Colin Crooks

Contact

• workRoom B121 Clinical Sciences Building
  Nottingham City Hospital
  Hucknall Road
  Nottingham
  NG5 1PB
  UK
• work0115 823 1357
• colin.crooks@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Colin Crooks completed his undergraduate degree in Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (BMBS) and B.Med.Sci (Hons) at University of Nottingham, before going on to receive his Diploma MRCP (UK) Royal College of Physicians and MSc in Epidemiology at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is currently taking his PhD at the University of Nottingham.

Expertise Summary

Keywords:

Use and analysis of routine databases, mapping, Bayesian techniques

Research Summary

Colin Crooks is currently completing his PhD in upper gastrointestinal bleeding, involving epidemiology and observational, as well as routine databases: (GPRD) General Practice Research Database and… read more

Selected Publications

• CROOKS, COLIN, CARD, TIM and WEST, JOE, 2011. Reductions in 28-Day Mortality Following Hospital Admission for Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage. Gastroenterology. 141(1), 62-70
• CROOKS, COLIN J, WEST, JOE and CARD, TIM R, 2011. Upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage and deprivation: a nationwide cohort study of health inequality in hospital admissions. Gut. 61(4), 514-20
• CROOKS,, WEST,, SOLAYMANI-DODARAN, and CARD,, 2008. The epidemiology of haemochromatosis - a population based study. Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics. 29(2), 183-92
• COLIN JOHN CROOKS, DAVID PRIETO-MERINO and STEPHEN J.W. EVANS, 2012. Identifying Adverse Events of Vaccines Using a Bayesian Method of Medically Guided Information Sharing Drug Safety. 35(1), 61-78

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Current Research

Colin Crooks is currently completing his PhD in upper gastrointestinal bleeding, involving epidemiology and observational, as well as routine databases: (GPRD) General Practice Research Database and (HES) Hospital Episode Statistics.

He is currently funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) Population Health Scientist Fellowship.

Other areas of interest:

• Chronic liver disease
• Adverse effects in spontaneous report databases

• COLIN JOHN CROOKS, DAVID PRIETO-MERINO and STEPHEN J.W. EVANS, 2012. Identifying Adverse Events of Vaccines Using a Bayesian Method of Medically Guided Information Sharing Drug Safety. 35(1), 61-78
• CROOKS, COLIN, CARD, TIM and WEST, JOE, 2011. Reductions in 28-Day Mortality Following Hospital Admission for Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage. Gastroenterology. 141(1), 62-70
• CROOKS, COLIN J, WEST, JOE and CARD, TIM R, 2011. Upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage and deprivation: a nationwide cohort study of health inequality in hospital admissions. Gut. 61(4), 514-20
• CROOKS,, WEST,, SOLAYMANI-DODARAN, and CARD,, 2008. The epidemiology of haemochromatosis - a population based study. Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics. 29(2), 183-92