About


Overview of the Team
Investigators

        Doug Angus         Melissa Brouwers         Martin Eccles         Jill Francis         Gaston Godin         Ian Graham         Jeremy Grimshaw         Steve Hanna         Margaret Harrison         Louise Lemyre         Jo Logan         Merrick Zwarenstein
New Investigators

        Onil Bhattacharyya         Michelle Driedger         France Légaré         Linda Li         Rosemary Martino         Marie-Pascale Pomey
Students

        Shawn Bugden         Gaby Doumit         Sandy Dunn         Jennifer Eyvindson         Noah Ivers         Annie Leblanc         Justin Presseau         Micheal G. Wilson
Collaborators

        Jacqueline Tetroe
Team Coordinator

        Vanessa Lybanon
   


Martin Eccles
Martin Eccles c.v.

  • William Leech Professor of Primary Care Research and Professor of Clinical Effectiveness, University of Newcastle


Research Interests

  • Organizational behaviour change
  • Clinical guideline implementation
  • Evidence-based medicine
 Martin Eccles

Biography

Martin Eccles is Professor of Clinical Effectiveness and the William Leach Professor of Primary Care Research at the Centre for Health Services Research, School of Population and Health Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where he runs the Clinical Effectiveness research programme.

As a practicing general practitioner he sees patients two afternoons a week in an urban general practice in mid-Northumberland.

Professor Eccles is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of England and a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners, UK. He was awarded Membership of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine through distinction in 1998 and was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2002.

Professor Eccles has been a member of: the UK Royal College of General Practitioners Clinical Guidelines Group; the UK R&D Programme for Evaluation of Methods to promote the implementation of R&D Research Commissioning Group; the UK NHS R&D Health Technology Assessment Programme Research Commissioning Board; the UK Medical Research Council Health Services Research Collaboration Strategy Group. He was Chair of the NICE Guidelines Advisory Committee and is currently a consultant on guideline methods to NICE. He is a member of the commissioning group for the UK NHS R&D Service Delivery and Organisation of Care (SDO) Research Programme.

 

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Major Research Activities

Research activity Funding
Canada PRIME: process modeling in implementation research : establishing a theoretical basis for interventions to change clinical practice 2004-2007 CIHR
A trial platform to develop a tailored theory based intervention to improve professional practice in the disclosure of a diagnosis of dementia 2004-2006 UK Medical Research Council
Identification, concept and bibliometric analyses of organizational change, theories/frameworks 2004-2005, renewal 2005-2006 CIHR
Development of a transdisciplinary team for improving the quality of health care. Principle Investigators 2003-2008 CIHR
Developing an international transdisciplinary knowledge translation project 2003-2005 University of Ottawa International Creative Research Initiatives
ReBEQI: A framework and tools to develop effective quality improvement programs in European healthcare 2002-2005
PRIME - Process modelling in implementation research: Selecting a theoretical basis for interventions to change clinical practice 2002-2005 Medical Research Council


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Selected Publications

  • Grimshaw JM, Eccles M , Tetroe J. Implementing clinical guidelines: current evidence and future implications. Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, in press.

  • Grimshaw J, Eccles M, Campbell M, Elbourne D. Cluster randomized trials and organizational behaviour change interventions in health care settings. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 2005; 599:71-93.


  • Bonetti D, Eccles M, Johnston M, S teen IN, Grimshaw J, Baker R, Walker A, Pitts N. Guiding the design and selection of interventions to influence the i mplementation of evidence-based practice: an experimental simulation of a complex intervention trial. Soc Sci Med 2005;60:2135-47.


  • Eccles M , Grimshaw J, Walker A, Johnston M, Pitts N. Response to “the OFF theory of research utilisation”. J Clin Epidemiol 2005;58:117-118.


  • Eccles M , Grimshaw J, Walker A, Johnston M, Pitts N. Changing the behaviour of healthcare professionals: the use of theory in promoting the uptake of research findings. J Clin Epidemiol . 2005;58:107-112.


  • Eccles MP , Grimshaw JM. Selecting, presenting and delivering clinical guidelines: are there magic bullets? Medical Journal of Australia 2004;180: S52-4.


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  • Grimshaw JM, Eccles MP. Is evidence based implementation of evidence based care possible? Medical Journal of Australia 2004;180: S50-1.


  • Walker A, Grimshaw JM, Johnston M, Pitts N, Steen N, Eccles MP. PRIME - PRocess modelling in ImpleMEntation research: selecting a theoretical basis for interventions to change clinical practice. BMC Health Services Research 2003, 3:22.


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  • Eccles M , Grimshaw J, Campbell M, Ramsay C. Research designs for studies evaluating the effectiveness of change and improvement strategies. Quality and Safety in Health Care 2003;12: 47-52.


  • Ramsay CR, Eccles M, Grimshaw JM, Steen N. Assessing the long term effect of educational reminder messages on primary care radiology referrals. Clinical Radiology 2003;58:319-321.


  • Rousseau N, McColl E, Newton J, Grimshaw J, Eccles M. Practice based, longitudinal, qualitative interview study of computerised evidence based guidelines in primary care. BMJ 2003;326:314-322.


  • Eccles M , McColl E, Steen N, Rousseau N, Grimshaw J, Parkin D, Purves I. Effect of computerised evidence based guidelines on management of asthma and angina in adults in primary care: cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ 2002;325:941-7. Reproduced In: Haux R, Kulikowski C, editors. 2004 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics: Towards Clinical Bioinformatics. Stuttgart: Schattauer; 2004. p. 272-278.


  • Freemantle N, Nazareth I, Eccles M, Wood J, Haines A, and the Evidence-based OutReach (EBOR) Trialists. A randomised trial of the effect of educational outreach by community pharmacists on prescribing in UK General Practice. British Journal of General Practice 2002;52:290-295.
  • Eccles M , Hawthorne G, Whitty P, Steen N, Vanoli A, Grimshaw J, Wood L. A randomised controlled trial of a patient based Diabetes REcall And Management system: the DREAM Trial: study protocol [ISRCTN32042030] BMC Health Services Research 2002, 2:5.

  • Mason J, Freemantle N, Nazareth I, Eccles M, Haines A, Drummond M and the Evidence-based OutReach (EBOR) Trialists. The economics of influencing the behaviour of health professionals: findings of the EBOR trial. Journal of the American Medical Association 2001;286:2988-2992.

  • Shekelle PG, Ortiz E, Rhodes S, Morton SC, Eccles MP, Grimshaw JM, Woolf SH. Validity of the agency for healthcare research and quality clinical practice guidelines: how quickly do guidelines become outdated? Journal of the American Medical Association 2001;286(12): 1461-1467.

  • Eccles M , Steen N, Grimshaw J, Thomas L, McNamee P, Soutter J, Wilsdon J, Matowe L, Needham G, Gilbert F, Bond S. Effect of audit and feedback, and reminder messages on primary-care radiology referrals: a randomised trial. Lancet 2001;357: 1406-1409.

  • Duggan S, Eccles MP, Steen IN, Jones S, Ford GA. Management of older patients with hypertension in primary care: improvement on the rule of halves. Age and Ageing, 2001; 30:73-76.

  • Elovainio M, Makela M, Sinervo T, Kivimaki M, Eccles M, Kahan J. Effects of job characteristics, team climate, and attitudes towards clinical guidelines. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 2000;28(2): 117-22.

  • Hall L, Eccles M. Case study of an inter-professional and inter-organisational programme to adapt, implement and evaluate clinical guidelines in secondary care. British Journal of Clinical Governance 2000; 5 (2):72-82.

  • Eccles M , Grimshaw J, Steen N, Parkin D, Purves I, McColl E, Rousseau N. The design and analysis of a randomised controlled trial to evaluate computerised decision support in primary care: the COGENT Study. Family Practice 2000; 17: 180-6.
  • Grimshaw J, Campbell M, Eccles M, Steen N. Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for evaluating guideline implementation strategies. Family Practice 2000; 17: S11-16..

  • Parr JH, Bradshaw C, Broderick W, Courtenay H, Eccles M, Murray E, Royle J, Whitty P. Improving the use of aspirin in myocardial infarction: a district strategy. British Journal of Clinical Governance 1999; 4: 24-27.

  • Ashford J, Eccles M, Bond S, Hall LA, Bond J. Improving health care through professional behaviour change: introducing a framework for identifying behaviour change strategies. British Journal of Clinical Governance 1999; 4:14-23.

  • Bradshaw C, McColl E, Eccles M, Bryce C, Sampson R. Can we improve the education for non-insulin dependent diabetes patients in general practice; a pilot study of the effects of differing educational delivery methods. Practical Diabetes International 1999; 16: 241-5.

  • Feder G, Eccles M, Grol R, Griffiths C, Grimshaw J. Using clinical guidelines. BMJ 1999; 318:728-30.
  • Woolf SH, Grol R, Hutchinson A, Eccles M, Grimshaw J. The potential benefits, limitations, and harms of clinical guidelines. BMJ 1999; 318: 527-30.

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