Mr Peter Chilton BSc

Department of Applied Health Sciences
Research Fellow

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 8288
Email: p.j.chilton@bham.ac.uk

Address: Murray Learning Centre
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Peter Chilton works as a Research Fellow and Communication Lead for the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West Midlands.

As a Research Fellow his work includes researching and writing papers and reviews for peer-reviewed publication and external funding bodies; sourcing references; and preparing presentations. As Communication Lead he is involved in designing and editing various reports, graphics, illustrations, figures, presentations, and accessible summaries for publications, grant applications and wider dissemination. He is also responsible for creating and publishing the ARC WM news blog, which is sent out monthly to subscribers worldwide.

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) in Human Biology, University of Birmingham, 2006.

Biography

Peter Chilton began working as a Research Associate at the University of Birmingham in February 2008 on a variety of projects, the main one of which was the Research Methods theme of the NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) West Midlands.

In October 2014 he moved to the University of Warwick, following the transfer of the NIHR CLAHRC WM Central Management Team. While there he also began working on the NIHR Global Health Unit on Improving Health in Slums. He started working within the NIHR ARC WM upon its initiation in September 2019.

He returned to the University of Birmingham in March 2020, continuing to work in NIHR ARC WM.

Research

Research topics include:

Policy & Service Delivery Evaluation
Hospital Mortality
Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomised Controlled Trials
Bayesian elicitation and Analysis

Research groups and centres: www.arc-wm.nihr.ac.uk

Twitter: @ARC_WM

Facebook: ARCWestMidlands

Other activities

Peter Chilton holds a position of Honorary Research Fellow at Warwick Medical School.

Publications

Watson SI, Dixon-Woods M, Taylor CA, Wroe EB, Dunbar EL, Chilton PJ, Lilford RJ. Revising ethical guidance for the evaluation of programmes and interventions not initiated by researchers. J Med Ethics. 2020; 46(1): 26-30.
Manaseki-Holland S, Lilford RJ, Te AP, Chen Y-F, Gupta KK, Chilton PJ, Hofer TP. Ranking Hospitals Based on Preventable Hospital Death Rates: A Systematic Review With Implications for Both Direct Measurement and Indirect Measurement Through Standardized Mortality Rates. Milbank Q. 2019; 97(1): 228-284.
Mytton J, Evison F, Chilton PJ, Lilford RJ. Removal of all ovarian tissue versus conserving ovarian tissue at time of hysterectomy in premenopausal patients with benign disease: study using routine data and data linkage. BMJ.2017; 356: j372.
Manaseki-Holland S, Lilford RJ, Bishop JRB, Girling AJ, Chen Y-F, Chilton PJ, Hofer TP; UK Case Note Review Group. Reviewing deaths in British and US hospitals: a study of two scales for assessing preventability. BMJ Qual Saf. 2017; 26(5): 408-416.
Oyebode O, Kandala N-B, Chilton PJ, Lilford RJ. Use of traditional medicine in middle-income countries: a WHO-SAGE study. Health Policy Plan. 2016; 31(8): 984-991.
Watson SI, Chen Y-F, Nguyen-Van-Tam JS, Myles PR, Ventatesan S, Zambon M, Uthman O, Chilton PJ, Lilford RJ. Evidence Synthesis and Decision Modelling to Support Complex Decisions: Stockpiling Neuraminidase Inhibitors for Pandemic Influenza Usage. F1000Res. 2016; 5: 2293.
Hemming K, Haines TP, Chilton PJ, Girling AJ, Lilford RJ. The stepped wedge cluster randomised trial: rationale, design, analysis, and reporting. BMJ. 2015; 350: h391.
Lilford RJ, Burn SL, Diaconu KD, Lilford P, Chilton PJ, Bion V, Cummins C, Manaseki-Holland S. An approach to prioritization of medical devices in low-income countries: an example based on the Republic of South Sudan. Cost Eff Resour Alloc. 2015; 13(1): 2.
Chen Y-F, Hemming K, Chilton PJ, Gupta KK, Altman DG, Lilford RJ. Scientific hypotheses can be tested by comparing the effects of one treatment over many diseases in a systematic review. J Clin Epidemiol. 2014; 67(12): 1309-1319.
Burn SL, Chilton PJ, Gawande AA, Lilford RJ. Peri-operative pulse oximetry in low-income countries: a cost-effectiveness analysis. Bull World Health Organ. 2014; 92(12): 858-867.
Lilford RJ, Girling AJ, Sheikh A, Coleman JJ, Chilton PJ, Burn SL, Jenkinson DJ, Blake L, Hemming K. Protocol for evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of ePrescribing systems and candidate prototype for other related health information technologies. BMC Health Serv Res. 2014; 14: 314.
Lilford RJ, Bentham L, Girling A, Litchfield I, Lancashire R, Armstrong D, Jones R, Marteau T, Neuberger J, Gill P, Cramb R, Olliff S, Arnold D, Khan K, Armstrong MJ, Houlihan DD, Newsome PN, Chilton PJ, Moons K, Altman D. Birmingham and Lambeth Liver Evaluation Testing Strategies (BALLETS): a prospective cohort study. Health Technol Assess. 2013; 17(28): i-xiv, 1-307.
Girling AJ, Hofer TP, Wu J, Chilton PJ, Nicholl JP, Mohammed MA, Lilford RJ. Case-mix adjusted hospital mortality is a poor proxy for preventable mortality: a modelling study. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012; 21(12): 1052-1056.
Hemming K, Chilton PJ, Lilford RJ, Avery A, Sheikh A. Bayesian cohort and cross-sectional analyses of the PINCER trial: a pharmacist-led intervention to reduce medication errors in primary care. PLoS One. 2012; 7(6): e38306.
Yao GL, Novielli N, Manaseki-Holland S, Chen Y-F, van der Klink M, Barach P, Chilton PJ, Lilford RJ; European HANDOVER Research Collaborative. Evaluation of a predevelopment service delivery intervention: an application to improve clinical handovers. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012; 21(s1): i29-38.
Lilford RJ, Chilton PJ, Hemming K, Girling AJ, Taylor CA, Barach P. Evaluating policy and service interventions: framework to guide selection and interpretation of study end points. BMJ. 2010; 27: c4413.

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