Dr Sarah Mills

Lecturer in Academic General Practice

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 7029

Email

seem1@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Lecturer in Academic General Practitice.  My research uses a health data science approach to research topics in Out-of-Hours / Unscheduled Care, Multimorbidity, and Primary Palliative Care. 

PhD supervision

• Katherine Hill
• Boyang Lin

Selected publications

• Open access

  Barriers, enablers, benefits, and drawbacks to Point of Care Testing (POCT): a survey of the General Practice Out-of-Hours (GPOOH) Service in Scotland

  Mills, S., Akbar, S. B. & Hernandez Santiago, V., 3 Apr 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: BJGP Open. Latest Articles, 13 p., BJGPO.2023.0094.

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

• Open access

  Age and cancer type: associations with increased odds of receiving a late diagnosis in people with advanced cancer

  Mills, S., Donnan, P., Buchanan, D. & Smith, B. H., 30 Nov 2023, In: BMC Cancer. 23, 7 p., 1174.

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

• Open access

  Current definitions of advanced multimorbidity: a protocol for a scoping review

  Bowers, S., Black, P., McCheyne, L., Wilson, D., Mills, S., Agrawal, U., Williams, L., Quirk, F. H. & Bowden, J., Nov 2023, In: BMJ Open. 13, 11, 5 p., e076903.

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

• Open access

  Definitions of advanced multimorbidity: a scoping review

  Bowers, S., McCheyne, L., Wilson, D., Agrawal, U., Mills, S., Williams, L., Bowden, J. & Quirk, F. H., 25 Oct 2023.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review

• Open access

  Free-text analysis of general practice out-of-hours (GPOOH) use by people with advanced cancer: an analysis of coded and uncoded free-text data

  Mills, S., Brown-Kerr, A., Buchanan, D., Donnan, P. T. & Smith, B. H., 1 Feb 2023, In: British Journal of General Practice. 73, 727, p. 124-132 9 p.

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

• Open access

  What is the association between childhood adversity and subsequent chronic pain in adulthood? A systematic review

  Nicolson, K. P., Mills, S. E. E., Senaratne, D. N. S., Colvin, L. A. & Smith, B. H., 7 Jun 2023, In: BJA Open. 6, 11 p., 100139.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

• Open access

  Community prescribing trends and prevalence in the last year of life, for people who die from cancer

  Mills, S., Buchanan, D., Donnan, P. T. & Smith, B. H., 8 Jul 2022, In: BMC Palliative Care. 21, 13 p., 120.

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

• Open access

  Death from cancer: frequent unscheduled care

  Mills, S. E. E., Buchanan, D., Donnan, P. T. & Smith, B. H., 29 Mar 2022, In: BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care. Early view, 6 p.

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

• Managing chronic pain in primary care

  Mills, S. & Smith, B. H., 1 Apr 2022, Clinical pain management: a practical guide. Lynch, M. E., Craig, K. D. & Peng, P. H. (eds.). 2nd ed. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 138-146

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Factors associated with unscheduled care use by cancer decedents: a systematic review with narrative synthesis

  Mills, S. E. E., Geneen, L. J., Buchanan, D., Guthrie, B. & Smith, B. H., 13 Oct 2020, In: BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care. Online First

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

 

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