Refereed Journal Articles

  • Allen T, Walshe K, Proudlove N & Sutton M. 2019. Measurement and improvement of emergency department performance through inspection and rating: an observational study of emergency departments in acute hospitals in England. Emergency Medicine Journal, 36(6): 326-332.
  • Allen T, Whittaker W, Kontopantelis E & Sutton M. 2018. Influence of financial and reputational incentives on primary care performance: a longitudinal study. British Journal of General Practice, 68(677): E811-E818.
  • Allen T, Walshe K, Proudlove N & Sutton M. 2020. Using quality indicators to predict inspection ratings: cross-sectional study of general practices in England. British Journal of General Practice, 70(690): E55-E63.
  • Anselmi L, Everton A, Shaw R, Suzuki W, Burrows J, Weir R, Tatarek-Gintowt R, Sutton M & Lorrimer S. 2019. Estimating local need for mental healthcare to inform fair resource allocation in the NHS in England: cross-sectional analysis of national administrative data linked at person level. Br J Psychiatry, DOI: 10.1192/bjp.2019.185.
  • Atkins R, Gibson J, Sutton M, Spooner S & Checkland K. 2020. Trends in GP incomes in England, 2008-2017: a retrospective analysis of repeated postal surveys. Br J Gen Pract, DOI: 10.3399/bjgp19X706073.
  • Atkinson-Briggs S, Jenkins A, Keech A, Ryan C & Brazionis L. 2019. Integrating diabetic retinopathy screening within diabetes education services in Australia's diabetes and indigenous primary care clinics. Internal Medicine Journal, 49(6): 797-800.
  • Botha F & Pitot A. 2019. Suicide and the South African business cycle. Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics, 43(2): 1-8.
  • Bubonya M, Cobb-Clark DA & Ribar DC. 2019. The reciprocal relationship between depressive symptoms and employment status. Economics and Human Biology, (35): 96-106.
  • Burns RA, Butterworth P & Jorm AF. 2018. The long-term mental health risk associated with non-heterosexual orientation. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 27(1): 74-83.
  • Butterworth P, Becker D, Degenhardt L, Hall WD & Patton GC. 2018. Amphetamine use in the fourth decade of life: Social profiles from a population-based Australian cohort. Drug and Alcohol Review, 37(6): 743-751.
  • Butterworth P, Kelly BJ, Handley TE, Inder KJ & Lewin TJ. 2018. Does living in remote Australia lessen the impact of hardship on psychological distress? Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 27(5): 500-509.
  • Butterworth P & Leach LS. 2018. Early Onset of Distress Disorders and High-School Dropout: Prospective Evidence From a National Cohort of Australian Adolescents. American Journal of Epidemiology, 187(6): 1192-1198.
  • Cameron L & Contreras Suarez D. 2019. Conditional Cash Transfers: Do They Result in More Patient Choices and Increased Educational Aspirations? Economic Development and Cultural Change, DOI: 10.1086/701829.
  • Cameron L, Olivia S & Shah M. 2019. Scaling up sanitation: Evidence from an RCT in Indonesia. Journal of Development Economics, (138): 1-16.
  • Cameron L, Suarez DC & Cornwell K. 2019. Understanding the determinants of maternal mortality: An observational study using the Indonesian Population Census. PLoS ONE, 14(6).
  • Checkland K, Hammond J, Allen P, Coleman A, Warwick-Giles L, Hall A, Mays N & Sutton M. 2019. Road to Nowhere? A Critical Consideration of the Use of the Metaphor 'Care Pathway' in Health Services Planning, Organisation and Delivery. Journal of Social Policy, DOI: DOI: 10.1017/S0047279419000400.
  • Cheng C, Scott A, Sundararajan V & Yong J. 2018. On measuring the quality of hospitals A simple method of constructing a composite quality index. Journal of Health Organization and Management, 32(7): 842-859.
  • Cheng TC, Kalb G & Scott A. 2018. Public, private or both? Analyzing factors influencing the labour supply of medical specialists. Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue Canadienne d'Économique, 51(2): 659-691.
  • Chitty KM, Butterworth P & Batterham PJ. 2019. Antidepressant use and its relationship with current symptoms in a population-based sample of older Australians. Journal of Affective Disorders, (258):83-88.
  • Cole ES, Leighton C & Zhang Y. 2018. Distribution of Visits for Chronic Conditions Between Primary Care and Specialist Providers in Medicare Shared Savings Accountable Care Organizations. Medical Care, 56(5): 424-429.
  • Dalziel K, Li J, Scott A & Clarke P. 2018. Accuracy of patient recall for self-reported doctor visits: Is shorter recall better? Health Economics, 27(11): 1684-1698.
  • Eaton S, Harrap B, Downey L, Thien K, Bowtell M, Bardell-Williams M, Ratheesh A, McGorry P & O'Donoghue B. 2019. Incidence of treated first episode psychosis from an Australian early intervention service and its association with neighbourhood characteristics. Schizophrenia Research, (209): 206-211.
  • Feng Y, Kristensen SR, Lorgelly P, Meacock R, Sanchez MR, Siciliani L & Sutton M. 2019. Health Policy, 123(11): 1036-1041.
  • Fichera E, Banks J, Siciliani L & Sutton M. 2018. Does patient health behaviour respond to doctor effort? Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (156): 225-251.
  • Forbes H, Sutton M, Edgar DF, Lawrenson J, Spencer AF, Fenerty C & Harper R. 2019. Impact of the Manchester Glaucoma Enhanced Referral Scheme on NHS costs. BMJ Open Ophthalmology, 4(1).
  • Forbes LJL, Forbes H, Sutton M, Checkland K & Peckham S. 2019. How widespread is working at scale in English general practice? An observational study. British Journal of General Practice, 69(687): E682-E688.
  • Gray MP, Saba S, Zhang Y & Hernandez I. 2018. Outcomes of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Newly Recommended for Oral Anticoagulation Under the 2014 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology/Heart Rhythm Society Guideline. Journal of the American Heart Association, 7(1).
  • Halonen JI, Hiilamo A, Butterworth P, Wooden M, Ervasti J, Virtanen M, Sivertsen B, Aalto V, Oksanen T; & Kivimaki M. 2020. Psychological distress and sickness absence: Within- versus between-individual analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, (264): 333-339.
  • Hammond J, Mason T, Sutton M, Hall A, Mays N, Coleman A, Allen P, Warwick-Giles L & Checkland K. 2019. Exploring the impacts of the 2012 Health and Social Care Act reforms to commissioning on clinical activity in the English NHS: A mixed methods study of cervical screening. BMJ Open, (9)4).
  • Han L, Sutton M, Clough S, Warner R & Doran T. 2018. Impact of out-of-hours admission on patient mortality: longitudinal analysis in a tertiary acute hospital. BMJ Quality & Safety, 27(6): 445-454.
  • Headey B & Yong J. 2019. Happiness and Longevity: Unhappy People Die Young, Otherwise Happiness Probably Makes No Difference. Social Indicators Research, 142(2): 713-732.
  • He C et. al. 2020. The Accuracy of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 Algorithm for Screening to Detect Major Depression: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis. Psychotherapy and Psychosematics, 89(1): 25-37.
  • Hernandez I, He M, Brooks MM & Zhang Y. 2018. Exposure-Response Association Between Concurrent Opioid and Benzodiazepine Use and Risk of Opioid-Related Overdose in Medicare Part D Beneficiaries. JAMA Network Open, 1(2).
  • Hernandez I, He M & Zhang Y. 2018. Comparing state, regional, and local variation in concurrent opioid and benzodiazepine use. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, (191): 141-144.
  • Hernandez I, Zhang Y & Saba S. 2018. Effectiveness and Safety of Direct Oral Anticoagulants and Warfarin, Stratified by Stroke Risk in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation. American Journal of Cardiology, 122(1): 69-75.
  • Halonen JI, Hiilamo A, Butterworth P, Wooden M, Ervasti J, Virtanen M, Sivertsen B, Aalto V, Oksanen T & Kivimaki M. 2020. Psychological distress and sickness absence: Within- versus between-individual analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, (264): 333-339.
  • Hiilamo A, Butterworth P, Shiri R, Ropponen A, Pietilainen O, Manty M, Kouvonen A, Lahelma E, Rahkonen O & Lallukka T. 2019. Within-individual analysis of pain and sickness absence among employees from low and high occupational classes: a record linkage study. BMJ Open, (9)3.
  • Hiilamo A, Shiri R, Kouvonen A, Manty M, Butterworth P, Pietilainen O, Lahelma E, Rahkonen O & Lallukka T. 2019. Common mental disorders and trajectories of work disability among midlife public sector employees - A 10-year follow-up study. Journal of Affective Disorders, (247): 66-72.
  • Hospodar AR, Smith KJ, Zhang Y & Hernandez I. 2018. Comparing the Cost Effectiveness of Non-vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants with Well-Managed Warfarin for Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation Patients at High Risk of Bleeding. American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs, 18(4): 317-325.
  • Janke K, Johnston DW, Propper C & Shields MA. 2020. The causal effect of education on chronic health conditions in the UK. Journal of Health Economics, (70): 102252-102252.
  • Jones A, Hayhurst KP, Whittaker W, Mason T & Sutton M. Development of a resource allocation formula for substance misuse treatment services. Journal of Public Health, 40(3): E396-E404.
  • Jones A, Pierce M, Sutton M, Mason T & Millar T. 2018. Does paying service providers by results improve recovery outcomes for drug misusers in treatment in England? Addiction, 113(2): 279-286.
  • Lau Y-S, Harrison M & Sutton M. 2019. Association between symptom duration and patient-reported outcomes before and after hip replacement surgery. Arthritis Care and Research, DOI: 10.1002/acr.23838.
  • Leach LS, Too LS, Batterham PJ, Kiely KM, Christensen H & Butterworth P. 2020. Workplace Bullying and Suicidal Ideation: Findings from an Australian Longitudinal Cohort Study of Mid-Aged Workers. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(4).
  • Liu L; Zhang Y. 2018. Does non-employment based health insurance promote entrepreneurship? Evidence from a policy experiment in China. Journal of Comparative Economics, 46(1): 270-283.
  • Meacock R & Sutton M. 2018. Elevated mortality among weekend hospital admissions is not associated with adoption of seven day clinical standards. Emergency Medicine Journal, 35(2): 108-113.
  • McIsaac M, Scott A & Kalb G. 2019. The role of financial factors in the mobility and location choices of General Practitioners in Australia. Human Resources for Health, 17(1).
  • Meacock R, Anselmi L, Kristensen SR, Doran T & Sutton M. 2019. Do variations in hospital admission rates bias comparisons of standardized hospital mortality rates? A population-based cohort study. Social Science and Medicine, DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112409.
  • Mendez SJ. 2018. Parallel trade of pharmaceuticals: The Danish market for statins. Health Economics, 27(2): 333-356.
  • Milner A, Petrie D, LaMontagne AD & Butterworth P. 2019. Do psychosocial job stressors influence mental health service use? Evidence from an Australian cohort. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 76(5): 295-301.
  • Moschion J & Powdthavee N. 2018. The welfare implications of addictive substances: A longitudinal study of life satisfaction of drug users. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (146): 206-221.
  • Munford LA, Wilding A, Bower P & Sutton M. 2020. Effects of participating in community assets on quality of life and costs of care: longitudinal cohort study of older people in England. BMJ Open, 10(2): e033186-e033186.
  • Murrie RP, Werdiger F, Donnelley M, Lin Y-W, Carnibella RP, Samarage CR, Pinar I, Preissner M, Wang J & Li J. 2020. Real-time in vivo imaging of regional lung function in a mouse model of cystic fibrosis on a laboratory X-ray source. Scientific Reports, 10(1): 447.
  • O'Neill S, Kreif N, Sutton M & Grieve R. 2020. A comparison of methods for health policy evaluation with controlled pre-post designs. Health Services Research, 55(2): 328-338.
  • O'Sullivan B, Russell DJ, McGrail MR & Scott A. Reviewing reliance on overseas-trained doctors in rural Australia and planning for self-sufficiency: applying 10 years' MABEL evidence. Human Resources for Health, 17(8).
  • Oxholm AS, Kristensen SR & Sutton M. 2018. Uncertainty about the effort-performance relationship in threshold-based payment schemes. Journal of Health Economics, (62): 205-229.
  • Parkinson B, Meacock R & Sutton M. 2019. How do hospitals respond to price changes in emergency departments? Health Economics, 28(7): 830-842.
  • Pymont C, McNamee P & Butterworth P. 2018. Out-of-pocket costs, primary care frequent attendance and sample selection: Estimates from a longitudinal cohort design. Health Policy, 122(6): 652-659.
  • Ruggeri M et al. 2018. New professional roles and patient satisfaction: Evidence from a European survey along three clinical pathways. Health Policy, 122(10): 1078-1084.
  • Russo LX, Scott A, Sivey P & Dias J. 2019. Primary care physicians and infant mortality: Evidence from Brazil. PLoS One, (14)5.
  • Sabia JJ, Wooden M & Thanh TN. 2018. Sexual identity, same-same relationships, and health dynamics: New evidence from Australia. Economics & Human Biology, (30): 24-36.
  • San-Juan-Rodriguez A, Zhang Y, He M & Hernandez I. 2019. Association of Antidementia Therapies With Time to Skilled Nursing Facility Admission and Cardiovascular Events Among Elderly Adults With Alzheimer Disease. JAMA Network Open, 2(3).
  • Schofield TP, Kiely KM, Mykletun A, Harvey SB & Butterworth P. 2018. Using Longitudinal Survey Data to Estimate Mental Health Related Transitions to a Disability Pension: Analysis of an Australian Household Panel Study. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 60(4): E166-E172.
  • Scott A. 2018. Pump Up the Volume: Making Health and Wellbeing the Centre Stage of Economic Growth. Australian Economic Review, 51(2): 247-252.
  • Scott A, Liu M & Yong J. 2018. Financial Incentives to Encourage Value-Based Health Care. Medical Care Research and Review, 75(1): 3-32.
  • Scott A & Taylor T. 2019. Do Physicians Prefer to Complete Online or Mail Surveys? Findings From a National Longitudinal Survey. Evaluation and the Health Professions, 42(1): 41-70.
  • Shadbolt C, Abbott JH, Camacho X, Clarke P, Lohmander LS, Spelman T, Sun EC, Thorlund JB, Zhang Y & Dowsey MM. 2020. The Surgeon's Role in the Opioid Crisis: A Narrative Review and Call to Action. Frontiers in Surgery, (7).
  • Shah V, Stokes J & Sutton M. 2019. Effects of non-medical health coaching on multimorbid patients in primary care: a difference-in-differences analysis. BMC Health Services Research, 19(1).
  • Sivey P, McAllister R, Vally H, Burgess A & Kelly A-M. 2019. Anatomy of a demand shock: Quantitative analysis of crowding in hospital emergency departments in Victoria, Australia during the 2009 influenza pandemic. PLoS One, 14(9).
  • Spooner S, Gibson J, Checkland K, McBride A, Hodgson DE, Hann M, McDermott I & Sutton M. 2020. Regional variation in practitioner employment in general practices in England: a comparative analysis. British Journal of General Practice, 70(692): e164-e171.
  • Stokes J, Struckmann V, Kristensen SR, Fuchs S, van Ginneken E, Tsiachristas A, van Molken MR & Sutton M. 2018. Towards incentivising integration: A typology of payments for integrated care. Health Policy, 122(9): 963-969.
  • Stokes J, Lau YS, Kristensen SR & Sutton M. 2019. Does pooling health and social care budgets reduce hospital use and lower costs? Social Science and Medicine, (232): 382-388.
  • Strazdins L, Welsh J, Hinde S & Butterworth P. 2018. Intergenerational policy and workforce participation in Australia: using health as a metric. Health Promotion International, 33(1): 140-148.
  • Szawlowski S, Choong PFM, Li J, Nelson E, Nikpour M, Scott A, Sundararajan V & Dowsey MM. 2019. How do surgeons' trade-off between patient outcomes and risk of complications in total knee arthroplasty? a discrete choice experiment in Australia. BMJ OPEN, 9(7).
  • Swami M, Gravelle H, Scott A & Williams J. 2018. Hours worked by general practitioners and waiting times for primary care. Health Economics, 27(10): 1513-1532.
  • Thompson AJ, Sutton M & Payne K. 2019. Estimating Joint Health Condition Utility Values. Value in Health, 22(4): 482-290.
  • Too LS & Butterworth P. 2018. Psychosocial Job Stressors and Mental Health The Potential Moderating Role of Emotion Regulation. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 60(10): E518-E524.
  • Too LS, Spittal MJ, Bugeja L, Reifels L, Butterworth P & Pirkis J. 2019. The association between mental disorders and suicide: A systematic review and meta-analysis of record linkage studies. Journal of Affective Disorders, (259): 302-313.
  • Underwood C, Sutton M & Meacock R. 2019. Association between elevated weekend mortality and the seven-day hospital services programme in England: A retrospective longitudinal study. Health Policy, (123)11: 1042-1048.
  • van der Pol M, Scott A & Irvine A. 2019. The migration of UK trained GPs to Australia: Does risk attitude matter? Health Policy, 123(11): 1093-1099.
  • Walker T, Shaw J, Edge D, Senior J, Sutton M, Meacock R, Wilson H, McNair L, Mitchell H & Gutridge K. 2019. A qualitative study of contemporary secure mental health services: women service users' views in England. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 30(5): 836-853.
  • Walker T, Shaw J, Edge D, Senior J, Sutton M, Meacock R, Wilson H, McNair L, Mitchell H & Gutridge K. 2019. A qualitative study of contemporary secure mental health services: women service users' views in England. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 30(5): 836-853.
  • Welsh J, Korda RJ, Banks E, Strazdins L, Joshy G & Butterworth P. 2020. Identifying long-term psychological distress from single measures: evidence from a nationally representative longitudinal survey of the Australian population. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 20(1): 55.
  • Whisman MA, du Pont A & Butterworth P. 2020. Longitudinal associations between rumination and depressive symptoms in a probability sample of adults. Journal of Affective Disorders, (260): 680-686.
  • Wu Y, Zhang B, Kebebe D, Guo L, Guo H, Li N, Pi J, Qi D, Guo P & Liu Z. 2019. Preparation, optimization and cellular uptake study of tanshinone I nanoemulsion modified with lactoferrin for brain drug delivery. Pharmaceutical Development and Technology, 24(8): 982-991.
  • Yang O, Sivey P, de Silva AM & Scott A. 2020. Parents' Demand for Sugar Sweetened Beverages for Their Pre-School Children: Evidence from a Stated-Preference Experiment. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 102(2): 480-504.
  • Yong J, Scott A, Gravelle H, Sivey P & McGrail M. 2018. Do rural incentives payments affect entries and exits of general practitioners? Social Science and Medicine, (214): 197-205.
  • Zhang Y, Baik SH & Zuvekas SH. 2018. Simulating Variation in Families' Spending across Marketplace Plans. Health Services Research, 53(4): 2286-2302.
  • Zhang Y, Méndez SJ & Scott A. 2019. Factors affecting general practitioners' decisions to adopt new prescription drugs - Cohort analyses using Australian longitudinal physician survey data. BMC Health Services Research, 19(1).
  • Zhao Y, Richardson A, Poyser C, Butterworth P, Strazdins L & Leach LS. 2019. Shift work and mental health: a systematic review and meta-analysis. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 92(6): 763-793.