Rachel Greer
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Rachel Greer
MBChB DTM&H MRCGP
Research Physician
MORU
Rachel Greer is a GP currently based in Oxford after spending 5 years in Chiangrai, Thailand with Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit.
Interests include community medicine, rationalizing the use of antibiotics and using research to help vulnerable groups.
She is working towards a PhD with The Open University.
Ongoing studies include:
- REACH (Resilience, Empowerment & Advocacy in Women’s and Children’s Health Research)
Recent publications
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Clinical Characteristics and Outcome of Children Hospitalized With Scrub Typhus in an Area of Endemicity
Wangrangsimakul T. et al, (2020), Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, 9, 202 - 209
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Prevalence of Group A Streptococcus in Primary Care Patients and the Utility of C-Reactive Protein and Clinical Scores for Its Identification in Thailand
Greer R. et al, (2020), The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 102, 377 - 383
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Antibiotic knowledge, attitudes and practices: new insights from cross-sectional rural health behaviour surveys in low-income and middle-income South-East Asia
Haenssgen MJ. et al, (2019), BMJ Open, 9, e028224 - e028224
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Effect of point-of-care C-reactive protein testing on antibiotic prescription in febrile patients attending primary care in Thailand and Myanmar: an open-label, randomised, controlled trial
Althaus T. et al, (2019), The Lancet Global Health, 7, e119 - e131
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Misidentification of Burkholderia pseudomallei as Acinetobacter species in northern Thailand
Greer RC. et al, (2019), Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 113, 48 - 51