Brian Bell

Contact

• workApplied Health Research Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work07584481179
• brian.bell@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Dr Brian Bell has worked with Professor Tony Avery for the last 12 years. He has published numerous papers on medication safety and has also worked with Dr, Sonali Shah on various projects that have looked at the experiences of adults with cerebral palsy.

Expertise Summary

Keywords:

Medication errors, prescribing, adults with cerebral palsy

Research Summary

Dr Bell is currently working on several projects that look at prescribing safety including a review of the effectiveness of computerized prescribing alerts and a review that examines the… read more

Recent Publications

• BELL, B., AVERY, A., BISHARA, D., COUPLAND, C., ASHCROFT, D. and ORRELL, M., 2021. Anticholinergic drugs and risk of dementia: Time for action? Pharmacology Research & Perspectives. 9(3), e00793
• AVERY, A.J., SHEEHAN, C., BELL, B., ARMSTRONG, S., ASHCROFT, D.M., BOYD, M.J., CHUTER, A., COOPER, A., DONNELLY, A., EDWARDS, A., EVANS, H.P., HELLARD, S., LYMN, J., MEHTA, R., RODGERS, S., SHEIKH, A., SMITH, P., WILLIAMS, H., CAMPBELL, S.M. and CARSON-STEVENS, A., 2020. Incidence, nature and causes of avoidable significant harm in primary care in England: retrospective case note review BMJ Quality & Safety. bmjqs-2020-011405
• AVERY, A.J. and BELL, B.G., 2019. Rationalising medications through deprescribing. British Medical Journal. 364, l570
• CARSON-STEVENS, A., CAMPBELL, S., BELL, B., COOPER, A., ARMSTRONG, S., ASHCROFT, D., BOYD, M., PROSSER EVANS, H., MEHTA, R., SHEEHAN, C., SHEIKH, A. and AVERY, A., 2019. Identifying ‘avoidable harm’ in family practice: A RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method consensus study. BMC Family Practice. 20(1), 134

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Current Research

Dr Bell is currently working on several projects that look at prescribing safety including a review of the effectiveness of computerized prescribing alerts and a review that examines the effectiveness of interventions to reduce medication errors that may lead the adverse outcomes in patients. He is also working on a study that examines how GPs use SystmOne, which is a prescribing tool.

Past Research

He has conducted research at many universities in a diverse range of topics including:

• The psychophysiological detection of deception
• How child-parent interactions affect the child's physical functioning
• Error detection and correction using various cognitive tasks
• Antibiotic resistance fostered by antibiotic consumption
• Prescribing safety

• BELL, B., AVERY, A., BISHARA, D., COUPLAND, C., ASHCROFT, D. and ORRELL, M., 2021. Anticholinergic drugs and risk of dementia: Time for action? Pharmacology Research & Perspectives. 9(3), e00793
• AVERY, A.J., SHEEHAN, C., BELL, B., ARMSTRONG, S., ASHCROFT, D.M., BOYD, M.J., CHUTER, A., COOPER, A., DONNELLY, A., EDWARDS, A., EVANS, H.P., HELLARD, S., LYMN, J., MEHTA, R., RODGERS, S., SHEIKH, A., SMITH, P., WILLIAMS, H., CAMPBELL, S.M. and CARSON-STEVENS, A., 2020. Incidence, nature and causes of avoidable significant harm in primary care in England: retrospective case note review BMJ Quality & Safety. bmjqs-2020-011405
• AVERY, A.J. and BELL, B.G., 2019. Rationalising medications through deprescribing. British Medical Journal. 364, l570
• CARSON-STEVENS, A., CAMPBELL, S., BELL, B., COOPER, A., ARMSTRONG, S., ASHCROFT, D., BOYD, M., PROSSER EVANS, H., MEHTA, R., SHEEHAN, C., SHEIKH, A. and AVERY, A., 2019. Identifying ‘avoidable harm’ in family practice: A RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method consensus study. BMC Family Practice. 20(1), 134
• TOH, L.S., LAI, P.S.M., WU, D.B-C., BELL, B.G., DANG, C.P.L., LOW, B.Y., WONG, K.T., GUGLIELMI, G. and ANDERSON, C., 2019. A comparison of 6 osteoporosis risk assessment tools among postmenopausal women in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Osteoporosis and Sarcopenia. Correct proof available online: 11 September 2019, (In Press.)
• GORDON, A.L., GOODMAN, C., DAVIES, S.L., DENING, T., GAGE, H., MEYER, J., SCHNEIDER, J., BELL, B., JORDAN, J., MARTIN, F.C., ILIFFE, S., BOWMAN, C., GLADMAN, J.R. F., VICTOR, C., MAYRHOFER, A., HANDLEY, M. J. and ZUBAIR, M., 2018. Optimal healthcare delivery to care homes in the UK: a realist evaluation of what supports effective working to improve healthcare outcomes Age and Ageing. Published Online First: 5 January 2018,
• CAMPBELL, S.M., BELL, B.G., MARSDEN, K., SPENCER, R., KADAM, U., PERRYMAN, K., RODGERS, S., LITCHFIELD, I., REEVES, D., CHUTER, A., DOOS, L., RICCI-CABELLO, I., GILL, P., ESMAIL, A., GREENFIELD, S., SLIGHT, S., MIDDLETON, K., BARNET, J., MOORE, M., VALDERAS, J.M., SHEIKH, A. and AVERY. A.J., 2018. A Patient Safety Toolkit for Family Practices. Journal of Patient Safety. Published Ahead-of-Print: 15 February 2018,
• GOOKEY, G., KNOX, R., SALEMA, N., MARSDEN, K., BELL, B., BASSI, M., SILCOCK, N., SWANWICK, G. and AVERY, A., 2018. Essential prescribing tips for GP Associates-in-Training. InnovAiT. 11(2), 69-73
• BELL, B.G., CAMPBELL, S., CARSON-STEVENS, A., EVANS, H.P., COOPER, A., SHEEHAN, C., RODGERS, S., JOHNSON, C., EDWARDS, A., ARMSTRONG, S., MEHTA, R., CHUTER, A., DONNELLY, A., ASHCROFT, D.M., LYMN, J., SMITH, P., SHEIKH, A., BOYD, M. and AVERY, A.J., 2017. Understanding the epidemiology of avoidable significant harm in primary care: protocol for a retrospective cross-sectional study. BMJ open. 7(2), e013786
• RICCI-CABELLO, I., MARSDEN, K.S., AVERY, A.J., BELL, B., KADAM, U., REEVES, D., SLIGHT, S.P., PERRYMAN, K., BARNETT, J., LITCHFIELD, I., THOMAS, S., CAMPBELL, S.M., DOOS, L., ESMAIL, A. and VALDERAS, J.M., 2017. Patients’ evaluations of patient safety in English general practices: a cross-sectional study British Journal of General Practice. Published First Online: 5 June 2017, doi: 10.3399/bjgp17X691085
• RICCI-CABELLO, I., REEVES, D., BELL, B.G. and VALDERAS, J.M., 2017. Identifying patient and practice characteristics associated with patient-reported experiences of safety problems and harm: a cross-sectional study using a multilevel modelling approach. BMJ Quality and Safety. Published Online First: 7 August 2017,
• KHALIL, H., BELL, B., CHAMBERS, H., SHEIKH, A. and AVERY, A.J., 2017. Professional, structural and organisational interventions in primary care for reducing medication errors. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Issue 10: Art. No.: CD003942. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD003942.pub3.,
• BELL, B.G., SPENCER, R., MARSDEN, K., PERRYMAN, K., CAMPBELL, S.M. and AVERY, A. J., 2016. Building a Patient Safety Toolkit for use in general practice InnovAiT: Education and inspiration for general practice. First Published online: 14 June 2016, doi: 10.1177/1755738016650468
• BELL, B.G., REEVES, D., MARSDEN, K. and AVERY, A., 2015. Safety climate in English general practices: workload pressures may compromise safety. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. Epub ahead of print: 16 august 2015, doi: 10.1111/jep.12437.
• BELL, B., SCHELLEVIS, F., STOBBERINGH, E., GOOSSENS, H. and PRINGLE, M., 2014. A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of antibiotic consumption on antibiotic resistance. BMC Infectious Diseases. 14(1), 13
• SPENCER, R., BELL, B., AVERY, A.J., GOOKEY, G. and CAMPBELL, S.M., 2014. Identification of an updated set of prescribing-safety indicators for GPs British Journal of General Practice. 64(621), e181-e190
• BELL, B., SPENCER, R., AVERY, A. and CAMPBELL, S., 2014. Tools for measuring patient safety in primary care settings using the RAND/UCLA appropriateness method BMC Family Practice. 15(1), 110
• GORDON AL, GOODMAN C, DENING T, DAVIES S, GLADMAN JRF, BELL BG, ZUBAIR M, HANDLEY MJ, MEYER J, BOWMAN C, GAGE H, ILIFFE SR, MARTIN FC, SCHNEIDER J and VICTOR C, 2014. The optimal study: describing the key components of optimal health care delivery to UK care home residents: a research protocol. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 15(9), 681-6
• KHALIL, H., AVERY, A.J., CHAMBERS, H., BELL, B., SERUMAGA, B. and SHEIKH, A., 2013. Interventions in primary care for reducing preventable medication errors that lead to hospital admissions, mortality and emergency department visits Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Issue 11. Art. No.: CD003942., DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD003942.pub2
• BELL, B.G. and CLEGG, J., 2012. An Ecological Approach to Reducing the Social Isolation of People With an Intellectual Disability Ecological Psychology. 24(2), 159-177
• BELL, B.G. and GRUBIN, D., 2010. Functional magnetic resonance imaging may promote theoretical understanding of the polygraph test Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology. 21(1), 52-65
• BELL, BRIAN G, KIRCHER JOHN C, BERNHARDT PAUL C, 2008. New measures improve the accuracy of the directed-lie test when detecting deception using a mock crime Physiology & Behavior: Science Direct. 94, 331-340
• BELL BRIAN G, BELSKY JAY, 2008. Parents, parenting, and children's sleep problems: Exploring reciprocal effects British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 26, 579-593
• BELL, B.G. and BELSKY, J., 2008. Parenting and children’s cardiovascular functioning Child: Care, Health, and Development. 34(2), 194-203