Dr Margaret McCartney
Senior Clinical Lecturer in General Practice
Biography
Margaret McCartney is a practicing general practitoner in addition to her academic role in St Andrews. She is particularly interested in evidence based medicine, conflicts of interest, screening, risk, bias, and public communication about healthcare. She is also an award winning writer and broadcaster, has written three books about evidence in healthcare for the lay public and has been a columnist for the FT and the BMJ. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2023 and completed her PhD in 2024. She is also a Director of Beira's Place, Edinburgh. Her declarations of interest are at whopaysthisdoctor.org. She is always happy to hear from students who are interested in research in these areas.
Selected publications
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. 386Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 60-68Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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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
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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
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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