Professor Rebecca Randell
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Biography
I joined the University of Bradford in January 2020 as Professor of Digital Innovations in Healthcare. My first degree, from Durham University, was in Software Engineering. I obtained my PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from Glasgow University in 2004.Prior to joining the University of Bradford, I spent 10 years at the University of Leeds, first as a Research Fellow in the Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine and then in the School of Healthcare, initially as a Senior Translational Research Fellow, before being promoted to Lecturer in July 2015 and Associate Professor in August 2017. I also undertook postdoctoral appointments in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York and in the Centre for HCI Design at City University London.
Having established the Health Technologies for Quality & Safety research group on joining the University of Bradford, I am now Director for the newly established Centre for Digital Innovations in Health & Social Care.
Research
Although I have a background in software engineering, my research is very much focused on the social, understanding how healthcare professionals carry out their work in order to inform the design of health IT to support that work and understanding how health IT is used in practice. I have studied medical and nursing handover in a variety of hospital settings, histopathologists making diagnoses at the microscope, and multidisciplinary team meetings. I have carried out research into nurses’ customisation of equipment in the intensive care unit, nurses’ use of computerised decision support systems, the effect of novel hardware solutions on GP-patient communication, the impact of a virtual reality microscope on time to diagnosis in histopathology, and the impact of a wall-sized display on collaboration in undergraduate and postgraduate pathology teaching. This understanding is achieved largely through qualitative methods, focusing on the use of observations supported by interviews. I also have a particular interest in realist evaluation. I have experience of undertaking systematic reviews, surveys, and more experimental approaches to evaluation.I have led several NIHR Health Services & Delivery Research (HS&DR) funded projects and was previously Deputy Chair of the HS&DR Researcher-Led Panel. The first of these projects was a realist evaluation of the impact of robotic surgery on teamwork in the operating theatre. I then led a project to develop and evaluate QualDash, a quality dashboard that supports clinical teams, quality and safety committees, and NHS Trust boards to better understand and make use of National Clinical Audit data. More recently, I led a project on what supports and constrains falls risk assessment and prevention in acute hospitals, to inform the design of a decision support tool to support falls prevention.
Current research includes leading a co-design workpackage as part of an NIHR Programme Grant for Applied Research that is developing and evaluating a patient-reported symptom risk stratification system for suspected head and neck cancer. I am also collaborating with the National Pathology Imaging Cooperative on the evaluation of AI and I am a co-lead for the Safety Intelligence theme within the NIHR Yorkshire & Humber Patient Safety Research Collaboration.
Publications
There are 50 publications involving or that are attributed to Professor Rebecca Randell. They are listed as:
- conference publication (5)
- peer reviewed journal (39)
- reviews (2)
- working paper (4)
Conference Publication
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From taxonomy to requirements: A task space partitioning approach | 2019 | Proceedings - 7th Biennial Workshop Evaluation and Beyond: Methodological Approaches for Visualization, BELIV 2018 | Proceedings - 7th Biennial Workshop Evaluation and Beyond: Methodological Approaches for Visualization, BELIV 2018 | 19 - 27 | Elshehaly M.;Alvarado N.;McVey L.;Randell R.;Mamas M.;Ruddle R.A. | 9781538668849 | 10.1109/BELIV.2018.8634027 | ||||
| Variation in national clinical audit data capture: Is using routine data the answer? | 2019 | Studies in Health Technology and Informatics | Studies in Health Technology and Informatics | 264 | 1658 - 1659 | Dowding D.W.;Alvarado N.;McVey L.;Mamas M.;Randell R. | 0926-9630 | 10.3233/SHTI190583 | |||
| Impact of Robotic Surgery on Decision Making: Perspectives of Surgical Teams. | 2015 | AMIA 2015 Annual Symposium | AMIA 2015 Annual Symposium | / | Randell RS, Alvarado N, Honey S, Greenhalgh J, Gardner P, Gill A, Jayne D, Kotze A, Pearman A, Dowding D. | ||||||
| Randomised controlled trials and realist evaluation: in what contexts and how | 2017 | 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Trials TRIALS | 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Trials TRIALS | TRIALS 18 | Randell R, Hindmarsh J, Greenhalgh J, Alvarado N, Gardner P, Dowding D, Cope A, Croft J, Long A, Pearman A | ||||||
| Requirements for a quality dashboard: Lessons from National Clinical Audits | 2019 | AMIA 2019 Annual Symposium AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings | AMIA 2019 Annual Symposium AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings | / | Randell R, Alvarado N, McVey L, Ruddle RA, Doherty P, Gale C, Mamas M, Dowding D |
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| How do team experience and relationships shape new divisions of labour in robot-assisted surgery? A realist investigation. | 2019 | Health (United Kingdom) | Randell R;Greenhalgh J;Hindmarsh J;Honey S;Pearman A;Alvarado N;Dowding D; | 1461-7196 | 10.1177/1363459319874115 | ||||||
| Networked information technologies and patient safety: a protocol for a realist synthesis. | 2019 | Systematic Reviews | 8 | Keen J;Greenhalgh J;Randell R;Gardner P;Waring J;Longo R;Fistein J;Abdulwahid M;King N;Wright J; | 2046-4053 | 10.1186/s13643-019-1223-1 | |||||
| Factors supporting and constraining the implementation of robot-assisted surgery: a realist interview study. | 2019 | BMJ Open | 9 | Randell R;Honey S;Alvarado N;Greenhalgh J;Hindmarsh J;Pearman A;Jayne D;Gardner P;Gill A;Kotze A;Dowding D; | 2044-6055 | 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028635 | |||||
| Continuous Versus Intermittent Vital Signs Monitoring Using a Wearable, Wireless Patch in Patients Admitted to Surgical Wards: Pilot Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. | 2018 | Journal of Medical Internet Research | 20 | Downey C;Randell R;Brown J;Jayne DG; | 1438-8871 | 10.2196/10802 | |||||
| From embracing to managing risks. | 2018 | BMJ Open | 8 | Keen J;Nicklin E;Wickramasekera N;Long A;Randell R;Ginn C;McGinnis E;Willis S;Whittle J; | 2044-6055 | 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022921 | |||||
| Trial of Remote Continuous versus Intermittent NEWS monitoring after major surgery (TRaCINg): protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial. | 2018 | Pilot And Feasibility Studies | 4 | Downey CL;Croft J;Buckley H;Randell R;Brown JM;Jayne DG; | 2055-5784 | 10.1186/s40814-018-0299-z | |||||
| The impact of continuous versus intermittent vital signs monitoring in hospitals: A systematic review and narrative synthesis. | 2018 | International Journal of Nursing Studies | 84 | Downey CL;Chapman S;Randell R;Brown JM;Jayne DG; | 1873-491X | 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2018.04.013 | |||||
| Patient attitudes towards remote continuous vital signs monitoring on general surgery wards: An interview study. | 2018 | International Journal of Medical Informatics | 114 | Downey CL;Brown JM;Jayne DG;Randell R; | 1872-8243 | 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2018.03.014 | |||||
| Human factors in robotic assisted surgery: Lessons from studies 'in the Wild'. | 2019 | Applied Ergonomics | 78 | Catchpole K;Bisantz A;Hallbeck MS;Weigl M;Randell R;Kossack M;Anger JT; | 1872-9126 | 10.1016/j.apergo.2018.02.011 | |||||
| Strengths and limitations of early warning scores: A systematic review and narrative synthesis. | 2017 | International Journal of Nursing Studies | 76 | Downey CL;Tahir W;Randell R;Brown JM;Jayne DG; | 1873-491X | 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2017.09.003 | |||||
| Managing Quality and Safety in Real Time? Evidence from an Interview Study. | 2016 | Studies in Health Technology and Informatics | 228 | Randell R;Keen J;Gates C;Ferguson E;Long A;Ginn C;McGinnis E;Whittle J; | 1879-8365 | ||||||
| The Diagnostic Concordance of Whole Slide Imaging and Light Microscopy: A Systematic Review. | 2017 | Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine | 141 | Goacher E;Randell R;Williams B;Treanor D; | 1543-2165 | 10.5858/arpa.2016-0025-RA | |||||
| Quality and safety between ward and board: a biography of artefacts study | 2018 | Health Services and Delivery Research | 6 | Keen, J; Nicklin, E; Long, A; Randell, R; Wickramasekera, N; Gates, C; Ginn, C; McGinnis, E; Willis, S; Whittle, J | |||||||
| A realist process evaluation of robot-assisted surgery: integration into routine practice and impacts on communication, collaboration and decision-making | 2017 | Health Services and Delivery Research | 5 | Randell, R; Honey, S; Hindmarsh, J; Alvarado, N; Greenhalgh, J; Pearman, A; Long, A; Cope, A; Gill, A; Gardner, P; Kotze, A; Wilkinson, D; Jayne, D; Croft, J; Dowding, D | 10.3310/hsdr05200 | ||||||
| How, in what contexts, and why do quality dashboards lead to improvements in care quality in acute hospitals? Protocol for a realist feasibility evaluation. | 2020 | BMJ Open | 10 | Randell R;Alvarado N;McVey L;Greenhalgh J;West RM;Farrin A;Gale C;Parslow R;Keen J;Elshehaly M;Ruddle RA;Lake J;Mamas M;Feltbower R;Dowding D; | 2044-6055 | 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033208 | |||||
| Institutional use of National Clinical Audits by healthcare providers | 2020 | Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice | McVey L.;Alvarado N.;Keen J.;Greenhalgh J.;Mamas M.;Gale C.;Doherty P.;Feltbower R.;Elshehaly M.;Dowding D.;Randell R. | 1356-1294 | 10.1111/jep.13403 | ||||||
| Embedding robotic surgery into routine practice and impacts on communication and decision making: a review of the experience of surgical teams | 2016 | Cognition, Technology and Work | 18 | 423 - 437 | Randell R.;Honey S.;Alvarado N.;Pearman A.;Greenhalgh J.;Long A.;Gardner P.;Gill A.;Jayne D.;Dowding D. | 1435-5558 | 10.1007/s10111-016-0368-0 | ||||
| Electronic whiteboards: review of the literature. | 2015 | Studies in Health Technology and Informatics | 210 | Randell R;Greenhalgh J;Wyatt J;Gardner P;Pearman A;Honey S;Dowding D; | 1879-8365 | 10.3233/978-1-61499-512-8-389 | |||||
| Dashboards for improving patient care: review of the literature. | 2015 | International Journal of Medical Informatics | 84 | Dowding D;Randell R;Gardner P;Fitzpatrick G;Dykes P;Favela J;Hamer S;Whitewood-Moores Z;Hardiker N;Borycki E;Currie L; | 1872-8243 | 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2014.10.001 | |||||
| Integration of robotic surgery into routine practice and impacts on communication, collaboration, and decision making: A realist process evaluation protocol | 2014 | Implementation Science : Is | 9 | Randell R.;Greenhalgh J.;Hindmarsh J.;Dowding D.;Jayne D.;Pearman A.;Gardner P.;Croft J.;Kotze A. | 1748-5908 | 10.1186/1748-5908-9-52 | |||||
| International priorities for research in nursing informatics for patient care. | 2013 | Studies in Health Technology and Informatics | 192 | Dowding DW;Currie LM;Borycki E;Clamp S;Favela J;Fitzpatrick G;Gardner P;Hamer S;Hardiker N;Johnson O;Lawton R;O'Brien A;Randell R;Westbrook J;Whitewood-Moores Z;Dykes PC; | 1879-8365 | ||||||
| QualDash: Adaptable Generation of Visualisation Dashboards for Healthcare Quality Improvement | 2021 | IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHIC | TBD | Mai Elshehaly, Rebecca Randell, Matthew Brehmer, Lynn McVey, Natasha Alvarado, Chris P. Gale, Roy A. Ruddle | |||||||
| Variation in National Clinical Audit Data Capture: Is Using Routine Data the Answer? | 2019 | Studies in Health Technology and Informatics | 264 | Dowding DW;Alvarado N;McVey L;Mamas M;Randell R; | 1879-8365 | 10.3233/SHTI190583 | |||||
| Effects of inter-organisational information technology networks on patient safety: a realist synthesis | 2020 | BMJ Open | 10 | e036608 | Keen, J; Abdulwahid, M; King, N; Wright, J; Randell, R; Gardner, P; Waring, J; Longo, R; Nikolova, S; Sloan, C; Greenhalgh, J | 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-036608 | |||||
| Eliciting Context-Mechanism-Outcome configurations: Experiences from a realist evaluation investigating the impact of robotic surgery on teamwork in the operating theatre | 2017 | Evaluation | 23 | 444 - 462 | Alvarado N.;Honey S.;Greenhalgh J.;Pearman A.;Dowding D.;Cope A.;Long A.;Jayne D.;Gill A.;Kotze A.;Randell R. | 1356-3890 | 10.1177/1356389017732172 | ||||
| Exploring variation in the use of feedback from national clinical audits: a realist investigation | 2020 | BMC Health Services Research | Not known | Alvarado, N; McVey, L; Greenhalgh, J; Dowding, D; Mamas, M; Gale, C; Doherty, P; Randell, R | |||||||
| Exploring variation in the use of feedback from national clinical audits: a realist investigation | 2020 | BMC Health Services Research | 20 | 859 | Alvarado N.;McVey L.;Greenhalgh J.;Dowding D.;Mamas M.;Gale C.;Doherty P.;Randell R. | 1472-6963 | 10.1186/s12913-020-05661-0 | ||||
| Hidden labour: The skilful work of clinical audit data collection and its implications for secondary use of data via integrated health IT | 2021 | BMC Health Services Research | 702 | McVey, L., Alvarado, N., Greenhalgh, J., Elshehaly, M., Gale, C.P., Lake, J., Ruddle, R.A., Dowding, D., Mamas, M., Feltbower, R., Randell, R. | Springer/Biomed Central | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06657-0 | |||||
| The effects of interoperable information technology networks on patient safety: a realist synthesis | 2020 | Health Services and Delivery Research | 8 | Keen J, Abdulwahid M, King N, Wright J, Randell R, Gardner P, Waring J, Longo R, Nikolova S, Sloan C & Greenhalgh J. | 10.3310/hsdr08400 | ||||||
| What supports and constrains the implementation of multifactorial falls risk assessment and tailored multifactorial falls prevention interventions in acute hospitals? Protocol for a realist review. | 2021 | BMJ Open | 11 | Randell R;Wright JM;Alvarado N;Healey F;Dowding D;Smith H;Hardiker N;Gardner P;Ward S;Todd C;Zaman H;McVey L;Davey CJ;Woodcock D; | 2044-6055 | 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-049765 | |||||
| Institutional use of National Clinical Audits by healthcare providers | 2021 | Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice | 27 | McVey, L., Alvarado, N., Keen, J., Greenhalgh, J., Mamas, M., Gale, C., Doherty, P., Feltbower, R., Elshehaly, M., Dowding, D. and Randell, R. | |||||||
| Staff experiences of integrating community and secondary care musculoskeletal services: A qualitative investigation. | 2023 | Musculoskeletal care | Alvarado N;Hargreaves G;Storey K;Montague J;Broughton R;Randell R; | 1557-0681 | 10.1002/msc.1809 | ||||||
| Strategic workforce planning in health and social care - an international perspective: A scoping review | 2023 | Health Policy | Sutton, C., Prowse, J., McVey, L., Elshehaly, M., Neagu, D., Montague, J., Alvarado, N., Tissiman, C., O'Connell, K., Eyers, E., Faisal, M. and Randell, R. | Elsevier | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2023.104827 | ||||||
| Practices of falls risk assessment and prevention in acute hospital settings: a realist investigation | 2023 | Health and Social Care Delivery Research | Randell, R; McVey, L; Wright, J; Zaman, H; Cheong, V; Woodcock, D; Healey, F; Dowding, D; Gardner, P; Hardiker, NR; Lynch, A; Todd, C; Davey, C; Alvarado, N | ||||||||
| Working together: reflections on how to make public involvement in research work. | 2023 | Research Involvement And Engagement | 9 | McVey L;Frost T;Issa B;Davison E;Abdulkader J;Randell R;Alvarado N;Zaman H;Hardiker N;Cheong VL;Woodcock D; | 2056-7529 | 10.1186/s40900-023-00427-4 | |||||
| Researching nurses' use of digital technology during the COVID-19 pandemic. | 2023 | Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987) | Dowding D;Skyrme S;Randell R;Newbould L;Faisal M;Hardiker N; | 2047-9018 | 10.7748/ns.2023.e12013 | ||||||
| Exploring variation in implementation of multifactorial falls risk assessment and tailored interventions: A realist review | 2023 | BMC Geriatrics | Alvarado, N., McVey, L., Wright, J., Healey, F., Dowding, D., Cheong, V-L., Gardner, P., Hardiker, N., Lynch, A., Zaman, H., Smith, H., & Randell, R. | ||||||||
| Design and evaluation of an interactive quality dashboard for national clinical audit data: a realist evaluation | 2022 | Health and Social Care Delivery Research | 10 | Randell, R; Alvarado, N; Elshehaly, M; McVey, L; West, R; Doherty, P; Dowding, D; Farrin, A; Feltbower, R; Gale, C; Greenhalgh, J; Lake, J; Mamas, M; Walwyn, R; Ruddle, R | |||||||
| The Impact of Hospital Command Centre on Patient Flow and Data Quality: findings from the UK NHS | 2023 | International Journal for Quality in Health Care | Mebrahtu, TF; McInerney, CD; Benn, J; McCrorie, C; Granger, J; Lawton, T; Sheikh, N; Habli, I; Randell, R; Johnson, O |
Reviews
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
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| Dashboards for improving patient care: Review of the literature | 2015 | International Journal of Medical Informatics | 84 | 87 - 100 | Dowding D.;Randell R.;Gardner P.;Fitzpatrick G.;Dykes P.;Favela J.;Hamer S.;Whitewood-Moores Z.;Hardiker N.;Borycki E.;Currie L. | 1386-5056 | 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2014.10.001 | ||||
| Effects of computerised clinical decision support systems (CDSS) on nursing and allied health professional performance and patient outcomes: A systematic review of experimental and observational studies | 2021 | BMJ Open | 11 | Mebrahtu T.F.;Skyrme S.;Randell R.;Keenan A.M.;Bloor K.;Yang H.;Andre D.;Ledward A.;King H.;Thompson C. | 2044-6055 | 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053886 |
Working Paper
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
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| Recruitment and retention of care workers: A rapid review | 2021 | Rebecca Randell | |||||||||
| A scoping review: Strategic workforce planning in health and social care | 2022 | Julie Prowse; Claire Sutton; Emma Eyers; Jane Montague; Muhammad Faisal; Daniel Neagu; Mai Elshehaly; Rebecca Randell | |||||||||
| Planning the Radiology Workforce for Cancer Diagnostics | 2022 | Prowse, J., Sutton, C., Faisal, M., McVey, L., Montague, L. and Randell, R. | |||||||||
| Recruitment and retention of the health and social care digital workforce: A rapid review | 2022 | Prowse, J., Sutton, C. and Randell, R. |