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Biography
Margaret McCartney is a practicing general practitoner in addition to her academic role in St Andrews. She is particularly interested in evidence based medicine, conflicts of interest, screening, risk, bias, and public communication about healthcare. She is also an award winning writer and broadcaster, has written three books about evidence in healthcare for the lay public and has been a columnist for the FT and the BMJ. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2023 and completed her PhD in 2024. She is also a Director of Beira's Place, Edinburgh. Her declarations of interest are at whopaysthisdoctor.org. She is always happy to hear from students who are interested in research in these areas.
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Captured by design: the drug industry and UK healthcare
McCartney, M., Sullivan, F. & Abbasi, K., 19 Feb 2024, In: The BMJ. 384, q408.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
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Does the METHOD study show that ZOE works?
McCartney, M. & Cohen, D., 2 Aug 2024, In: BMJ. 386, q1720.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
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Early diagnosis is not always an unmitigated good, we need to make it useful for patients and clinicians We need to define the concept of early diagnosis
Mccartney, M., Liu, P., Fearfull, A., Macdonald, H. & Donnelly, P., 1 May 2024, In: British Medical Journal. 385, 2 p., q973.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Galleri promises to detect multiple cancers—but new evidence casts doubt on this much hyped blood test
McCartney, M., 7 Aug 2024, In: British Medical Journal. 386Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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GRAIL-Galleri: why the special treatment?
Turnbull, C., Wald, N., Sullivan, R., Pharoah, P., Houlston, R. S., Aggarwal, A., Hogarth, S. & McCartney, M., 3 Feb 2024, In: Lancet (London, England). 403, 10425, p. 431-432 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Additional file 1 of Where do UK clinicians find information at the point of care? A pragmatic, exploratory study
McCartney, M. (Creator) & Sullivan, F. (Creator), Figshare, 2024
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.27289167.v1
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Atrial Fibrillation screening study - BMJ EBM
McCartney, M. (Creator), Figshare, 2022
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6226917.v2, https://doi.org/10.17630/sta/1050
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Projects
- 1 Finished
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NRS Fellowship - Dr M McCartney: NRS NHS Research Fellowship
McCartney, M. (PI)
1/10/20 → 30/09/23
Project: Fellowship
Activities
- 1 Visiting an external academic institution
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UNIVERSITY OF BATH
McCartney, M. (Visiting researcher)
1 Sept 2024 → 31 Aug 2027Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution
Thesis
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Conflicts of interest in healthcare - where are we now?
McCartney, M. (Author), Sullivan, F. (Supervisor), 3 Dec 2024Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis (PhD)