Melissa Fox
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Melissa Fox is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Pandemic. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 4 publications.
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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on utilisation of healthcare services: a systematic review.
Ray Moynihan,Sharon Sanders,Zoe A Michaleff,Anna Mae Scott,Justin Clark,Emma J To,Mark Jones,Eliza Kitchener,Melissa Fox,Minna Johansson,Eddy Lang,Anne E Duggan,Ian M. Scott,Loai Albarqouni +13 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the extent and nature of changes in utilisation of healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic was determined by a systematic review of studies across 20 countries, reporting on >11 million services prepandemic and 6.9 million during the pandemic.
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Low value care is a health hazard that calls for patient empowerment
TL;DR: In this paper, patients must take an active role in clinical decision-making to protect themselves from the potential harms of low value care, and patients must be involved in clinical decisions.
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7 How should we communicate about overdiagnosis? When we talk about overdiagnosis, what do people hear?
Stacy M Carter,Jan Donovan,Melissa Fox,Kirsten McCaffery,Ray Moynihan,Tomas Rozbroj +5 more
- 01 Dec 2019
TL;DR: The aim is to constructively suggest how communication could be strengthened or made clearer, and to point out some features that might be counterintuitive or non-obvious to people who think about overdiagnosis all the time.
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Pandemic impacts on healthcare utilisation: a systematic review
Ray Moynihan,Sharon Sanders,Zoe A Michaleff,Anna Mae Scott,Justin Clark,Emma J To,Mark Jones,Eliza Kitchener,Melissa Fox,Minna Johansson,Eddy Lang,Anne E Duggan,Ian M. Scott,Loai Albarqouni +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, a broad synthesis of global studies of pandemic related changes in utilisation across all categories of healthcare services is presented, including visits, admissions, diagnostics, and therapeutics.
Mass behaviour change amid COVID-19: How public health information and social norms explain the transformation.
TL;DR: In this paper , a social psychological perspective is used to understand the reasons for adherence to policies and determine what other factors can shape preventive behaviours, and the mediating role of injunctive norms on preventive behavior suggesting that policy makers can influence decision-making by promoting health information that provides guidance on acceptable behaviours.