PUBLICATIONS

* Hall BA, Kaye SL, Pang A, Perera R, Biggin PC. Characterization of protein conformational states by normal-mode frequencies. J Am Chem Soc. 2007 Sep 19;129(37):11394-401.

* Thompson MR, Perera R, Senapati A, Dodds S. The diagnostic value of the common symptom combinations of bowel cancer in a surgical clinic. Br J Surg. 2007 Oct;94(10):1260-5.

* Perera R, Glasziou P. Correcting for the design effect in systematic reviews of trials using paired dichotomous data; J. Clin. Epidemiol. 2007 Sep;60(9):975-8.

* Hartweg J, Gunter M, Perera R, Farmer A, Cull C, Schalkwijk C, Kok A, Twaalfhoven H, Holman R, Neil A. Stability of soluble adhesion molecules, selectins, and C-reactive protein at various temperatures: implications for epidemiological and large-scale clinical studies. Clin Chem. 2007 Oct;53(10):1858-60.

* Chung A, Perera R, Brueggemann AB, Elamin AE, Harnden A, Mayon-White R, Smith S, Crook DW, Mant D. Effect of antibiotic prescribing on antibiotic resistance in individual children in primary care: prospective cohort study. BMJ. 2007 Sep 1;335(7617):429.

* Hartweg J, Farmer AJ, Perera R, Holman RR, Neil HA. Meta-analysis of the effects of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on lipoproteins and other emerging lipid cardiovascular risk markers in patients with type 2 diabetes. Diabetologia. 2007 Aug;50(8):1593-602.

* Heneghan C, Perera R, Ward A, Fitzmaurice D, Meats E, Glasziou P. Assessing differential attrition in Clinical Trials: the examples of self-monitoring of INR and diabetes. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2007 May 2;7:18.

* Perera R. Methods in research: key principles of graph construction. Evid Based Med. 2007 Apr;12(2):38.

* Harnden A, Perera R, Brueggemann AB, Mayon-White R, Crook DW, Thompson A, Mant D. Respiratory infections for which general practitioners consider prescribing an antibiotic: a prospective study. Archives of Disease in Childhood 2007 Jul;92(7):594-7.

* Perera R, Heneghan C. Making sense of diagnostic test likelihood ratios. ACP J Club. 2007 Mar-Apr;146(2):A8-9.

* Matheson NJ, Harnden AR, Perera R, Sheikh A, Symmonds-Abrahams M. Neuraminidase inhibitors for preventing and treating influenza in children; Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2007 Jan 24;(1).

* Martinez-Deveza P, Theodoulou M, Perera R, Waddell A. Cognitive behavioural therapy for tinnitus; Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2007 Jan 24;(1).

* Perera R, Heneghan CJ, Yudkin P. Graphical methods for depicting randomised trials of complex interventions; BMJ. 2007 Jan 20;334(7585):127-9.

* Arambepola C, Farmer AJ, Perera R, Neil HAW. Statin treatment for children and adolescents with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia: A systematic review and meta-analysis; Atherosclerosis. 2006 Nov 9; [Epub ahead of print]

* Perera R, Heneghan CJ. Making sense of diagnostic tests likelihood ratios Evidence-Based Medicine 2006; 11: 130-131.

* Perera R, Haynes J, Glasziou P, Heneghan CJ. Autoinflation for hearing loss associated with otitis media with effusion. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2006 Oct 18;(4):CD006285.

* Farmer AJ, Lasserson DS, Perera R, Glasziou P, Holman R. Different insulin regimens for type 2 diabetes mellitus (Protocol). Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2006 Oct 18;(4).

* Heneghan C, Thompson M, Perera R. Prevention of diabetes. BMJ. 2006 Oct 14;333(7572):764-5.

* Shepperd S, Farndon P, Grainge V, Oliver S, Parker M, Perera R, Bedford H, Elliman D, Kent A, Rose P.  DISCERN-Genetics: quality criteria for information on genetic testing. Eur J Hum Genet. 2006 Nov;14(11):1179-88. Epub 2006 Jul 26.

* Stead LF, Perera R, Lancaster T.  Telephone counselling for smoking cessation.

Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2006 Jul 19;3:CD002850. Review.

* Thomas R, Perera R. School-based programmes for preventing smoking. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2006 Jul 19;3:CD001293. Review.

* Harnden A, Grant C, Harrison T, Perera R, Brueggemann AB, Mayon-White R,

Mant D. Whooping cough in school age children with persistent cough: prospective cohort

study in primary care. BMJ. 2006 Jul 22;333(7560):174-7. Epub 2006 Jul 7.

* Clayton R, Perera R, Burge S. Defining the dermatological content of the undergraduate medical curriculum: a modified Delphi study. Br J Dermatol. 2006 Jul;155(1):137-44.

* Perera R. Statistics and death from meningococcal disease in children. BMJ 2006 Jun 3;332(7553):1297-8.

* Harnden A, Ninis N, Thompson M, Perera R, Levin M, Mant D, Mayon-White R. Parenteral penicillin for children with meningococcal disease before hospital admission: case-control study. BMJ. 2006 Jun 3;332(7553):1295-8. Epub 2006 Mar 22.

* Clinical recognition of meningococcal disease – Authors' reply Thompson M, Harnden A, Mant D, Perera R, Ninis N The Lancet - Vol. 367, Issue 9520, 29 April 2006, Pages 1395-1396

* Heneghan CJ, Glasziou P, Perera R. Reminder packaging for improving adherence to self-administered long-term medications. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2006 Jan 25;(1):CD005025.

* Thompson MJ, Ninis N, Perera R, Mayon-White R, Phillips C, Bailey L, Harnden

A, Mant D, Levin M. Clinical recognition of meningococcal disease in children and adolescents. Lancet. 2006 Feb 4;367(9508):397-403.

* Heneghan C, Alonso-Coello P, Garcia-Alamino JM, Perera R, Meats E, Glasziou

P. Self-monitoring of oral anticoagulation: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet. 2006 Feb 4;367(9508):404-11.

* Rose PW, Harnden A, Brueggemann AB, Perera R, Mant D., Antibiotics for acute infective conjunctivitis in children – Authors’ reply. Lancet. 2005 Oct 22-28;366(9495):1431.

* Rose PW, Harnden A, Brueggemann AB, Perera R, Sheikh A, Crook D, Mant D., Chloramphenicol treatment for acute infective conjunctivitis in children in primary care: a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial. Lancet. 2005 Jul 2-8;366(9479):37-43.

* Hey K, Perera R. Quit and Win contests for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2005, (2).

* Hey K, Perera R. Competitions and incentives for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2005, (2).

* Heneghan CJ, Glasziou P, Perera R. Calendar packaging aids for patients to improve adherence to self-administered long-term medications. (Protocol) Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2004, Issue 4.

* Guerrero, V.M., Perera R. Variance Stabilizing Power Transformation for Time Series,

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods, November 2004, Vol. 3, No. 2, 357 – 369

http://tbf.coe.wayne.edu/jmasm/vol3_no2.pdf

* Shepperd S, Perera R, Bates S, Jenkinson C, Hood K, Harnden A, Mant D

A children's acute respiratory illness scale (CARIFS) predicted functional severity and family burden, J. Clin. Epidemiol. 2004 Aug; 57(8):809-14.

* Guerrero, V. and Perera, R. (2003) Variance Stabilizing Transformation for Time Series, (Preceedings) Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute 54^th Session, celebrated in Berlin, Germany, 2003.

* Hey K, Perera R. Competitions and incentives for smoking cessation (Protocol). Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2003, (3) Oxford: Update Software

* Stead LF, Lancaster T, Perera R. Telephone counselling for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2003, (1)

* Perera, R. and Cortina-Borja, M (2002) Inferencia sobre Valores Records. Preceedings of the XVI Foro Nacional de Estadistica, celebrated in Guadalajara, Mexico, 2001.

* VC Chavez-Demoulin, SA Jarvis, R Perera, ASA Roehrl, SW Schmiedl, MP

Sondergaard. (2002) Extreme Datamining, Between Data Science and Everyday Web Practice, 26th Annual Conference of the German Classification Society, July 22-24 2002, Mannheim, Germany. in 'Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organisation' by Springer-Verlag.

* Perera, R. (1996) Frio, frio ... Caliente! Un estudio sobre el cambio en los dias con temperaturas extremas. DATOS: Boletin de la Asociacion Mexicana de Estadistica, No.12, 4,15-16.

Books

*Title: Fundamentos de Probabilidad y Estadistica (2003) (textbook), JIT press, Mexico.

Chapter 6 - Perera R, Estimacion Puntual y Propiedades de Estimadores.

Chapter 9 - Perera R and Alegria A, Pruebas de Hipotesis No-parametricas.

*Title: Monitoring the Management of Chronic Disease: Principles for Evidence-based Practice (To appear December 2007)

Editors: Glasziou P, Aronson J, Irwig L.

Chapter 18 – Heneghan C and Perera R, Oral Anticoagulation Therapy

*Title: Evidence-Based Laboratory Medic ine; from questions to outcomes, Second edition

Editors: Price CP, Christenson RH.

Chapter 11 – Perera R and Heneghan C, Systematic Review and meta-analysis.

*Title: Statistical Toolkit, Perera R, Heneghan C, Badenhoch D , Blackwells Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Inc, To appear December 2007.