2024

Lai, T.-J., Heggie, R., Kamaruzaman, H.-F., Bouttell, J. and Boyd, K. (2024) Economic evaluation of robotic assisted surgery: methods, challenges and opportunities. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, (doi: 10.1007/s40258-024-00920-1) (PMID:39333303) (Early Online Publication)

Lai, T.-J., Roxburgh, C. , Boyd, K. A. and Bouttell, J. (2024) Clinical effectiveness of robotic versus laparoscopic and open surgery: an overview of systematic reviews. BMJ Open, 14(9), e076750. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076750) (PMID:39284694)

Bouttell, J. , Fraser, H. , Goodlad, J. R., Hopkins, D. , McKay, P., Oien, K. A. , Seligmann, B., Von Delft, S. and Hawkins, N. (2024) Adding a gene expression profile test to aid differential diagnosis and treatment in aggressive large B-cell lymphoma: an early exploratory economic evaluation. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 22(2), pp. 243-254. (doi: 10.1007/s40258-023-00845-1) (PMID:38017318)

2023

Bouttell, J. , Hawkins, N. , Masson, R. and Goodlad, J. (2023) OP79 Gene Expression Profiling In The Diagnosis Of Aggressive Large B Cell Lymphoma: An Early Exploratory Economic Evaluation. HTAi 2023 Annual Meeting, Adelaide, Australia, 24-28 June 2023. S21–S21. (doi: 10.1017/s0266462323000995)

Lammy, S. , McPartlin, R., Bridgman, E., Bouttell, J. and Brown, J. (2023) Usefulness of preoperative extracranial imaging in radiologically suspicious glioblastoma in the West of Scotland and proposal of an imaging diagnostic pathway. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 105(8), pp. 754-764. (doi: 10.1308/rcsann.2022.0106) (PMID:36239603)

Falkowski, A. et al. (2023) How least developed to lower-middle income countries use health technology assessment: a scoping review. Pathogens and Global Health, 117(2), pp. 104-119. (doi: 10.1080/20477724.2022.2106108) (PMID:35950264) (PMCID:PMC9970250)

2022

Bouttell, J. , Corcoran, N. , Doyle, E., Harding-Edgar, L., Jani, B. , O'Donnell, K. , Oliver, J., Stein, A., Thompson, L. and White, B. (2022) SIGN 162 Assessment of COVID-19 in Primary Care: The identification of symptoms, clinical signs, characteristics, and comorbidities in adults, children and young people, which may indicate a higher risk of progression to severe disease. Other. Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), Edinburgh.

Bouttell, J. , Heggie, R., Oien, K. , Romaniuk, A., VanSteenhouse, H., von Delft, S. and Hawkins, N. (2022) Economic evaluation of genomic/genetic tests: a review and future directions. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 38(1), e67. (doi: 10.1017/S0266462322000484)

2021

Bouttell, J. and Hawkins, N. (2021) Evaluation of triage tests when existing test capacity is constrained: application to rapid diagnostic testing in COVID-19. Medical Decision Making, 41(8), pp. 978-987. (doi: 10.1177/0272989X211014114) (PMID:34009068) (PMCID:PMC8488642)

Bouttell, J. et al. (2021) Assessment of COVID-19 in primary care: the identification of symptoms, signs, characteristics, comorbidities and clinical signs in adults which may indicate a higher risk of progression to severe disease. Other. Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), Edinburgh.

Bouttell, J. , Briggs, A. and Hawkins, N. (2021) A toolkit of methods of development-focused health technology assessment. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 37(1), e84. (doi: 10.1017/S0266462321000507)

Bouttell, J. , Hawkins, N. and Briggs, A. (2021) The thorny issue of value alignment: how development-focused health technology assessment can help find win–win situations for patients and healthcare systems and commercial investors. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 37(1), e57. (doi: 10.1017/S026646232100026X) (PMID:33875040)

2020

Bouttell, J. , Gonzalez, N., Geue, C. , Lightbody, C. J. and Taylor, D. R. (2020) Cost impact of introducing a treatment escalation/limitation plan during patients’ last hospital admission before death. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 32(10), pp. 694-700. (doi: 10.1093/intqhc/mzaa132) (PMID:33210722)

Bouttell, J. , Hawkins, N. and Grieve, E. (2020) Maximizing the value of engineering and technology research in healthcare: development‐focused health technology assessment. In: Imran, M. A., Ghannam, R. and Abbasi, Q. H. (eds.) Engineering and Technology for Healthcare. Wiley-IEEE: Hoboken, NJ, pp. 1-27. ISBN 9781119644248 (doi: 10.1002/9781119644316.ch1)

Robertson, E. R., Bouttell, J. , Leonard, S., Davies, K., Hart, A. M. and Watson, S. (2020) Evaluation of Firework-related Harm in Scotland, October 2020. Documentation. NHS Scotland, NHS Greater Glasgow, and Clyde & Care of Burns in Scotland.

Bouttell, J. , Briggs, A. and Hawkins, N. (2020) A different animal? Identifying the features of health technology assessment for developers of medical technologies. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 36(4), pp. 285-291. (doi: 10.1017/S0266462320000380)

Bouttell, J. , Grieve, E. and Hawkins, N. (2020) The role of development-focused health technology assessment in optimizing science, technology, and innovation to achieve sustainable development goal 3. In: Adenle, A. A., Chertow, M. R., Moors, E. H.M. and Pannell, D. J. (eds.) Science, Technology, and Innovation for Sustainable Development Goals: Insights from Agriculture, Health, Environment, and Energy. Oxford University Press: New York, NY. ISBN 9780190949501

Bouttell, J. et al. (2020) Evidence Review: Assessment of COVID-19 in Primary Care: The identification of symptoms, clinical signs, characteristics, and comorbidities in adults, children and young people, which may indicate a higher risk of progression to severe disease. Other. Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), Edinburgh.

Parkinson, J., Minton, J. , Bouttell, J. , Lewsey, J. , Shah, A. and McCartney, G. (2020) Do age, period or cohort effects explain circulatory disease mortality trends, Scotland 1974-2015? Heart, 106(8), pp. 584-589. (doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2019-315029) (PMID:31540904) (PMCID:PMC7146945)

Taylor, D. R., Bouttell, J. , Campbell, J. N. and Lightbody, C. J. (2020) A case-controlled study of relatives’ complaints concerning patients who died in hospital: the role of treatment escalation / limitation planning. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 32(3), pp. 212-218. (doi: 10.1093/intqhc/mzaa008) (PMID:32186717)

2019

Bouttell, J. , Tan, Y. Y., Creed, D., McGaffin, G., Hawkins, N. , McLaughlin, R., Smith, G., Westwood, P., Williams, N. and Graham, J. (2019) Context-specific economic evaluation for molecular pathology tests: An application in colorectal cancer in the West of Scotland. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 35(4), pp. 327-333. (doi: 10.1017/S026646231900045X) (PMID:31292015)

Bouttell, J. , Teoh, J., Chiu, P. K., Chan, K. S., Ng, C.-F., Heggie, R. and Hawkins, N. (2019) Economic evaluation of the introduction of the Prostate Health Index as a rule-out test to avoid unnecessary biopsies in men with prostate specific antigen levels of 4-10 in Hong Kong. PLoS ONE, 14(4), e0215279. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215279) (PMID:30990840) (PMCID:PMC6467402)

Heggie, R., Murdoch, H., McIntosh, E. , Cameron, C., Smith-Palmer, A. and Bouttell, J. (2019) Cost-impact study of rotavirus vaccination programme in Scotland. Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, 15(6), pp. 1265-1271. (doi: 10.1080/21645515.2018.1543522) (PMID:30395774)

2018

Bouttell, J. , Craig, P. , Lewsey, J. , Robinson, M. and Popham, F. (2018) Synthetic control methodology as a tool for evaluating population-level health interventions. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 72(8), pp. 673-678. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2017-210106) (PMID:29653993) (PMCID:PMC6204967)

Parkinson, J., Minton, J. , Lewsey, J. , Bouttell, J. and McCartney, G. (2018) Drug-related deaths in Scotland 1979-2013: evidence of a vulnerable cohort of young men living in deprived areas. BMC Public Health, 18, 357. (doi: 10.1186/s12889-018-5267-2) (PMID:29580222) (PMCID:PMC5870372)

Robinson, M., Bouttell, J. , Lewsey, J. , Mackay, D. , McCartney, G. and Beeston, C. (2018) The short-term impact of the alcohol act on alcohol-related deaths and hospital admissions in Scotland: a natural experiment. Addiction, 113(3), pp. 429-439. (doi: 10.1111/add.14019) (PMID:28876499)

2017

Bouttell, J. , Popham, F. , Lewsey, J. , Robinson, M. and Craig, P. (2017) Synthetic Control Methodology as a Tool for Evaluating Public Health Interventions: A Guide to the Method and Case Study. Lancet Public Health Science Conference, London, UK, 24 Nov 2017.

Parkinson, J., Minton, J. , Lewsey, J. , Bouttell, J. and McCartney, G. (2017) Investigating Age-Period-Cohort Effects Using Lexis Diagrams and Intrinsic Estimator Regression Modelling to Understanding Scotland’s ‘Excess Mortality’. Lancet Public Health Science Conference, London, UK, 24 Nov 2017.

McAuley, A., Bouttell, J. , Barnsdale, L., Mackay, D. , Lewsey, J. , Hunter, C. and Robinson, M. (2017) Evaluating the impact of a national naloxone programme on ambulance attendance at overdose incidents: a controlled time series analysis. Addiction, 112(2), pp. 301-308. (doi: 10.1111/add.13602) (PMID:27614084)

Parkinson, J., Minton, J. , Lewsey, J. , Bouttell, J. and McCartney, G. (2017) Recent cohort effects in suicide in Scotland: a legacy of the 1980s? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 71(2), pp. 194-200. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2016-207296) (PMID:27485053) (PMCID:PMC5284470)

2016

Bouttell, J. , Lewsey, J. , Geue, C. , Antony, G., Briggs, A. , McCartney, G., Hutchinson, S., Graham, L. and Heydtmann, M. (2016) The SCottish alcoholic liver disease evaluation: a population-level matched cohort study of hospital-based costs, 1991-2011. PLoS ONE, 11(10), e0162980. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0162980) (PMID:27783619) (PMCID:PMC5082635)

McCartney, G. et al. (2016) Explaining trends in alcohol-related harms in Scotland, 1991–2011 (I): the role of incomes, effects of socio-economic and political adversity and demographic change. Public Health, 132, pp. 13-23. (doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2015.12.013) (PMID:26917268)

McCartney, G. et al. (2016) Explaining trends in alcohol-related harms in Scotland 1991–2011 (II): policy, social norms, the alcohol market, clinical changes and a synthesis. Public Health, 132, pp. 24-32. (doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2015.12.012) (PMID:26921977)

Articles

Lai, T.-J., Heggie, R., Kamaruzaman, H.-F., Bouttell, J. and Boyd, K. (2024) Economic evaluation of robotic assisted surgery: methods, challenges and opportunities. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, (doi: 10.1007/s40258-024-00920-1) (PMID:39333303) (Early Online Publication)

Lai, T.-J., Roxburgh, C. , Boyd, K. A. and Bouttell, J. (2024) Clinical effectiveness of robotic versus laparoscopic and open surgery: an overview of systematic reviews. BMJ Open, 14(9), e076750. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076750) (PMID:39284694)

Bouttell, J. , Fraser, H. , Goodlad, J. R., Hopkins, D. , McKay, P., Oien, K. A. , Seligmann, B., Von Delft, S. and Hawkins, N. (2024) Adding a gene expression profile test to aid differential diagnosis and treatment in aggressive large B-cell lymphoma: an early exploratory economic evaluation. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 22(2), pp. 243-254. (doi: 10.1007/s40258-023-00845-1) (PMID:38017318)

Lammy, S. , McPartlin, R., Bridgman, E., Bouttell, J. and Brown, J. (2023) Usefulness of preoperative extracranial imaging in radiologically suspicious glioblastoma in the West of Scotland and proposal of an imaging diagnostic pathway. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 105(8), pp. 754-764. (doi: 10.1308/rcsann.2022.0106) (PMID:36239603)

Falkowski, A. et al. (2023) How least developed to lower-middle income countries use health technology assessment: a scoping review. Pathogens and Global Health, 117(2), pp. 104-119. (doi: 10.1080/20477724.2022.2106108) (PMID:35950264) (PMCID:PMC9970250)

Bouttell, J. , Heggie, R., Oien, K. , Romaniuk, A., VanSteenhouse, H., von Delft, S. and Hawkins, N. (2022) Economic evaluation of genomic/genetic tests: a review and future directions. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 38(1), e67. (doi: 10.1017/S0266462322000484)

Bouttell, J. and Hawkins, N. (2021) Evaluation of triage tests when existing test capacity is constrained: application to rapid diagnostic testing in COVID-19. Medical Decision Making, 41(8), pp. 978-987. (doi: 10.1177/0272989X211014114) (PMID:34009068) (PMCID:PMC8488642)

Bouttell, J. , Briggs, A. and Hawkins, N. (2021) A toolkit of methods of development-focused health technology assessment. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 37(1), e84. (doi: 10.1017/S0266462321000507)

Bouttell, J. , Hawkins, N. and Briggs, A. (2021) The thorny issue of value alignment: how development-focused health technology assessment can help find win–win situations for patients and healthcare systems and commercial investors. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 37(1), e57. (doi: 10.1017/S026646232100026X) (PMID:33875040)

Bouttell, J. , Gonzalez, N., Geue, C. , Lightbody, C. J. and Taylor, D. R. (2020) Cost impact of introducing a treatment escalation/limitation plan during patients’ last hospital admission before death. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 32(10), pp. 694-700. (doi: 10.1093/intqhc/mzaa132) (PMID:33210722)

Bouttell, J. , Briggs, A. and Hawkins, N. (2020) A different animal? Identifying the features of health technology assessment for developers of medical technologies. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 36(4), pp. 285-291. (doi: 10.1017/S0266462320000380)

Parkinson, J., Minton, J. , Bouttell, J. , Lewsey, J. , Shah, A. and McCartney, G. (2020) Do age, period or cohort effects explain circulatory disease mortality trends, Scotland 1974-2015? Heart, 106(8), pp. 584-589. (doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2019-315029) (PMID:31540904) (PMCID:PMC7146945)

Taylor, D. R., Bouttell, J. , Campbell, J. N. and Lightbody, C. J. (2020) A case-controlled study of relatives’ complaints concerning patients who died in hospital: the role of treatment escalation / limitation planning. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 32(3), pp. 212-218. (doi: 10.1093/intqhc/mzaa008) (PMID:32186717)

Bouttell, J. , Tan, Y. Y., Creed, D., McGaffin, G., Hawkins, N. , McLaughlin, R., Smith, G., Westwood, P., Williams, N. and Graham, J. (2019) Context-specific economic evaluation for molecular pathology tests: An application in colorectal cancer in the West of Scotland. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 35(4), pp. 327-333. (doi: 10.1017/S026646231900045X) (PMID:31292015)

Bouttell, J. , Teoh, J., Chiu, P. K., Chan, K. S., Ng, C.-F., Heggie, R. and Hawkins, N. (2019) Economic evaluation of the introduction of the Prostate Health Index as a rule-out test to avoid unnecessary biopsies in men with prostate specific antigen levels of 4-10 in Hong Kong. PLoS ONE, 14(4), e0215279. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215279) (PMID:30990840) (PMCID:PMC6467402)

Heggie, R., Murdoch, H., McIntosh, E. , Cameron, C., Smith-Palmer, A. and Bouttell, J. (2019) Cost-impact study of rotavirus vaccination programme in Scotland. Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, 15(6), pp. 1265-1271. (doi: 10.1080/21645515.2018.1543522) (PMID:30395774)

Bouttell, J. , Craig, P. , Lewsey, J. , Robinson, M. and Popham, F. (2018) Synthetic control methodology as a tool for evaluating population-level health interventions. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 72(8), pp. 673-678. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2017-210106) (PMID:29653993) (PMCID:PMC6204967)

Parkinson, J., Minton, J. , Lewsey, J. , Bouttell, J. and McCartney, G. (2018) Drug-related deaths in Scotland 1979-2013: evidence of a vulnerable cohort of young men living in deprived areas. BMC Public Health, 18, 357. (doi: 10.1186/s12889-018-5267-2) (PMID:29580222) (PMCID:PMC5870372)

Robinson, M., Bouttell, J. , Lewsey, J. , Mackay, D. , McCartney, G. and Beeston, C. (2018) The short-term impact of the alcohol act on alcohol-related deaths and hospital admissions in Scotland: a natural experiment. Addiction, 113(3), pp. 429-439. (doi: 10.1111/add.14019) (PMID:28876499)

McAuley, A., Bouttell, J. , Barnsdale, L., Mackay, D. , Lewsey, J. , Hunter, C. and Robinson, M. (2017) Evaluating the impact of a national naloxone programme on ambulance attendance at overdose incidents: a controlled time series analysis. Addiction, 112(2), pp. 301-308. (doi: 10.1111/add.13602) (PMID:27614084)

Parkinson, J., Minton, J. , Lewsey, J. , Bouttell, J. and McCartney, G. (2017) Recent cohort effects in suicide in Scotland: a legacy of the 1980s? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 71(2), pp. 194-200. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2016-207296) (PMID:27485053) (PMCID:PMC5284470)

Bouttell, J. , Lewsey, J. , Geue, C. , Antony, G., Briggs, A. , McCartney, G., Hutchinson, S., Graham, L. and Heydtmann, M. (2016) The SCottish alcoholic liver disease evaluation: a population-level matched cohort study of hospital-based costs, 1991-2011. PLoS ONE, 11(10), e0162980. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0162980) (PMID:27783619) (PMCID:PMC5082635)

McCartney, G. et al. (2016) Explaining trends in alcohol-related harms in Scotland, 1991–2011 (I): the role of incomes, effects of socio-economic and political adversity and demographic change. Public Health, 132, pp. 13-23. (doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2015.12.013) (PMID:26917268)

McCartney, G. et al. (2016) Explaining trends in alcohol-related harms in Scotland 1991–2011 (II): policy, social norms, the alcohol market, clinical changes and a synthesis. Public Health, 132, pp. 24-32. (doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2015.12.012) (PMID:26921977)

Book Sections

Bouttell, J. , Hawkins, N. and Grieve, E. (2020) Maximizing the value of engineering and technology research in healthcare: development‐focused health technology assessment. In: Imran, M. A., Ghannam, R. and Abbasi, Q. H. (eds.) Engineering and Technology for Healthcare. Wiley-IEEE: Hoboken, NJ, pp. 1-27. ISBN 9781119644248 (doi: 10.1002/9781119644316.ch1)

Bouttell, J. , Grieve, E. and Hawkins, N. (2020) The role of development-focused health technology assessment in optimizing science, technology, and innovation to achieve sustainable development goal 3. In: Adenle, A. A., Chertow, M. R., Moors, E. H.M. and Pannell, D. J. (eds.) Science, Technology, and Innovation for Sustainable Development Goals: Insights from Agriculture, Health, Environment, and Energy. Oxford University Press: New York, NY. ISBN 9780190949501

Research Reports or Papers

Bouttell, J. , Corcoran, N. , Doyle, E., Harding-Edgar, L., Jani, B. , O'Donnell, K. , Oliver, J., Stein, A., Thompson, L. and White, B. (2022) SIGN 162 Assessment of COVID-19 in Primary Care: The identification of symptoms, clinical signs, characteristics, and comorbidities in adults, children and young people, which may indicate a higher risk of progression to severe disease. Other. Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), Edinburgh.

Bouttell, J. et al. (2021) Assessment of COVID-19 in primary care: the identification of symptoms, signs, characteristics, comorbidities and clinical signs in adults which may indicate a higher risk of progression to severe disease. Other. Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), Edinburgh.

Robertson, E. R., Bouttell, J. , Leonard, S., Davies, K., Hart, A. M. and Watson, S. (2020) Evaluation of Firework-related Harm in Scotland, October 2020. Documentation. NHS Scotland, NHS Greater Glasgow, and Clyde & Care of Burns in Scotland.

Bouttell, J. et al. (2020) Evidence Review: Assessment of COVID-19 in Primary Care: The identification of symptoms, clinical signs, characteristics, and comorbidities in adults, children and young people, which may indicate a higher risk of progression to severe disease. Other. Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), Edinburgh.

Conference or Workshop Item

Bouttell, J. , Hawkins, N. , Masson, R. and Goodlad, J. (2023) OP79 Gene Expression Profiling In The Diagnosis Of Aggressive Large B Cell Lymphoma: An Early Exploratory Economic Evaluation. HTAi 2023 Annual Meeting, Adelaide, Australia, 24-28 June 2023. S21–S21. (doi: 10.1017/s0266462323000995)

Bouttell, J. , Popham, F. , Lewsey, J. , Robinson, M. and Craig, P. (2017) Synthetic Control Methodology as a Tool for Evaluating Public Health Interventions: A Guide to the Method and Case Study. Lancet Public Health Science Conference, London, UK, 24 Nov 2017.

Parkinson, J., Minton, J. , Lewsey, J. , Bouttell, J. and McCartney, G. (2017) Investigating Age-Period-Cohort Effects Using Lexis Diagrams and Intrinsic Estimator Regression Modelling to Understanding Scotland’s ‘Excess Mortality’. Lancet Public Health Science Conference, London, UK, 24 Nov 2017.