Research
Medicine provides access to a huge number of opportunities to get involved in research, so that we can advance the quality of care in everything that we do. Clinicians have unique opportunities to identify problems on the front line, and I strive to convert this to research ideas that can advance healthcare for all of us.
Highlights
Medical education is still complicit in poor healthcare outcomes for ethnic minority patients
Ethnicity, child health and paediatric services
Zeshan Qureshi, Alexandra Richards, Camilla C Kingdon, Ian Sinha, Oluwakemi Lokulo-Sodipe, Anna M Rose
Paediatricians have a moral obligation to promote the health and well-being of all children. To achieve this, unmet health needs of minoritised ethnic groups must be addressed. Language for describing disadvantaged ethnic groups is evolving. The term ‘minoritised’ is useful in this context, acknowledging active processes at play and that this can occur to majority groups.1 In this article, we describe the role of paediatricians in addressing ethnic health disparities.
Should medicine be colour-blind?
Mehrunisha Suleman, Zeshan Qureshi
The widely accepted understanding in contemporary discourse is that race and ethnicity fundamentally arose as social constructs devoid of inherent biological or scientific significance. Despite this consensus, discussions abound, including in this journal, regarding the extent and manner in which racial and ethnic categorisations should influence the landscape of medical research, practice and policy.
Addressing racist parents in a paediatric setting: the nuance of zero tolerance policies
Zeshan Qureshi, paediatric registrar, Mehrunisha Suleman, director of medical ethics and law education, Alexandra Richards, medical student, Julian Sheather, medical ethicist, Hugh Bishop, consultant paediatric oncologist
Healthcare professionals need clearer guidance on responding to racism in paediatric settings, argue Zeshan Qureshi and colleagues
Everyone has a right to healthcare, but on occasion this can conflict with the right of healthcare professionals to dignity in the workplace. One example is when a patient refuses the care of a healthcare professional on the grounds of race. This is an experience that many doctors from an ethnic minority background have faced: in one US study, 23% of ethnic minority doctors reported that a patient had directly refused their care due to their race. The Medical Workforce Race Equality Standard in the UK also reported that 34.4% of doctors in training from an ethnic minority background had experienced “bullying or abuse from patients, relatives, or the public” in the past year, including racist abuse.
A Silenced Cry: Stillbirth still missing on the global health agenda
Zeshan U Qureshi, Joseph Millum, Hannah Blencowe, Maureen Kelley, Edward Fottrell, Joy E Lawn, Anthony Costello, Tim Colbourn.
The global rate of stillbirths was estimated to be 18.9 per 1000 births in 2009, equating to a total of 2.64 million stillbirths, 1.2 million of which were during labour. The burden is heaviest for women in low and middle income countries and the poorest women in high income countries. Given its scale, stillbirth prevention should be high on the global health agenda. However, in the current draft of the United Nations sustainable development goals, which sets global targets for 2015-30, stillbirth is not mentioned, even though neonatal and under 5 mortality rates are included.
Publications
2023
Medical education is still complicit in poor healthcare outcomes for ethnic minority patients
Qureshi Z
BMJ 2023; 383 doi: 10.1136/bmjp2760
The importance of entrepreneurship and innovation in paediatrics: a call to action.
Qureshi Z. London Paediatrics 2023, 4. https://journal.londonpaediatrics.co.uk/index.php/1/article/view/84
Should medicine be colour-blind?
Suleman M, Qureshi Z. Journal of Medical Ethics. 2023;49:725-726. doi: 10.1136/jme-2023-109634
2022
Ethnicity, child health and paediatric services
Qureshi Z, Richards A, Kingdon C, Sinha I, Lokulo-Sodipe O, Rose AM. Archives of disease in childhood 2022; Published Online First: 27 June 2022. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2021-323599
Rapid response to: Acting on historically offensive content in BMJ’s archive
Qureshi Z. BMJ 2022; 378 doi: 10.1136/bmj.o1829
Rapid response to: A cautionary tale for potentially dishonest doctors
Qureshi Z, BMJ 2022; 377 doi:10.1136/bmj.o1298
Recognising the rights of doctors within GMC guidelines
Qureshi Z, Suleman M, BMJ Medical Ethics, 2022.
https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2022/07/29/recognising-the-rights-of-doctors-within-gmc-guidelines/
Bringing diverse voices together
Qureshi Z, Suleman M, BMA, 2022.
https://www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opinion/bringing-diverse-voices-together
2021
Addressing racist parents in a paediatric setting: the nuance of zero tolerance policies
Qureshi Z, Suleman S, Richards A, Sheather J, Bishop H. BMJ 2021; 375 doi:10.1136/bmj.n3067
Addressing racist parents in a paediatric setting: the nuance of zero tolerance policies
Qureshi Z, Suleman S, Richards A, Sheather J, Bishop H. BMJ 2021; 375 doi: 10.1136/bmj.n3067
The return to school is welcome, but we must minimise shared air
Qureshi ZU, Greenhalgh T, Bourouiba L. BMJ Opinion 2021. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/03/09/the-return-to-school-is-welcome-but-we-must-minimise-shared-air/
Rapid response to: Addressing racist parents in a paediatric setting: the nuance of zero tolerance policies
Qureshi Z, Suleman S, Richards A, Sheather J, Bishop H. BMJ 2021; 375 doi: 10.1136/bmj.n3067
How should we deal with racist carers?
Qureshi Z, Suleman M, Richards A, Sheather J, Bishop H. Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2021. doi: 10.31440/DFTB.46773
How does ethnicity affect child health outcomes?
Qureshi Z, Richards A, Sinha I, Lokulo-Sodipe O, Rose A. Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2021. doi: 10.31440/DFTB.46593
All paediatricians are complicit in delivering a racist healthcare service
Qureshi Z, Rose A. Don't Forget the Bubbles, 2021. doi: 10.31440/DFTB.33938
2020
Racism is everywhere in the NHS and we urgently need to find solutions
Qureshi ZU, Sheikh J. BMJ Opinion 2021. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/06/24/racism-is-everywhere-in-the-nhs-we-urgently-need-to-find-solutions/
Two metres or one: what is the evidence for physical distancing in covid-19?
Jones NR, Qureshi ZU, Temple RJ, Larwood. JPJ, Greenhalgh T, Bourouiba L. BMJ 2020; BMJ 2020;370:m3223. doi:10.1136/bmj.m3223
2018
Women's Ideas about the Health Effects of Household Air Pollution, Developed through Focus Group Discussions and Artwork in Southern Nepal
Devakumar D, Qureshi Z, Mannell J, Baruwal M, Sharma N, Rehfuess E, Saville N, Manandhar D, Osrin D. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2018; 1;15:248. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15020248.
2017
Effects of staffing on improving newborn health
Qureshi Z. Lancet 2017; Jan 14;389(10065):155. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30020-X.
2016
Technology and medical education: change for the better?
Qureshi ZU. Clinical Teacher. 2016; 13:461
Stillbirths: rates, risk factors, and acceleration towards 2030
Lawn JE, Blencowe H, Waiswa P, Amouzou A, Mathers C, Hogan D, Flenady V, Froen F, Qureshi ZU, Calderwood C, Shiekh S, Jassir FB, You D, McClure EM, Mathai M, Cousens S. Lancet. 2016. 6;387(10018):587-603. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00837-5.
2015
A Silenced Cry: Stillbirth still missing on the global health agenda
Qureshi Z, Millum J, Blencowe H, Kelley M, Fotrell E, Lawn JE, Costello A, Colbourn T. BMJ. 2015: 351:h4620
How to write a medical textbook
Rodrigues M, Qureshi Z. Student BMJ. 2015
Potential Benefits of Student- and Junior Doctor-Led Textbooks
Qureshi Z, Lattey K, Rodrigues M, Ross M, Byrne P, Maxwell SM. Perspective in Medical Education. 2015; 4:149-152
Guidance for Junior Doctors and Medical Students Writing Undergraduate Textbooks
Bradley A, Mason K, Rodrigues M, Tang CM, Wood M, Lattey K, Byrne P, Ross M, Maxwell M, Qureshi Z.
International Journal of Medical Students. 2015 Sep-Dec;3(3):150-2
Cyberbullying: the impact on trainee doctors
Qureshi Z, Mason K. Clin Teach 2015; 12 (3), 214-217
Flipped Publishing: A New Paradigm for Medical Textbooks
Shahid S, Rodrigues M, Maxwell S, Tang CM, Mason K, Qureshi Z. Res Medica. 2015, 23(1):92-94
2014
Junior Doctor-Led 'Near-Peer' Education for Medical Students
Gibson K, Qureshi Z, Ross M, Maxwell S. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 2014; 77:122-9
Back to the Bedside: the role of bedside teaching in the modern era
Qureshi Z, Maxwell S. Perspect Med Educ. 2014; 3:69-72 PMID: 24567253
A Long-Term, Sustainable, Inclusive, International Model for Facilitating Junior Doctor and Medical
Student–led Publishing
Qureshi Z, Rodrigues M, Lattey K, Tang CM, Gimzewska M, Gee C, Ross M, Byrne P, Hotton E, Hunt T, Andrews J, Wood M, Maxwell S.
Res Medica 2014 22:149:158
2013
Centrally Organised Bedside Teaching Led By Junior Doctors
Qureshi Z, Seah M, Ross M, Maxwell S. Clinical Teacher 2013;10:141-5
Perceived tutor benefits of teaching near peers: Insights from two near peer teaching programmes in South East Scotland
Qureshi ZU, Gibson KR, Maxwell S Ross MT. Scottish Medical Journal. 2013; 58: 188-192
Clopidogrel Resistance: Where are we now?
Qureshi Z, Hobson AR. Cardiovascular Therapeutics 2013:31:3-11 PMID: 21884029
Developing junior doctor delivered teaching
Qureshi ZU, Rodrigues M, Parisinos C, Hall N, Ross M, Maxwell S. Clinical Teacher 2013; 10: 118-23 PMID: 23480115
Perceived tutor benefits of teaching near peers
Qureshi ZU, Gibson K, Maxwell S, Ross M Medical Teacher 2013;35:261-2. PMID: 23137247
2012
Has Bedside Teaching Had Its Day
Qureshi Z, Maxwell S. Advances in Health Sciences Education 2012; 17:301-304 PMID: 21681592
2011
Adverse Reactions of Activated Charcoal
Qureshi Z, Eddleston M. Adverse Drug Reaction Bulletin 2011; 266:1023-6 doi: 10.1097/FAD.0b013e328345389e
The case for launch of an international DNA-based birth cohort study
Rudan I, Chopra M, Aulchenko Y, Baqui A, Bhutta ZA, Edmond K, Horta BL, Klugman KP, Lanata CF, Madhi SA, Nair H, Qureshi Z, Rubens C, Theodoratou E, Victora CG, Wang W, Weber MW, Wilson JF, Zgaga L, Campbell H. Journal of Global Health, 2011 1:39-45. 2011. PMID: 23198101
Bedside Teaching
Qureshi Z, Maxwell S Medical Teacher 2011; 33:594-5 PMID: 21681592
2010
The potential value of near patient platelet function testing in PCI: Randomised comparison of 600mg versus 900mg clopidogrel loading doses
Hobson A, Qureshi Z, Banks P, Curzen N. Thrombosis Research. 2010; 2010:908272
2009
Effects of clopidogrel on “aspirin specific” pathways of platelet inhibition
Hobson A, Qureshi Z, Banks P, Curzen N. Platelets. 2009; 20:386-90 - PMID: 19811222
Gender and responses to aspirin and clopidogrel: insights using short thrombelastography
Hobson A, Qureshi Z, Banks P, Curzen N. Cardiovasc Ther. 2009; 27:246-52 - PMID: 19903188