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The Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (PDOPPS): Unifying Efforts to Inform Practice and Improve Global Outcomes in Peritoneal Dialysis (2016)
Journal Article
Perl, J., Davies, S. J., Lambie, M., Pisoni, R. L., McCullough, K., Johnson, D. W., Sloand, J. A., Prichard, S., Kawanishi, H., Tentori, F., & Robinson, B. M. (2016). The Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (PDOPPS): Unifying Efforts to Inform Practice and Improve Global Outcomes in Peritoneal Dialysis. Peritoneal Dialysis International: Journal of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis, 36(3), 297-307. https://doi.org/10.3747/pdi.2014.00288

Background
Extending technique survival on peritoneal dialysis (PD) remains a major challenge in optimizing outcomes for PD patients while increasing PD utilization. The primary objective of the Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Stu... Read More about The Peritoneal Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (PDOPPS): Unifying Efforts to Inform Practice and Improve Global Outcomes in Peritoneal Dialysis.

Peritoneal inflammation precedes encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis: results from the GLOBAL Fluid Study (2016)
Journal Article
Lambie, M. R., Chess, J., Summers, A. M., Ford Williams, P., Topley, N., Davies, S. J., Study Investigators, G. F., Smith, A.-C., Craig, K., Fallon, M., James, C., Huxtable, H., Gilbert, G., Jones, C., & Capper, H. (2016). Peritoneal inflammation precedes encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis: results from the GLOBAL Fluid Study. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 31(3), 480 -486. https://doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfv440

BACKGROUND: Encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (EPS) is an uncommon condition, strongly associated with a long duration of peritoneal dialysis (PD), which is itself associated with increased fibrosis in the peritoneal membrane. The peritoneal membran... Read More about Peritoneal inflammation precedes encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis: results from the GLOBAL Fluid Study.

UK National Survey of Practice Patterns of Fluid Volume Management in Haemodialysis Patients: A Need for Evidence (2016)
Journal Article
Dasgupta, I., Farrington, K., Davies, S. J., Davenport, A., & Mitra, S. (2016). UK National Survey of Practice Patterns of Fluid Volume Management in Haemodialysis Patients: A Need for Evidence. Blood Purification, 41(4), 324-331. https://doi.org/10.1159/000444246

Background: Fluid management in haemodialysis (HD) affects patient experience, morbidity and mortality. Standards for best practice are lacking. A national survey of the United Kingdom was undertaken to define prevalent practice. Methods: An online q... Read More about UK National Survey of Practice Patterns of Fluid Volume Management in Haemodialysis Patients: A Need for Evidence.

Mirtazapine added to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for treatment-resistant depression in primary care (MIR trial): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2016)
Journal Article
Tallon, D., Wiles, N., Campbell, J., Chew-Graham, C., Dickens, C., Macleod, U., Peters, T. J., Lewis, G., Anderson, I. M., Gilbody, S., Hollingworth, W., Davies, S., & Kessler, D. (2016). Mirtazapine added to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for treatment-resistant depression in primary care (MIR trial): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 17, 66. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1199-2

Background
People with depression are usually managed in primary care and antidepressants are often the first-line treatment, but only one third of patients respond fully to a single antidepressant. This paper describes the protocol for a randomised... Read More about Mirtazapine added to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors for treatment-resistant depression in primary care (MIR trial): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Longitudinal bioimpedance vector plots add little value to fluid management of peritoneal dialysis patients (2016)
Journal Article
Tan, B. K., Yu, Z., Fang, W., Lin, A., Ni, Z., Qian, J., Woodrow, G., Jenkins, S. B., Wilkie, M. E., & Davies, S. J. (2016). Longitudinal bioimpedance vector plots add little value to fluid management of peritoneal dialysis patients. Kidney International, 89(2), https://doi.org/10.1038/ki.2015.294

Bioimpedance (BI) has the potential to enable better management of fluid balance, which can worsen over time on peritoneal dialysis (PD) due to loss of residual kidney function and progressive muscle wasting. We undertook a prospective, randomized, o... Read More about Longitudinal bioimpedance vector plots add little value to fluid management of peritoneal dialysis patients.

Heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease multimorbidity at hospital discharge transition: a study of patient and carer experience (2015)
Journal Article
Davies. (2015). Heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease multimorbidity at hospital discharge transition: a study of patient and carer experience. Health Expectations, 2401 -2412. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12208

BACKGROUND: Care for patients with multimorbidity represents a major challenge not only for patients and carers but to health-care systems. Hospital discharge transition is a critical point at which challenges for multimorbidity may amplify. OBJECTIV... Read More about Heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease multimorbidity at hospital discharge transition: a study of patient and carer experience.

Analgesia dose prescribing and estimated glomerular filtration rate decline: a general practice database linkage cohort study (2014)
Journal Article
Nderitu, P., Doos, L., Strauss, V. Y., Lambie, M., Davies, S. J., & Kadam, U. T. (2014). Analgesia dose prescribing and estimated glomerular filtration rate decline: a general practice database linkage cohort study. BMJ Open, 4(8), e005581-e005581. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005581

Objective We aimed to quantify the short-term effect of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), aspirin and paracetamol analgesia dose prescribing on estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) decline in the general practice population.

D... Read More about Analgesia dose prescribing and estimated glomerular filtration rate decline: a general practice database linkage cohort study.

Patients’ Perceptions of Information and Education for Renal Replacement Therapy: An Independent Survey by the European Kidney Patients' Federation on Information and Support on Renal Replacement Therapy (2014)
Journal Article
Van Biesen, W., van der Veer, S. N., Murphey, M., Loblova, O., & Davies, S. (in press). Patients’ Perceptions of Information and Education for Renal Replacement Therapy: An Independent Survey by the European Kidney Patients' Federation on Information and Support on Renal Replacement Therapy. PloS one, 9(7), Article e103914. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103914

Background
Selection of an appropriate renal replacement modality is of utmost importance for patients with end stage renal disease. Previous studies showed provision of information to and free modality choice by patients to be suboptimal. Therefore... Read More about Patients’ Perceptions of Information and Education for Renal Replacement Therapy: An Independent Survey by the European Kidney Patients' Federation on Information and Support on Renal Replacement Therapy.

HISTOLOGICAL FINDINGS AND CLINICAL COURSE IN POST-TRANSPLANTATION AND CLASSICAL EPS: A EUROPEAN MULTICENTER STUDY (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Latus, J., Habib, S. M., Kitterer, D., Korte, M., Ulmer, C., Fritz, P., Davies, S., Lambie, M., Dominik Alscher, M., Betjes, M., Segerer, S., & Braun, N. (2014, May). HISTOLOGICAL FINDINGS AND CLINICAL COURSE IN POST-TRANSPLANTATION AND CLASSICAL EPS: A EUROPEAN MULTICENTER STUDY. Presented at 51st ERA-EDTA Congress, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Longitudinal Study of Small Solute Transport and Peritoneal Protein Clearance in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients (2014)
Journal Article
Yu, Z., Lambie, M., & Davies, S. J. (2014). Longitudinal Study of Small Solute Transport and Peritoneal Protein Clearance in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 9(2), 326-334. https://doi.org/10.2215/cjn.04420413

Background and objectives
Peritoneal protein clearance (Pcl) is determined by both effective (small pores) membrane area and relative capillary leakiness (large pores). It is not known how these two components change with duration of peritoneal dia... Read More about Longitudinal Study of Small Solute Transport and Peritoneal Protein Clearance in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients.