David Metcalfe

LLB MSc DPhil MRCP MRCS MRCEM

Clinical Lecturer in Emergency Medicine

Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons
Decision Editor, Emergency Medicine Journal
Social Media Editor, BMJ Quality & Safety
Editorial Board Member, Bone & Joint Journal
Member, NICE "Shared Decision Making" Guideline Committee

David is a Clinical Lecturer and Specialty Registrar in Emergency Medicine within the Thames Valley School of Emergency Medicine. He was formerly a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard's Center for Surgery and Public Health and an Oxford-UCB Prize Fellow at the University of Oxford. His doctoral work was awarded the AOUK&I Trauma Research Prize, the Syme Medal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and an Hunterian Lectureship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

His research interests lie in national clinical audit, health policy evaluation, evidence synthesis, and clinical risk prediction.

Recent publications

Learning from England’s Best Practice Tariff: Process measure pay-for-performance can improve hip fracture outcomes
Journal article

Zogg CK. et al, (2020), Annals of surgery
Surgical site infection after hip fracture surgery: A systematic review and meta analysis of studies published in the United Kingdom
Journal article

METCALFE D. et al, (2020), Bone and joint research
Total hip arthroplasty versus hemiarthroplasty for intracapsular hip fracture.
Journal article

Judge A. et al, (2020), Bone joint j, 102-B, 658 - 660
Is it safe to manage acute cholecystitis nonoperatively during pregnancy? A nationwide analysis of morbidity according to management strategy
Journal article

Rios Diaz A. et al, (2020), Annals of surgery
Total hip replacement (THR) versus hemiarthroplasty for intracapsular hip fracture: how should the HEALTH trial inform clinical guidelines and surgical decision making?
Journal article

Judge A. et al, (2020), Bone and joint journal

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