Dr Margaret McCartney

Senior Clinical Lecturer in General Practice

Researcher profile

Email

mm494@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Selected publications

• Captured by design: the drug industry and UK healthcare

  McCartney, M., Sullivan, F. & Abbasi, K., 19 Feb 2024, In: The BMJ. 384, q408.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial

• Does the METHOD study show that ZOE works?

  McCartney, M. & Cohen, D., 2 Aug 2024, In: BMJ. 386, q1720.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

• Early diagnosis is not always an unmitigated good, we need to make it useful for patients and clinicians We need to define the concept of early diagnosis

  Mccartney, M., Liu, P., Fearfull, A., Macdonald, H. & Donnelly, P., 1 May 2024, In: British Medical Journal. 385, 2 p., q973.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review

• GRAIL-Galleri: why the special treatment?

  Turnbull, C., Wald, N., Sullivan, R., Pharoah, P., Houlston, R. S., Aggarwal, A., Hogarth, S. & McCartney, M., 3 Feb 2024, In: Lancet (London, England). 403, 10425, p. 431-432 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• Open access

  Galleri promises to detect multiple cancers—but new evidence casts doubt on this much hyped blood test

  McCartney, M., 7 Aug 2024, In: British Medical Journal. 386

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Guidelines and regulations applicable to vitro diagnostic tests in the UK: a scoping review

  Staworko , M., Khawar, O., Sullivan, F., Donnelly, P. D., Deeks, J. & McCartney, M., 8 Aug 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: BMJ Innovations. 10, 3, p. 60-68

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Population screening requires robust evidence—genomics is no exception

  Turnbull, C., Firth, H. V., Wilkie, A. O. M., Newman, W., Raymond, F. L., Tomlinson, I., Lachmann, R., Wright, C. F., Wordsworth, S., George, A., McCartney, M. & Lucassen, A., 10 Feb 2024, In: The Lancet. 403, 10426, p. 583-586 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

• Open access

  Genetic risk scores may compound rather than solve the issue of prostate cancer overdiagnosis

  Horton, R. H., Dunlop, M. G., Houlston, R. S., Lucassen, A., McCartney, M., McNeill, A. & Sud, A., 28 Nov 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: British Journal of Cancer. 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

• Open access

  Where do UK clinicians find information at the point of care? A pragmatic, exploratory study

  McCartney, M., Connolly, K., Sullivan, F., Heneghan, C., Ho, E. Y. H., Hendry, B., Salisbury, C., Offer, S. & Nunan, D., 23 Oct 2024, In: BMC Primary Care. 25, 8 p., 376.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  How are declarations of interest working? A cross sectional study in declarations of interest in medical practice in Scotland and England in 2020/2021

  McCartney, M. & Sullivan, F., 13 Mar 2022, (medRxiv).

  Research output: Working paper › Preprint

 

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