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Sample sizes of prediction model studies in prostate cancer were rarely justified and often insufficient (2021)
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(2021). Sample sizes of prediction model studies in prostate cancer were rarely justified and often insufficient. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 53-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.12.011

OBJECTIVE: Developing clinical prediction models (CPMs) on data of sufficient sample size is critical to help minimize overfitting. Using prostate cancer as a clinical exemplar, we aimed to investigate to what extent existing CPMs adhere to recent fo... Read More about Sample sizes of prediction model studies in prostate cancer were rarely justified and often insufficient.

Long-term trajectories of chronic musculoskeletal pain: a 21-year prospective cohort latent class analysis (2021)
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Aili, K., Campbell, P., Michaleff, Z. A., Strauss, V. Y., Jordan, K. P., Bremander, A., …Bergman, S. (2021). Long-term trajectories of chronic musculoskeletal pain: a 21-year prospective cohort latent class analysis. PAIN, 1511-1520. https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002137

Our knowledge of the prevalence, impact, and outcomes of chronic pain in the general population is predominantly based on studies over relatively short periods of time. The aim of this study was to identify and describe trajectories of chronic pain s... Read More about Long-term trajectories of chronic musculoskeletal pain: a 21-year prospective cohort latent class analysis.

Long COVID in children: the perspectives of parents and children need to be heard (2021)
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Simpson, F., Chew-Graham, C., & Lokugamage, A. (2021). Long COVID in children: the perspectives of parents and children need to be heard. British Journal of General Practice (BJGP), 71(706), 216-216. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp21X715769

Parents have been struggling to obtain help and support, watching their children with persistent symptoms following acute infection with COVID-19. Early on in the pandemic, parents and children felt they were disbelieved by their GPs. As ‘long COVID’... Read More about Long COVID in children: the perspectives of parents and children need to be heard.

International consensus statement on injury and illness reporting in professional road cycling. (2021)
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Heron, N., Sarriegui, I., Jones, N., & Nolan, R. (2021). International consensus statement on injury and illness reporting in professional road cycling. The Physician and Sportsmedicine, 130 - 136. https://doi.org/10.1080/00913847.2020.1830692

INTRODUCTION: Road cycling is a very common recreational and elite sport. To facilitate consistent reporting of injuries and illness in professional road cycling we want to establish terms, definitions, and methods for injury and illness reporting in... Read More about International consensus statement on injury and illness reporting in professional road cycling..

Derivation and validation of a two-variable index to predict 30-day outcomes following heart failure hospitalization (2021)
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Mamas, Averbuch, T., Lee, S. F., Mamas, M. A., Oz, U. E., Perez, R., …Van Spall, H. G. C. (2021). Derivation and validation of a two-variable index to predict 30-day outcomes following heart failure hospitalization. ESC Heart Failure, 8(4), 2690-2697. https://doi.org/10.1002/ehf2.13324

Background The LACE index—length of stay (L), acuity (A), Charlson co-morbidities (C), and emergent visits (E)—predicts 30-day outcomes following heart failure (HF) hospitalization but is complex to score. A simpler LE index (length of stay and emer... Read More about Derivation and validation of a two-variable index to predict 30-day outcomes following heart failure hospitalization.

Association and relative importance of multiple risk factor control on cardiovascular disease, end-stage renal disease and mortality in people with type 2 diabetes: A population-based retrospective cohort study (2021)
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Usman, M., Khunti, K., Davies, M. J., & Gillies, C. L. (2021). Association and relative importance of multiple risk factor control on cardiovascular disease, end-stage renal disease and mortality in people with type 2 diabetes: A population-based retrospective cohort study. Primary Care Diabetes, 15(2), 218-226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pcd.2020.08.008

How a Pandemic Changes Trauma: Epidemiology and Management of Trauma Admissions in the UK during COVID-19 Lockdown. (2021)
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Dass, D., Ramhamadany, E., Govilkar, S., Rhind, J., Ford, D., Singh, R., …Cool, P. (2021). How a Pandemic Changes Trauma: Epidemiology and Management of Trauma Admissions in the UK during COVID-19 Lockdown. Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock, 14(2), 75 - 79. https://doi.org/10.4103/JETS.JETS_137_20

Introduction: On June 24 in the United Kingdom, there were 277,989 cases of COVID-19 and 39,369 deaths recorded. The government enforced a complete lockdown on March 23 that resulted in cessation of all elective admissions on 24th onward, with only a... Read More about How a Pandemic Changes Trauma: Epidemiology and Management of Trauma Admissions in the UK during COVID-19 Lockdown..

Suicide prevention and COVID-19: the role of primary care during the pandemic and beyond (2021)
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Mughal, F., House, A., Kapur, N., Webb, R. T., & Chew-Graham, C. A. (2021). Suicide prevention and COVID-19: the role of primary care during the pandemic and beyond. British Journal of General Practice (BJGP), 71(706), 200-201. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp21X715637

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it multiple threats to mental wellbeing — the possibility or reality of serious physical illness; complex COVID-related bereavement; lockdowns that cause isolation and inhibit social contact, or that can increas... Read More about Suicide prevention and COVID-19: the role of primary care during the pandemic and beyond.

Triggers for acute flare in adults with, or at risk of, knee osteoarthritis: a web-based case-crossover study in community-dwelling adults. (2021)
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Thomas, M., Rathod-Mistry, T., Parry, E., Pope, C., Neogi, T., & Peat, G. (2021). Triggers for acute flare in adults with, or at risk of, knee osteoarthritis: a web-based case-crossover study in community-dwelling adults. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 29(7), 956-964. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2021.04.007

OBJECTIVE: To identify proximate causes ('triggers') of flares in adults with, or at risk of, knee osteoarthritis (OA), estimate their course and consequences, and determine higher risk individuals. METHODS: In this 13-week web-based case-crossover s... Read More about Triggers for acute flare in adults with, or at risk of, knee osteoarthritis: a web-based case-crossover study in community-dwelling adults..

Differences in the attitudes to sport psychology consulting between individual and team sport athletes. (2021)
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Rooney, D., Jackson, R. C., & Heron, N. (2021). Differences in the attitudes to sport psychology consulting between individual and team sport athletes. BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, 46 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13102-021-00271-7

BACKGROUND: The purpose of the present study was to investigate how an athlete's participation in either an individual or team sport is related to their attitude toward sport psychology consulting and their willingness to consult a sport psychology p... Read More about Differences in the attitudes to sport psychology consulting between individual and team sport athletes..

PREVALENCE OF FRAGILITY FRACTURES AND MEDICATION PRESCRIPTION FOR OSTEOPOROSIS IN PATIENTS WITH POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA: RESULTS FROM THE PMR COHORT STUDY (2021)
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Singh Sokhal, B., Hider, S. L., Paskins, Z., Muller, S., & Mallen, C. D. (2021). PREVALENCE OF FRAGILITY FRACTURES AND MEDICATION PRESCRIPTION FOR OSTEOPOROSIS IN PATIENTS WITH POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA: RESULTS FROM THE PMR COHORT STUDY. Rheumatology, 60(S1), Article ARTN keab246.002. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keab246.002

Background/Aims Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is one of the commonest indications for long term glucocorticoid (GC) use, leading to an increased risk of osteoporosis and fragility fractures. Clinical guidelines recommend prescribing medication includ... Read More about PREVALENCE OF FRAGILITY FRACTURES AND MEDICATION PRESCRIPTION FOR OSTEOPOROSIS IN PATIENTS WITH POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA: RESULTS FROM THE PMR COHORT STUDY.

NURSES EDUCATING PATIENTS ABOUT METHOTREXATE: A VIDEO ANALYSIS STUDY (2021)
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Robinson, S., Adams, N., Scott, J., Walker, C., Hassell, A., Ryan, S., & Walker, D. (2021). NURSES EDUCATING PATIENTS ABOUT METHOTREXATE: A VIDEO ANALYSIS STUDY. Rheumatology, 60(S1), Article ARTN keab247.077. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keab247.077

Background/Aims  Education prior to starting therapeutic drugs is essential so that patients understand how to take them, what to expect in terms of effects and anticipated side effects, also for monitoring and supply requirements. The benefits of... Read More about NURSES EDUCATING PATIENTS ABOUT METHOTREXATE: A VIDEO ANALYSIS STUDY.

'I'm just ringing to get a repeat prescription for my contraceptive pill, doctor': developing authentic simulated telephone consultations for medical students. (2021)
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Beddows, J., Abdalla, M., Blanchard, D., Hammond, E., Hay, F., Webb, M., & Protheroe, J. (2021). 'I'm just ringing to get a repeat prescription for my contraceptive pill, doctor': developing authentic simulated telephone consultations for medical students. Education for Primary Care, 32(5), 303-307. https://doi.org/10.1080/14739879.2021.1915708

Within normal surgery hours telephone consultations have been previously shown to make up between 10-20% of patient contacts with General Practitioners (GPs) and to comprise a large proportion of a GP's daily workload. Although obviously very useful,... Read More about 'I'm just ringing to get a repeat prescription for my contraceptive pill, doctor': developing authentic simulated telephone consultations for medical students..

The patient, clinician and healthcare perspectives in evaluating care pathways for stable chest pain. (2021)
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Kwok, C. S., Duckett, S., Satchithananda, D., Potluri, R., Morgan-Smith, D., Bellenger, N., …Mallen, C. D. (2021). The patient, clinician and healthcare perspectives in evaluating care pathways for stable chest pain. Critical Pathways in Cardiology: A Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 20(3), 143-148. https://doi.org/10.1097/HPC.0000000000000261

Chest pain is one of the most common reasons for patients to present to healthcare professionals. One of the main challenges with the management of chest pain is the wide differential diagnosis, ranging from minor chest trauma to potentially life thr... Read More about The patient, clinician and healthcare perspectives in evaluating care pathways for stable chest pain..

Telehealth and the COVID-19 Pandemic: International Perspectives and a Health Systems Framework for Telehealth Implementation to Support Critical Response. (2021)
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(2021). Telehealth and the COVID-19 Pandemic: International Perspectives and a Health Systems Framework for Telehealth Implementation to Support Critical Response. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1726484

OBJECTIVES: Telehealth implementation is a complex systems-based endeavour. This paper compares telehealth responses to (COrona VIrus Disease 2019) COVID-19 across ten countries to identify lessons learned about the complexity of telehealth during cr... Read More about Telehealth and the COVID-19 Pandemic: International Perspectives and a Health Systems Framework for Telehealth Implementation to Support Critical Response..

Ethnic disparities in care and outcomes of non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a nationwide cohort study. (2021)
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Mamas, & Rashid. (2021). Ethnic disparities in care and outcomes of non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a nationwide cohort study. European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjqcco/qcab030

BACKGROUND: Little is known about ethnic disparities in care and clinical outcomes of patients admitted with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) in national cohorts from universal healthcare systems derived from Europe. METHODS &... Read More about Ethnic disparities in care and outcomes of non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a nationwide cohort study..

Outcome measures for technique survival reported in peritoneal dialysis: A systematic review. (2021)
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Lambie, & Davies. (2021). Outcome measures for technique survival reported in peritoneal dialysis: A systematic review. Peritoneal Dialysis International: Journal of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis, https://doi.org/10.1177/0896860821989874

BACKGROUND: Peritoneal dialysis (PD) technique survival is an important outcome for patients, caregivers and health professionals, however, the definition and measures used for technique survival vary. We aimed to assess the scope and consistency of... Read More about Outcome measures for technique survival reported in peritoneal dialysis: A systematic review..

Investigating outcome inequalities in osteoarthritis management programmes: an analysis of registry data from the good life with osteoarthritis in Denmark (GLA:D®) programme using tapered balancing (2021)
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Peat, G., Yu, D., Grønne, D., Marshall, M., Skou, S., & Roos, E. (2021). Investigating outcome inequalities in osteoarthritis management programmes: an analysis of registry data from the good life with osteoarthritis in Denmark (GLA:D®) programme using tapered balancing. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 29(S1), S376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2021.02.489

Purpose: The burden of osteoarthritis (OA) is often greater among disadvantaged people and communities, prompting calls for more attention to equity-focussed research and policy. A specific concern is whether healthcare interventions may inadvertentl... Read More about Investigating outcome inequalities in osteoarthritis management programmes: an analysis of registry data from the good life with osteoarthritis in Denmark (GLA:D®) programme using tapered balancing.