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Ethnicity-dependent performance of the GRACE risk score for prediction of non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in-hospital mortality: Nationwide cohort study (2022)
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Mamas. (2022). Ethnicity-dependent performance of the GRACE risk score for prediction of non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in-hospital mortality: Nationwide cohort study. European Heart Journal, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehac052

Background: The Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) score was developed to evaluate risk in patients with acute coronary syndrome with or without ST-segment elevation. Little is known about its performance at predicting in-hospital morta... Read More about Ethnicity-dependent performance of the GRACE risk score for prediction of non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in-hospital mortality: Nationwide cohort study.

The benefits of virtual fieldtrips for future-proofing geography teaching and learning (2022)
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Mercer, T. G., Kythreotis, A. P., Harwood, J., Robinson, Z. P., George, S. M., Sands, D., …Sims, T. (2023). The benefits of virtual fieldtrips for future-proofing geography teaching and learning. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 47(2), 330-338. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2022.2041569

This resource paper explores the benefits of developing virtual fieldtrips to help future-proof geography teaching and learning in times of uncertainty and change. Drawing on a case study from a second-year biogeography module that saw cancellations... Read More about The benefits of virtual fieldtrips for future-proofing geography teaching and learning.

A method for the madness: An international survey of Health Professions Education authors’ journal choice (2022)
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Rees. (2022). A method for the madness: An international survey of Health Professions Education authors’ journal choice. Perspectives on Medical Education, 11(3), 165-172. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40037-022-00698-9

Introduction Scholarship is a key activity in health professions education (HPE). When disseminating scholarly work, how one selects the journal to which they submit is often argued to be a key determinant of subsequent success. To draw more evidenc... Read More about A method for the madness: An international survey of Health Professions Education authors’ journal choice.

In‐Hospital Complications in Pregnancies Conceived by Assisted Reproductive Technology (2022)
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Wu, P., V. Sharma, G., S. Mehta, L., Chew-Graham, C., P. Lundberg, G., A. Nerenberg, K., …A. Mamas, M. (2022). In‐Hospital Complications in Pregnancies Conceived by Assisted Reproductive Technology. Journal of the American Heart Association, 11(5), Article ARTN e022658. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.121.022658

Background Assisted reproductive technology (ART) has emerged as a common treatment option for infertility, a problem that affects an estimated 48 million couples worldwide. Advancing maternal age with increasing prepregnancy cardiovascular risk fact... Read More about In‐Hospital Complications in Pregnancies Conceived by Assisted Reproductive Technology.

Comparing medication adherence in patients receiving bisphosphonates for preventing fragility fractures: a comprehensive systematic review and network meta-analysis. (2022)
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Paskins. (2022). Comparing medication adherence in patients receiving bisphosphonates for preventing fragility fractures: a comprehensive systematic review and network meta-analysis. Osteoporosis International, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-022-06350-w

BACKGROUND: Bisphosphonates are effective in preventing fragility fractures; however, high rates of adherence are needed to preserve clinical benefits. OBJECTIVE: To investigate persistence and compliance to oral and intravenous bisphosphonates (alen... Read More about Comparing medication adherence in patients receiving bisphosphonates for preventing fragility fractures: a comprehensive systematic review and network meta-analysis..

Diagnostic delay in axial spondyloarthritis: a systematic review (2022)
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Hay, C., Packham, J., Ryan, S., Mallen, C., Chatzixenitidis, A., & Prior, J. (2022). Diagnostic delay in axial spondyloarthritis: a systematic review. Clinical Rheumatology, 41(1939–1950), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-022-06100-7

Identification of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) remains challenging, frequently resulting in a diagnostic delay for patients. Current benchmarks of delay are usually reported as mean data, which are typically skewed and therefore may be overestimat... Read More about Diagnostic delay in axial spondyloarthritis: a systematic review.

Trends in the Annual Consultation Incidence and Prevalence of Low Back Pain and Osteoarthritis in England from 2000 to 2019: Comparative Estimates from Two Clinical Practice Databases (2022)
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Yu, D., Missen, M., P Jordan, K., Edwards, J., Bailey, J., Wilkie, R., …Peat, G. (2022). Trends in the Annual Consultation Incidence and Prevalence of Low Back Pain and Osteoarthritis in England from 2000 to 2019: Comparative Estimates from Two Clinical Practice Databases. Clinical Epidemiology, 14, 179-189. https://doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S337323

Purpose: To compare estimates of annual person-consulting incidence and prevalence of low back pain (LBP) and osteoarthritis for two national English electronic health record databases (Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) Aurum and CPRD GOLD).... Read More about Trends in the Annual Consultation Incidence and Prevalence of Low Back Pain and Osteoarthritis in England from 2000 to 2019: Comparative Estimates from Two Clinical Practice Databases.

Index Admission and Thirty-Day Readmission Outcomes of Patients With Cancer Presenting With STEMI. (2022)
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Mamas. (2022). Index Admission and Thirty-Day Readmission Outcomes of Patients With Cancer Presenting With STEMI. Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine, 121 - 128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carrev.2021.04.015

BACKGROUND: National-level data of cancer patients' readmissions after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) are lacking. OBJECTIVES: The primary aim of this study was to compare the rates and causes of 30-day readmissions in patients wi... Read More about Index Admission and Thirty-Day Readmission Outcomes of Patients With Cancer Presenting With STEMI..

International Foot and Ankle Osteoarthritis Consortium review and research agenda for diagnosis, epidemiology, burden, outcome assessment and treatments. (2022)
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Osteoarthritis Consortium, I. F. A. A., Arnold, J., Bowen, C., Chapman, L., Gates, L., Golightly, Y., …Thomas, M. (2022). International Foot and Ankle Osteoarthritis Consortium review and research agenda for diagnosis, epidemiology, burden, outcome assessment and treatments. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 30(7), 945-955. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2022.02.603

OBJECTIVE: To summarise the available evidence relating to the diagnosis, epidemiology, burden, outcome assessment and treatment of foot and ankle osteoarthritis (OA) and to develop an agenda to guide future research. METHOD: Members of the Internati... Read More about International Foot and Ankle Osteoarthritis Consortium review and research agenda for diagnosis, epidemiology, burden, outcome assessment and treatments..

Excess years of life lost to COVID-19 and other causes of death by sex, neighbourhood deprivation, and region in England and Wales during 2020: A registry-based study (2022)
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Mamas. (2022). Excess years of life lost to COVID-19 and other causes of death by sex, neighbourhood deprivation, and region in England and Wales during 2020: A registry-based study. PLoS Medicine, e1003904 - e1003904. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003904

Background Deaths in the first year of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in England and Wales were unevenly distributed socioeconomically and geographically. However, the full scale of inequalities may have been underestimated to da... Read More about Excess years of life lost to COVID-19 and other causes of death by sex, neighbourhood deprivation, and region in England and Wales during 2020: A registry-based study.

Community engagement in cutaneous leishmaniasis research in Brazil, Ethiopia, and Sri Lanka: a decolonial approach for global health (2022)
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Polidano, K., Agampodi, T., Parton, L., Agampodi, S., Haileselassie, B., Lalani, J., …Zerihun, Z. (2022). Community engagement in cutaneous leishmaniasis research in Brazil, Ethiopia, and Sri Lanka: a decolonial approach for global health. Frontiers in Public Health, 10, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.823844

Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a parasitic skin disease endemic in at least 88 countries where it presents an urgent, albeit often "neglected" public health problem. In this paper, we discuss our model of decolonial community engagement in the ECLIP... Read More about Community engagement in cutaneous leishmaniasis research in Brazil, Ethiopia, and Sri Lanka: a decolonial approach for global health.

Student assistantship programme: an evaluation of impact on readiness to transit from medical student to junior doctor. (2022)
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(2022). Student assistantship programme: an evaluation of impact on readiness to transit from medical student to junior doctor. BMC Medical Education, 99 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-022-03159-3

BACKGROUND: Studies report that medical graduates are not prepared for practice as expected, and interventions have been developed to prepare them for practice. One such intervention is the assistantship, which provides hands-on opportunities to hone... Read More about Student assistantship programme: an evaluation of impact on readiness to transit from medical student to junior doctor..

Healthy working life expectancy at age 50 for people with and without osteoarthritis in local and national English populations (2022)
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Lynch, M., Bucknall, M., Jagger, C., & Wilkie, R. (2022). Healthy working life expectancy at age 50 for people with and without osteoarthritis in local and national English populations. Scientific reports, 12(1), Article 2408. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-06490-3

Retirement ages are rising in many countries to offset the challenges of population ageing, but osteoarthritis is an age-associated disease that is becoming more prevalent and may limit capacity to work until older ages. We aimed to assess the impact... Read More about Healthy working life expectancy at age 50 for people with and without osteoarthritis in local and national English populations.

Association Between Handover of Anesthesiology Care and 1-Year Mortality Among Adults Undergoing Cardiac Surgery (2022)
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Mamas, M., Sun, L. Y., Jones, P. M., Wijeysundera, D. N., Mamas, M. A., Bader Eddeen, A., …O’Connor, J. (2022). Association Between Handover of Anesthesiology Care and 1-Year Mortality Among Adults Undergoing Cardiac Surgery. Jama Network Open, 5(2), Article ARTN e2148161. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.48161

Importance Handovers of anesthesia care from one anesthesiologist to another is an important intraoperative event. Despite its association with adverse events after noncardiac surgery, its impact in the context of cardiac surgery remains unclear.... Read More about Association Between Handover of Anesthesiology Care and 1-Year Mortality Among Adults Undergoing Cardiac Surgery.

Efficacy and safety for the achievement of guideline-recommended lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (2022)
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Rashid. (2022). Efficacy and safety for the achievement of guideline-recommended lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels: a systematic review and meta-analysis. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwaa093

AIM: The 2018 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology/Multi-Society Cholesterol Guidelines recommended the addition of non-statins to statin therapy for high-risk secondary prevention patients above a low-density lipoprotein cholest... Read More about Efficacy and safety for the achievement of guideline-recommended lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels: a systematic review and meta-analysis..

Addition of symptoms to traditional risk factors improves prediction of those at high risk of vertebral fractures: Results of the Vfrac study (2022)
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Clark, E., Khera, T., Hunt, L., Gooberman-Hill, R., Paskins, Z., Peters, T., …Davis, S. (2022). Addition of symptoms to traditional risk factors improves prediction of those at high risk of vertebral fractures: Results of the Vfrac study. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 37(S1),

Less than a third of osteoporotic vertebral fractures (OVFs) come to clinical attention. This is due to a variety of reasons including inadequate understanding of the clinical triggers necessary to refer high risk individuals for spinal radiographs.... Read More about Addition of symptoms to traditional risk factors improves prediction of those at high risk of vertebral fractures: Results of the Vfrac study.

Palliative Care Penetration Among Hospitalizations with Acute Pulmonary Embolism: A Nationwide Analysis (2022)
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Elkaryoni, A., Darki, A., Bunte, M., Mamas, M. A., Weinberg, I., & Elgendy, I. Y. (2022). Palliative Care Penetration Among Hospitalizations with Acute Pulmonary Embolism: A Nationwide Analysis. Journal of Palliative Care, 39(2), 129-137. https://doi.org/10.1177/08258597221078389

Background: Integration of palliative care in the management of critical illnesses has been linked with a better quality of life for patients and their families. Yet, there is a paucity of data regarding the role of palliative care for acute pulmonar... Read More about Palliative Care Penetration Among Hospitalizations with Acute Pulmonary Embolism: A Nationwide Analysis.

Ethnic Differences in Cancer Rates Among Adults With Type 2 Diabetes in New Zealand From 1994 to 2018 (2022)
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Yu, D., Wang, Z., Cai, Y., McBride, K., Osuagwu, U. L., Pickering, K., …Simmons, D. (2022). Ethnic Differences in Cancer Rates Among Adults With Type 2 Diabetes in New Zealand From 1994 to 2018. Jama Network Open, 5(2), Article e2147171. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.47171

Importance People with type 2 diabetes have greater risk for some site-specific cancers, and risks of cancers differ among racial and ethnic groups in the general population of Aotearoa New Zealand. The extent of ethnic disparities in cancer risks a... Read More about Ethnic Differences in Cancer Rates Among Adults With Type 2 Diabetes in New Zealand From 1994 to 2018.

The feasibility and acceptability of a brief psychological intervention for adults with long-term health conditions and subthreshold depression delivered via community pharmacies: a mixed methods evaluation-the Community Pharmacies Mood Intervention Study (CHEMIST). (2022)
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Chew-Graham. (2022). The feasibility and acceptability of a brief psychological intervention for adults with long-term health conditions and subthreshold depression delivered via community pharmacies: a mixed methods evaluation-the Community Pharmacies Mood Intervention Study (CHEMIST). Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 27 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-022-00992-7

BACKGROUND: Adults with long-term health conditions (LTCs) are more likely to experience depressive symptoms which can worsen health outcomes and quality of life, and increase healthcare costs. Subthreshold depression may go undetected and/or untreat... Read More about The feasibility and acceptability of a brief psychological intervention for adults with long-term health conditions and subthreshold depression delivered via community pharmacies: a mixed methods evaluation-the Community Pharmacies Mood Intervention Study (CHEMIST)..