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Francis Michael Sullivan

Research Interests

My own interests are the impact of information technology on clinical and strategic decision making. The multi-disciplinary research activity within Dundee's newly established Health Informatics Centre forms the basis of a program of research aimed at discovering how data may be converted into clinically useful knowledge and how it may be presented at a rate and in a sequence which allows clinicians to integrate the electronic information with their intuitive skills.

I also try to involve researchers and primary care professionals working together at all levels of the research paradigm in The Tayside Research and Development network (TayRen).

Recent health-related publications

Sullivan, F. (2002) Prescribing incentive schemes - more evidence is needed of how they work, BMJ, 324:118.

Emslie-Smith, A.E., Boyle, D.I.R., Evans, J.M.M., Sullivan, F., Morris, A.D. (2001) Contraindications to metformin therapy in patients with Type 2 diabetes - a Population based study of adherence to prescribing guidelines, Diabetic Medicine; 18, 483-488.

Mitchell, L., Sullivan, F. (2001) A descriptive feast but an evaluative famine: systematic review of published articles on primary care computing during 1980-97, BMJ, 322; 279-322.

Current grants

Sullivan, F., Pagliari, H., Donnan, P., Morris, A., Thomson, A., Ricketts, I., Gregor, P., Morrison, J., Mitchell, E., Smith, G. (2001-2003) Evaluation of the Electronic Clinical Communication Implementation Programme (ECCI) in Scotland, SEHD.

Watt, G., Sutton, M., Weller, D., Sullivan, F., Hannaford, P. (2001-2004) A platform for primary care research in Scotland, Chief Scientist Office/SHEFC.

Steele, C.M., Malek, M., Sullivan, F., Goudie, D., Thomson, A.M. (2000-2002) Evaluating a new model for cancer genetics services: a co-operation between primary care, nurse specialist and hospital clinic, CSO.

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