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Assessment of fracture risk tools in care home residents: a multi-centre observational pilot study (2020)
Journal Article
Ihama, F., Pandyan, A., & Roffe, C. (2020). Assessment of fracture risk tools in care home residents: a multi-centre observational pilot study. European Geriatric Medicine, 12, 79-89. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41999-020-00383-2

Background Fragility fractures are common in care home residents but established tools have not been tested in this population. Aim: To identify the most practicable tool for use. Methods Design Multicentre prospective observational cohort pilo... Read More about Assessment of fracture risk tools in care home residents: a multi-centre observational pilot study.

Aluminum and Neurofibrillary Tangle Co-Localization in Familial Alzheimer's Disease and Related Neurological Disorders. (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Aluminum and Neurofibrillary Tangle Co-Localization in Familial Alzheimer's Disease and Related Neurological Disorders. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 139-149. https://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-200838

BACKGROUND: Protein misfolding disorders are frequently implicated in neurodegenerative conditions. Familial Alzheimer's disease (fAD) is an early-onset and aggressive form of Alzheimer's disease (AD), driven through autosomal dominant mutations in g... Read More about Aluminum and Neurofibrillary Tangle Co-Localization in Familial Alzheimer's Disease and Related Neurological Disorders..

Assessing shale gas reservoir potential using multi-scaled SEM pore network characterizations and quantifications: The Ciñera-Matallana pull-apart basin, NW Spain (2020)
Book Chapter
Montenari. (2020). Assessing shale gas reservoir potential using multi-scaled SEM pore network characterizations and quantifications: The Ciñera-Matallana pull-apart basin, NW Spain. In Carbon Isotope Stratigraphy, Volume 5 (677-755). https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.sats.2020.07.001

In recent years, unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs (UHRs), specifically shale gas plays, have become a vast source of economically viable hydrocarbons, in response to better drilling and stimulation techniques. To further improve recovery, more d... Read More about Assessing shale gas reservoir potential using multi-scaled SEM pore network characterizations and quantifications: The Ciñera-Matallana pull-apart basin, NW Spain.

Health and well-being issues of Nepalese migrant workers in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries and Malaysia: a systematic review (2020)
Journal Article
Paudyal, P., Kulasabanathan, K., Cassell, J. A., Memon, A., Simkhada, P., & Prasad Wasti, S. (2020). Health and well-being issues of Nepalese migrant workers in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries and Malaysia: a systematic review. BMJ Open, e038439 - e038439. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-038439

ObjectiveTo summarise the evidence on health and well-being of Nepalese migrant workers in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and Malaysia.DesignSystematic review.Data sourcesEMBASE, MEDLINE, Scopus and Global Health databases.Eligibility c... Read More about Health and well-being issues of Nepalese migrant workers in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries and Malaysia: a systematic review.

Clinical prediction models to predict the risk of multiple binary outcomes: a comparison of approaches. (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Clinical prediction models to predict the risk of multiple binary outcomes: a comparison of approaches. Statistics in Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.8787

Clinical prediction models (CPMs) can predict clinically relevant outcomes or events. Typically, prognostic CPMs are derived to predict the risk of a single future outcome. However, there are many medical applications where two or more outcomes are o... Read More about Clinical prediction models to predict the risk of multiple binary outcomes: a comparison of approaches..

Plan Quality of Modern Radiotherapy Delivery Techniques in Left-Sided Breast Cancer: An Analysis Stratified by Consensus Target Delineation Guidelines (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Ahmad, I., Chufal, K. S., Bhatt, C. P., Bajpai, R., Miller, A., Chowdhary, R. L., …Gairola, M. (2020, October). Plan Quality of Modern Radiotherapy Delivery Techniques in Left-Sided Breast Cancer: An Analysis Stratified by Consensus Target Delineation Guidelines. Poster presented at Global Oncology: The ASTRO Annual Meeting

Purpose/Objective(s) This study investigates the performance of treatment planning methods stratified by established target delineation guidelines in patients undergoing whole-breast radiotherapy after breast conservation surgery, based on an object... Read More about Plan Quality of Modern Radiotherapy Delivery Techniques in Left-Sided Breast Cancer: An Analysis Stratified by Consensus Target Delineation Guidelines.

Pathological Response Prediction To Neo-Adjuvant Chemoradiation In Esophageal Carcinoma Using Artificial Intelligence And Radiomics: An Exploratory Analysis (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Chufal, K. S., Ahmad, I., Bajpai, R., Miller, A., Chowdhary, R. L., & Gairola, M. (2020, October). Pathological Response Prediction To Neo-Adjuvant Chemoradiation In Esophageal Carcinoma Using Artificial Intelligence And Radiomics: An Exploratory Analysis. Poster presented at Global Oncology: The ASTRO Annual Meeting

Purpose/Objective(s) To utilize Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) to predict pathological response after neoadjuvant chemoradiation (NACRT), based on Radiomics data extracted from pre-NACRT Computed Tomography (CT) datasets. Materials/Methods Bet... Read More about Pathological Response Prediction To Neo-Adjuvant Chemoradiation In Esophageal Carcinoma Using Artificial Intelligence And Radiomics: An Exploratory Analysis.

Bone biopsy results in patients with a history of malignancy: a case series of 378 patients (2020)
Journal Article
Morris, R., Shepherd, K., Cribb, G., Singh, J., Tyrrell, P., & Cool, P. (2021). Bone biopsy results in patients with a history of malignancy: a case series of 378 patients. Skeletal Radiology, 50(6), 1111-1116. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00256-020-03652-0

Objective The value of a bone biopsy in patients who present with a bone lesion and past medical history of malignancy is uncertain. The objective of this study was to evaluate the outcome of bone biopsies in patients with a history of a malignancy... Read More about Bone biopsy results in patients with a history of malignancy: a case series of 378 patients.

Seismic and borehole-based mapping of the late Carboniferous succession in the Canonbie Coalfield, SW Scotland: evidence for a ‘broken’ Variscan foreland? (2020)
Journal Article
Howell, L., Besly, B., Sooriyathasan, S., Egan, S., & Leslie, G. (2020). Seismic and borehole-based mapping of the late Carboniferous succession in the Canonbie Coalfield, SW Scotland: evidence for a ‘broken’ Variscan foreland?. Scottish Journal of Geology, https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg2020-007

Local seismic and borehole-based mapping of the Carboniferous Pennine Coal Measures and Warwickshire Group successions in the Canonbie Coalfield (SW Scotland) provides evidence of repeated episodes of positive inversion, syn-depositional folding and... Read More about Seismic and borehole-based mapping of the late Carboniferous succession in the Canonbie Coalfield, SW Scotland: evidence for a ‘broken’ Variscan foreland?.

TCT CONNECT-247 Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Cardiac Transplant Patients: A Bi-national Analysis Derived From the United Kingdom and United States (2020)
Journal Article
Nagaraja, V., Rashid, M., Anderson, H., Ludman, P., Kapadia, S., Starling, R., …Mamas, M. (2020). TCT CONNECT-247 Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Cardiac Transplant Patients: A Bi-national Analysis Derived From the United Kingdom and United States. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 76(17), B109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2020.09.264

Background Five years after transplantation, coronary allograft vasculopathy and late graft failure account for 32% of all mortality. The current role of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in coronary allograft vasculopathy is unclear and cons... Read More about TCT CONNECT-247 Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Cardiac Transplant Patients: A Bi-national Analysis Derived From the United Kingdom and United States.

TCT CONNECT-41 Impact of Chronic Kidney Disease on Coronary Revascularization and In-Hospital Outcomes in Patients With Acute ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (2020)
Journal Article
Panchal, H., Zheng, S., White, C., Leinaar, E., Mukherjee, D., Mamas, M., …Paul, T. (2020). TCT CONNECT-41 Impact of Chronic Kidney Disease on Coronary Revascularization and In-Hospital Outcomes in Patients With Acute ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 76(17), B18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2020.09.072

Background Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) has been associated with worse outcomes. Our study sought to assess the impact of CKD on guideline-directed coronary revascularization and ou... Read More about TCT CONNECT-41 Impact of Chronic Kidney Disease on Coronary Revascularization and In-Hospital Outcomes in Patients With Acute ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction.

TCT CONNECT-266 Cobalt Chromium Biolimus Drug-Eluting Stents Compared With Stainless Steel Biolimus Drug-Eluting Stents: Final Results of BMX Alpha (2020)
Journal Article
Alexander Menown, I. B., Mamas, M., Cotton, J., Hildick-Smith, D., Eberli, F., Leibundgut, G., …Oldroyd, K. (2020). TCT CONNECT-266 Cobalt Chromium Biolimus Drug-Eluting Stents Compared With Stainless Steel Biolimus Drug-Eluting Stents: Final Results of BMX Alpha. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 76(17), B116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2020.09.283

Background Thinner stent struts may improve deliverability and conformability and reduce vessel injury. The final clinical outcomes of the thinner strut (84 to 88 μm) cobalt chromium biolimus eluting stent from the BioMatrix (BMX) Alpha registry are... Read More about TCT CONNECT-266 Cobalt Chromium Biolimus Drug-Eluting Stents Compared With Stainless Steel Biolimus Drug-Eluting Stents: Final Results of BMX Alpha.

A manifesto for failure: Depersonalising, collectivising and embracing failure in research funding (2020)
Journal Article
Holdsworth, C. (2020). A manifesto for failure: Depersonalising, collectivising and embracing failure in research funding. Emotion, Space and Society, 37, 100744. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2020.100744

The odds of failure are greater than those for success when applying for research funding. Yet academics are expected to be successful and win research funding to advance their own careers and the esteem of their institutions. This intensification of... Read More about A manifesto for failure: Depersonalising, collectivising and embracing failure in research funding.

Factors associated with disability in patients with rheumatoid arthritis with persistent moderate disease activity: a retrospective cohort study (2020)
Journal Article
Scott, I. C., Mount, J., Barry, J., & Kirkham, B. (2020). Factors associated with disability in patients with rheumatoid arthritis with persistent moderate disease activity: a retrospective cohort study. BMC Rheumatology, 63 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41927-020-00161-4

Background: Many patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) do not attain remission/low disease activity, remaining in a moderate disease activity state (MDAS) with ongoing disability and impaired quality of life (QoL). If patients in persistent MDAS wi... Read More about Factors associated with disability in patients with rheumatoid arthritis with persistent moderate disease activity: a retrospective cohort study.

The Added Value of Radiographs in Diagnosing Knee Osteoarthritis Is Similar for General Practitioners and Secondary Care Physicians; Data from the CHECK Early Osteoarthritis Cohort. (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). The Added Value of Radiographs in Diagnosing Knee Osteoarthritis Is Similar for General Practitioners and Secondary Care Physicians; Data from the CHECK Early Osteoarthritis Cohort. Journal of Clinical Medicine, https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9103374

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the added value of radiographs for diagnosing knee osteoarthritis (KOA) by general practitioners (GPs) and secondary care physicians (SPs). METHODS: Seventeen GPs and nineteen SPs were recruited to... Read More about The Added Value of Radiographs in Diagnosing Knee Osteoarthritis Is Similar for General Practitioners and Secondary Care Physicians; Data from the CHECK Early Osteoarthritis Cohort..

Carbon isotope stratigraphy: Principles and applications (2020)
Book Chapter
Gröcke, D. R. (2020). Carbon isotope stratigraphy: Principles and applications. In M. Montenari (Ed.), Stratigraphy & Timescales (1-40). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.sats.2020.08.002

Even after all this time, our understanding of the modern and ancient carbon cycle is still incomplete. Stable carbon isotopes are an extremely useful tool from which to monitor and trace the carbon cycle. In this manner, carbon isotope stratigraphy... Read More about Carbon isotope stratigraphy: Principles and applications.