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Articles

Invited reviews/articles.

• O'Neill JS, Aitken RJ. Report of the Twelfth Edinburgh Surgical Festival, August 1987. J Roy Coll Surg Edin 1988;33:45-47.
• Forrest APM, Aitken RJ. Mammography screening for breast cancer. Annual Review of Medicine 1990;41:117-132.
• Aitken RJ, Nixon SJ. Changing surgical practice through regional audit. Lessons from Lothian Surgical Audit. Association of Surgeons Year Book, 1997.
• Stamatakis JD, Aitken RJ, Smith JE, Thompson MR. What can we learn from colorectal cancer audits. Recent Advances in Surgery 24: 2001: 103-114.

Original articles.

• Aitken RJ . Quantitative noise analysis in a modern hospital. Arch Environ Health 1982;37:361-364.
• Aitken RJ , Immelman EJ. Experience with axillo-axillary bypass. S Afr J Surg 1983;21:215-221.
• Armstrong CP, Dent DM, Berman P, Aitken RJ. The relationship between gastric carcinoma and gastric juice lactate (L+D) and lactate dehydrogenase. Am J Gastroent 1984;79:675-678.
• Aitken RJ , Clifford PC. Girth measurement is not a reliable investigation for the detection of intra-abdominal fluid. Ann R Coll Surg Engl 1985 67:242-243.
• Aitken RJ , Elliot MS. Sigmoid Exclusion - A new technique in the management of radiation induced fistula. Br J Surg 1985;72:731-432.
• Aitken RJ , Elliot MS, Torrington M, Louw JH. A twenty year experience with Familial Polyposis Coli in Cape Town. Br J Surg 1986;73:210-213.
• Aitken RJ , Immelman EJ. Traumatic diagrammatic hernias - pitfalls in the barium meal. Injury 1986;17:224-225.
• Aitken RJ , d'E Stevens PJ, du Preez N, Elliot MS. Raising a colostomy - Results of a prospective surgical audit. Inter J Colorectal Dis 1986;1:244-247.
• Aitken RJ , Mills C, Immelman EJ. The post-phlebitic syndrome following shaft fractures of the leg: a significant late complication. J Bone Joint Surg 1987;69-B:775-778.
• Aitken RJ , Miles RS, Going JS, Hood J, Forrest APM. The bacteriology of mammary duct ectasia. Br J Surg 1988;75:1040-41.
• Aitken RJ , Gaze MN, Chetty U, Rodger A, Forrest APM. Arm morbidity within a prospective randomised trial of mastectomy and either axillary clearance or nodal sample. Br J Surg 1989;76:568-571. (Abstracted in full in Surgery 1989;106:13A-16A).
• Aitken RJ , Matley PJ, Immelman EJ. Lower limb venous trauma: a long-term clinical and physiological assessment. Br J Surg 1989;76:585-588.
• Aitken RJ , Anderson EDC, Goldstraw S, Chetty U. Subcuticular closure following minor breast biopsy: Prolene is superior to Polydioxanane (PDS). J Roy Coll Surg Edin 1989;34:128-129.
• Aitken RJ , Going JS, Chetty U. An assessment of adequate surgical excision in breast conservation surgery by intra-operative two dimensional specimen radiology. Br J Surg 1990;77:322-323.
• Aitken RJ , MacDonald HL, Kirkpatrick AE, Anderson TJ, Chetty U, Forrest APM. The outcome of surgery for non-palpable mammographic abnormalities. Br J Surg 1990;77:673-676.
• Aitken RJ, Chetty U.Non-palpable mammographic abnormalities. J Roy Coll Surg Edin 1991;36:362-371.
• Aitken RJ , Forrest APM, Chetty U, Roberts MM, Huggins A, MacDonald HL, Muir BB, Kirkpatrick AE, Anderson TJ. Assessment of non-palpable mammographic abnormalities: comparison of a screening and symptomatic clinic. Br J Surg 1992;79:925-927. (Selected for abstract in Clinical Digest Series).
• Wyatt JP, Aitken RJ. Hospital follow-up after colorectal cancer is no better than that offered by General Practitioners. Br J Surg 1994;81:145.
• Myles LM, Griffiths JMT, Aitken RJ. A prospective randomised trial of Spongostan Anal Plug versus nothing following haemorrhoidectomy. Br J Surg 1994;81:1385.
• Aitken RJ (as project co-ordinator I analysised the data and wrote the manuscript).The Lothian and Borders Large Bowel Cancer Project. The immediate outcome of surgery. Br J Surg 1995; 82: 888-890.
• Potter MA, Nixon SJ, Aitken RJ. A 10-year analysis of case load and weighted workload in a single Health Board. Ann R Coll Surg Engl (Suppl) 1995;4:191-194.
• Potter MA, Raine C, Aitken RJ, Griffiths JMT, Crofts TJ.An objective assessment of surgical training. Ann R Coll SurgEngl (Suppl) 1996;78:11-13.
• Raine C, Potter MA, Crofts TJ, Griffiths JMT, Aitken RJ. Written advice sheets reduce visits to the General Practitioner. Ann R Coll SurgEngl (Suppl) 1996;78:19-20.
• Aitken RJ . Mesorectal excision for rectal cancer. Br J Surg 1996;83:214-216.
• Raine C, Crofts TJ, Griffiths JMT, Aitken RJ. Training in surgical outpatients. Ann R Coll SurgEngl (Suppl) 1996;78:59-61.
• Milne AA, Aitken RJ, Griffiths JMT, Crofts TJ. Assessment of surgical training using objective criteria. Ann R Coll Surg Engl 1996;78:177-179.
• Aitken RJ . Should consultants see new or follow-up patients? A prospective audit of a change in clinic organisation. Ann R Coll Surg Engl 1996;78:225-227.
• Thompson AM, Aitken RJ. To a 20th century Haggis. Scot Med J 1997;42:22.
• Crofts TJ, Griffiths JMT, Sharma S, Wygrala J, Aitken RJ. Surgical training: an objective assessment of recent changes for a single Health Board. BMJ 1997;314:891-895.
• Aitken RJ , Nixon SJ, Ruckley CV. Lothian Surgical Audit: A 15 year experience of improvement in surgical practice through regional computerised audit. Lancet 1997;350:800-804.
• McArthur DC, Nixon SJ, Aitken RJ. Avoidable deaths following large bowel surgery. Br J Surg 1998 85:80-83.
• Aitken RJ , Thompson MR, Smith JAE, Radcliffe AG, Stamatakis JD, Steele RJC. Training in colorectal cancer surgery. Observations from three UK prospective regional audits. BMJ 1999;318:702-703
• Dikki PE, Aitken RJ, Nixon SJ, Crofts TJ. Surgical training. Room for improvement. Ann R Coll Surg Engl (Supple)1999;82:73-75.
• Singh KK , Aitken RJ. Outcome in patients with colorectal cancer managed by surgical trainees. Br J Surg 1999;86:1332-1336.
• Rankin SL , Hughes-Anderson W , House AK , Heath DI , Aitken RJ , House J. Costs of accessing surgical specialists by rural and remote residents. ANZ Journal of Surgery 2001;71: 544-54
• Hughes-Anderson W, Rankin SL, House J, Aitken RJ, Heath DI, House AK Open access endoscopy in rural and remote Western Australia: Does it work? ANZ Journal of Surgery 2002;72: 699-703.
• Rankin, SL, Hughes-Anderson W, House J, Aitken RJ, Heath D, Mitchell AWS, House AK. Rural residents’ utilisation of health and visiting specialist health services. Rural Health Journal 2000.
• Hughes-Anderson W , House J, Aitken RJ, Rankin SL, House AK. Analysis of the outcomes of a visiting surgical service to small rural communities. ANZ Journal of Surgery 2003;73:833-835.
• Semmens JB, Aitken RJ, Sanfilippo FM, Mukhtar SA, Haynes NS, Mountain JA. The Western Australian Audit of Surgical Mortality: Advancing Surgical Accountability. Med J Aust 2005; 183:545-546
• Semmens JB, Mountain JA, Sanfilippo FM, Barraclough J, McKenzie A, Mukhtar SA, Haynes N, Aitken RJ. The Western Australian Audit of Surgical Mortality: Providers and consumer highlight the importance of independent peer review in clinical accountability. ANZ Journal of Surgery. Submitted and under review.