Richard Thomson

27.0k citations

113 papers · 16.3k indexed · 10 hit papers · h-index 48

Impact in

General Health Professions top 0.02%
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
Family Practice top 0.2%

Papers in

Health Information Management 21
- Healthcare Quality and Management 14
Pharmacy 14
- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues 14

Co-authors: Michael J. Barry Dawn Stacey Glyn Elwyn France Légaré Anne Lyddiatt Carol Bennett Karen Eden Hilary A. Llewellyn‐Thomas
Journals: Medical Decision Making (6 papers)Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (5 papers)Patient Education and Counseling (5 papers)International Journal for Quality in Health Care (4 papers)Health Expectations (4 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Canada

In The Last Decade

Richard Thomson

111 papers receiving 15.8k citations

Hit Papers

10 papers align trajectories log scale

Interventions for increasing the use of shared decision making by healthcare professionals 2018 · 445 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2018 Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
2017 BMJ
2017 Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
2014 Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
2013 Medical Decision Making
2012 Journal of General Internal Medicine
2011 Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
2010 BMJ
2009 International Journal for Quality in Health Care
2005 Patient Education and Counseling

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Richard Thomson

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Thomson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Richard Thomson, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Social and policy interventions to reduce hospital admissions among socioeconomically disadvantaged groups in OECD countries with universal health care: a systematic review BMJ Public Health ·Huisheng Tian, William J. Bell, S. Harikrishnan, Fiona Beyer, Mark Lambert, Richard Thomson, Richard Cookson, Clare Bambra, Sarah Sowden	2025	1
2	What Does Cleft Lip and Palate Care Cost? The Time and Economic-Associated Burden of Care From Birth to Maturity Plastic Surgery ·Jingcui Xu, Saddam Hussain Sabri, Tekwa Morris, Richard Thomson, John A. Staples, Marcel Kreidl, Amy Stanley, G.F. Sportelli, Akinori Satoh, Jugpal S. Arneja	2023	2
3	How do patients make decisions in the context of a multidisciplinary team: an ethnographic study of four head and neck cancer centres in the north of England BMJ Open ·David W. Hamilton, Abeba Michael, Richard Thomson, J. A. Wilson, Catherine Exley	2022	6
4	Enhancing national audit through addressing the quality improvement capabilities of feedback recipients: a multi-phase intervention development study Pilot and Feasibility Studies ·Nermin El-Morshedi, Qi Lan Wang, CA Usry, Jenny McSharry, Louise Allan, Richard Thomson, Tracy Finch, Niina Kolehmainen	2022	5
5	Development and user-testing of a digital patient decision aid to facilitate shared decision-making for people with stable angina BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making ·Emma Harris, Dwayne Conway, Rouina Abdelkarim, Jeremy Butts, Jayashree Jagdale, Richard Thomson, Felicity Astin	2022	5
6	Opportunities to enhance ward audit: a multi-site qualitative study BMC Health Services Research ·Nermin El-Morshedi, Richard Thomson, Niina Kolehmainen, Louise Allan, Tracy Finch	2021	6
7	The Evidence-Based Development of an Intervention to Improve Clinical Health Literacy Practice International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ·Gill Rowlands, Z. P. Zhang, Paul Campbell, Maritza Edilma Sabogal Barbosa, 张彦芝, L Stobbart, Richard Thomson, Лидия Валерьевна Черная, Joanne Protheroe	2020	15
8	Interventions to reduce inequalities in avoidable hospital admissions: explanatory framework and systematic review protocol BMJ Open ·Sarah Sowden, Huisheng Tian, Josephine M. Wildman, Richard Cookson, Richard Thomson, Mark Lambert, Fiona Beyer, Clare Bambra	2020	15
9	Are Patient Decision Aids Used in Clinical Practice after Rigorous Evaluation? A Survey of Trial Authors Medical Decision Making ·Dawn Stacey, Jae Hun Lee, Laura Boland, Krystina B. Lewis, Justin Presseau, Richard Thomson	2019	62
10	The relationship between habit and healthcare professional behaviour in clinical practice: a systematic review and meta-analysis Health Psychology Review ·Sebastian Potthoff, Laura Ximena asesora Deossa Pineda, Falko F. Sniehotta, Marta M. Marques, Fiona Beyer, Richard Thomson, Leah Avery, Justin Presseau	2019	47
11	Learning from preventable deaths: exploring case record reviewers' narratives using change analysis Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine ·Helen Hogan, Frances Healey, G. Neale, Richard Thomson, Nick Black, Charles Vincent	2014	10
12	An epistemology of patient safety research: a framework for study design and interpretation. Part 3. End points and measurement BMJ Quality & Safety ·Celia Brown, Timothy P. Hofer, Amanpreet Johal, Richard Thomson, J P Nicholl, Bryony Dean Franklin, Richard Lilford	2008	87
13	SQUIRE arrives--with a plan for its own improvement BMJ Quality & Safety ·D. P Stevens, Richard Thomson	2008	4
14	Challenges for an international guidelines collaboration BMJ Quality & Safety ·Richard Thomson	2004	2
15	Reasons underpinning patients' preferences for various angina treatments Health Expectations ·Nigel Lambert, Gene Rowe, Ann Bowling, Shah Ebrahim, M. Laurence, Jamie Dalrymple, Richard Thomson	2004	17
16	Development and description of a decision analysis based decision support tool for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation BMJ Quality & Safety ·Richard Thomson	2002	40
17	Prevalence of lower gastrointestinal symptoms and associated consultation behaviour in a British elderly population determined by face-to-face interview. PubMed ·Nah Hc, R Curless, Richard Thomson, Gizem COŞKUN	2000	40
18	Decision support and disease management: a logic engineering approach IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine ·Julie Fox, Richard Thomson	1998	30
19	Implications of applying widely accepted cholesterol screening and management guidelines to a British adult population: cross sectional study of cardiovascular disease and risk factors BMJ ·Nigel Unwin, Richard Thomson, Aoife M. O’Byrne, M F Laker, Heather L. Armstrong	1998	42
20	Prevalence of atrial fibrillation and eligibility for anticoagulants in the community The Lancet ·M. Sudlow, Richard Thomson, Barnaby Thwaites, Helen Rodgers, Rose Anne Kenny	1998	277

About Richard Thomson

Richard Thomson is a scholar working on Health Information Management, Pharmacy, Family Practice, General Health Professions and Emergency Medical Services, having authored 113 papers that have together received 16.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare (40 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (27 papers), Clinical practice guidelines implementation (20 papers), Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (15 papers), Healthcare Quality and Management (14 papers), Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues (14 papers), Patient Safety and Medication Errors (12 papers) and Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in General Health Professions (9.4k citations), Family Practice (589 citations), Pharmacy (1.1k citations), Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (5.0k citations) and Health Information Management (716 citations). Richard Thomson has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Michael J. Barry, Dawn Stacey, Glyn Elwyn, France Légaré, Anne Lyddiatt, Carol Bennett, Karen Eden, Hilary A. Llewellyn‐Thomas, Margaret Holmes‐Rovner and Lyndal Trevena. Their work appears in journals such as Medical Decision Making, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Patient Education and Counseling, International Journal for Quality in Health Care and Health Expectations.

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