Dr Sarah Walker
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
s.walker@exeter.ac.uk
College House
College House, University of Exeter, St Luke's Campus, Heavitree Road, Exeter, EX1 2LU, UK
Overview
I am a Postdoctoral Health Statistics Research Fellow at the University of Exeter Medical School. I currently work on the following studies:
Support for Parent Carers in England (SPaCE) - Investigating the prevalence of mental health conditions in parent carers of children with SEND using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) and Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data
Social Prescribing for people to live enjoyably with dementia/memory problems in daily life (SPLENDID) - Working on a complex intervention systematic review of social prescribing interventions in people living with dementia and/or their carers
In the future I would be interested in developing my skills further to include further work with routinely collected data such as Hospital Episode Statistics, SAIL or CPRD in order to establish relationships between comorbidities and/or personal characteristics and an individual patient's response to treatment.
Qualifications
PhD Quantification of the risk of breast, uterine and cervical cancers in symptomatic women in primary care - Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry (2017)
MSc Statistics with Applications in Medicine - University of Southampton (2003)
BSc Mathematics, 2:1 - University of Sheffield (2002)
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Research group links
Publications
Journal articles
Marshall J, Papavasiliou E, Fox C, Hawkes M, Irvine A, Moniz-Cook E, Pick A, Polley MJ, Reeve J, Robinson L, et al (2024). Social prescribing for people living with dementia (PLWD) and their carers: what works, for whom, under what circumstances and why - protocol for a complex intervention systematic review. BMJ Open, 14(4). Abstract. Author URL.
Barnhofer T, Dunn BD, Strauss C, Ruths F, Barrett B, Ryan M, Ladwa A, Stafford F, Fichera R, Baber H, et al (2023). A randomised controlled trial to investigate the clinical effectiveness and cost effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for depressed non-responders to Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) high-intensity therapies: study protocol. Trials, 24(1). Abstract. Author URL.
Kitson T, Osborne E, Noble S, Pease N, Alikhan R, Bryant C, Groves T, Wallace R, Walker S, Seddon K, et al (2023). HIDDEN2: Study protocol for the hospital deep vein thrombosis detection study in patients with cancer receiving palliative care. BMJ Open, 13(9). Abstract. Author URL.
Walker S, Goodfellow H, Pookarnjanamorakot P, Murray E, Bindman J, Blandford A, Bradbury K, Cooper B, Hamilton FL, Hurst JR, et al (2023). Impact of fatigue as the primary determinant of functional limitations among patients with post-COVID-19 syndrome: a cross-sectional observational study. BMJ Open, 13(6), e069217-e069217. Abstract.
Murray E, Goodfellow H, Bindman J, Blandford A, Bradbury K, Chaudhry T, Fernandez-Reyes D, Gomes M, Hamilton FL, Heightman M, et al (2022). Development, deployment and evaluation of digitally enabled, remote, supported rehabilitation for people with long COVID-19 (Living with COVID-19 Recovery): protocol for a mixed-methods study. BMJ Open, 12(2), e057408-e057408. Abstract.
Eldabe S, Duarte RV, Gulve A, Thomson S, Baranidharan G, Houten R, Jowett S, Sandhu H, Chadwick R, Brookes M, et al (2020). Does a screening trial for spinal cord stimulation in patients with chronic pain of neuropathic origin have clinical utility and cost-effectiveness (TRIAL-STIM)? a randomised controlled trial. Pain, 161(12), 2820-2829. Abstract. Author URL.
Taylor R, Walker S, Ciani O, Warren F, Smart N, Piepoli M, Davos C (2019). Exercise Training for Chronic Heart Failure (ExTraMATCH II): Individual participant data meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. NIHR Journals Library, 23
Smart NA, Taylor R, Walker S, Warren F, Ciani O, Davos CH, Piepoli M (2019). Exercise training for chronic heart failure (ExTraMATCH II): Why all data are not equal. Eur J Prev Cardiol, 26(11), 1229-1231. Author URL.
Ciani O, Walker S, Warren F, Smart N, Piepoli M, Davos C, Eames T, Taylor R (2019). OP91 Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis of Exercise Rehabilitation in Heart Failure. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 34(S1), 33-34.
Taylor RS, Walker S, Smart NA, Piepoli MF, Warren FC, Ciani O, O'Connor C, Whellan D, Keteyian SJ, Coats A, et al (2018). Impact of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation in patients with heart failure (ExTraMATCH II) on mortality and hospitalisation: an individual patient data meta-analysis of randomised trials. European Journal of Heart Failure, 20(12), 1735-1743. Abstract.
Ciani O, Piepoli M, Smart N, Uddin J, Walker S, Warren FC, Zwisler AD, Davos CH, Taylor RS (2018). Validation of Exercise Capacity as a Surrogate Endpoint in Exercise-Based Rehabilitation for Heart Failure: a Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. JACC: Heart Failure, 6(7), 596-604. Abstract.
Walker S, Hamilton W (2017). Risk of cervical cancer in symptomatic women aged ≥40 in primary care: a case-control study using electronic records. Eur J Cancer Care (Engl), 26(3). Abstract. Author URL.
Walker S, Hyde C, Hamilton W (2014). Risk of breast cancer in symptomatic women in primary care: a case-control study using electronic records. Br J Gen Pract, 64(629), e788-e793. Abstract. Author URL.
Walker S, Hyde C, Hamilton W (2013). Risk of uterine cancer in symptomatic women in primary care: case-control study using electronic records. Br J Gen Pract, 63(614), e643-e648. Abstract. Author URL.
Almasi K, Belso N, Kapur N, Webb R, Cooper J, Hadley S, Kerfoot M, Dunn G, Sotonyi P, Rihmer Z, et al (2009). Risk factors for suicide in Hungary: a case-control study. BMC Psychiatry, 9 Abstract.
Dubicka B, Hadley S, Roberts C (2006). Suicidal behaviour in youths with depression treated with new-generation antidepressants: meta-analysis. Br J Psychiatry, 189, 393-398. Abstract. Author URL.
Lovell K, Cox D, Haddock G, Jones C, Raines D, Garvey R, Roberts C, Hadley S (2006). Telephone administered cognitive behaviour therapy for treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder: randomised controlled non-inferiority trial. BMJ, 333(7574). Abstract. Author URL.
Conferences
Streeter AJ, Walker SJ, Rodgers L, Shelley A, Wellaway I, Hamilton F, Hamilton W, Henley W (2022). Assessing the effect of statin use on influenza vaccine effectiveness: a prior event rate ratio analysis in primary care data. Author URL.
Ciani O, Walker S, Taylor RS (2018). IMPACT OF EXERCISE-BASED REHABILITATION IN PATIENTS WITH HEART FAILURE (EXTRAMATCH II) ON EXERCISE CAPACITY AND HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE: a META-ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANT DATA FROM RANDOMISED TRIALS. Author URL.
Mcnamee R, Hadley S, Carder M, Beverland I, Elton R, Boyd J, Van Tongeren M, Agius R (2006). Are cardiopulmonary patients more susceptible to acute effects of air pollutants?. Author URL.
Reports
Taylor R, Walker S, Ciani O, Warren FC, Smart NA, Piepoli M, Davos CH (2019). Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation for chronic heart failure: the EXTRAMATCH II individual participant data meta-analysis.
