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The prescription and monitoring of conventional synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs: British Society for Rheumatology guideline scope (2024)
Journal Article
Mercer, L., Abhishek, A., Kavirayani, A., Ahmed, A., Davidson, A., Foulkes, A., …Galloway, J. (in press). The prescription and monitoring of conventional synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs: British Society for Rheumatology guideline scope. Rheumatology Advances in Practice, 8(3), Article rkae077. https://doi.org/10.1093/rap/rkae077

Lay Summary: What does this mean for patients? A revised guideline, produced by the British Society for Rheumatology (BSR), will provide up-to-date information about the safe prescribing and monitoring of the effects of non-biologic (or conventional... Read More about The prescription and monitoring of conventional synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs: British Society for Rheumatology guideline scope.

Google Internet searches related to inflammatory arthritis: An observational study using Google Trends data (2024)
Journal Article
Akthar, M., Mason, K. J., & Scott, I. C. (2024). Google Internet searches related to inflammatory arthritis: An observational study using Google Trends data. Musculoskeletal Care, 22(3), Article e1916. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1916

Objective: The Internet has transformed how patients access health information. We examined Google search engine data to understand which aspects of health are most often searched for in combination with inflammatory arthritis (IA). Methods: Using Go... Read More about Google Internet searches related to inflammatory arthritis: An observational study using Google Trends data.

Using Twitter (X) to mobilise knowledge for First Contact Physiotherapists: A qualitative study (Preprint) (2024)
Journal Article
Campbell, L., Quicke, J., Stevenson, K., Paskins, Z., Dziedzic, K., & Swaithes, L. (2024). Using Twitter (X) to mobilise knowledge for First Contact Physiotherapists: A qualitative study (Preprint). Journal of Medical Internet Research, 26, Article e55680. https://doi.org/10.2196/55680

Background: Twitter (now X) is a virtual social network commonly used by healthcare professionals. Little is known about whether it helps healthcare professionals to share, mobilise and co-create knowledge, or reduce the time between research know... Read More about Using Twitter (X) to mobilise knowledge for First Contact Physiotherapists: A qualitative study (Preprint).

Inter-school variations in the standard of examiners’ graduation-level OSCE judgements (2024)
Journal Article
Yeates, P., Maluf, A., McCray, G., Kinston, R., Cope, N., Cullen, K., …McKinley, R. (2024). Inter-school variations in the standard of examiners’ graduation-level OSCE judgements. Medical Teacher, https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2024.2372087

Introduction Ensuring equivalence in high-stakes performance exams is important for patient safety and candidate fairness. We compared inter-school examiner differences within a shared OSCE and resulting impact on students’ pass/fail categorisation.... Read More about Inter-school variations in the standard of examiners’ graduation-level OSCE judgements.

The Relationship Between Obesity and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in People with Polymyalgia Rheumatica (2024)
Journal Article
Scott, I. C., Bajpai, R., Hider, S. L., Helliwell, T., Mallen, C. D., & Muller, S. (in press). The Relationship Between Obesity and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in People with Polymyalgia Rheumatica. Rheumatology Advances in Practice, 8(3), Article rkae081. https://doi.org/10.1093/rap/rkae081

Objective To examine the association between obesity and patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs) in a primary care-based cohort of people with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR). Methods The PMR Cohort Study recruited people with incident PMR from... Read More about The Relationship Between Obesity and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in People with Polymyalgia Rheumatica.

Automating incidence and prevalence analysis in open cohorts (2024)
Journal Article
Cockburn, N., Hammond, B., Gani, I., Cusworth, S., Acharya, A., Gokhale, K., …Chandan, J. S. (in press). Automating incidence and prevalence analysis in open cohorts. BMC medical research methodology, 24, Article 144. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-024-02266-7

Motivation Data is increasingly used for improvement and research in public health, especially administrative data such as that collected in electronic health records. Patients enter and exit these typically open-cohort datasets non-uniformly; this... Read More about Automating incidence and prevalence analysis in open cohorts.

Musculoskeletal Health and Work: Development and Internal–External Cross-Validation of a Model to Predict Risk of Work Absence and Presenteeism in People Seeking Primary Healthcare (2024)
Journal Article
Archer, L., Peat, G., Snell, K. I. E., Hill, J. C., Dunn, K. M., Foster, N. E., …Wynne-Jones, G. (2024). Musculoskeletal Health and Work: Development and Internal–External Cross-Validation of a Model to Predict Risk of Work Absence and Presenteeism in People Seeking Primary Healthcare. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10926-024-10223-w

Purpose To develop and validate prediction models for the risk of future work absence and level of presenteeism, in adults seeking primary healthcare with musculoskeletal disorders (MSD). Methods Six studies from the West-Midlands/Northwest regi... Read More about Musculoskeletal Health and Work: Development and Internal–External Cross-Validation of a Model to Predict Risk of Work Absence and Presenteeism in People Seeking Primary Healthcare.

Contextualising and challenging under-representation in research in light of Cultural Trauma: a qualitative focus group and interview study (2024)
Journal Article
Fryer, K., Hutt, I., Aminu, H., Linton, E., White, J., Reynolds, J., & Mitchell, C. (in press). Contextualising and challenging under-representation in research in light of Cultural Trauma: a qualitative focus group and interview study. Research Involvement and Engagement, 10(1), Article 69. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-024-00600-3

Background: Although underserved populations— including those from ethnic minority communities and those living in poverty—have worse health and poorer healthcare experiences, most primary care research does not fairly reflect these groups. Patient a... Read More about Contextualising and challenging under-representation in research in light of Cultural Trauma: a qualitative focus group and interview study.

O05 Risk of keratinocyte carcinomas in patients with psoriasis treated with biologic therapy: analysis from the British Association of Dermatologists Biologics and Immunomodulators Register (BADBIR), on behalf of the BADBIR Study Group (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Esse, S., Alabas, O., Mason, K., Ryan, S., Reynolds, N., Smith, C., …Warren, R. (2024, July). O05 Risk of keratinocyte carcinomas in patients with psoriasis treated with biologic therapy: analysis from the British Association of Dermatologists Biologics and Immunomodulators Register (BADBIR), on behalf of the BADBIR Study Group. Presented at 104th Annual Meeting of the British Association of Dermatologists, Manchester

Previous literature suggests an association between the use of biologics and the development of keratinocyte carcinoma in psoriasis. Our aim was to evaluate the risks of developing basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC... Read More about O05 Risk of keratinocyte carcinomas in patients with psoriasis treated with biologic therapy: analysis from the British Association of Dermatologists Biologics and Immunomodulators Register (BADBIR), on behalf of the BADBIR Study Group.

P072 Risk of incident cancer, excluding keratinocyte carcinoma, in patients with psoriasis treated with biologic therapy: a prospective cohort study from the British Association of Dermatologists Biologic and Immunomodulators Register (BADBIR), on behalf of the BADBIR Study Group (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Esse, S., Alabas, O., Mason, K., Ryan, S., Reynolds, N., Smith, C., …Warren, R. (2024, July). P072 Risk of incident cancer, excluding keratinocyte carcinoma, in patients with psoriasis treated with biologic therapy: a prospective cohort study from the British Association of Dermatologists Biologic and Immunomodulators Register (BADBIR), on behalf of the BADBIR Study Group. Poster presented at 104th Annual Meeting of the British Association of Dermatologists, Manchester

There are long-standing concerns that the use of biologic therapies to treat patients with psoriasis could confer an increased risk of developing cancer due to their immunomodulatory effects. We aimed to assess the risk of any incident cancer (exclud... Read More about P072 Risk of incident cancer, excluding keratinocyte carcinoma, in patients with psoriasis treated with biologic therapy: a prospective cohort study from the British Association of Dermatologists Biologic and Immunomodulators Register (BADBIR), on behalf of the BADBIR Study Group.