David Metcalfe

LLB MSc DPhil MRCP MRCS MRCEM

Clinical Lecturer in Emergency Medicine

Decision Editor, Emergency Medicine Journal
Social Media Editor, BMJ Quality & Safety
Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College

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 and the Syme Medal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He was elected Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2020.

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

Recent publications

The management of suspected scaphoid fractures in the United Kingdom: a national cross-sectional study
Journal article

DEAN B. et al, (2021), Bone and joint open
Reassessing the July Effect: 30 years of evidence show no difference in outcomes
Journal article

Zogg C. et al, (2021), Annals of surgery
Learning from England's Best Practice Tariff: Process Measure Pay-for-Performance Can Improve Hip Fracture Outcomes.
Journal article

Zogg CK. et al, (2021), Ann surg
Are We out of the Woods after Discharge? Nationwide Clostridium Difficile Infection Burden after Major Operation
Conference paper

Rios-Diaz AJ. et al, (2020), Journal of the american college of surgeons, 231, S87 - S88
Surgical site infection after hip fracture surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies published in the UK.
Journal article

Masters J. et al, (2020), Bone joint res, 9, 554 - 562

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