Dr Roxana Alexandrescu

 

I am a medical doctor from Romania, specialist in public health. In 2009 I joined Dr Foster Unit at Imperial College as a Research Assistant. I am assisting Professor Brian Jarman in developing an international Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratios model for comparisons of healthcare performance using hospital data from several countries. My work includes calculating adjusted hospital death rates and updating binary logistic regression and multiple regression models to explain variations of HSMRs throughout the USA.

 

In 2001 I completed a MPH at the Netherlands School of Public Health with a thesis focused on reproductive health - adolescent unwanted pregnancy. I am studying for a PhD at the University of Manchester – School of Translational Medicine. The aim of my thesis is to provide population based rates of major trauma in England using a novel epidemiological approach that relies on the American Health Economics concept of ‘hospital market area’.

 

Research interests include risk adjustment methods, data quality analysis and linkage techniques, descriptive and analytical epidemiological studies

Awards

Joint Japan /World Bank Graduated Scholarship Programme Aug.2000-Aug.2001

University of Manchester, School of Medicine Studentship Sept.2005-Sept.2008

Representative papers

1. Alexandrescu R, O’Brien SJ, Lecky FE. A proposed approach in defining population-based rates of major injury from a trauma registry dataset:  injury epidemiological profile (II) – submitted for publication

2. Alexandrescu R, O’Brien SJ, Lecky FE. A review of injury epidemiology in the UK and Europe. Some methodological considerations in constructing rates. BMC Public Health 2009, 9:226.

3. Alexandrescu R, O’Brien SJ, Lyons RA, Lecky FE. A proposed approach in defining population-based rates of major injury from a trauma registry dataset:  delineation of hospital catchment areas (I). BMC Health Services Research 2008, 8:80.

4. Alexandrescu R and Romaniuc A. Survey of primary care physician's attitudes on communicable disease surveillance in Iasi district. Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2005, 13(3-4), 78-88.

5. Alexandrescu R. Descriptive epidemiology of health problems in Vaslui district, Romania. Annals of Epidemiology, 2004, 14/5, 346-353.

6. Alexandrescu R. Changes in morbidity and utilization of health services in a Romanian primary care center after introduction of the list system – personal communication 2003 

7. Alexandrescu R and Tuchendria E. Teenagers, young people and family planning: a survey in five Romanian high schools. Public Health, 1999, 113, 219-226.