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How Do Physical Therapists in the United Kingdom Manage Patients With Hip Osteoarthritis? Results of a Cross-Sectional Survey (2018)
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Mallen, C., & Holden, M. (2018). How Do Physical Therapists in the United Kingdom Manage Patients With Hip Osteoarthritis? Results of a Cross-Sectional Survey. Physical Therapy, 461-470. https://doi.org/10.1093/ptj/pzy013

Background: Hip osteoarthritis (OA) is common, painful and disabling. Physical therapists have an important role in managing patients with hip OA, however little is known about their current management approach and whether it aligns with clinical gui... Read More about How Do Physical Therapists in the United Kingdom Manage Patients With Hip Osteoarthritis? Results of a Cross-Sectional Survey.

Burden of cardiovascular disease across 29 countries and GPs' decision to treat hypertension in oldest-old. (2018)
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Mallen. (2018). Burden of cardiovascular disease across 29 countries and GPs' decision to treat hypertension in oldest-old. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 89 - 98. https://doi.org/10.1080/02813432.2018.1426142

OBJECTIVES: We previously found large variations in general practitioner (GP) hypertension treatment probability in oldest-old (>80 years) between countries. We wanted to explore whether differences in country-specific cardiovascular disease (CVD) bu... Read More about Burden of cardiovascular disease across 29 countries and GPs' decision to treat hypertension in oldest-old..

Core outcome measurement instruments for clinical trials in nonspecific low back pain. (2018)
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(2018). Core outcome measurement instruments for clinical trials in nonspecific low back pain. PAIN, 481-495. https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001117

To standardize outcome reporting in clinical trials of patients with nonspecific low back pain, an international multidisciplinary panel recommended physical functioning, pain intensity, and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) as core outcome doma... Read More about Core outcome measurement instruments for clinical trials in nonspecific low back pain..

Development and external validation of risk scores for cardiovascular hospitalisation and rehospitalisation in diabetes patients (2018)
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Yu. (2018). Development and external validation of risk scores for cardiovascular hospitalisation and rehospitalisation in diabetes patients. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 1122-1129. https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2017-02293

Context: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a common and costly reason for hospitalization and rehospitalization among patients with type 2 diabetes. Objective: This study aimed to develop and externally validate two risk- prediction models for cardi... Read More about Development and external validation of risk scores for cardiovascular hospitalisation and rehospitalisation in diabetes patients.

Meta-analysis of test accuracy studies using imputation for partial reporting of multiple thresholds (2018)
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(2018). Meta-analysis of test accuracy studies using imputation for partial reporting of multiple thresholds. Research Synthesis Methods, 100-115. https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1276

INTRODUCTION: For tests reporting continuous results, primary studies usually provide test performance at multiple but often different thresholds. This creates missing data when performing a meta-analysis at each threshold. A standard meta-analysis (... Read More about Meta-analysis of test accuracy studies using imputation for partial reporting of multiple thresholds.

Interpreting intracorporeal landscapes: how patients visualize pathophysiology and utilize medical images in their understanding of chronic musculoskeletal illness (2018)
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Moore, A. J., Richardson, J. C., Bernard, M., & Sim, J. (2019). Interpreting intracorporeal landscapes: how patients visualize pathophysiology and utilize medical images in their understanding of chronic musculoskeletal illness. Disability and Rehabilitation, 41(14), 1647 - 1654. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2018.1443162

Medical science and other sources, such as the media, increasingly inform the general public's understanding of disease. There is often discordance between this understanding and the diagnostic interpretations of health care practitioners (HCPs). In... Read More about Interpreting intracorporeal landscapes: how patients visualize pathophysiology and utilize medical images in their understanding of chronic musculoskeletal illness.

Dialysate Creatinine Response Patterns During Peritoneal Equilibration Test and the Association Between Cardiovascular Mortality: Findings from a Prospective Cohort Study. (2018)
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Yu. (2018). Dialysate Creatinine Response Patterns During Peritoneal Equilibration Test and the Association Between Cardiovascular Mortality: Findings from a Prospective Cohort Study. Kidney and Blood Pressure Research, https://doi.org/10.1159/000487498

Background/Aims During peritoneal equilibrium test (PET), intermediate measures of Dt/P (dialysate/plasma creatinine ratio), D0/P, D2/P and D4/P ratios might provide additional information regarding a patient’s cardiovascular mortality. We aimed to... Read More about Dialysate Creatinine Response Patterns During Peritoneal Equilibration Test and the Association Between Cardiovascular Mortality: Findings from a Prospective Cohort Study..

Change in physical activity level and clinical outcomes in older adults with knee pain: a secondary analysis from a randomised controlled trial (2018)
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Holden. (2018). Change in physical activity level and clinical outcomes in older adults with knee pain: a secondary analysis from a randomised controlled trial. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-018-1968-z

Background Exercise interventions improve clinical outcomes of pain and function in adults with knee pain due to osteoarthritis and higher levels of physical activity are associated with lower severity of pain and higher levels of physical functioni... Read More about Change in physical activity level and clinical outcomes in older adults with knee pain: a secondary analysis from a randomised controlled trial.

Age-related differences in foot mobility in individuals with patellofemoral pain (2018)
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(2018). Age-related differences in foot mobility in individuals with patellofemoral pain. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13047-018-0249-2

Background Age-related changes in midfoot mobility have the potential to influence success with foot orthoses intervention in people with patellofemoral pain (PFP). The aim of this study was to determine whether older people with PFP demonstrate les... Read More about Age-related differences in foot mobility in individuals with patellofemoral pain.

Evaluating student perceptions of using a game-based approach to aid learning: Braincept (2018)
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Aynsley. (2018). Evaluating student perceptions of using a game-based approach to aid learning: Braincept. Higher Education Pedagogies, 70-81. https://doi.org/10.1080/23752696.2018.1435296

Gamification in higher education has steadily been gaining traction as a useful addition to the diversity of learning resources available to both teachers and students. We have invented a card-based, role-playing team game called ‘Braincept’ to help... Read More about Evaluating student perceptions of using a game-based approach to aid learning: Braincept.

The Attention Training Technique improves Children's ability to delay gratification: A controlled comparison with progressive relaxation (2018)
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(2018). The Attention Training Technique improves Children's ability to delay gratification: A controlled comparison with progressive relaxation. Behaviour Research and Therapy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2018.02.003

The ability to delay gratification at a young age is a predictor of psychological, cognitive, health, and academic later-life outcomes. This study aimed to extend earlier research and explore whether a metacognitive intervention, Wells' (1990) Attent... Read More about The Attention Training Technique improves Children's ability to delay gratification: A controlled comparison with progressive relaxation.

Retroperitoneal Hemorrhage After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Incidence, Determinants, and Outcomes as Recorded by the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society. (2018)
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Kontopantelis, E., Kinnaird, T., Potts, J., Rashid, M., Shoaib, A., Nolan, J., …Cardiovascular Intervention Society (BCIS) and National, B. (2018). Retroperitoneal Hemorrhage After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Incidence, Determinants, and Outcomes as Recorded by the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society. Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, 11(2), Article e005866. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.117.005866

BACKGROUND: Retroperitoneal hemorrhage (RH) is a rare bleeding complication of percutaneous coronary intervention, which can result as a consequence of femoral access or can occur spontaneously. This study aims to evaluate temporal changes in RH, its... Read More about Retroperitoneal Hemorrhage After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Incidence, Determinants, and Outcomes as Recorded by the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society..

Evidence flowers: An innovative, visual method of presenting “best evidence” summaries to health professional and lay audiences (2018)
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Babatunde, O., Tan, V., Jordan, J., Dziedzic, K., Chew-Graham, C., Jinks, C., …Van Der Windt, D. (2018). Evidence flowers: An innovative, visual method of presenting “best evidence” summaries to health professional and lay audiences. Research Synthesis Methods, 9(2), 273-284. https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1295

Background & Aims Barriers to dissemination and engagement with evidence pose a threat to implementing evidence-based medicine. Understanding, retention, and recall can be enhanced by visual presentation of information. The aim of this exploratory r... Read More about Evidence flowers: An innovative, visual method of presenting “best evidence” summaries to health professional and lay audiences.

Enhancing delivery of osteoarthritis care in the general practice consultation: evaluation of a behaviour change intervention (2018)
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Porcheret, M., Main, C., Croft, P., & Dziedzic, K. (2018). Enhancing delivery of osteoarthritis care in the general practice consultation: evaluation of a behaviour change intervention. BMC Family Practice, 19, Article 26. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-018-0715-8

BACKGROUND: Professionally-focussed behaviour change intervention (BCI) workshops were utilised in the Management of OsteoArthritis in Consultations (MOSAICS) trial investigating the feasibility of implementing the National Institute for Health and C... Read More about Enhancing delivery of osteoarthritis care in the general practice consultation: evaluation of a behaviour change intervention.

Epidemiology of paediatric presentations with musculoskeletal problems in primary care. (2018)
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Protheroe, & Dunn. (2018). Epidemiology of paediatric presentations with musculoskeletal problems in primary care. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 40 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-018-1952-7

BACKGROUND: Musculoskeletal disease is a common cause of morbidity, but there is a paucity of musculoskeletal research focusing on paediatric populations, particularly in primary care settings. In particular, there is limited information on populatio... Read More about Epidemiology of paediatric presentations with musculoskeletal problems in primary care..

Peer influence as a driver of technological innovation in the UK National Health Service: a qualitative study of clinicians’ experiences and attitudes (2018)
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Greszczuk, C., Mughal, F., Mathew, R., & Rashid, A. (2018). Peer influence as a driver of technological innovation in the UK National Health Service: a qualitative study of clinicians’ experiences and attitudes. BMJ Innovations, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjinnov-2017-000208

Background Accelerating innovation to improve quality is a key policy target for healthcare systems around the world. Effectively influencing individuals’ behaviour is crucial to the success of innovation initiatives. This study explores UK clinicia... Read More about Peer influence as a driver of technological innovation in the UK National Health Service: a qualitative study of clinicians’ experiences and attitudes.

Epidemiology of paediatric presentations with musculoskeletal problems in primary care (2018)
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Protheroe. (2018). Epidemiology of paediatric presentations with musculoskeletal problems in primary care. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-018-1952-7

Background Musculoskeletal disease is a common cause of morbidity, but there is a paucity of musculoskeletal research focusing on paediatric populations, particularly in primary care settings. In particular, there is limited information on populatio... Read More about Epidemiology of paediatric presentations with musculoskeletal problems in primary care.

Twelve tips for expanding undergraduate clinical teaching capacity (2018)
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(2018). Twelve tips for expanding undergraduate clinical teaching capacity. Medical Teacher, 1 -4. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2018.1429587

Undergraduate medical education has expanded substantially in recent years, through both establishing new programs and increasing student numbers in existing programs. This expansion has placed pressure on the capacity for training students in clinic... Read More about Twelve tips for expanding undergraduate clinical teaching capacity.

Twelve tips for expanding undergraduate clinical teaching capacity (2018)
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(2018). Twelve tips for expanding undergraduate clinical teaching capacity. Medical Teacher, https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2018.1429587

Undergraduate medical education has expanded substantially in recent years, through both establishing new programs and increasing student numbers in existing programs. This expansion has placed pressure on the capacity for training students in clinic... Read More about Twelve tips for expanding undergraduate clinical teaching capacity.

Early and late pregnancy outcomes in women treated with cold-coagulation versus LLETZ cervical treatment for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia; a retrospective cohort study (2018)
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Papoutsis, D., Underwood, M., Parry-Smith, W., & Panikkar, J. (2018). Early and late pregnancy outcomes in women treated with cold-coagulation versus LLETZ cervical treatment for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia; a retrospective cohort study. Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 297(4), 1015-1025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00404-018-4704-x

Purpose To compare the pregnancy outcomes between women who were treated with cold-coagulation versus large loop excision of the transformation zone (LLETZ) for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. Methods This was a retrospective cohort study of... Read More about Early and late pregnancy outcomes in women treated with cold-coagulation versus LLETZ cervical treatment for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia; a retrospective cohort study.