David Metcalfe

LLB MSc DPhil MRCP MRCS MRCEM

Clinical Lecturer in Emergency Medicine

Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons
Member, Bone & Joint Journal Editorial Board
Social Media Editor, BMJ Quality & Safety
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

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
Does This Patient Have Hip Osteoarthritis?: The Rational Clinical Examination Systematic Review.
Journal article

Metcalfe D. et al, (2019), Jama, 322, 2323 - 2333
Assessment of the “weekend effect” in lower extremity vascular trauma
Journal article

Jundoria A. et al, (2019), Annals of vascular surgery: international journal of vascular surgery
The Rational Clinical Examination Systematic Review: does this patient have hip osteoarthritis?
Journal article

METCALFE D. et al, (2019), Jama: journal of the american medical association
Interpreting and reporting fracture classification and operation type in hip fracture: implications for research studies and routine national audits.
Journal article

Masters J. et al, (2019), Bone joint j, 101-B, 1292 - 1299

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