Publications and Outputs

Schnier, Christian and McDowell, P. Jane and Busby, John and PDF, See, Prevalence and Healthcare Utilisation of Eosinophilic Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in the UK: An Observational Electronic Health Record-Based Cohort Study. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5961899 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5961899 

Schnier C, Busby J, Sheikh A, Quint JK, Price DB, Heaney LG. Validity of Using Prescription Medications to Classify Disease – A Retrospective Observational Study Using Routinely Collected Electronic Health Records from the UK. Pragmat Obs Res. 2026; 17: 1-14. https://doi.org/10.2147/POR.S553011 

Burden C, Gassasse Z, Alsallakh M, Quint JK, Fry R, Davies G. Impact of air pollution and asthma on school attendance and educational attainment: a scoping review. BMJ Open Respiratory Research. 2025;12:e003527. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2025-003527 

Thomas A, Nabwera H, Hawcutt DB, et al. Guide to understanding observational studies that use real-world data. Archives of Disease in Childhood. Published Online First: 06 November 2025. doi:10.1136/archdischild-2025-329491 https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2025/11/06/archdischild-2025-329491 

Whittaker, H. R., Jani, M., Pearce, F. A., Bell, S., Kallis, C., Hawcutt, D., Brown, S., Neves, A. L., Robson, J., Shi, T., Lax, S. J., Sheikh, A., & Quint, J. K. (2025). Prescriptions of corticosteroids in primary care and related clinical indications: A national population-based cohort study in England. The Lancet Primary Care, 1(6), 100080. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanprc.2025.100080

Shackleford, A., Heaney, L. G., McDowell, P. J., Davies, G. A., Butler, C., Sweeney, J., & Busby, J. (2025). Investigating the Association Between Biologic Initiation and Medication Adherence in Severe Asthma: An Analysis of Linked Data. The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice, S2213-2198(25)00610-5. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaip.2025.06.029

Orton, C., Edwards, L., Seymour, D., Jones, M., Quinlan, P., Thompson, S., Goble, C., Quint, J., & Sheikh, A. (2024). Data as infrastructure: Systematic data curation addressing fundamental data content differences across the UK. International Journal of Population Data Science, 9(5). https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v9i5.2683

Tibble, H., Alyami, R. A., Bush, A., Cunningham, S., Julious, S., Price, D., Quint, J. K., Turner, S., Wang, K., Wilson, A., Davies, G. A., Mukherjee, M., Chan, A. H. Y., Varghese, D., Jackson, T., Morgan, N., Daines, L., & Pinnock, H. (2025). Using routine primary care data in research: (in)efficient case studies and perspectives from the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research. BMJ health & care informatics, 32(1), e101134. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjhci-2024-101134

Busby, J., Khezrian, M., Patel, S., Tran, T. N., Rhodes, K., & Heaney, L. G. (2025). Exploring the carbon footprint of severe asthma and change after biologic therapy initiation: an analysis of Northern Irish data. ERJ open research, 11(3), 01009-2024. https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.01009-2024 

Whittaker, H., Kramer Fiala Machado, A., Hatam, S., Cook, S., Scully, S., Evans, H. T. T., Bolton, T., Kallis, C., Busby, J., Heaney, L. G., Sheikh, A., Quint, J. K., & CVD-COVID-UK/COVID-IMPACT Consortium (2025). Incidence and prevalence of asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and interstitial lung disease between 2004 and 2023: harmonised analyses of longitudinal cohorts across England, Wales, South-East Scotland and Northern Ireland. Thorax, 80(7), 466–477. https://doi.org/10.1136/thorax-2024-222699

Alsallakh, M., Adeloye, D., Vasileiou, E., Sivakumaran, S., Akbari, A., Lyons, R. A., Robertson, C., Rudan, I., Davies, G. A., & Sheikh, A. (2024). Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Influenza Hospital Admissions and Deaths in Wales: Descriptive National Time Series Analysis. JMIR public health and surveillance, 10, e43173. https://doi.org/10.2196/43173

Shackleford, A., Heaney, L. G., Redmond, C., McDowell, P. J., & Busby, J. (2025). Clinical remission attainment, definitions, and correlates among patients with severe asthma treated with biologics: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet. Respiratory medicine, 13(1), 23–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(24)00293-5

Trusinska, D., Lee, B., Ferdous, S., Kwok, H. H. Y., Gordon, B., Gao, J., Ma, L., Xiong, H., Sheikh, S. A., Schwarze, J., Busby, J., Gibbons, C., Drysdale, S. B., Ritchie, S. L., Williams, T., & Shi, T. (2025). Real-world uptake of nirsevimab, RSV maternal vaccine, and RSV vaccines for older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis. EClinicalMedicine, 84, 103281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2025.103281

Lee, B., Trusinska, D., Ferdous, S., Pei, R., Kwok, H. H. Y., Schwarze, J., Williams, T. C., Gibbons, C., Quint, J. K., Sheikh, A., Drysdale, S. B., & Shi, T. (2025). Real-world effectiveness and safety of nirsevimab, RSV maternal vaccine and RSV vaccines for older adults: a living systematic review and meta-analysis. Thorax, 80(11), 838–848. https://doi.org/10.1136/thorax-2025-223376