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Development and validation of the DIabetes Severity SCOre (DISSCO) in 139 626 individuals with type 2 diabetes: a retrospective cohort study. (2020)
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Mamas, Chew-Graham, & Mallen. (2020). Development and validation of the DIabetes Severity SCOre (DISSCO) in 139 626 individuals with type 2 diabetes: a retrospective cohort study. BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjdrc-2019-000962

OBJECTIVE: Clinically applicable diabetes severity measures are lacking, with no previous studies comparing their predictive value with glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c). We developed and validated a type 2 diabetes severity score (the DIabetes Severity SC... Read More about Development and validation of the DIabetes Severity SCOre (DISSCO) in 139 626 individuals with type 2 diabetes: a retrospective cohort study..

How do older adults understand and manage distress? A qualitative study (2020)
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Moult, A., Kingstone, T., & Chew-Graham, C. (2020). How do older adults understand and manage distress? A qualitative study. BMC Family Practice, 21, -. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-020-01152-7

BACKGROUND: Distress is an expected emotional response to a negative life event. Experiences common in later life may trigger distress such as bereavement or loss of physical mobility. Distress is considered to be distinct to anxiety and/or depressio... Read More about How do older adults understand and manage distress? A qualitative study.

Role of the GP in the management of patients with self-harm behaviour: a systematic review (2020)
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Troya, M., Mughal, F., Dikomitis, L., Chew-Graham, C. A., Corp, N., & Babatunde, O. O. (2020). Role of the GP in the management of patients with self-harm behaviour: a systematic review. British Journal of General Practice (BJGP), 70(694), E364-E373. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp20X708257

BACKGROUND: Self-harm is a serious risk factor for suicide, a major public health concern, and a significant burden on the NHS. Rates of self-harm presentation in primary care are rising and GPs interact with patients both before and after they have... Read More about Role of the GP in the management of patients with self-harm behaviour: a systematic review.

'We're the First Port of Call' - Perspectives of Ambulance Staff on Responding to Deaths by Suicide: A Qualitative Study (2020)
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Chew-Graham. (2020). 'We're the First Port of Call' - Perspectives of Ambulance Staff on Responding to Deaths by Suicide: A Qualitative Study. Frontiers in Psychology, 722 -?. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00722

Introduction: Exposure to suicide is a known risk factor for suicide. Ambulance staff are exposed to work-related stressors including attending suicides, which may elevate their risk for mental health problems/suicide. Little is known about ambulance... Read More about 'We're the First Port of Call' - Perspectives of Ambulance Staff on Responding to Deaths by Suicide: A Qualitative Study.

Undertaking an integrated nurse led review (INCLUDE) for patients with inflammatory conditions: does it change management of morbidities? (2020)
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Healey, E., Chew-Graham, C., Finney, A., Cooke, K., Wathall, S., Mallen, C., …Jinks, C. (2020). Undertaking an integrated nurse led review (INCLUDE) for patients with inflammatory conditions: does it change management of morbidities?. Rheumatology, https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keaa111.141

Background People with inflammatory rheumatological conditions (IRCs), including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS), psoriatic arthritis (PsA), polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and giant cell arteritis (GCA), are at an increased risk... Read More about Undertaking an integrated nurse led review (INCLUDE) for patients with inflammatory conditions: does it change management of morbidities?.

Patients' perspectives on flares in knee osteoarthritis: a qualitative study (2020)
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Parry, E., Dikomitis, L., Peat, G., & Chew-Graham, C. (2020). Patients' perspectives on flares in knee osteoarthritis: a qualitative study. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 28(S1), S392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2020.02.611

Purpose: Acute flares in osteoarthritis may be an important, although poorly understood part of its natural history. Despite an OMERACT working group recently proposing a preliminary definition of acute flare in OA there is still uncertainty around w... Read More about Patients' perspectives on flares in knee osteoarthritis: a qualitative study.

Aging well with chronic pain in rural areas: an ecologically informed study (2020)
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Kingstone, T., Chew-Graham, C., & Bartlam, B. (in press). Aging well with chronic pain in rural areas: an ecologically informed study. Housing and Society, 47(2), 122 - 145. https://doi.org/10.1080/08882746.2020.1740563

Over half of people in the UK aged 75 years and above experience chronic pain – defined as pain lasting three or more months. Chronic pain can impact activities of daily living, quality of life, and independence. Rural perspectives on aging with chro... Read More about Aging well with chronic pain in rural areas: an ecologically informed study.

P193 Experiences of delivering a nurse-led fracture risk assessment for patients with inflammatory rheumatological conditions in primary care (2020)
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Hawarden, A. W., Paskins, Z., Desilva, E. E., Herron, D., Machin, A., Jinks, C., …Chew-Graham, C. (2020). P193 Experiences of delivering a nurse-led fracture risk assessment for patients with inflammatory rheumatological conditions in primary care. Rheumatology, 59(Supplement_2), https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keaa111.188

Background The INCLUDE (INtegrating and improving Care for patients with infLammatory rheUmatological DisordErs in the community) pilot trial aimed to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a nurse-delivered review in primary care for people... Read More about P193 Experiences of delivering a nurse-led fracture risk assessment for patients with inflammatory rheumatological conditions in primary care.

Temporal Changes in Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy and Impact on Cardiovascular and Obstetric Outcomes (2020)
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Wu, P., Chew-Graham, C. A., Maas, A. H., Chappell, L. C., Potts, J. E., Gulati, M., …Mamas, M. A. (2020). Temporal Changes in Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy and Impact on Cardiovascular and Obstetric Outcomes. American Journal of Cardiology, 125(10), 1508-1516. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2020.02.029

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are a major cause of maternal morbidity. However, short-term outcomes of HDP subgroups remain unknown. Using National Inpatient Sample database, all delivery hospitalizations between 2004 and 2014 with or wit... Read More about Temporal Changes in Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy and Impact on Cardiovascular and Obstetric Outcomes.

Managing loneliness: a qualitative study of older people's views. (2020)
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Chew-Graham. (2020). Managing loneliness: a qualitative study of older people's views. Aging and Mental Health, 1 - 8. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2020.1729337

Engaging with older people who self-identify as lonely may help professionals in mental health and other services understand how they deal with loneliness. The evidence-base for effective interventions to address loneliness is inconclusive. This stud... Read More about Managing loneliness: a qualitative study of older people's views..

Prognostic value of first-recorded breathlessness for future chronic respiratory and heart disease: a cohort study using a UK national primary care database (2020)
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Chen, Y., Hayward, R., Chew-Graham, C., Hubbard, R., Croft, P., Sims, K., & Jordan, K. (2020). Prognostic value of first-recorded breathlessness for future chronic respiratory and heart disease: a cohort study using a UK national primary care database. British Journal of General Practice (BJGP), 70(693), e264-e274. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp20X708221

Background: Breathlessness is a common presentation in primary care, but GPs may not always record a diagnosis. Aim: To assess long-term risk of diagnosed COPD, asthma and IHD, and mortality in patients with undiagnosed breathlessness. Design and... Read More about Prognostic value of first-recorded breathlessness for future chronic respiratory and heart disease: a cohort study using a UK national primary care database.

Stratified primary care versus non-stratified care for musculoskeletal pain: qualitative findings from the STarT MSK feasibility and pilot cluster randomized controlled trial (2020)
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Saunders, B., Hill, J., Foster, N., Cooper, V., Protheroe, J., Chudyk, A., …Bartlam, B. (2020). Stratified primary care versus non-stratified care for musculoskeletal pain: qualitative findings from the STarT MSK feasibility and pilot cluster randomized controlled trial. BMC Family Practice, 31, Article 31. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-020-1098-1

BACKGROUND: Stratified care involves subgrouping patients based on key characteristics, e.g. prognostic risk, and matching these subgroups to appropriate early treatment options. The STarT MSK feasibility and pilot cluster randomised controlled trial... Read More about Stratified primary care versus non-stratified care for musculoskeletal pain: qualitative findings from the STarT MSK feasibility and pilot cluster randomized controlled trial.

Correction to: The association between anxiety and disease activity and quality of life in rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (2020)
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Machin, A. R., Babatunde, O., Haththotuwa, R., Scott, I., Blagojevic-Bucknall, M., Corp, N., …Hider, S. L. (2020). Correction to: The association between anxiety and disease activity and quality of life in rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Rheumatology, 39(4), 1373–1375. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-020-04954-3

The authors of the published original version of the above article wanted to correct the below text in the Abstract section.

Correction to: The comorbidity burden of type 2 diabetes mellitus: patterns, clusters and predictions from a large English primary care cohort. (2020)
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Chew-Graham, Mallen, & Mamas. (2020). Correction to: The comorbidity burden of type 2 diabetes mellitus: patterns, clusters and predictions from a large English primary care cohort. BMC Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-1492-5

The original article [1] contains an omitted grant acknowledgement and affiliation as relates to the contribution of co-author, Rafael Perera-Salazar. As such, the following two amendments should apply to the original article.

Maternal six week postnatal check should assess for postnatal anxiety. (2020)
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Silverwood, V., Chew-Graham, C., & Kingstone, T. (2020). Maternal six week postnatal check should assess for postnatal anxiety. BMJ, Article 368. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m256

Jakes and colleagues summarise the maternal six week postnatal check.1 This is an important and integral part of primary care and presents general practitioners with opportunities to make a huge difference to new mothers and their children. We wer... Read More about Maternal six week postnatal check should assess for postnatal anxiety..

Optimising Management of Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction in Primary Care (OPTIMISE-HFpEF): Rationale and Protocol for a Multi-Method Study (2020)
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Chew-Graham. (2020). Optimising Management of Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction in Primary Care (OPTIMISE-HFpEF): Rationale and Protocol for a Multi-Method Study. British Journal of General Practice Open (BJGP Open), https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen19X101675

Background: Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is less well understood than heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), with greater diagnostic difficulty and management uncertainty. Aim: Our primary aim is to develop an... Read More about Optimising Management of Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction in Primary Care (OPTIMISE-HFpEF): Rationale and Protocol for a Multi-Method Study.

Evaluation of the Impact of the PABBS Suicide Bereavement Training on Clinicians' Knowledge and Skills. (2020)
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Chew-Graham. (2020). Evaluation of the Impact of the PABBS Suicide Bereavement Training on Clinicians' Knowledge and Skills. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 351- 358. https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000646

Background: Health-care professionals do not routinely receive training on how best to support parents bereaved by suicide. Evidence-based training - Postvention Assisting Those Bereaved by Suicide (PABBS) - was designed to address this gap. Aims: Th... Read More about Evaluation of the Impact of the PABBS Suicide Bereavement Training on Clinicians' Knowledge and Skills..

The association between anxiety and disease activity and quality of life in rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (2020)
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Bucknall, M., Chew-Graham, C., Babatunde, O., Corp, N., & Hider, S. (2020). The association between anxiety and disease activity and quality of life in rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Rheumatology, 39, 1471–1482. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-019-04900-y

OBJECTIVES: In people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), mental health problems are common, but often not recognized or treated, contributing to increased morbidity and mortality. Most studies examining the impact of mental health problems in RA have fo... Read More about The association between anxiety and disease activity and quality of life in rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis..

Patterns of symptoms before a diagnosis of first episode psychosis: a latent class analysis of UK primary care electronic health records. (2019)
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Chen, Y., Farooq, S., Edwards, J., Chew-Graham, C. A., Shiers, D., Frisher, M., …Jordan, K. P. (2019). Patterns of symptoms before a diagnosis of first episode psychosis: a latent class analysis of UK primary care electronic health records. BMC Medicine, 17, Article 227. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1462-y

Background: The nature of symptoms in the prodromal period of first episode psychosis (FEP) remains unclear. The objective was to determine patterns of symptoms recorded in primary care in the 5-years before FEP diagnosis. Methods: The study was s... Read More about Patterns of symptoms before a diagnosis of first episode psychosis: a latent class analysis of UK primary care electronic health records..