Prof. Elaine McColl
Director, Newcastle Clinical Trials Unit
- Email: E.McColl@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)191 222 7260
- Fax: +44 0191 222 6043
- Address: Institute of Health and Society
21 Claremont Place
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 4AA
Research Interests
Clinical trial design
Quality of life assessment
Survey methods in health research
Chronic disease management
Primary care research
Selected Publications
- C. Robertson; A. Langston; E. McColl; P.M. Fayers, M.K. Campbell; for the PRISM Trial Group. An investigation into people's perceptions of 'quality of life' when completing health-related quality if life questionnaires. Patient Reported Outcomes Newsletter 2005, 34, 17-18.
- E. McColl;I. Wiklund;O. Junghard;D. Revicki. Assessing Symptoms in Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: How Well Do Clinicians' Assessments Agree with Those of Their Patients?. American Journal of Gastroenterology 2005, 100(1), 11-18.
- E. McColl;S.W. Han;J.R. Barton;M.R. Welfare. A comparison of the discriminatory power of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire and the SF-36 in people with ulcerative colitis. Quality of Life Research 2004, 13(4), 805-811.
- C. Speed;E. McColl;M. Welfare. A scale to measure the impact of faecal incontinence in inflammatory bowel disease: a patient-centred approach. Quality of Life Newsletter 2004, 32, 19-20.
- E. McColl; I. Wiklund; O. Junghard; D. Revicki. Assessing symptoms in gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: patients' vs clinicans' assessments. Quality of Life Research 2004, 13(9), 1587.
- E. McColl. Best practice in symptom assessment: a review. Gut 2004, 53(Suppl IV), iv49-iv54.
Projects
- LIFELAX - Diet and lifestyle in the management of constipation in older people (ISRCTN7388134)
Project Leaders: Elaine McColl - STOOL Stepped Treatment of Older adults On Laxatives
Project Leaders: John Bond
Roles and Responsibilities
Director, Newcastle Clinical Trials Unit
Qualifications
BA, MSc, PhD
