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X-ray phase-contrast computed tomography for full breast mastectomy imaging at the Australian Synchrotron (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Arhatari, B. D., Nesterets, Y. I., Taba, S. T., Maksimenko, A., Hall, C. J., Stevenson, A. W., …Brennan, P. C. (2021, August). X-ray phase-contrast computed tomography for full breast mastectomy imaging at the Australian Synchrotron. Paper presented at Developments in X-Ray Tomography XIII, San Diego, United States

One of the imaging modalities offered by the Imaging and Medical Beamline (IMBL) at the Australian Synchrotron is Xray phase-contrast propagation-based computed tomography (PB-CT). The unique combination of high coherence and high brightness of radia... Read More about X-ray phase-contrast computed tomography for full breast mastectomy imaging at the Australian Synchrotron.

Using Card Sorting to Design Faceted Navigation Structures (2021)
Presentation / Conference
De Quincey, E., & Mitchell, J. (2021, July). Using Card Sorting to Design Faceted Navigation Structures. Presented at 34th British HCI Conference, London, UK

This paper describes how a variation of card sorting- ‘repeated single-criterion sorting’, can be applied to the information architecture design of digital music services. 52 respondents were asked to sort, using their own choice of criteria, 12 popu... Read More about Using Card Sorting to Design Faceted Navigation Structures.

SHOULD THE PRESENCE OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE ALTER OUR MANAGEMENT AND UNDERSTANDING OF PSYCHIATRIC COMORBIDITIES? (2021)
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Blake, J., List, P., & El-Nimr, G. (2021, July). SHOULD THE PRESENCE OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE ALTER OUR MANAGEMENT AND UNDERSTANDING OF PSYCHIATRIC COMORBIDITIES?

As people are living longer, we are seeing more neurodegenerative diseases (NDs). NDs have both neurological and psychiatric manifestations. Depression and anxiety are common comorbidities in Alzheimers and Parkinsons disease. The diagnosis and inter... Read More about SHOULD THE PRESENCE OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE ALTER OUR MANAGEMENT AND UNDERSTANDING OF PSYCHIATRIC COMORBIDITIES?.

Art for Computer Scientists: Processing as an Open-Source Art Medium for Computer Science Undergraduates (2021)
Presentation / Conference
(2021, July). Art for Computer Scientists: Processing as an Open-Source Art Medium for Computer Science Undergraduates. Presented at Electronic Visualisation & the Arts (EVA) 2021, London

Art undergraduates increasingly engage in the design and coding of digital media and generative art, for example, using the open-source Processing library and Integrated Development Environment (IDE) created for visual artists. An equivalent cross-ov... Read More about Art for Computer Scientists: Processing as an Open-Source Art Medium for Computer Science Undergraduates.

46 The relationship between high-sensitivity troponin taken on admission to critical care, regardless of whether there was a clinical indication for testing, and one year mortality: a novel biomarker for outcome? (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Hinton, J., Augustine, M., Gabara, L., Mariathas, M., Allan, R., Borca, F., …Curzen, N. (2021, June). 46 The relationship between high-sensitivity troponin taken on admission to critical care, regardless of whether there was a clinical indication for testing, and one year mortality: a novel biomarker for outcome?. Paper presented at British Cardiovascular Society Virtual Annual Conference, ‘Cardiology and the Environment’, 7–10 June 2021

Combining expert judgment and psychometric information to create the Global Scale for Early Development (GSED) (2021)
Presentation / Conference
McCray, G., Gladstone, M., Cavallera, V., McCoy, D., Waldman, M., Eekhout, I., …Weber, A. (2021, June). Combining expert judgment and psychometric information to create the Global Scale for Early Development (GSED). Paper presented at Proceedings of the Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) Research Conference, Sheffield, UK

Background: The Global Scale for Early Development (GSED) a global and culturally neutral measure of child development under 3 years of age is designed to allow comparisons within and across countries. The project has been undertaken by an experience... Read More about Combining expert judgment and psychometric information to create the Global Scale for Early Development (GSED).

Prevention of retention of vaginal swabs and tampons with novel device system (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Desai, A., Ogrodnik, P., Desai, K., & Mapunde, V. (2021, June). Prevention of retention of vaginal swabs and tampons with novel device system. Presented at RCOG Virtual World Congress 2021

Objective Vaginal swabs, tampons are the single most common cause of retained objects reported annually and are currently classed as 'Never events'. They can cause significant morbidity - serious physical-psychological, infection, secondary PPH, seps... Read More about Prevention of retention of vaginal swabs and tampons with novel device system.

184 Association between high-sensitivity troponin and one year mortality in 20,000 consecutive hospital patients undergoing a blood test for any reason (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Hinton, J., Mariathas, M., Gabara, L., Allan, R., Nicholas, Z., Kwok, C. S., …Curzen, N. (2021, June). 184 Association between high-sensitivity troponin and one year mortality in 20,000 consecutive hospital patients undergoing a blood test for any reason. Paper presented at British Cardiovascular Society Virtual Annual Conference, ‘Cardiology and the Environment’, 7–10 June 2021

Introduction High sensitivity troponin (hs-cTn) concentrations above the manufacturer recommended upper limit of normal (ULN) are seen frequently in patients without a clinical presentation consistent with an acute coronary syndrome. There is increas... Read More about 184 Association between high-sensitivity troponin and one year mortality in 20,000 consecutive hospital patients undergoing a blood test for any reason.

37 Incidence and one year outcome of periprocedural myocardial infarction following cardiac surgery: are the universal definition and scai criteria fit for purpose? (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Hinton, J., Augustine, M., Gabara, L., Mariathas, M., Allan, R., Borca, F., …Curzen, N. (2021, June). 37 Incidence and one year outcome of periprocedural myocardial infarction following cardiac surgery: are the universal definition and scai criteria fit for purpose?. Paper presented at British Cardiovascular Society Virtual Annual Conference, ‘Cardiology and the Environment’, 7–10 June 2021

Introduction The diagnosis and clinical implication of periprocedural myocardial infarction (PPMI) following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is contentious, especially given its importance in the interpretation of trial data. Two accepted defi... Read More about 37 Incidence and one year outcome of periprocedural myocardial infarction following cardiac surgery: are the universal definition and scai criteria fit for purpose?.

PERITONEAL DIALYSIS TIME ON THERAPY AND REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN DEATH, TRANSFER TO HEMODIALYSIS AND KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION: RESULTS FROM THE PDOPPS (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Lambie, M., Zhao, J., McCullough, K. P., Davies, S., Kawanishi, H., Johnson, D. W., …Perl, J. (2021, June). PERITONEAL DIALYSIS TIME ON THERAPY AND REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN DEATH, TRANSFER TO HEMODIALYSIS AND KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION: RESULTS FROM THE PDOPPS. Presented at 58th ERA-EDTA Congress, CityCube Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Background and Aims Comparing and interpreting regional differences in peritoneal dialysis (PD) time on therapy needs to consider differences in the rates of permanent transfer to hemodialysis (HDT), death or kidney transplantation. Here we describe... Read More about PERITONEAL DIALYSIS TIME ON THERAPY AND REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN DEATH, TRANSFER TO HEMODIALYSIS AND KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION: RESULTS FROM THE PDOPPS.

Quantifying Missingness in Wearable Heart Rate Recordings (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Collins, T., Woolley, S. I., Oniani, S., & Pandyan, A. (2021, May). Quantifying Missingness in Wearable Heart Rate Recordings. Presented at Medical Informatics Europe 2021, Virtual

Wrist-worn photoplethysmography (PPG) heart rate monitoring devices are increasingly used in clinical applications despite the potential for data missingness and inaccuracy. This paper provides an analysis of the intermittency of experimental wearabl... Read More about Quantifying Missingness in Wearable Heart Rate Recordings.

TRENDS OF IN-HOSPITAL AND 30-DAY MORTALITY AFTER PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION IN ENGLAND BEFORE AND AFTER THE COVID-19 ERA (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Mohamed, M., Curzen, N., Ludman, P., Rashid, M., Shoaib, A., de Belder, M., …Mamas, M. (2021, May). TRENDS OF IN-HOSPITAL AND 30-DAY MORTALITY AFTER PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION IN ENGLAND BEFORE AND AFTER THE COVID-19 ERA. Poster presented at ACC.21, Virtual

Background Public reporting of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) outcomes is a performance metric and a requirement in many healthcare systems. There are inconsistent data on the causes of death after PCI, and what proportion of these are att... Read More about TRENDS OF IN-HOSPITAL AND 30-DAY MORTALITY AFTER PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION IN ENGLAND BEFORE AND AFTER THE COVID-19 ERA.

Metformin use and the risk of total knee replacement among diabetic patients in primary care (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Sit, R., Lai, F., Yip, B., Hunter, D., Rabago, D., Mallen, C., & Wong, S. (2021, April). Metformin use and the risk of total knee replacement among diabetic patients in primary care. Presented at Virtual 2021 OARSI World Congress on Osteoarthritis, Virtual

Purpose: Metformin, apart from its glucose lowering and weight reduction effects, has recently been shown to modulate meta-inflammation, an important pathogenesis in knee osteoarthritis (OA). We aim to study the association between regular metformin... Read More about Metformin use and the risk of total knee replacement among diabetic patients in primary care.

Regulating Social Media (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Higson-Bliss, L. (2021, March). Regulating Social Media. Paper presented at ELSA Birmingham, University of Birmingham

Current Challenges for Primary Care Osteoporosis Management (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Paskins, Z. (2021, March). Current Challenges for Primary Care Osteoporosis Management

The context for this symposium will be set using findings of a synthesis of qualitative research which provides some insight into the challenges primary care clinicians report in managing people with osteoporosis. Findings from empirical qualitative... Read More about Current Challenges for Primary Care Osteoporosis Management.

Mary Corcoran (2021) ‘The Woolf Report 30 Years on: the third sector legacy’. (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Corcoran. (2021, February). Mary Corcoran (2021) ‘The Woolf Report 30 Years on: the third sector legacy’. Presented at After Strangeways webinar series, London (Virtual)

This paper considers the response of activists and prison reforming NGOs to the prison disturbances in England in 1990. These prison uprisings led to an apparent flourishing of cooperation between the criminal justice authorities, state and civil soc... Read More about Mary Corcoran (2021) ‘The Woolf Report 30 Years on: the third sector legacy’..