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The Traffic Light Approach: How structured pre-work re-establishes the dissection room as an active learning space (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Door, R. (2022, June). The Traffic Light Approach: How structured pre-work re-establishes the dissection room as an active learning space. Presented at Keele University School of Medicine Scholarship Conference 2022, Keele University

The Issue: The dissection room has traditionally been an active learning environment and at Keele this is something we are passionate about maintaining. In recent years, however, Undergraduate Medical students started falling into a passive role, usi... Read More about The Traffic Light Approach: How structured pre-work re-establishes the dissection room as an active learning space.

"Add breaks": the forced rest we didn't know we needed (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Door, R. (2022, June). "Add breaks": the forced rest we didn't know we needed. Presented at Keele University School of Medicine Scholarship Conference 2022, Keele University

The Issue: Due to the Covid-19 pandemic all lectures for Undergraduate Medical students shifted to online delivery. For most academics and contributing clinicians this typically involved a recording of PowerPoint slides shared via Microsoft Stream an... Read More about "Add breaks": the forced rest we didn't know we needed.

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation With and Without Resheathing and Repositioning: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Moroni, F., Azzalini, L., Sondergaard, L., Attizzani, G. F., Garcia, S., Jneid, H., …Bagur, R. (2022). Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation With and Without Resheathing and Repositioning: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Journal of the American Heart Association, 11(12), e024707 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.121.024707

Background There is a concern that resheathing/repositioning of transcatheter heart valves during transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) may lead to an increased risk of periprocedural complications. We aimed to evaluate the short- and long-t... Read More about Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation With and Without Resheathing and Repositioning: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Just How Confident Can We Be in Predicting Sports Injuries? A Systematic Review of the Methodological Conduct and Performance of Existing Musculoskeletal Injury Prediction Models in Sport. (2022)
Journal Article
(2022). Just How Confident Can We Be in Predicting Sports Injuries? A Systematic Review of the Methodological Conduct and Performance of Existing Musculoskeletal Injury Prediction Models in Sport. Sports Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-022-01698-9

BACKGROUND: An increasing number of musculoskeletal injury prediction models are being developed and implemented in sports medicine. Prediction model quality needs to be evaluated so clinicians can be informed of their potential usefulness. OBJECTIVE... Read More about Just How Confident Can We Be in Predicting Sports Injuries? A Systematic Review of the Methodological Conduct and Performance of Existing Musculoskeletal Injury Prediction Models in Sport..

Supporting patients to get the best from their osteoporosis treatment; what works for whom, why and in what circumstance: a rapid realist review (2022)
Journal Article
Paskins, Z., Babatunde, O., Sturrock, A., Toh, L., Horne, R., & Maidment, I. (2022). Supporting patients to get the best from their osteoporosis treatment; what works for whom, why and in what circumstance: a rapid realist review. Osteoporosis International, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-022-06453-4

Purpose: In people with osteoporosis, adherence to medicines is poorer than other diseases and patients report follow up is lacking, and multiple unmet information needs. We conducted a rapid realist review to understand what contextual conditions an... Read More about Supporting patients to get the best from their osteoporosis treatment; what works for whom, why and in what circumstance: a rapid realist review.

Supporting patients to get the best from their osteoporosis treatment: a rapid realist review of what works, for whom, and in what circumstance (2022)
Journal Article
Paskins, Z., Babatunde, O., Sturrock, A., Toh, L., Horne, R., Maidment, I., …Bishop, M. (2022). Supporting patients to get the best from their osteoporosis treatment: a rapid realist review of what works, for whom, and in what circumstance. Osteoporosis International, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-022-06453-4

Systematic reviews that examine effectiveness of interventions to improve medicines optimisation do not explain how or why they work. This realist review identified that interventions which effectively optimise medicines use in osteoporosis include o... Read More about Supporting patients to get the best from their osteoporosis treatment: a rapid realist review of what works, for whom, and in what circumstance.

Transplantation of encapsulated autologous olfactory ensheathing cell populations expressing chondroitinase for spinal cord injury: A safety and feasibility study in companion dogs (2022)
Journal Article
Prager, J., Fenn, J., Plested, M., Escauriaza, L., Merwe, T. V. D., King, B., …Granger, N. (2022). Transplantation of encapsulated autologous olfactory ensheathing cell populations expressing chondroitinase for spinal cord injury: A safety and feasibility study in companion dogs. Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 16(9), 788-798. https://doi.org/10.1002/term.3328


Spinal cord injury (SCI) can cause irreversible paralysis, with no regenerative treatment clinically available. Dogs with natural SCI present an established model and can facilitate translation of experimental findings in rodents to people. We cond... Read More about Transplantation of encapsulated autologous olfactory ensheathing cell populations expressing chondroitinase for spinal cord injury: A safety and feasibility study in companion dogs.

Methodological issues in the designing and reporting of frequentist and Bayesian meta-analysis to assess COVID-19 outcomes among PLHIV with various comorbidities (2022)
Journal Article
Verma, V., Bajpai, R., & Singh, G. P. (2022). Methodological issues in the designing and reporting of frequentist and Bayesian meta-analysis to assess COVID-19 outcomes among PLHIV with various comorbidities. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 25(6), Article ARTN e25946. https://doi.org/10.1002/jia2.25946

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Intervening to eliminate the centre-effect variation in home dialysis use: protocol for Inter-CEPt—a sequential mixed-methods study designing an intervention bundle (2022)
Journal Article
Tshimologo, M., Allen, K., Coyle, D., Damery, S., Dikomitis, L., Fotheringham, J., …Davies, S. (2022). Intervening to eliminate the centre-effect variation in home dialysis use: protocol for Inter-CEPt—a sequential mixed-methods study designing an intervention bundle. BMJ Open, e060922 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-060922

INTRODUCTION: Use of home dialysis by centres in the UK varies considerably and is decreasing despite attempts to encourage greater use. Knowing what drives this unwarranted variation requires in-depth understanding of centre cultural and organisatio... Read More about Intervening to eliminate the centre-effect variation in home dialysis use: protocol for Inter-CEPt—a sequential mixed-methods study designing an intervention bundle.

Real-world management and outcomes of 7 million patients with acute coronary syndrome according to clinical research trial enrolment status: a propensity matched analysis. (2022)
Journal Article
Matetic, A., Mohamed, M. O., Roberts, D. J., Rana, J. S., Chadi Alraies, M., Patel, B., …Mamas, M. A. (2022). Real-world management and outcomes of 7 million patients with acute coronary syndrome according to clinical research trial enrolment status: a propensity matched analysis. European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes, 409 - 419. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjqcco/qcab098

AIMS: We aimed to determine whether clinical outcomes and invasive care of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients participating in trials differed from those of non-participants, particularly including those who were trial eligible. METHODS AND RESUL... Read More about Real-world management and outcomes of 7 million patients with acute coronary syndrome according to clinical research trial enrolment status: a propensity matched analysis..

Missed Opportunities in the Diagnosis of Heart Failure: Evaluation of Pathways to Determine Sources of Delay to Specialist Evaluation. (2022)
Journal Article
Kwok, C., Burke, H., McDermott, S., Welsh, V., Barker, D., Patwala, A., …Mallen, C. (2022). Missed Opportunities in the Diagnosis of Heart Failure: Evaluation of Pathways to Determine Sources of Delay to Specialist Evaluation. Current Heart Failure Reports, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11897-022-00551-4

Missed opportunities are incidents where different actions by those involved could have resulted in more desirable events. Heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome presenting as symptoms and signs common to other diagnoses, in patients frequently... Read More about Missed Opportunities in the Diagnosis of Heart Failure: Evaluation of Pathways to Determine Sources of Delay to Specialist Evaluation..

Turnpike Catheter failure, causes and mechanisms: Insights from the MAUDE database. (2022)
Journal Article
Mamas, Alhusain, R., Dayco, J., Awadelkarim, A., Almas, T., Halboni, A., …Alraies, M. C. (2022). Turnpike Catheter failure, causes and mechanisms: Insights from the MAUDE database. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2022.103923

Background: The Turnpike catheters (Teleflex, Wayne, PA, USA) is a microcatheter that was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in November 2014 to be used to access discrete regions of the coronary and peripheral vasculature. Methods: The Man... Read More about Turnpike Catheter failure, causes and mechanisms: Insights from the MAUDE database..

Maternal Glycemic Spectrum and Adverse Pregnancy and Perinatal Outcomes in a Multiracial US Cohort (2022)
Journal Article
Wu, Mamas, Kwapong, Y. A., Boakye, E., Wang, G., Hong, X., …Sharma, G. (2022). Maternal Glycemic Spectrum and Adverse Pregnancy and Perinatal Outcomes in a Multiracial US Cohort. Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease, 9(6), Article ARTN 179. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd9060179

Diabetes mellitus (pregestational (PDM) and gestational (GDM)) is associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes (APOs). However, studies exploring the association of APOs with maternal glycemia among women without PDM/GDM are limited. We utilized data f... Read More about Maternal Glycemic Spectrum and Adverse Pregnancy and Perinatal Outcomes in a Multiracial US Cohort.

The Construction of Character in Social Work Narratives of Practice with Undocumented Migrants (2022)
Journal Article
Machin, H. E., Machin, H., Shardlow, S. M., & Shardlow, S. M. (2022). The Construction of Character in Social Work Narratives of Practice with Undocumented Migrants. British Journal of Social Work, 52(8), 5045-5065. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac105

Undocumented migration is a global phenomenon. Social work practice with undocumented migrants, worldwide, is ethically complex as social workers are positioned between the mandates of the state, designed to deter 'illegal' migration and the needs of... Read More about The Construction of Character in Social Work Narratives of Practice with Undocumented Migrants.

Harm minimisation for self-harm: a cross-sectional survey of British clinicians’ perspectives and practises (2022)
Journal Article
Haris, A. M., Pitman, A., Morant, N., Rowe, S. L., Mughal, F., & Bakanaite, E. (2022). Harm minimisation for self-harm: a cross-sectional survey of British clinicians’ perspectives and practises. BMJ Open, 12(6), Article ARTN e056199. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-056199

Objective Harm minimisation for self-harm is an alternative to preventive strategies and focuses on maximising safety when self-harming. We explored the views of clinicians on harm minimisation for self-harm to describe reported use and acceptability... Read More about Harm minimisation for self-harm: a cross-sectional survey of British clinicians’ perspectives and practises.

Footwear, foot orthoses and strengthening exercises for the non-surgical management of hallux valgus: protocol for a randomised pilot and feasibility trial (2022)
Journal Article
Roddy, Menz, H. B., Lim, P. Q., Hurn, S. E., Mickle, K. J., Buldt, A. K., …Munteanu, S. E. (2022). Footwear, foot orthoses and strengthening exercises for the non-surgical management of hallux valgus: protocol for a randomised pilot and feasibility trial. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 15(1), Article ARTN 45. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13047-022-00553-4

Background: Hallux valgus is a common and disabling condition. This randomised pilot and feasibility trial aims to determine the feasibility of conducting a fully-powered parallel group randomised trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a multifaceted... Read More about Footwear, foot orthoses and strengthening exercises for the non-surgical management of hallux valgus: protocol for a randomised pilot and feasibility trial.

Incidence and pattern of mycophenolate discontinuation associated with abnormal monitoring blood-test results: cohort study using data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink Aurum (2022)
Journal Article
Nakafero, G., Grainge, M., Card, T., Mallen, C., Riley, R., van der Windt, D., …Abhishek, A. (2022). Incidence and pattern of mycophenolate discontinuation associated with abnormal monitoring blood-test results: cohort study using data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink Aurum. Rheumatology Advances in Practice, 6(2), Article rkac046. https://doi.org/10.1093/rap/rkac046

Objective: The aim was to examine the incidence and pattern of MMF discontinuation associated with abnormal monitoring blood-test results. Methods Data from people prescribed MMF for common inflammatory conditions in the Clinical Practice Research Da... Read More about Incidence and pattern of mycophenolate discontinuation associated with abnormal monitoring blood-test results: cohort study using data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink Aurum.

OP0228 USE OF NON-STEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS AND RISK OF COMORBIDITIES IN PEOPLE WITH AND WITHOUT OSTEOARTHRITIS - A UK PRIMARY CARE DATABASE COHORT STUDY (2022)
Journal Article
Mallen, C. (2022). OP0228 USE OF NON-STEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS AND RISK OF COMORBIDITIES IN PEOPLE WITH AND WITHOUT OSTEOARTHRITIS - A UK PRIMARY CARE DATABASE COHORT STUDY. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 150 - 151. https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2022-eular.110

<jats:sec><jats:title>Background</jats:title><jats:p>People with osteoarthritis (OA) are at higher risk of developing a wide array of comorbidities. Whether the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) contributes to the increased risk o... Read More about OP0228 USE OF NON-STEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS AND RISK OF COMORBIDITIES IN PEOPLE WITH AND WITHOUT OSTEOARTHRITIS - A UK PRIMARY CARE DATABASE COHORT STUDY.