Felix Achana

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Felix Achana is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Felix Achana has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 11 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 8 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Felix Achana's work include Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (10 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (5 papers) and Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (5 papers). Felix Achana is often cited by papers focused on Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (10 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (5 papers) and Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (5 papers). Felix Achana collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Ghana and United States. Felix Achana's co-authors include Laura J. Gray, Melanie J. Davies, Kamlesh Khunti, Thomas Yates, Charlotte L. Edwardson, Stuart Biddle, Emma G. Wilmot, Trish Gorely, Nicola J. Cooper and Alex J. Sutton and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Felix Achana

46 papers receiving 2.3k citations

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Sedentary time in adults and the association with diabetes, cardiovascular disease and death: systematic review and meta-analysis

2012 1.3k citations Felix Achana, Melanie J. Davies et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Pesticide contamination and associated health risks in fish from Libga and Builpela reservoirs, Northern Ghana 2025 ·Martin Nyaaba Adokiya, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ibrahim Imorou Toko, (unknown), Felix Achana	0
2	Childhood Transitions Between Weight Status Categories: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study 2024 ·PharmacoEconomics ·Olu Onyimadu, Nerys M. Astbury, Felix Achana, Stavros Petrou, Mara Violato	1
3	Occurrence of pesticide residues and associated ecological risks assessment in water and sediment from selected dams in northern Ghana 2024 ·PLoS ONE ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Felix Achana, (unknown), (unknown), Martin Nyaaba Adokiya	2
4	Estimating the direct healthcare utilization and cost of musculoskeletal pain among people with comorbidity: a retrospective electronic health record study 2023 ·Current Medical Research and Opinion ·May Ee Png, K.J. Mason, Michelle Marshall, Kelvin P. Jordan, James Bailey, Martin Frisher, Neil Heron, Alyson Huntley, Christian Mallen, Mamas A. Mamas, (unknown), Simon White, John Edwards, Felix Achana	0
5	CARE: Protocol of a randomised trial evaluating the feasibility of preoperative intentional weight loss to support postoperative recovery in patients with excess weight and colorectal cancer 2023 ·Colorectal Disease ·Dimitrios A. Koutoukidis, Susan A. Jebb, Claire Foster, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Amy Taylor, Alba Realpe, Felix Achana, Simon J. A. Buczacki	5
6	Pre-existing musculoskeletal pain and its association with mortality in newly diagnosed co-morbid conditions: an electronic health record cohort study 2023 ·Rheumatology Advances in Practice ·Michelle Marshall, K.J. Mason, John Edwards, Mamas Mamas, James Bailey, Neil Heron, Felix Achana, Martin Frisher, Alyson Huntley, Christian Mallen, May Ee Png, (unknown), Simon White, Kelvin P. Jordan	2
7	Musculoskeletal pain and its impact on prognosis following acute coronary syndrome or stroke: A linked electronic health record cohort study 2023 ·Musculoskeletal Care ·K.J. Mason, Kelvin P. Jordan, Neil Heron, John Edwards, James Bailey, Felix Achana, Ying Chen, Martin Frisher, Alyson Huntley, Christian Mallen, Mamas A. Mamas, May Ee Png, (unknown), Simon White, Michelle Marshall	2
8	Arthroscopic hip surgery compared with personalised hip therapy in people over 16 years old with femoroacetabular impingement syndrome: UK FASHIoN RCT 2022 ·Health Technology Assessment ·Damian Griffin, Edward Dickenson, Felix Achana, James M. Griffin, Joanna S. Smith, Peter Wall, Alba Realpe, Nick Parsons, Rachel Hobson, (unknown), Marcus Jepson, Stavros Petrou, Charles Hutchinson, Nadine E. Foster, Jenny Donovan	8
9	Measuring health-related quality of life in chronic headache: A comparative evaluation of the Chronic Headache Quality of Life Questionnaire and Headache Impact Test (HIT-6) 2021 ·Cephalalgia ·Kirstie Haywood, Felix Achana, Vivien Nichols, Gemma Pearce, (unknown), (unknown), Shilpa Patel, Frances Griffiths, (unknown), Martin Underwood, Manjit Matharu, (unknown)	11
10	Cycle threshold values are inversely associated with poorer outcomes in hospitalized patients with COVID-19: a prospective, observational cohort study conducted at a UK tertiary hospital 2021 ·International Journal of Infectious Diseases ·Jenny Wright, Felix Achana, Lavanya Diwakar, Malcolm G. Semple, Will Carroll, J. Kenneth Baillie, C. C. Thompson, (unknown), Timothy Kemp	10
11	Protocol for a multicentre, parallel-arm, 12-month, randomised, controlled trial of arthroscopic surgery versus conservative care for femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (FASHIoN) 2016 ·BMJ Open ·Damian Griffin, Edward Dickenson, Peter Wall, Jenny Donovan, Nadine E. Foster, Charles Hutchinson, Nick Parsons, Stavros Petrou, Alba Realpe, Juul Achten, Felix Achana, Ann Adams, Matthew L. Costa, James M. Griffin, Rachel Hobson, Jo Smith	16
12	Facet-joint injections for people with persistent non-specific low back pain (FIS): study protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial 2015 ·Trials ·Harbinder Sandhu, David R Ellard, Felix Achana, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Melinda Cairns, Frances Griffiths, Kirstie Haywood, Charles Hutchinson, Ranjit Lall, Stavros Petrou, Nigel Stallard, Colin Tysall, David A. Walsh, Martin Underwood	5
13	Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Response Rates and Diagnostic Yield of Screening for Type 2 Diabetes and Those at High Risk of Diabetes 2015 ·PLoS ONE ·Kamlesh Khunti, Hamidreza Mani, Felix Achana, Nicola J. Cooper, Laura J. Gray, Melanie J. Davies	23
14	The Effectiveness of Different Interventions to Promote Poison Prevention Behaviours in Households with Children: A Network Meta-Analysis 2015 ·PLoS ONE ·Felix Achana, Alex J. Sutton, Denise Kendrick, Persephone Wynn, Ben Young, David R. Jones, Stephanie Hubbard, Nicola J. Cooper	31
15	Estimating the budget impact of orphan drugs in Sweden and France 2013–2020 2014 ·Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases ·Adam Hutchings, (unknown), (unknown), Felix Achana, Karolina Antonov	36
16	An exploration of synthesis methods in public health evaluations of interventions concludes that the use of modern statistical methods would be beneficial 2014 ·Journal of Clinical Epidemiology ·Felix Achana, Stephanie Hubbard, Alex J. Sutton, Denise Kendrick, Nicola J. Cooper	18
17	Network meta-analysis of multiple outcome measures accounting for borrowing of information across outcomes 2014 ·BMC Medical Research Methodology ·Felix Achana, Nicola J. Cooper, Sylwia Bujkiewicz, Stephanie Hubbard, Denise Kendrick, David R. Jones, Alex J. Sutton	40
18	Extending methods for investigating the relationship between treatment effect and baseline risk from pairwise meta‐analysis to network meta‐analysis 2012 ·Statistics in Medicine ·Felix Achana, Nicola J. Cooper, Sofia Dias, Guobing Lu, Stephen Rice, Denise Kendrick, Alex J. Sutton	46
19	Network Meta-analysis to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Interventions to Increase the Uptake of Smoke Alarms 2011 ·Epidemiologic Reviews ·Nicola J. Cooper, Denise Kendrick, Felix Achana, Paula Dhiman, Zhimin He, Persephone Wynn, (unknown), Pedro Saramago, Alex J. Sutton	40
20	PDB39 Cost-Effectiveness of Saxagliptin Compared to Sitagliptin for the Treatment of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) 2011 ·Value in Health ·Andrew Hutchings, Keith Tolley, Felix Achana, (unknown), M. Lebmeier, (unknown)	2

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