Dr Fraser BirrellHonorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
Luqmani R, Hennell S, Estrach C, Birrell F, Bosworth A, Davenport G, Fokke C, Goodson N, Jeffreson P, Lamb E, Mohammed R, Oliver S, Stableford Z, Walsh D, Washbrook C, Webb F, British Society for Rheumatology, British Health Professionals in Rheumatology Standards, Guidelines and Audit Working Group. British Society for Rheumatology and British Health Professionals in Rheumatology guideline for the management of rheumatoid arthritis (the first two years) .
Rheumatology 2006, 45 (9), 1167-1169.
Birrell F, Lohmander S. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs after hip replacement .333 (7567), 507-508.
Roddy E, Zhang W, Doherty M, Arden NK, Barlow J, Birrell F, Carr A, Chakravarty K, Dickson J, Hay E, Hosie G, Hurley M, Jordan KM, McCarthy C, McMurdo M, Mockett S, O'Reilly S, Peat G, Pendleton A, Richards S. Evidence-based clinical guidelines: a new system to better determine true strength of recommendation .
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 2006,12 3 347-52.
Pearce MS, Birrell F, Francis RM, Rawlings DJ, Tuck SP, Parker L. Lifecourse study of bone health at age 49-51 years: The Newcastle thousand families cohort study .
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2005, 59 (6), 475-480.
Birrell F, Lunt M, Macfarlane G, Silman A. Association between pain in the hip region and radiographic changes of osteoarthritis: Results from a population-based study .
Rheumatology 2005, 44 (3), 337-341.
Birrell F, Lunt M, Macfarlane GJ, Silman AJ. Defining hip pain for population studies .
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2005,64 1 95-98.
Tuck SP, Pearce MS, Rawlings DJ, Birrell FN, Parker L, Francis RM. Differences in bone mineral density and geometry in men and women: the Newcastle Thousand Families Study at 50 years old .
British Journal of Radiology 2005, 78 (930), 493-498.
Roddy E, Zhang W, Doherty M, Arden NK, Barlow J, Birrell F, Carr A, Chakravarty K, Dickson J, Hay E, Hosie G, Hurley M, Jordan KM, McCarthy C, McMurdo M, Mockett S, O'Reilly S, Peat G, Pendleton A, Richards S. Evidence-based recommendations for the role of exercise in the management of osteoarthritis of the hip or knee - The MOVE concensus .
Rheumatology 2005,44 1 67-73.
Birrell F, Arden NK, Conaghan PG, Cooper C, Dieppe P, Doherty M. Is it time for more rheumatologists to embrace osteoarthritis? .44 7 829-830.
Birrell F, Pearce MS, Francis RM, Parker L. Self-report overestimates true height loss: Implications for diagnosis of osteoporosis .
Clinical Rheumatology 2005, 24 (6), 590-592.
Birrell FN. Patterns of joint pain: Lessons from epidemiology .
Rheumatology 2004,43 4 408-409.
Pope DP, Hunt IM, Birrell FN, Silman AJ, Macfarlane GJ. Hip pain onset in relation to cumulative workplace and leisure time mechanical load: a population based case-control study .
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2003, 62 (4), 322-326.
Birrell F, Croft P, Cooper C, Hosie G, Macfarlane G, Silman A. The Syndrome of Symptomatic Adult Acetabular Dysplasia (SAAD Syndrome) .
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2003, 62 (4), 356-358.
Birrell FN, Gordon F. Clinical Courses: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly .
BMJ careers 2001,322 7286 S2.
Birrell F, Croft P, Cooper C, Hosie G, Macfarlane G, Silman A. Predicting Radiographic Hip Osteoarthritis from Range of Movement .
Rheumatology 2001, 40 (5), 506-512.
Birrell F, Croft P, Cooper C, Hosie G, Macfarlane G, Silman A. Health impact of pain in the hip region with and without radiographic evidence of osteoarthritis: A study of new attenders to primary care .
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2000, 59 (11), 857-863.
Birrell FN, Hassell AB, Jones PW, Dawes PT. How Does the Short Form 36 Health Questionnaire (SF-36) in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Relate to RA Outcome Measures and SF-36 Population Values? A Cross-sectional Study .
Clin Rheumatol 2000, 19 , 195-99.
Birrell F, Croft P, Cooper C, Hosie G, Macfarlane GJ, Silman A. Radiographic Change is Common in New Presenters in Primary Care .
Rheumatology 2000, 39 (7), 772-725.
Birrell F, Johnell O, Silman A. Projecting the Need for Hip Replacement Over the Next Three Decades: Influence of Changing Demography and Threshold for Surgery .
Ann Rheum Dis 1999, 58 , 569-72.
Nicolaou M, Amstrong R, Hassell AB, Walker D, Birrell F. e-learning is widely used by musculoskeletal professionals (especially academics and trainees) and arthritis research UK provides some of the best resources: Results from a national electronic survey .
In: Rheumatology: Annual Meeting of the British Society for Rheumatology . 2011, Brighton, UK: Oxford University Press.
Abraham A, Mann KD, Pearce MS, Francis RM, Birrell F. Exclusive Breast Feeding in Infancy Has a Protective Effect on Development of Knee Osteophytes: The Newcastle Thousand Families Study .
In: Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: 7th World Congress on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease . 2011, Portland, Oregon, USA: Cambridge University Press.
Duncan R, Francis RM, Collerton J, Davies K, Jagger C, Kingston A, Kirkwood T, Robinson L, Birrell F. Prevalence of arthritis and joint pain in the oldest old - Findings from the Newcastle 85+ Study .
In: Age and Ageing: British Geriatrics Society Spring Meeting . 2011, Liverpool: Oxford University Press.
Abraham A, Pearce MS, Francis RM, Birrell F. Prevalence of ultrasound-defined hand, knee and hip osteoarthritis at age 63: Isolated hand and osteoarthritis is common and may predict knee and hip involvement .
In: Rheumatology: Annual Meeting of the British Society for Rheumatology . 2011, Brighton, UK: Oxford University Press.
Abraham AM, Goff I, Pearce MS, Francis RM, Birrell F. Reliability and validity of ultrasound imaging of features of knee osteoarthritis in the community .
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2011, 12 (1), 70.
Atchia I, Kane D, Reed MR, Isaacs J, Birrell F. Musculoskeletal ultrasound predicts predicts response to corticosteroid injection in moderate-severe hip osteoarthritis .
In: Rheumatology: Annual Meeting of the British Society of Rheumatology . 2009, Glasgow, UK: Oxford University Press.
Birrell F, Croft P, Cooper C, Hosie G, Macfarlane G, Silman A. Predictors of Hip Joint Replacement in New Attenders in Primary Care .
British Journal of General Practice 2003, 53 (486), 26-30.
