Ben Toth's Publications List

Pioneering controlled trials of treatment for erysipelas and pneumonia in Glasgow, 1936-1947

2019-08-31T12:27:30Z

B Toth (2019) Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 112: 7 304-312

Quantified bodies, exclusion, and the history of randomised controlled trials

2019-12-08T05:59:10Z

Ben Toth (2019) socarxiv :

Pioneering controlled trials of treatments for erysipelas and pneumonia in Glasgow, 1936-47

2018-02-11T05:02:56Z

B Toth (2018) JLL Bulletin :

Applying S/Z to a scientific text

2018-07-17T17:07:58Z

Toth, B (2018) 3rd International Conference on Literature and Science

Eroding the concept of informed consent (electronically submitted comment)

2016-02-11T16:26:32Z

Toth, B (2016) New England Journal of Medicine :

Response to Re: Height, body mass index, and socioeconomic status: mendelian randomisation study in UK Biobank

2016-03-16T11:01:53Z

It is hard to know if this excellently conducted study adds much to a lay understanding of the relationship between height and social class - that the upper classes are generally taller, sleeker and better looking than the poor. It may suggest that the accident of being born with 'tall genes' makes it more likely that a person will be recruited to the wealthier end of society. But this again does ...

B Toth (2016) British Medical Journal 352: i582

Why the MRC therapeutic trials committee did not introduce controlled clinical trials

2015-12-11T06:48:28Z

B Toth (2015) Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 108: 12 499-511

Nineteenth-century controlled trials to test whether belladonna prevents scarlet fever

2011-11-18T09:42:25Z

I Chalmers, B Toth (2009) Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 102: 12 549-50

19th century controlled trials to test whether belladonna prevents scarlet fever

2010-05-04T09:22:30Z

I Chalmers, B Toth (2009) James Lind Library :

The number needed to read - a new measure of journal value.

2015-01-21T09:48:43Z

Ben Toth, J A Muir Gray, Anne Brice (2005) Health Info Libr J 22: 2 81-82

An integrated library for the NHS

2007-07-01T21:51:23Z

B Toth (2004) Update 3: 10 28-29

A first class knowledge service: developing the National electronic Library for Health.

2007-07-01T12:35:48Z

With the introduction of clinical governance and the move towards evidence-based practice, there is a growing need to provide health professionals and patients, and the public, with high quality information. Developments in the health service have added weight and urgency to this need. The National electronic Library for Health (NeLH) has a key role to play in providing health professionals with a...

Alison Turner, Veronica Fraser, J A Muir Gray, Ben Toth (2002) Health Info Libr J 19: 3 133-145

Thomas Graham Balfour's 1854 report of a clinical trial of belladonna given to prevent scarlet fever

2007-07-01T22:08:51Z

Chalmers I, Toth B (2002)

Systems of evidence-based healthcare and personalised health information: some international and national trends.

2007-07-01T12:16:20Z

In Europe, North America and elsewhere, growing interest has focussed on evidence-based healthcare systems, incorporating the deployment of practice guidelines, as a field of application for health telematics. The clinical benefit and technical feasibility of common European approaches to this task has recently been demonstrated. In Europe it is likely that, building on recent progress in electron...

C Gordon, J A Gray, B Toth, M Veloso (2000) Stud Health Technol Inform 77: 23-28

Mapping teaching and research activity in general practice

2013-02-22T07:03:16Z

This paper maps the extent of involvement of 1031 general practices in the South and West health region of England in undergraduate medical student teaching, medical vocational training, continuing medical education, and research. More than half (56%) of the 1031 practices in the region are actively involved in either teaching or research. About 1 in 7 (15%) are involved in both teaching and resea...

Gray, S., Toth, B., Johnson, H., Percy, D., Gray, D.P., Mant, D. (2000) Medical Teacher 22: 1 64-69

National electronic Library for Health: progress and prospects

2008-08-27T11:35:23Z

B Toth, JA Muir Gray, V Fraser, R Ward (2000) Health Information and Libraries Journal 17: 1 46-50

The effect of extraction of third molars on late lower incisor crowding: a randomized controlled trial.

2007-07-01T12:30:58Z

The problem of late mandibular incisor crowding is a well established phenomenon, the cause of which has been the substance of considerable debate over the years. A central issue is the possible role of the third molars though no definitive conclusions have been consistently drawn. This prospective study was designed to investigate the effects of randomly assigned early extraction of third molars ...

N W Harradine, M H Pearson, B Toth (1998) Br J Orthod 25: 2 117-122

Clinical trials in British Medicine 1858-1948, with special reference to the development of the randomised controlled trial

2007-09-29T11:06:13Z

B Toth (1998)

Informed consent. Research suffers if patients suspect that their rights may be breached.

2007-07-01T12:50:02Z

R Ashcroft, B Toth (1997) BMJ 315: 7102

Did the introduction of general practice fundholding change patterns of emergency admission to hospital?

2007-07-01T12:32:12Z

OBJECTIVES: To test the hypothesis that the introduction of general practice fundholding was associated with a change in the proportion of emergency admissions to hospital. METHODS: Before and after natural experiment with control group. The experimental group was first-wave fundholding general practices in the South Western Regional Health Authority, the control group was all practices that remai...

B Toth, I Harvey, T Peters (1997) J Health Serv Res Policy 2: 2 71-74

Public participation in health - a historical perspective

2007-09-29T11:06:48Z

B Toth (1996) Priority setting: the health care debate 169-202

Randomized clinical trials for retrolental fibroplasia.

2007-07-01T12:33:46Z

B Toth (1993) J Clin Epidemiol 46: 7 667-668

Meta-analysis.

2007-07-01T12:33:46Z

I Harvey, T J Peters, B Toth (1993) Lancet 341: 8850

The appropriateness of prophylactic extraction of impacted third molars: a review of the literature

2011-11-18T08:05:45Z

B Toth (1993)

Variation in the capture of information in NHS outpatient clinics

2011-11-18T08:14:16Z

This report presents the findings of an ethnographic study of the work of hospital outpatient clerks in Bristol in 1992. The main aim of the study was to deteremine the reasons for the variability of data entry practices by clerks in the clinic setting. Four fields were of particular interest: the outcome of attendance; the grade of staff seeing the patient; the time of arrival; and the time a pat...

B Toth (1993)

Is research into the treatment of osteoarthritis with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs misdirected?

2007-07-01T12:37:56Z

P A Dieppe, S J Frankel, B Toth (1993) Lancet 341: 8841 353-354

Managing waiting lists

2007-07-06T17:08:42Z

B Toth, SJ Frankel (1992)

A review of the effectiveness of Eusol in wound management

2007-07-06T17:10:12Z

B Toth (1991)

The place of Eusol in wound management.

2007-07-01T12:37:56Z

This article by Stephen Farrow and Ben Toth presents a summary of a report on the place of Eusol in wound management commissioned by the Regional Nursing Advisory Committee of the Southwestern Regional Health Authority. An extensive literature search was undertaken to try and establish the applicability of the product. Although there are gaps in the available research, the report concluded that Eu...

S Farrow, B Toth (1991) Nurs Stand 5: 22 25-27