and surveillance. Journal of Public Health 30 (2), pp.178-185. (10.1093/pubmed/fdn005)
• Paranjothy, S. et al. 2008. Extensive transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from 9 year old child with pulmonary tuberculosis and negative sputum smear. British Medical Journal (BMJ) 337 (aug28) a1184. (10.1136/bmj.a1184)
• Paranjothy, S. et al. 2008. Extensive transmission of mycobacterium tuberculosis from a 9-year old child with sputum - smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis [Abstract]. International Journal of Infectious Diseases 12 (s1), pp.e49. (10.1016/j.ijid.2008.05.014)
• Paranjothy, S. et al. 2008. Interventions at caesarean section for reducing aspiration pneumonitis. The Cochrane Library 3 , pp.1-9. (10.1002/14651858.CD004943.pub2)

2007

• Adappa, R. et al. 2007. Perinatal and infant autopsy. Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition 92 (1), pp.F49-F50. (10.1136/adc.2005.091447)

2005

• Paranjothy, S. , Frost, C. and Thomas, J. 2005. How much variation in CS rates can be explained by case mix differences?. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 112 (5), pp.658-666. (10.1111/j.1471-0528.2005.00501.x)

2004

• Thomas, J. , Paranjothy, S. and James, D. 2004. National cross sectional survey to determine whether the decision to delivery interval is critical in emergency caesarean section. BMJ 328 (7441), pp.665-665. (10.1136/bmj.38031.775845.7C)

2003

• Thomas, J. , Paranjothy, S. and Templeton, A. 2003. An audit of the management of induced abortion in England and Wales. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics 83 (3), pp.327-334. (10.1016/S0020-7292(03)00305-9)

2002

• Thomas, J. et al., 2002. Cardiotocography v Doppler auscultation: guidelines highlight gaps in research evidence [Letter]. British Medical Journal 324 (7335), pp.482-483. (10.1136/bmj.324.7335.482)

2001

• Thomas, J. and Paranjothy, S. 2001. The National Sentinel Caesarean Section Audit Report. Project Report.RCOG Press.

2000

• Paranjothy, S. and Thomas, J. 2000. Multilevel modelling. The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist 2 (4), pp.52. (10.1576/toag.2000.2.4.52)
• Thomas, J. , Callwood, A. and Paranjothy, S. 2000. National Sentinel Caesarean Section Audit: update. Practising Midwife 3