Selected Publications

• Hodgkinson J, Mant J, Martin U, Guo B, Hobbs F DR, Deeks J J, Heneghan C, Roberts N, and McManus R J (2011) Relative effectiveness of clinic and home blood pressure monitoring compared with ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in diagnosis of hypertension: systematic review. BMJ, 342:d3621.

• Lovibond Kate, Jowett Sue, Barton Pelham, Caulfield Mark, Heneghan Carl, Hobbs F DR, Hodgkinson James, Mant Jonathan, Martin Una, Williams Bryan, Wonderling David, and McManus Richard J (2011) Cost-effectiveness of options for the diagnosis of high blood pressure in primary care: a modelling study. Lancet, 378(9798):1219-30.

• McManus Richard J, Fitzmaurice David A, Murray Ellen, and Taylor Clare (2011) Thromboembolism. Clin Evid (Online), 2011.

• Bray Emma P, Holder Roger, Mant Jonathan, and McManus Richard J (2010) Does self-monitoring reduce blood pressure? Meta-analysis with meta-regression of randomized controlled trials. Ann Med, 42(5):371-86.

• McManus Richard J, Mant Jonathan, Bray Emma P, Holder Roger, Jones Miren I, Greenfield Sheila, Kaambwa Billingsley, Banting Miriam, Bryan Stirling, Little Paul, Williams Bryan, and Hobbs F DR (2010) Telemonitoring and self-management in the control of hypertension (TASMINH2): a randomised controlled trial. Lancet, 376(9736):163-72.

Prof. Richard McManus

Richard McManus is Professor of Primary Care Research at the University of Oxford and a part time GP at Greenridge Surgery in Billesley, Birmingham. His research interests lie mainly in cardiovascular disease and he has published work on the management of chest pain in primary care, blood pressure measurement, stroke management in primary care and self monitoring in hypertension. He holds an NIHR Career Development Fellowship and leads the Stroke Theme of the Birmingham CLAHRC as well as an NIHR Programme Grant around Self Monitoring in Hypertension and several other NIHR funded studies on the primary care management of hypertension and chronic kidney disease. He supervises PhD students undertaking projects in diabetes, hypertension and chronic kidney disease and is external examiner for the Primary Care MSc at Barts and the London. He chairs the Blood Pressure Monitoring Working Party of the British Hypertension Society and the SRN Primary Care Clinical Studies Group. He is Guardian of the RCGP Cardiovascular Curriculum and provides expert advice to NICE (member of recent Hypertension Guideline Development Group), Department of Health and the European Society of Cardiology.