Bath, Peter, Professor

Professor Peter Bath

BSc (Technical) (University of Wales), MSc (91ֱ��), PhD (91ֱ��)

Information School

Professor of Health Informatics

p.a.bath@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2636

Room C225, The Wave

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Professor Peter Bath
Information School
Room C225
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
91ֱ��
S10 2AH

Profile

I have been interested in information science and health informatics for 23 years.

My interest in these areas developed at the end of my first degree in Applied Biology, when I came to 91ֱ�� to study for my MSc in Information Studies in the then Department of Information Studies.

At the end of the MSc, I studied for my PhD in chemical structure handling under the supervision of Professor Peter Willett and Dr. Frank Allen (Cambridge). I was appointed Research Fellow (1994-1996), then Lecturer (1996-2000), in Information Science in the 91ֱ�� Institute for Studies on Ageing (SISA) at the University of 91ֱ��, which had been set up by Professor Ian Philp in 1994.

I re-joined the Department of Information Studies in 2000, when I was appointed Lecturer in Health Informatics to set up the new MSc in Health Informatics programme and became Head of the Health Informatics Research Group.

I was appointed Professor of Health Informatics in the Information School in 2013.

University responsibilities

Chair, University Research Ethics Committee (UREC).
Head of School (2016-2019).
University Research Ethics Committee (UREC) - Faculty of Social Sciences representative (2007-2013).
Member of University Research Governance Sub-Committee (2003-2004).
Member of University of 91ֱ�� Working Group on monitoring arrangements for health care research projects. (2003-2004).
Director, Centre for Health Information Management Research (CHIMR).
Deputy Programme Coordinator for the Health Informatics programme.
Module Coordinator:
- Data Analysis;
- Analysis of Health Information;
- Research Methods and Dissertation Preparation (Health Informatics);
- Dissertation (Health Informatics).

Research interests

My research interests are in Health Informatics and include the following areas:

The use of e-Health resources by different consumer groups.
Health information needs and information behaviours of patients, their families, carers and the general public.
Evaluation of information systems within health care organisations.
Applications of artificial intelligence and data mining techniques to analysing health information.
Analysing health information in relation to the health and well-being of older people.

I am particularly interested in how patients, carers and health professionals seek, obtain and share information and advice in relation to their health and well-being through online digital resources, e.g., the Web, online discussion groups. I am developing an interest in how different groups develop trust and empathy online in life-threatening and traumatic conditions.

I have experience of researching the quality of online information resources that patients, carers and the public use in relation to their health.

I have undertaken collaborative research with a range of organisations, including NHS Direct, the World Health Organisation, Macmillan Cancer Support and have been involved in a wide range of inter-disciplinary funded projects, including with colleagues from computer science, geriatric medicine, nursing, palliative care, biomedical engineering, psychiatry, public health medicine, epidemiology, health economics, statistics.

I also coordinate the ISHIMR conference series. The most recent International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2013) took place in Halifax, NS, Canada in June 2013 and the 17th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2013) will take place in York in 2015.

I am interested in supervising PhDs in the following areas:

Use of social media by patients, carers and family members
Health information needs and information behaviours of patients, their families, carers and the general public.
Understanding and evaluating the importance of e-Health systems to support patient care.
Applications of statistical methods, and artificial intelligence and data mining techniques to analysing health data, particularly in relation to the health and well-being of older people

I am head of the Health Informatics Research Group

Research projects

Monitoring the transition to Open Access in the UK

Universities UK

Investigator

£10,800

2 January 2015

5 months

Monitoring the transition to open access in the UK is a project sponsored by Universities UK analysing the various strands of evidence of the take-up of open-access publishing and dissemination by UK researchers. The project is investigating the availability of different open-access options, evidence of their take-up, usage of open-access materials, and the financial sustainability of open-access approaches. Partners in the project are the Research Information Network, University of 91ֱ��, Research Consulting and Elsevier.

A Shared Space and a Space for Sharing: A Transdisciplinary Exploration of Online Trust and Empathy

Economic and Social Research Council

Principal Investigator

£1,137,516

30 June 2014

30 months

This two and a half year trans-disciplinary project is funded by the ESRC Emoticon (Empathy and Trust in Communicating Online) call. The project involves the Universities of Birmingham, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Kings College London and the University of Kent at Canterbury. The aim of the project is to develop a better understanding of how people in extreme circumstances (ranging from dangerous and addictive drug use, life-threatening illness, to suicidal ideation and natural disasters) share information, emotion and resources in online environments.

Systematic Review of the effects of telephone assessment on OOH care

NHS Direct

Principal Investigator

£4,111

1 September 2012

13 months

A feasibility study of a holistic needs assessment questionnaire in a supportive and palliative care

MacMillan Cancer Support

Investigator

£141,265

1 January 2010

30 months

Predictive models of Suicide, Self-Harm and Violence in Psychosis

91ֱ�� Health and Social Research Consortium

Investigator

£10,000

26 February 2007

12 months

An intervention to help patients understand their symptoms of acute chest pain

The Health Foundation

Investigator

£60,627

1 November 2005

24 months

Medical Records Review Methods

Department of Health

Investigator

£472,176

1 May 2004

33 months

Use of graph-theoretical methods in computation chemistry for pattern identification

Medical Research Council

Principal Investigator

£49,392

1 May 2001

36 months

Publications

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Journal articles

Journal articles

Hasan M, Bath PA, Marincowitz C, Sutton L, Pilbery R, Hopfgartner F, Mazumdar S, Campbell R, Stone T, Thomas B , Bell F et al (2022) . Computers in Biology and Medicine.
Marincowitz C, Stone T, Hasan M, Campbell R, Bath PA, Turner J, Pilbery R, Thomas BD, Sutton L, Bell F , Biggs K et al (2022) . BMJ Open, 12(5).
Marincowitz C, Stone T, Bath P, Campbell R, Turner JK, Hasan M, Pilbery R, Thomas BD, Sutton L, Bell F , Biggs K et al (2022) . BMJ Quality and Safety.
Marincowitz C, Bath P, Hasan M, Stone T, Campbell R, Pilberry R, Turner J, Thomas B & Goodacre S (2022) . Emergency Medicine Journal, 39(3), 250.1-250.
Marincowitz C, Sutton L, Stone T, Pilbery R, Campbell R, Thomas B, Turner J, Bath PA, Bell F, Biggs K , Hasan M et al (2022) . Emergency Medicine Journal.
Marincowitz C, Sutton L, Stone T, Pilbery R, Campbell R, Thomas B, Turner J, Bath PA, Bell F, Biggs K , Hasan M et al (2021) .
Dimitrovski T, Bath PA, Ketikidis P & Lazuras L (2021) . JMIR Medical Informatics, 9(4), 1-10.
Ahmed W, Fayoyin O & Bath PA (2018) . Activities, Adaptation and Aging.
Huang Z, Ge Z, Dong W, He K, Duan H & Bath P (2018) . Information Sciences, 465, 118-129.
Hargreaves S, Bath P, Duffin S & Ellis J (2018) . Journal of Medical Internet Research, 20(6).
Pinfield S, Salter J & Bath P (2017) . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(9), 2248-2263.
Lovatt M, Bath PA & Ellis J (2017) . Journal of Medical Internet Research, 19(5).
Harland J, Bath PA, Wainwright A & Seymour J (2017) . Aslib Journal of Information Management, 69(3), 261-277.
Pinfield S, Salter J & Bath PA (2016) . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 67(7), 1751-1766.
Stevenson JE, Israelsson J, Nilsson GC, Petersson GI & Bath PA (2016) . Health Informatics J, 22(1), 21-33.
Huang Z, Dong W, Bath PA, Ji L & Duan H (2015) . Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 29(4), 914-949.
Hirvonen N, Enwald H, Bath PA, Pyky R, Korpelainen R & Huotari M-L (2015) . Journal of Health Communication, 20(2), 220-229.
Pinfield S, Salter J, Bath P, Hubbard B, Millington P, Anders JHS & Hussain A (2014) . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 65(12), 2404-2421.
Hutchinson A, Coster JE, Cooper KL, Pearson M, McIntosh A & Bath PA (2013) . BMJ Quality & Safety, 22(12), 1032-1040.
Carrington L, Bath PA, Hughes P, Ahmed N & Noble B (2013) . Journal of Information Science, 39(1), 126-140.
Surman R & Bath PA (2013) . Journal of Information Science, 39(1), 113-125.
Ayatollahi H, Bath PA, Goodacre S, Lo SY, Draegebo M & Khan FA (2013) . Emergency Medicine Journal, 30(4), 303-307.
Hsu WC, Bath PA, Large S & Williams S (2013) . Age and Ageing, 42(1), 57-62.
Hsu WC, Bath PA, Large S & Williams S (2011) . Age and Ageing, 40(3), 335-340.
MacDonald J, Bath P & Booth A (2011) . Journal of Documentation, 67(2), 238-263.
Pecchia L, Bath PA, Pendleton N & Bracale M (2011) . Methods of Information in Medicine, 50(5), 435-444.
Cooper R, Kuh D, Hardy R & Bath PA (2010) Objectively measured physical capability levels and mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis.. BMJ: British Medical Journal, 341.
Hutchinson A, Coster JE, Cooper KL, McIntosh A, Walters SJ, Bath PA, Pearson M, Young TA, Rantell K, Campbell MJ & Ratcliffe J (2010) . Health Technology Assessment, 14(10), 1-170.
Hughes PM, Bath PA, Ahmed N & Noble B (2010) . Palliative Medicine, 24(1), 68-78.
Ayatollahi H, Bath PA & Goodacre S (2009) . Emergency Medicine Journal, 26(12), 857-860.
Arnold J, Goodacre S, Bath P & Price J (2009) . BMJ (Online), 338(7696).
Guillaume L & Bath PA (2008) . Health Informatics Journal, 14(4), 323-334.
Bath PA (2008) . Journal of Information Science, 34(4), 501-518.
Harland JA & Bath PA (2008) . Aging and Mental Health, 12(4), 467-477.

Journal articles

Rajovic N, Grubor N, Cirkovic A, Maheswaran R, Bath PA, Green D, Bellantuono I, Milicevic O, Kanazir S, Miljus D , Zivkovic S et al (2024) . Environmental Health, 23.
Marincowitz C, Hasan M, Omer Y, Hodkinson P, McAlpine D, Goodacre S, Bath PA, Fuller G, Sbaffi L & Wallis L (2024) . African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 14(1), 51-57.
Fuller GW, Hasan M, Hodkinson P, McAlpine D, Goodacre S, Bath PA, Sbaffi L, Omer Y, Wallis L & Marincowitz C (2023) . PLOS Digital Health, 2(9).
Liu Y, Mazumdar S & Bath PA (2023) . International Journal of Medical Informatics, 173, 105027-105027.
Collinge AN & Bath PA (2023) . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(5).
Vidiasratri AR & Bath PA (2022) . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(23).
Hasan M, Bath PA, Marincowitz C, Sutton L, Pilbery R, Hopfgartner F, Mazumdar S, Campbell R, Stone T, Thomas B , Bell F et al (2022) . Computers in Biology and Medicine.
Marincowitz C, Stone T, Hasan M, Campbell R, Bath PA, Turner J, Pilbery R, Thomas BD, Sutton L, Bell F , Biggs K et al (2022) . BMJ Open, 12(5).
Marincowitz C, Stone T, Bath P, Campbell R, Turner JK, Hasan M, Pilbery R, Thomas BD, Sutton L, Bell F , Biggs K et al (2022) . BMJ Quality and Safety.
Marincowitz C, Bath P, Hasan M, Stone T, Campbell R, Pilberry R, Turner J, Thomas B & Goodacre S (2022) . Emergency Medicine Journal, 39(3), 250.1-250.
Marincowitz C, Sutton L, Stone T, Pilbery R, Campbell R, Thomas B, Turner J, Bath PA, Bell F, Biggs K , Hasan M et al (2022) . Emergency Medicine Journal.
Turner J, Knowles E, Simpson R, Sampson F, Dixon S, Long J, Bell-Gorrod H, Jacques R, Coster J, Yang H , Nicholl J et al (2021) . Health Services and Delivery Research, 9(21).
Marincowitz C, Sutton L, Stone T, Pilbery R, Campbell R, Thomas B, Turner J, Bath PA, Bell F, Biggs K , Hasan M et al (2021) .
Dimitrovski T, Bath PA, Ketikidis P & Lazuras L (2021) . JMIR Medical Informatics, 9(4), 1-10.
Bath P, Basholli A, Lagkas T & Eleftherakis G (2021) . Health Informatics Journal, 27(1).
Sanger S, Bath PA & Bates J (2019) . Addictive Behaviors, 98.
Hargreaves S & Bath PA (2019) . Breast Cancer Management.
Yang H & Bath PA (2019) . IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
Ahmed W, Bath PA, Sbaffi L & Demartini G (2019) . Health Information & Libraries Journal, 36(1), 60-72.
Sanger S, Bath PA & Bates J (2019) . Information in Contemporary Society, 11420, 806-816.
Almanea A, Bath P & Sbaffi L (2019) . Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 171(Suppl), 3-3.
Yang H & Bath PA (2018) . International Journal of Computers and Applications, 1-14.
Ahmed W, Fayoyin O & Bath PA (2018) . Activities, Adaptation and Aging.
Huang Z, Ge Z, Dong W, He K, Duan H & Bath P (2018) . Information Sciences, 465, 118-129.
Yang H & Bath P (2018) . Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 72(Supplement 1), A60-A60.
Hargreaves S, Bath P, Duffin S & Ellis J (2018) . Journal of Medical Internet Research, 20(6).
Hamwela V, Ahmed W & Bath PA (2018) . Public Health Journal, 157, 50-52.
Stevenson JE, Israelsson J, Petersson G & Bath PA (2018) . J Clin Nurs.
Brooks D, Hughes P, Farrington C, Bath PA, McGregor M, Ahmed W & Noble B (2018) . Hospital Practice, 46(1), 37-42.
Chandrasekar K, Mahesan S & Bath PA (2017) . International Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, 4(2), 23-33.
Pinfield S, Salter J & Bath P (2017) . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(9), 2248-2263.
Lovatt M, Bath PA & Ellis J (2017) . Journal of Medical Internet Research, 19(5).
Harland J, Bath PA, Wainwright A & Seymour J (2017) . Aslib Journal of Information Management, 69(3), 261-277.
Stevenson JE, Israelsson J, Nilsson G, Petersson G & Bath PA (2016) . Health Informatics J.
Pinfield S, Salter J & Bath PA (2016) . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 67(7), 1751-1766.
Stevenson JE, Israelsson J, Nilsson GC, Petersson GI & Bath PA (2016) . Health Informatics J, 22(1), 21-33.
Ahmed N, Hughes P, Winslow M, Bath PA, Collins K & Noble B (2015) . Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 50(5), 587-598.
Huang Z, Dong W, Bath PA, Ji L & Duan H (2015) . Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 29(4), 914-949.
Noble B, King N, Woolmore A, Hughes P, Winslow M, Melvin J, Brooks J, Bravington A, Ingleton C & Bath PA (2015) . Eur J Cancer Care (Engl), 24(2), 253-266.
Hirvonen N, Enwald H, Bath PA, Pyky R, Korpelainen R & Huotari M-L (2015) . Journal of Health Communication, 20(2), 220-229.
Pinfield S, Salter J, Bath P, Hubbard B, Millington P, Anders JHS & Hussain A (2014) . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 65(12), 2404-2421.
MacDonald J, Bath PA & Booth A (2014) Reaching health service managers with research. Information Research, 19(4).
Mazlan EM & Bath PA (2014) . Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 205, 1199.
Basholli A, Lagkas T, Eleftherakis G & Bath P (2014) . HEALTHINF 2014 - 7th International Conference on Health Informatics, Proceedings; Part of 7th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2014, 511-516.
Hutchinson A, Coster JE, Cooper KL, Pearson M, McIntosh A & Bath PA (2013) . BMJ Quality & Safety, 22(12), 1032-1040.
Stevenson-Agren JE, Stevenson-Agren JE, Israelsson J, Nilsson G, Petersson G & Bath PA (2013) Variable documentation of vital signs in an electronic health record in patients at risk of in-hospital cardiac arrest could pose a threat to patient safety. European Journal fo Cardiovascular Nursing, 12, S55-S56.
Carrington L, Bath PA, Hughes P, Ahmed N & Noble B (2013) . Journal of Information Science, 39(1), 126-140.
Read S, Bath PA, Willett P & Maheswaran R (2013) . Journal of Information Science, 39(1), 36-47.
Surman R & Bath PA (2013) . Journal of Information Science, 39(1), 113-125.
Read S, Bath PA, Willett P & Maheswaran R (2013) . Statistics in Medicine, 32(19), 3300-3313.
Poulter TW & Bath PA (2013) CICERO: an emergent conceptual model for onco-EPR systems.. Stud Health Technol Inform, 192, 1131.
Ayatollahi H, Bath PA & Goodacre S (2013) . Health Information and Libraries Journal, 30(3), 191-200.
Ayatollahi H, Bath PA, Goodacre S, Lo SY, Draegebo M & Khan FA (2013) . Emergency Medicine Journal, 30(4), 303-307.
Pluck G, Lekka NP, Sarkar S, Lee KH, Bath PA, Sharif O & Woodruff PWR (2013) . European Psychiatry, 28(6), 344-348.
Hsu WC, Bath PA, Large S & Williams S (2013) . Age and Ageing, 42(1), 57-62.
Poulter T, Gannon B & Bath PA (2012) . Health Informatics Journal, 18(2), 135-146.
Bath PA, Sen BA, Raptis DA & Mettler T (2012) . Health Informatics Journal, 18(2), 79-82.
Ketikidis P, Dimitrovski T, Lazuras L & Bath PA (2012) . Health Informatics Journal, 18(2), 124-134.
Hughes P, Farrington C, Brooks D, Bath P & Noble B (2012) . BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2(Suppl 1), A46.1-A46.
Ahmed N, Hughes P, Winslow M, Bath P, Collins K & Noble B (2012) . BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2(Suppl 1), A43.3-A44.
Hughes P, Farrington C, Brooks D, Bath P & Noble B (2012) . BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2(Suppl 1), A46.2-A46.
Bath PA, Sen BA, Raptis DA & Mettler T (2012) . Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, 12(1), 11-14.
Poulter T & Bath PA (2012) . Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 180, 1191-1193.
Poulter T & Bath PA (2012) . Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 180, 398-402.
Li C & Bath P (2011) Exploring the Relationship between Quality of Life and Mortality in Old Age: A Comparative Study. Gerontologist, 51, 441-442.
Hsu WC, Bath PA, Large S & Williams S (2011) . Age and Ageing, 40(3), 335-340.
Read S, Bath P, Willett P & Maheswaran R (2011) . Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, 2(2), 69-78.
Beverley CA, Bath PA & Barber R (2011) . Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives, 63(2-3), 256-274.
MacDonald J, Bath P & Booth A (2011) . Journal of Documentation, 67(2), 238-263.
Pecchia L, Bath PA, Pendleton N & Bracale M (2011) . Methods of Information in Medicine, 50(5), 435-444.
Bath PA, Deeg D & Poppelaars J (2010) . Ageing and Society, 30(8), 1419-1437.
Cooper R, Kuh D, Hardy R & Bath PA (2010) Objectively measured physical capability levels and mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis.. BMJ: British Medical Journal, 341.
Petersson G & Bath PA (2010) . Health Informatics Journal, 16(3), 161-163.
Ayatollahi H, Bath PA & Goodacre S (2010) . Health Informatics Journal, 16(3), 189-200.
Pecchia L, Schiraldi F, Verde S, Mirante E, Bath PA & Bracale M (2010) . Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 58(8), 1603-1604.
Hutchinson A, Coster JE, Cooper KL, McIntosh A, Walters SJ, Bath PA, Pearson M, Rantell K, Campbell MJ, Nicholl J & Irwin P (2010) . Quality and Safety in Health Care, 19(6).
Hutchinson A, Coster JE, Cooper KL, McIntosh A, Walters SJ, Bath PA, Pearson M, Young TA, Rantell K, Campbell MJ & Ratcliffe J (2010) . Health Technology Assessment, 14(10), 1-170.
Read S, Bath P, Willett P & Maheswaran R (2010) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 6277 LNAI(PART 2), 163-172.
Hughes PM, Bath PA, Ahmed N & Noble B (2010) . Palliative Medicine, 24(1), 68-78.
Ayatollahi H, Bath PA & Goodacre S (2009) . Emergency Medicine Journal, 26(12), 857-860.
Bath PA & Li C (2009) Life satisfaction as a predictor of mortality hazard among elderly people in the United Kingdom and Taiwan.. Gerontologist, 49, 314-314.
Bath PA & Harland JA (2009) The Information Behaviour of Carers of People with Dementia: What Difference Does a Year Make?. Gerontologist, 49, 395-395.
Rabiei R, Bath PA, Hutchinson A & Burke D (2009) . Health Informatics Journal, 15(3), 167-178.
Ayatollahi H, Bath PA & Goodacre S (2009) . Health Informatics Journal, 15(3), 199-211.
Bath PA (2009) . Health Informatics Journal, 15(3), 163-165.
Oh KM, Warnes AM & Bath P (2009) . Nursing older people, 21(5).
Mason S, Farrow TFD, Fawbert D, Smith R, Bath PA, Hunter M, Woodruff PW & Turpin G (2009) . British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 48(1), 31-45.
Arnold J, Goodacre S, Bath P & Price J (2009) . BMJ (Online), 338(7696).
Maheswaran R, Craigs C, Read S, Bath PA & Willett P (2009) . International Journal of Health Geographics, 8(1).
Bath PA (2008) . Health Informatics Journal, 14(4), 243-245.
MacDonald J, Bath PA & Booth A (2008) . Health Informatics Journal, 14(4), 247-258.
Guillaume L & Bath PA (2008) . Health Informatics Journal, 14(4), 323-334.
Bath PA (2008) . Journal of Information Science, 34(4), 501-518.
Harland JA & Bath PA (2008) . Aging and Mental Health, 12(4), 467-477.
Karnon J, McIntosh A, Dean J, Bath P, Hutchinson A, Oakley J, Thomas N, Pratt P, Freeman-Parry L, Karsh BT , Gandhi T et al (2008) . Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 13(2), 85-91.
Hsu W-C & Bath PA (2008) Development of a patient-oriented tool for evaluating the quality of breast cancer information on the Internet. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 136, 297-302.
Karnon J, McIntosh A, Dean J, Bath P, Hutchinson A, Oakley J, Thomas N, Pratt P, Freeman-Parry L, Karsh BT , Gandhi T et al (2007) . Safety Science, 45(4), 523-539.
Bath P, Albright K & Norris T (2007) Welcome to ISHIMR 2007. Information Research, 12(3).
Bath P, Albright K & Norris T (2007) Welcome to ISHIMR 2007. Information Research, 12(2).
Harland J & Bath PA (2007) Assessing the quality of websites providing information on multiple sclerosis: evaluating tools and comparing sites.. Health Informatics J., 13, 207-221.
Beverley CA, Bath PA & Barber R (2007) . Journal of Documentation, 63(1), 9-32.
Brook CE & Bath PA (2006) . Health Informatics Journal, 12(1), 49-64.
Clayson H, Bath P, Noble B & Seymour J (2006) Mr. Smith has mesothelioma: The typical patient's experience. Journal of Palliative Care, 22(3), 230-230.
Booth A, Levy P, Bath PA, Lacey T, Sanderson M & Diercks-O Brien G (2005) . Health Information and Libraries Journal, 22 Suppl 2, 8-19.
Bath PA, Craigs C, Maheswaran R, Raymond J & Willett P (2005) . Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 12(6), 630-641.
Bath P & Agada J (2005) Social isolation as a predictor of health outcomes in older people.. Gerontologist, 45, 515-515.
Bath P & Gardiner A (2005) Factors affecting changes in social engagement among community-dwelling older men and women. Gerontologist, 45, 565-565.
Bath P, Deeg D & Poppelaars J (2005) Persisting differences in levels of self-rated health in older people in the Netherlands and the UK. Gerontologist, 45, 269-269.
Ahmad R & Bath PA (2005) . Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 60(8), 1052-1058.
Bath PA & Gardiner A (2005) . European Journal of Ageing, 2(1), 56-63.
Bath PA & Deeg D (2005) . European Journal of Ageing, 2(1), 24-30.
Bath P & Gardiner A (2004) Predictors of social engagement among community-dwelling older men and women. Gerontologist, 44, 415-416.
Bath P & Carroll C (2004) Predictors of long-term physical and psychological health among community-dwelling older people. Gerontologist, 44, 141-141.
Oh K, Bath P & Warnes A (2004) Evaluation of a hospital avoidance scheme for older people with sub-acute illness. Gerontologist, 44, 189-189.
Bath P & Ahmad R (2004) Risk factors for fifteen-year mortality in older people using genetic algorithms and cox regression (CORGA). Gerontologist, 44, 272-272.
Ahmad R & Bath PA (2004) . Health Informatics Journal, 10(3), 221-236.
Bath PA, Clark D & Wright M (2004) . Health Informatics Journal, 10(2), 121-126.
Guillaume LR & Bath PA (2004) . Health Informatics Journal, 10(1), 5-22.
Bath PA (2004) . Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 38.
Bath PA (2004) Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective. Information Research, 9(2).
Beverley CA, Bath PA & Booth A (2004) . Health and Social Care in the Community, 12(1), 1-24.
Bath P, Deeg D & de Leon CM (2003) Social activity as a determinant of health in later life. Gerontologist, 43, 577-578.
Bath PA (2003) . Gerontologist, 43(3), 387-395.
Beverley CA, Booth A & Bath PA (2003) The role of the information specialist in the systematic review process: a health information case study.. Health Information and Libraries Journal, 20(2), 65-74.
Deeg DJH & Bath PA (2003) . Gerontologist, 43(3), 369-371.
Phul A, Bath PA & Jackson MG (2003) . Health Informatics Journal, 9(1), 39-56.
Bouchier H & Bath PA (2003) . Health Informatics Journal, 9(1), 17-31.
Bacigalupo R, Bath PA, Booth A, Eaglestone BM, Levy P & Procter P (2003) . HEALTH INFORMATICS JOURNAL, 2003 Mar;, 5–15-5–15.
Clark D, Wright M, Bath P & Gatrell A (2003) . Progress in Palliative Care, 11(3), 136-138.
Bath PA & Bouchier H (2003) . Journal of Information Science, 29(4), 279-297.
Bath PA, Craigs C, Maheswaran R, Raymond J & Willett P (2002) . Health Informatics Journal, 8(4), 167-173.
Davies MM & Bath PA (2002) . Journal of Documentation, 58(3), 302-318.
Davies MM & Bath PA (2001) . Journal of Advanced Nursing, 36(2), 237-245.
Philp I, Newton P, McKee KJ, Dixon S, Rowse G & Bath PA (2001) Geriatric assessment in primary care: formulating best practice.. British Journal of Community Nursing, 6(6), 290-295.
Rees CE & Bath PA (2001) Information-seeking behaviors of women with breast cancer.. Oncology nursing forum, 28(5), 899-907.
Rees CE & Bath PA (2001) . Cancer Nursing, 24(2), 104-111.
Bacigalupo R, Bath P, Booth A, Eaglestone B & Procter P (2001) . HEALTH INFORMATICS JOURNAL, 2001 Sep-D, 138–145-138–145.
Rees CE & Bath PA (2000) Exploring the information flow: partners of women with breast cancer, patients, and healthcare professionals.. Oncology nursing forum, 27(8), 1267-1275.
Rees CE & Bath PA (2000) . Journal of Advanced Nursing, 32(2), 366-374.
Howe A, Bath P, Goudie F, Lothian K, McKee K, Newton P, Philp I, Rowse G, Seymour J & Sivakumar V (2000) Getting the questions right: An example of loss of validity during transfer of a brief screening approach for depression in the elderly. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 15(7), 650-655.
Rees CE & Bath PA (2000) . Journal of Documentation, 56(3), 235-249.
Rees CE & Bath PA (2000) . Journal of Advanced Nursing, 31(4), 833-841.
Rees CE & Bath PA (2000) . Cancer Nursing, 23(1), 71-79.
Bath P, Philp I, Boydell L, McCormick W, Bray J & Roberts H (2000) . Health & Social Care in the Community, 8(1), 17-21.
Bath PA, Pendleton N, Morgan K, Clague JE, Horan MA & Lucas SB (2000) . Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 55(1).
Bath PA (1999) . Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 54(11).
Clark D, Corner J, Normand C, Bath P, Beech N, Douglas HR, Halliday D, Hughes P, Marples R, Seymour JE , Skilbeck J et al (1999) . Palliative Medicine, 13(6), 511-512.
Morgan K & Bath PA (1999) Sleep, longevity and mental health.. Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie, 32(2), 155-155.
McKee KJ, Newton P, Bath P, Philp I & Rowse G (1999) SheffSCOPE: Using change management to introduce and evaluate health outcome measures in primary health care for older people.. Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie, 32(2), 34-34.
Bath PA & Morgan K (1999) . European Journal of Epidemiology, 15(1), 65-73.
Rees CE, Bath PA & Lloyd-Williams M (1998) . Journal of Advanced Nursing, 28(6), 1249-1258.
Bath PA & Morgan K (1998) . Age and Ageing, 27(SUPPL. 3), 29-34.
Morgan K & Bath PA (1998) . Age and Ageing, 27(SUPPL. 3), 35-40.
Bath P, Morgan K & Pendleton N (1998) . Age and Ageing, 27(suppl 2), 16-16.
Bath PA, Poirrette AR, Willett P & Allen FH (1995) . Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 35(4), 714-716.
Allen FH, Bath PA & Willett P (1995) . Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 35(2), 261-271.
Bath PA, Poirrette AR, Willett P & Allen FH (1995) . Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 35(6), 1081.
Bath PA, Poirrette AR, Willett P & Allen FH (1994) . Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 34(1), 141-147.
Bath PA, Morris CA & Willett P (1993) . Journal of Chemometrics, 7(6), 543-550.
Artymiuk PJ, Bath PA, Grindley HM, Pepperrell CA, Poirrette AR, Rice DW, Thorner DA, Wild DJ & Willett P (1992) Similarity searching in databases of three-dimensional molecules and macromolecules.. J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci., 32, 617-630.
Marincowitz C, Hodkinson P, McAlpine D, Fuller G, Goodacre S, Bath P, Sbaffi L, Hasan M, Omer Y & Wallis L () LMIC-PRIEST: Derivation and validation of a clinical severity score for acutely ill adults with suspected COVID-19 in a middle-income setting. PLoS ONE.
Marincowitz C, Sbaffi L, Hasan M, Hodkinson P, McAlpine D, Fuller G, Goodacre S, Bath P, Omer Y & Wallis L () External validation of triage tools for adults with suspected COVID-19 in a middle-income setting: an observational cohort study. Emergency Medicine Journal.
Ives G, Sbaffi L & Bath P () Can all healthy adults use the current evidential breath alcohol analysers? An investigation using a large spirometry database. Medico-Legal Journal.
Sanger S, Duffin S, Gough RE & Bath PA () . JMIR Cancer.
Da Moura Semedo C, Bath P & Zhang Z () . JMIR Diabetes.
Turner J, Knowles E, Simpson R, Sampson F, Dixon S, Long J, Bell-Gorrod H, Jacques R, Coster J, Yang H , Nicholl J et al () . Health Services and Delivery Research, 9(21), 148-149.
Chandrasekar K, Mahesan S & Bath PA () . Sri Lanka Journal of Bio-Medical Informatics, 4(1), 14-14.
Pecchia L, Bath PA, Pendleton N & Bracale M () . International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process, 2(2).
MacDonald J, Bath P & Booth A () . Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 3(3), 18-18.
Levy P, Bacigalupo R, Bath P, Eaglestone B, Booth A, Diercks-O’Brien G, Procter P & Sanderson M () . Proceedings of the International Conference on Networked Learning, 3.
ARTYMIUK PJ, BATH PA, GRINDLEY HM, PEPPERRELL CA, POIRRETTE AR, RICE DW, THORNER DA, WILD DJ, WILLETT P, ALLEN FH & TAYLOR R () . ChemInform, 24(12), no-no.

Chapters

Yang H & Bath PA (2021) , Proceedings of Fifth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology (pp. 395-405). Springer Singapore
Ahmed W, Bath PA, Sbaffi L & Demartini G (2020) , Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 447-458). Springer International Publishing
Ahmed W, Bath P & Demartini G (2017) Chapter 4 Using Twitter as a Data Source: An Overview of Ethical, Legal, and Methodological Challenges In Iphofen R & Woodfield K (Ed.), Book Series: Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity
Ahmed W, Bath PA & Demartini G (2017) , The Ethics of Online Research (pp. 79-107). Emerald Publishing Limited
Sen BA, Bath P & Albright K (2008) IT in Palliative Care, Palliative Care in Nursing Maidenhead: McGrawHill.
Bath P, Willett P, Craigs C, Maheswaran R & Raymond J (2007) , GIS and Evidence-Based Policy Making CRC Press
(2007) , GIS and Evidence-Based Policy Making (pp. 183-200). CRC Press
Bath PA, Craigs C, Maheswaran R, Raymond J & Willett P (2007) Pattern identification in public health data sets: The potential offered by graph theory, GIS and Evidence-Based Policy Making (pp. 159-176).

Conference proceedings papers

Marincowitz C, Sbaffi L, Hodkinson P, Mcalpine D, Hasan M, Fuller G, Goodacre S, Omer Y & Bath P (2022) . Emergency Medicine Journal, Vol. 39(12) (pp A976-A977)
Almanea A, Bath PA & Sbaffi L (2022) . Proceedings of the 18th international symposium on health information management research
Almanea A, Bath PA & Sbaffi L (2019) . MEDINFO 2019: Health and Wellbeing e-Networks for All, Vol. 264 (pp 1893-1894). Lyon, France, 25 August 2019 - 30 August 2019.
Yang H & Bath PA (2019) . Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics 2019. Xiamen, China, 17 May 2019 - 19 May 2019.
Bath P, Yang H & Nicholls J (2018) . Innovation in Aging, Vol. 2(suppl_1) (pp 480-481), 14 November 2018 - 18 November 2018.
Basholli A, Lagkas T, Bath PA & Eleftherakis G (2018) . 2018 IEEE 20th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), 17 September 2018 - 20 September 2018.
Ahmed W, Bath PA, Sbaffi L & Demartini G (2018) . Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society
Ahmed W, Bath PA, Sbaffi L & Demartini G (2018) Using Twitter for Insights into the 2009 Swine Flu and 2014 Ebola outbreaks. iConference 2018 Poster Descriptions, 25 March 2018 - 28 March 2018.
Yang H & Bath P (2018) . Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics (pp 165-172), 8 June 2018 - 10 June 2018.
Sanger S, Bath PA & Bates J (2018) . Transforming Digital Worlds, Vol. 10766 (pp 126-131), 25 March 2018 - 28 March 2018.
Ahmed W, Bath PA, Sbaffi L & Demartini G (2018) (pp 10-16)
Stevenson-Agren JE, Petersson G, Israelsson J & Bath PA (2017) . European Heart Journal, Vol. 38 (pp 113-114), 26 August 2017 - 30 August 2017.
Ahmed W, Demartini G & Bath P (2017) Topics Discussed on Twitter at the Beginning of the 2014 Ebola Epidemic in United States. Ideals
Mazlan EM & Bath PA (2012) Impact of health informatics implementation on clinical workflow: A review. Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science, Vol. 2 (pp 1352-1360)
Ahmad R, Samy GN, Ibrahim NK, Bath PA & Ismail Z (2009) . 5th International Conference on Information Assurance and Security, IAS 2009, Vol. 2 (pp 757-760)
Ayatollahi H, Bath PA & Goodacre S (2009) It in the emergency department:What is the impact of technology?. HEALTHINF 2009 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Health Informatics (pp 454-457)
Rabiei R, Bath PA & Hutchinson A (2009) The National Programme for IT (NPFIT) in England: How Can Clinicians be Encouraged to Use the Choose and Book Service. HEALTHINF 2009 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Health Informatics (pp 211-215)
Bath P, Craigs C, Maheswaran R, Raymond J & Willett P (2002) Use of graph theory for data mining in public health. Management Information Systems, Vol. 6 (pp 819-828)
LloydWilliams M, Williams S, Bath PA & Morris CW (1996) Knowledge discovery in the WHO health for all database: Developing a taxonomy of mortality patterns for European countries. Conference Proceedings of Current Perspectives in Healthcare Computing (pp 551-556)
Sanger S, Bath PA & Bates J () . Proceedings of the 18th international symposium on health information management research
Basholli A, Lagkas T, Bath PA & Eleftherakis G () Feasibility of sensor-based technology for monitoring health in developing countries - cost analysis and user perception aspects
Ahmed W & Bath PA () The Ebola epidemic on Twitter: challenges for health informatics. The Seventeenth International Symposium for Health Information Management (pp 289-289). York, 24 June 2015 - 26 June 2015.
Ahmed W & Bath PA () Comparison of Twitter APIs and tools for analysing Tweets related to the Ebola Virus Disease. http://ifutures.group.shef.ac.uk/. 91ֱ��, 7 July 2015 - 7 July 2015.

Reports

Jubb M, Goldstein S, Amin M, Plume A, Aisati M, Oeben S, Pinfield S, Bath P, Salter J, Johnson R & Fosci M (2015) Monitoring the transition to open access: A report for Universities UK

Website content

Bath PA & Ellis JC (2015) Save your outrage: online cancer fakers may be suffering a different kind of illness.

Posters

Ebenezer CM, Bath PA & Pinfield S (2015) “Access denied”? Managing access to the World Wide Web within the National Health Service (NHS) in England: technology, risk, culture, policy and practice. ISHIMR, York, UK.

Other

Marincowitz C, Gravesteijn B, Sheldon T, Steyerberg E & Lecky F () . Emergency Medicine Journal.
Carroll C, Booth A, Sworn K, Salway S, Bath P, Tsuchiya A & Maden M () .

Preprints

Marincowitz C, Hodkinson P, McAlpine D, Fuller G, Goodacre S, Bath PA, Sbaffi L, Hasan M, Omer Y & Wallis L (2022) , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Sanger S, Duffin S, Gough RE & Bath PA (2022) , JMIR Publications Inc..
Basholli A, Lagkas T, Bath PA & Eleftherakis G (2018) Feasibility of sensor-based technology for monitoring health in developing countries - cost analysis and user perception aspects, arXiv.
Marincowitz C, Sbaffi L, Hodkinson P, McAlpine D, Fuller G, Goodacre S, Bath PA, Hasan M, Omer Y & Wallis L () , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Da Moura Semedo C, Bath P & Zhang Z () , JMIR Publications Inc..
Hasan M, Bath P, Marincowitz C, Sutton L, Pilbery R, Hopfgartner F, Mazumdar S, Campbell R, Stone T, Benjamin T , Bell F et al () .
Marincowitz C, Stone T, Hasan M, Campbell R, Bath PA, Turner J, Pilbery R, Thomas B, Sutton L, Bell F , Biggs K et al () .
Marincowitz C, Stone T, Bath P, Campbell R, Turner J, Hussein M, Pilbery R, Thomas B, Sutton L, Bell F , Biggs K et al () .
Dimitrovski T, Bath PA, Ketikidis P & Lazuras L () , JMIR Publications Inc..
Hargreaves S, Bath PA, Duffin S & Ellis J () , JMIR Publications Inc..

Research group

Current PhD Students

Abdulaziz Almanea: The Role of Online Support Groups in Empowering People with Type 2 Diabetes in the United Kingdom

Adelina Basholli: Wireless monitoring systems for enhancing health services in developing regions.

Daisy Da Moura Semedo: Mining health information on the Social Web: towards an understanding of the influence of social media on public healthcare

Suzanne Duffin: A study of information needs and information sharing amongst people on the autism spectrum, using online support and discussion groups

Yuyang Liu: Machine learning and health informatics

Muntaha Nafisa: Evaluating health information systems Research Title : Evaluating the quality of the existing EHR Systems of Govt. Healthcare facilities of Bangladesh: Journey Towards National Shared Health Record

Emily Nunn: Open access and the non-academic reader: Investigating the potential impact outside the academic community of open access to medical and education research.

Sally Sanger: Alcohol online support groups: the role of discussion forums in constructing users' understanding of their condition/disease.

Liliana Sepulveda Garcia: Nonintrusive monitoring of the aging population in rural Mexico through mobile technologies.

Yuhua Wang: Developing a better understanding of the factors that influence digital inclusion for active and healthy ageing among older people.

Visiting PhD Students

Noora Hirvonen: Information Behavior in Stages of Exercise Behavior Change

Kalpana Chandrasekar: Comparison of Notifiable Disease Surveillance Systems in Sri Lanka and the UK. Completion date: November 2013

Paolo Melillo: Use of data mining methods to analyse data on health in older people Completion date: February 2012

Leandro Pecchia: Economy and Management of Healthcare Services and Organizations. Completion date: January 2009

Completed PhD Students

Jennifer Salter: Understanding health changes through the analysis of electricity consumption data.

Jean Stevenson-Agren: Documentation of vital signs in electronic health records: a patient safety issue.

Simon Read: Methods for the improved implementation of the spatial scan statistic when applied to binary labelled point data.

Rabiah Ahmad: Cox Proportional Hazard Regression and Genetic Algorithms (CoRGA) for Analysing Risk Factors for All-Cause Mortality in Community-Dwelling Older People.

Haleh Ayatollahi: Factors influencing attitudes towards the use of information technology in the emergency department.

Catherine Beverley: The Health and Social Care Information Needs and Behaviour of People with a Visual Impairment.

Louise Guillaume: The Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine scare: the information needs and information sources of parents.

Juliet Harland: Making Sense of Dementia.

Wen-Chin Hsu: Older people's use of the NHS Direct telephone advice and information service.

Chih-Ping Li: Quality of Life Among Older People in the UK and Taiwan.

Jacqueline Macdonald: The Information Sharing Behaviour of Health Service Managers: a three-part study.

Joel Minion: The Information World of Gay Men Living with HIV.

Robinah Namuleme: Information seeking in Ugandan universities.

Reza Rabiei: Perceptions of, and Satisfaction with, the NHS Choose and Book Service in England.

Theocharis Stavroulakis: The information needs and behaviours of women in relation to osteoporosis: Implications for health promotion.

Kyeung Mi Oh: Priorities for the development of older people' services in South Korea-lessons from the United Kingdom.

Teaching interests

My main areas of teaching are aligned with my research interests, particularly in relation to health information and health informatics. I also supervise post-graduate dissertations in these areas.

Teaching Projects

Problem-based learning in professional development: design, pilot and evaluation of a multimedia case study approach.
University of 91ֱ�� Learning and Teaching Development group	£23,930	2001	9 months

I was part of a group that was awarded a substantial grant to develop a unique multimedia case study for use via WebCT, to enhance the student learning experience.

The case study involved problem-based learning, individual and group learning activities, use of online communication tools through WebCT. Evaluation of the case study demonstrated that is it had a very positive impact on the student learning experience.

The case study was used to provide an educational and technical exemplar of distributed and problem-based learning of value to other professional development programmes across the University.

I was involved in the project management, design and development of learning materials and learning tasks and the evaluation of the case study.

Research into the development and evaluation of the study resulted in an invitation to present at the Spotlight 2002 conference, presentations at three international conferences and two publications in Conference Proceedings.

Teaching activities: I am Deputy Programme Co-ordinator for the MSc Health Informatics programme, having previously been the Programme Co-ordinator from 2000-2004 and from 2008-2012. On this programme I co-ordinate and teach the Research Methods and Dissertation Preparation module, as well as the Dissertation module itself. I teach one of the elective modules, Analysis of Health Information, which introduces students to the use of statistics in analysing health data. I also teach a couple of lectures on other modules, Introduction to Health Informatics and The Internet, Web and E-health.

Professional activities and memberships

Invited speaker at the 35th Wireless World Research Forum meeting in Copenhagen (October 2015). Title of talk: "eHealth and mHealth - future perspectives"
Keynote speaker at the 4th International Conference on “Well-being in the Information Society” (WIS 2012), Turku, Finland, August 2012. Title of the key-note speech: “The Information Society and an Ageing Society: how information can support health and well-being in later life”.
Keynote speaker at the Health and Information Mastering workshop in Turku, Finland, June 2007. Title of talk: ‘Health Information Management: ethical issues and health information’.
Invited speaker at the Healthcare Computing 2011 conference, the UK’s leading conference for IM&T managers in the National Health Service (April 2011). Title of talk: “The interface between information, health and healthcare delivery”.
Invited speaker on British Computer Society (The Chartered Institute for IT) video debate on Health Informatics.
Invited speaker at the Pan-European Consensus Meeting on Stroke Management at Helsingborg, Sweden, November 1995. Title of the talk: “The Use of Databases and Information Systems to support the care of stroke patients“.
Guest Editor of special issues of the Health Informatics Journal to publish the best papers from the ISHIMR conferences (2008, 2009, 2010, 2012).
Guest Editor of special issues of European Journal of Ageing (2005) and The Gerontologist (2003).
Associate Editor, Health Informatics Journal. (2008-present). Member of Editorial Board, Health Informatics Journal. (2006-present).
External Examiner for higher degrees by research at the following institutions: Napier University, UK (PhD, 2013); University of Malaya, Malaysia (PhD, 2013); Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand (PhD, 2012 and 2009); University of Nottingham, UK (PhD, 2012); University of Manchester, UK, (MPhil, 2011); Liverpool John Moores University, UK (PhD, 2011).
Conference Coordinator of the International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR) series of conferences. Since taking over the co-ordination of the conferences in 2005, I have been responsible for collaborating with overseas institutions to host the conference in Canada (2013) Switzerland (2011), Sweden (2009), New Zealand (2008), UK (2007), Canada (2006) and Greece (2005).
External Advisor on Personal Chair promotion panels: University of South Florida, Florida, USA; Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore; Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China.
Advisor to the World Health Organisation (Regional Office for Europe) (1995).