Elizabeth Ford
Biographic Data
| ID | 3671952 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Ford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Ford |
| SIGNATURE | FORD E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brighton and Sussex Medical School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2397-839X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Local adaptation and validation of a transdiagnostic risk calculator for first episode psychosis using mental health patient records
The risk calculator performed similarly in Southeast England to other external validation studies, discriminating acceptably, suggesting that this calculator may be adapted successfully for new patient populations, services and geographic areas. Differences in accuracy may be due to different cultures of data capture, different NLP approaches, or differences in the patient cohort
New York State’s Bail Elimination Act of 2019: A retrospective mental health impact assessment
Pretrial detention is associated with negative health and mental health outcomes but new policies that limit its use rarely cite the impact that such changes could have on individual or family-level mental health. This paper describes the potential of mental health impact assessments to be used as a tool in policy decision-making about criminal legal system reforms. An abbreviated, retrospective mental health impact assessment of New York State’s…
A virtuous cycle of co‐production: Reflections from a community priority‐setting exercise
INTRODUCTION: Co-production is gaining increasing recognition as a good way of facilitating collaboration among different stakeholders, including members of the public. However, it remains an ambiguous concept as there is no definitive or universal model of co-production or clarity on what constitutes a good co-production approach. This paper draws on the reflections of the academic researchers, practitioners and public advisors involved in co-pr…
Can the Use of Bayesian Analysis Methods Correct for Incompleteness in Electronic Health Records Diagnosis Data? Development of a Novel Method Using Simulated and Real-Life Clinical Data
Background Patient health information is collected routinely in electronic health records (EHRs) and used for research purposes, however, many health conditions are known to be under-diagnosed or under-recorded in EHRs. In research, missing diagnoses result in under-ascertainment of true cases, which attenuates estimated associations between variables and results in a bias towards the null. Bayesian approaches allow the specification of prior inf…
Public Health and Risk Communication During Covid-19—Enhancing Psychological Needs to Promote Sustainable Behavior Change
Background: The current COVID-19 pandemic requires sustainable behavior change to mitigate the impact of the virus. A phenomenon which has arisen in parallel with this pandemic is an infodemic-an over-abundance of information, of which some is accurate and some is not, making it hard for people to find trustworthy and reliable guidance to make informed decisions. This infodemic has also been found to create distress and increase risks for mental …
Should free-text data in electronic medical records be shared for research? A citizens’ jury study in the UK
BACKGROUND: Use of routinely collected patient data for research and service planning is an explicit policy of the UK National Health Service and UK government. Much clinical information is recorded in free-text letters, reports and notes. These text data are generally lost to research, due to the increased privacy risk compared with structured data. We conducted a citizens' jury which asked members of the public whether their medical free-text d…
Response to commentaries on ‘Should free-text data in electronic medical records be shared for research? A citizens’ jury study in the UK’
We note a range of interesting and challenging points which take forward the discourse around the ethics of sharing patient data. Of most note are criticisms of our jury recruitment and methods; questioning how we can engender trust and support from the wider, uninformed public when we only have the view of a small informed public; asking what work needs to be done to ethically transfer data from a clinical care setting to that of research; sugge…
From Punishment to Treatment: The “Clinical Alternative to Punitive Segregation” (Caps) Program in New York City Jails
The proliferation of jails and prisons as places of institutionalization for persons with serious mental illness (SMI) has resulted in many of these patients receiving jail-based punishments, including solitary confinement. Starting in 2013, the New York City (NYC) jail system developed a new treatment unit for persons with SMI who were judged to have violated jail rules (and previously would have been punished with solitary confinement) called t…
Pa'u Riding in Hawai'i: Memory, Race, and Community on Parade
In parades across Hawai‘i, women participate in an event called pa‘u riding. Eight princesses, a queen, and numerous attendants ride horseback, wearing flowing pa‘u skirts and looking like beauty queens. These women view themselves as representatives of Hawaiian history, but this display of historical memory is anything but straightforward. The event fosters a sense of local community and history, yet it paradoxically also showcases fractious div…
Dietary intake and development of a quantitative food-frequency questionnaire for a lifestyle intervention to reduce the risk of chronic diseases in Canadian First Nations in north-western Ontario
Objectives To characterise the diet of First Nations in north-western Ontario, highlight foods for a lifestyle intervention and develop a quantitative food-frequency questionnaire (QFFQ). Design Cross-sectional survey using single 24 h dietary recalls. Setting Eight remote and semi-remote First Nations reserves in north-western Ontario. Subjects 129 First Nations (Oji-Cree and Ojibway) men and women aged between 18 and 80 years. Results The great…
Food-related behavior, physical activity, and dietary intake in First Nations 1 – a population at high risk for diabetes
Diabetes prevention programs for First Nations should focus on improving physical activity and dietary intake by targeting specific risk group needs. Food knowledge, self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and intention are important factors in understanding those needs
Miscounts, Loopholes, and Flashbacks: Strategic Evasion in Walter Mosley's Detective Fiction
There's one story too many in Six Easy Pieces, the latest installment of Walter Mosley's "Easy Rawlins" series of detective novels, which are set over two decades in mid-twentieth-century Los Angeles. Six Easy Pieces is a collection of short stories that were originally published individually in Washington Square Press reissues of the series' previous six novels. But the book consists of seven stories: a new one was written for the collected edit…
Food-related behavior, physical activity, and dietary intake in First Nations 1 – a population at high risk for diabetes
Diabetes prevention programs for First Nations should focus on improving physical activity and dietary intake by targeting specific risk group needs. Food knowledge, self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and intention are important factors in understanding those needs
Miscounts, Loopholes, and Flashbacks: Strategic Evasion in Walter Mosley's Detective Fiction
There's one story too many in Six Easy Pieces, the latest installment of Walter Mosley's "Easy Rawlins" series of detective novels, which are set over two decades in mid-twentieth-century Los Angeles. Six Easy Pieces is a collection of short stories that were originally published individually in Washington Square Press reissues of the series' previous six novels. But the book consists of seven stories: a new one was written for the collected edit…
Dietary intake and development of a quantitative food-frequency questionnaire for a lifestyle intervention to reduce the risk of chronic diseases in Canadian First Nations in north-western Ontario
Objectives To characterise the diet of First Nations in north-western Ontario, highlight foods for a lifestyle intervention and develop a quantitative food-frequency questionnaire (QFFQ). Design Cross-sectional survey using single 24 h dietary recalls. Setting Eight remote and semi-remote First Nations reserves in north-western Ontario. Subjects 129 First Nations (Oji-Cree and Ojibway) men and women aged between 18 and 80 years. Results The great…
Food-related behavior, physical activity, and dietary intake in First Nations 1 – a population at high risk for diabetes
Diabetes prevention programs for First Nations should focus on improving physical activity and dietary intake by targeting specific risk group needs. Food knowledge, self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and intention are important factors in understanding those needs
Pa'u Riding in Hawai'i: Memory, Race, and Community on Parade
In parades across Hawai‘i, women participate in an event called pa‘u riding. Eight princesses, a queen, and numerous attendants ride horseback, wearing flowing pa‘u skirts and looking like beauty queens. These women view themselves as representatives of Hawaiian history, but this display of historical memory is anything but straightforward. The event fosters a sense of local community and history, yet it paradoxically also showcases fractious div…
From Punishment to Treatment: The “Clinical Alternative to Punitive Segregation” (Caps) Program in New York City Jails
The proliferation of jails and prisons as places of institutionalization for persons with serious mental illness (SMI) has resulted in many of these patients receiving jail-based punishments, including solitary confinement. Starting in 2013, the New York City (NYC) jail system developed a new treatment unit for persons with SMI who were judged to have violated jail rules (and previously would have been punished with solitary confinement) called t…
Can the Use of Bayesian Analysis Methods Correct for Incompleteness in Electronic Health Records Diagnosis Data? Development of a Novel Method Using Simulated and Real-Life Clinical Data
Background Patient health information is collected routinely in electronic health records (EHRs) and used for research purposes, however, many health conditions are known to be under-diagnosed or under-recorded in EHRs. In research, missing diagnoses result in under-ascertainment of true cases, which attenuates estimated associations between variables and results in a bias towards the null. Bayesian approaches allow the specification of prior inf…
Public Health and Risk Communication During Covid-19—Enhancing Psychological Needs to Promote Sustainable Behavior Change
Background: The current COVID-19 pandemic requires sustainable behavior change to mitigate the impact of the virus. A phenomenon which has arisen in parallel with this pandemic is an infodemic-an over-abundance of information, of which some is accurate and some is not, making it hard for people to find trustworthy and reliable guidance to make informed decisions. This infodemic has also been found to create distress and increase risks for mental …
Should free-text data in electronic medical records be shared for research? A citizens’ jury study in the UK
BACKGROUND: Use of routinely collected patient data for research and service planning is an explicit policy of the UK National Health Service and UK government. Much clinical information is recorded in free-text letters, reports and notes. These text data are generally lost to research, due to the increased privacy risk compared with structured data. We conducted a citizens' jury which asked members of the public whether their medical free-text d…
Response to commentaries on ‘Should free-text data in electronic medical records be shared for research? A citizens’ jury study in the UK’
We note a range of interesting and challenging points which take forward the discourse around the ethics of sharing patient data. Of most note are criticisms of our jury recruitment and methods; questioning how we can engender trust and support from the wider, uninformed public when we only have the view of a small informed public; asking what work needs to be done to ethically transfer data from a clinical care setting to that of research; sugge…
New York State’s Bail Elimination Act of 2019: A retrospective mental health impact assessment
Pretrial detention is associated with negative health and mental health outcomes but new policies that limit its use rarely cite the impact that such changes could have on individual or family-level mental health. This paper describes the potential of mental health impact assessments to be used as a tool in policy decision-making about criminal legal system reforms. An abbreviated, retrospective mental health impact assessment of New York State’s…
A virtuous cycle of co‐production: Reflections from a community priority‐setting exercise
INTRODUCTION: Co-production is gaining increasing recognition as a good way of facilitating collaboration among different stakeholders, including members of the public. However, it remains an ambiguous concept as there is no definitive or universal model of co-production or clarity on what constitutes a good co-production approach. This paper draws on the reflections of the academic researchers, practitioners and public advisors involved in co-pr…
Local adaptation and validation of a transdiagnostic risk calculator for first episode psychosis using mental health patient records
The risk calculator performed similarly in Southeast England to other external validation studies, discriminating acceptably, suggesting that this calculator may be adapted successfully for new patient populations, services and geographic areas. Differences in accuracy may be due to different cultures of data capture, different NLP approaches, or differences in the patient cohort
Medicine (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Mental health (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art history (2 works)