Selected Publications

• Blacklock C L, Hirst J A, Taylor K S, Stevens R J, Roberts N W, and Farmer A J (2011) Evidence for a dose effect of renin-angiotensin system inhibition on progression of microalbuminuria in Type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis. Diabet Med, 28(10):1182-7.

• Fleming Susannah, Thompson Matthew, Stevens Richard, Heneghan Carl, Pluddemann Annette, Maconochie Ian, Tarassenko Lionel, and Mant David (2011) Normal ranges of heart rate and respiratory rate in children from birth to 18 years of age: a systematic review of observational studies. Lancet, 377(9770):1011-8.

• Van den Bruel Ann, Thompson Matthew J, Haj-Hassan Tanya, Stevens Richard, Moll Henriette, Lakhanpaul Monica, and Mant David (2011) Diagnostic value of laboratory tests in identifying serious infections in febrile children: systematic review. BMJ, 342:d3082.

• Stevens R J and Lasserson D (2010) In primary care, when is chest pain due to coronary artery disease? CMAJ.

• Stevens Richard J, Oke Jason, and Perera Rafael (2010) Statistical models for the control phase of clinical monitoring. Stat Methods Med Res, 19(4):394-414.

Dr Richard Stevens

Richard Stevens has been working as a medical statistician in Oxford since 1997.  He has previously worked on diabetes and cardiovascular disease at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, and on pancreatic cancer at the Cancer Epidemiology Unit in Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Medicine.  He joined the Department of Primary Health Care in 2008 as part of the Oxford Centre for Monitoring and Diagnosis (MADOx), where he is a senior statistician under the direction of Rafael Perera, and collaborates on a variety of MADOx projects including blood pressure monitoring and cholesterol monitoring in general practice.  His research interests include clinical prediction rules, arising from his work on the UK Prospective Diabetes Study Risk Engine for calculating cardiovascular risk in people with diabetes.