Centre for Health Informatics

City School of Informatics People Krishnan Thiru

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Krish Thiru is a Senior Public Health Specialist at the London Specialised Commissioning Group based in Victoria, London. He has 15+ years of public health, health informatics research and development experience within the NHS, working in primary, secondary, community and tertiary care settings. His academic work has been focused on health informatics for public health and epidemiology, quality assurance and research. His particular interests are in clinical information systems, quality control and assurance of population data sets, medical coding and languages and the use of information technology and routine datasets for patient outcome monitoring and commissioning.

Key Published in Refereed Journals

Publication list: (This is not a comprehensive list i.e. does not include national and regional reports, newsletters and lectures etc).

Padmanabhan Ramnarayan, Krish Thiru, Roger C Parslow, David A Harrison, Elizabeth S Draper, Kathy M Rowan. Effect of specialist retrieval teams on outcomes in children admitted to paediatric intensive care units in England and Wales: a retrospective cohort study. The Lancet, Volume 376, Issue 9742, Pages 698 - 704, 28 August 2010

Krish Thiru, Stuart Rowe, Nicola Shaw, Andrew Durward, David P. Inwald and Padmanabhan Ramnarayan,Survey of clinical information system usage by paediatric intensive care units in the UK. Intensive Care Medicine 2010. Volume 36, Number 9, 1616-1617, DOI: 10.1007/s00134-010-1932-3

Thiru K, Donnan P, Weller P, Sullivan F. Identifying the optimal search strategy for coronary heart disease patients in primary care electronic patient record systems. Informatics in Primary Care 2009;17:215-24.

Thiru K. The Scope and Quality of Electronic Patient Records in Primary Care: Data Quality Improvement for Healthcare, Audit and Research. VDM Publication, ISBN 978-3-639-15889-2. Aug 2009.

Shaw NT, Mador RL, Ho S, Mayes D, Westbrook JI, Creswick N, Thiru K, Brown M. Understanding the impact on intensive care staff workflow due to the introduction of a critical care information system: a mixed methods research methodology. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2009;143:186-91.

Parslow RC, Tasker RC, Draper ES, Parry GJ, Jones S, Chater T, Thiru K, McKinney PA; Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network. Epidemiology of critically ill children in England and Wales: incidence, mortality, deprivation and ethnicity. Arch Dis Child. 2009 Mar;94(3):210-5. Epub 2008 Dec 23.

A validated logistic regression model to identify coronary heart disease patients within primary care databases in the United kingdom. Thiru K, Donnan P, Sullivan F. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2003:1030.

Three steps to data quality. Thiru K, De Lusignan S, Sullivan F, Brew S, Cooper A. Inform Prim Care. 2003;11(2):95-102.

Managers see the problems associated with coding clinical data as a technical issue whilst clinicians also see cultural barriers. de Lusignan S, Wells SE, Hague NJ, Thiru K. Methods Inf Med. 2003;42(4):416-22.

Systematic review of scope and quality of electronic patient record data in primary care. Thiru K, Hassey A, Sullivan F. BMJ. 2003 May 17;326(7398):1070. Review.

An evaluation of general practice websites in the UK. Howitt A, Clement S, de Lusignan S, Thiru K, Goodwin D, Wells S. Fam Pract. 2002 Oct;19(5):547-56.

Towards a conceptual framework for evaluating primary care research networks. Clement S, Pickering A, Rowlands G, Thiru K, Candy B, de Lusignan S. Br J Gen Pract. 2000 Aug;50(457):651-2.

Overcoming the constraints to becoming paperless. de Lusignan S, Thiru K, Wells S, Dobson M, Howitt A. Br J Gen Pract. 2000 Jun;50(455):504-5.

Stopping antihypertensive drugs in general practice. de Lusignan S, Wells S, Thiru K. Br J Gen Pract. 2000 May;50(454):407-8.

Measuring blood pressure at the wrist: more comfortable for patients and more convenient for doctors? de Lusignan S, Thiru K, Meredith K, Majeed A, Johnson P. Public Health. 2000 May;114(3):165-8.

Management of ischaemic heart disease in primary care: towards better practice. STaRNet. South Thames Region Network. Thiru K, Gray J, Majeed A. J Public Health Med. 1999 Jun;21(2):179-84..