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Validation and Evaluation as Essentials to Ensuring Safe AI Health Applications. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rigby, M., Andrikopoulou, E., Prgomet, M., Medlock, S., Sy Wong, Z., & Cresswell, K. (2025). Validation and Evaluation as Essentials to Ensuring Safe AI Health Applications. Proceedings of the EFMI Special Topic Conference 2025 (332, pp. 52-56). https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI251494

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a rapidly growing technology within health informatics, but it is not subject to the rigor of scientific and safety validation required for all other new health techniques. Moreover, some functions of health AI cannot... Read More about Validation and Evaluation as Essentials to Ensuring Safe AI Health Applications..

Cost-effectiveness and equity impact of complex primary care interventions for disadvantaged populations. (2025)
Journal Article
Thomas, C., Jackson, B., Mitchell, C., Reynolds, J., & Hind, D. (2025). Cost-effectiveness and equity impact of complex primary care interventions for disadvantaged populations. British Journal of General Practice Open (BJGP Open), 21, BJGPO.2025.0167. https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2025.0167

Reducing health inequity is essential. The FAIRSTEPS study developed and prioritised 28 vignettes describing complex primary care interventions targeted to disadvantaged groups, through Delphi consensus ranking by primary care practitioners for feasi... Read More about Cost-effectiveness and equity impact of complex primary care interventions for disadvantaged populations..

Ethnicity and clinical empathy in primary care consultations: a web-based experiment. (2025)
Journal Article
He, Q., Du, R., Belgi, S., Neil, G. J., Everitt, H., & Bishop, F. L. (2025). Ethnicity and clinical empathy in primary care consultations: a web-based experiment. British Journal of General Practice Open (BJGP Open), BJGPO.2025.0084. https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2025.0084

Clinical empathy may enhance patient satisfaction and health outcomes. The interaction between ethnicity and clinical empathy is under-explored. To compare how people from different ethnicities perceive GPs' communication of clinical empathy. A 2 (co... Read More about Ethnicity and clinical empathy in primary care consultations: a web-based experiment..

Fostering human development: do institutional environment quality and overall UN-SDGs attainment matter? (2025)
Journal Article
Helfaya, A., Muthuthantrige, N., & Xu, G. (2025). Fostering human development: do institutional environment quality and overall UN-SDGs attainment matter?. Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal. https://doi.org/10.1108/sampj-09-2024-0960

Abstract
Purpose— This study uniquely combines Institutional Environment Quality (IEQ) and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs) metrics within a global panel framework to explore their individual and joint impacts on Human Developm... Read More about Fostering human development: do institutional environment quality and overall UN-SDGs attainment matter?.

Messages for UK social work doctoral education: a narrative synthesis of global north social work doctorate literature (2025)
Journal Article
Santos-Petiot, J., Spolander, G., & Garcia, M. L. (2025). Messages for UK social work doctoral education: a narrative synthesis of global north social work doctorate literature. Social Work Education, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2025.2567911

Social work, grounded in values of social justice, relies on doctoral education to advance evidence-informed practice. From a United Kingdom (UK) perspective, little is known about the challenges associated with social work doctoral degrees. This pap... Read More about Messages for UK social work doctoral education: a narrative synthesis of global north social work doctorate literature.

Author Correction: Trait mediation explains decadal distributional shifts for a wide range of insect taxa (2025)
Journal Article
Bourhis, Y., Milne, A. E., Shortall, C. R., Beckman, B., Blumgart, D., Edwards, R., Evans, L. C., Foster, C. W., Fox, R., Botham, M. S., Rowland, C., Roberts, S., Speight, M. C. D., Hassall, C., Kunin, W. E., & Bell, J. R. (2025). Author Correction: Trait mediation explains decadal distributional shifts for a wide range of insect taxa. Nature Communications, 16(1), 8737. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-64720-4

Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63093-y, published online 30 August 2025

In this article there was an error with Figure 5 in which some of the text characters did not get rendered correctly. The original art... Read More about Author Correction: Trait mediation explains decadal distributional shifts for a wide range of insect taxa.

Not All Bad: A Laboratory Experiment Examining Viewing Images of Nature on Instagram Can Improve Wellbeing and Positive Emotions (2025)
Journal Article
Stiff, C., & Orchard, L. J. (2025). Not All Bad: A Laboratory Experiment Examining Viewing Images of Nature on Instagram Can Improve Wellbeing and Positive Emotions. Psychiatry International, 6(4), 1-12, 117. https://doi.org/10.3390/psychiatryint6040117

Instagram is a hugely popular social media site; however, it has also been cited in many times as being a source of low self-esteem, unhappiness, and body dissatisfaction. Despite this, there is potential to use Instagram as a self-care delivery syst... Read More about Not All Bad: A Laboratory Experiment Examining Viewing Images of Nature on Instagram Can Improve Wellbeing and Positive Emotions.

Developing Up-Scale Allogeneic Chondrocyte Therapies Using Juvenile Donor Cartilage (2025)
Journal Article
Hulme, C. H., Perry, J., McCarthy, H. S., Lan, T., Ranasinghe, T., Kiely, N., Freeman, R., Wright, J., & Wright, K. T. (2025). Developing Up-Scale Allogeneic Chondrocyte Therapies Using Juvenile Donor Cartilage. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 26(19), 9566. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms26199566

Allogeneic chondrocyte therapies present an attractive alternative to existing autologous therapies for the repair of cartilage defects, enabling the selection of optimal donor cells and streamlined manufacturing processes. This study investigates th... Read More about Developing Up-Scale Allogeneic Chondrocyte Therapies Using Juvenile Donor Cartilage.

Clinical Outcomes of First Metatarsophalangeal Joint Arthrodesis Using the BOFAS Registry: A Prospective Cohort Study (2025)
Journal Article
Ferozkhan, J., Makwana, N., Mason, L., Halliwell, P., & Rushton, A. (2025). Clinical Outcomes of First Metatarsophalangeal Joint Arthrodesis Using the BOFAS Registry: A Prospective Cohort Study. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 18(4), e70084. https://doi.org/10.1002/jfa2.70084

Background: This study investigated the quality and clinical outcomes of the British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (BOFAS) registry first metatarsophalangeal joint (MTPJ) arthrodesis pathway. Methods: A prospective cohort study using data derive... Read More about Clinical Outcomes of First Metatarsophalangeal Joint Arthrodesis Using the BOFAS Registry: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Children and young people’s perceptions of and interactions with the police: A case for ‘defunding the police’, ‘refunding civil society’ and introducing ‘community first’ (2025)
Journal Article
Griffiths, C., Weston, S., Griffiths, C. E., & Day, A.-M. (in press). Children and young people’s perceptions of and interactions with the police: A case for ‘defunding the police’, ‘refunding civil society’ and introducing ‘community first’. Criminology and Criminal Justice.

A Decade of SBOL Visual: Growing Adoption of a Diagram Standard for Engineering Biology (2025)
Journal Article
Buecherl, L., Buson, F. X., Sørensen, G. H., Vitalis, C., Kubaczka, E., Vidal, G., Bartley, B., Ho, Y.-K., Mısırlı, G., Gorochowski, T. E., Beal, J., Myers, C. J., & Vaidyanathan, P. (2025). A Decade of SBOL Visual: Growing Adoption of a Diagram Standard for Engineering Biology. ACS synthetic biology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.5c00417

Standards play a crucial role in ensuring consistency, interoperability, and efficiency of communication across various disciplines. In the field of synthetic biology, the Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) Visual standard was introduced in 2013... Read More about A Decade of SBOL Visual: Growing Adoption of a Diagram Standard for Engineering Biology.

Trends and inequalities in Advice and Guidance versus direct referral in NHS primary care: a population-based study, 2015–2023 (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Mason, K. J., Jordan, K. P., Bailey, J., Bajpai, R., Clarson, L. E., Faux-Nightingale, A., Hadley-Barrows, T., Haines, J., Harrison, R., Helliwell, T., Hider, S. L., Jinks, C., Knight, N., Mallen, C. D., Welsh, V. K., & Burton, C. (2025). Trends and inequalities in Advice and Guidance versus direct referral in NHS primary care: a population-based study, 2015–2023. medrxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.25.25336644

Objective to examine trends and variation in the use of Advice and Guidance (A&G) compared with direct referrals in primary care, and to assess potential disparities across population groups.

Design Observational study using routinely collected el... Read More about Trends and inequalities in Advice and Guidance versus direct referral in NHS primary care: a population-based study, 2015–2023.

A qualitative study of treatment adherence from the perspective of nurses and patients following acute coronary syndrome (2025)
Journal Article
Rashidi, A., Whitehead, L., Newson, L., Connolly, A., Robinson, S., Kaistha, P., Makokha, M., Larsen, R., & Saunders, R. (2025). A qualitative study of treatment adherence from the perspective of nurses and patients following acute coronary syndrome. BMC Nursing, 24(1), 1203. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-025-03469-z

Aim: To gain an understanding of potential aspects influencing treatment adherence for patients with acute coronary syndrome. Design: A qualitative deductive approach. Methods: Patient and nurse participants were recruited from a single hospital in A... Read More about A qualitative study of treatment adherence from the perspective of nurses and patients following acute coronary syndrome.

Remote consultations in sexual and reproductive health services: a systematic review of evidence on effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, experiences, access and equity (2025)
Journal Article
Spurway, C., Williams, I., Ayinde, O. C., Bohm, C., Burns, F., Gibbs, J., Josh, J., Munro, H., Woode Owusu, M., Solomon, D., Ross, J. D., & Jackson, L. J. (2025). Remote consultations in sexual and reproductive health services: a systematic review of evidence on effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, experiences, access and equity. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 1-14, sextrans-2024-056458. https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2024-056458

Objectives: Timely access to sexual health screening and contraception is an important public health issue. Substantial funding reductions for sexual and reproductive health services (SRHS) and COVID-19 have led to significant changes in service deli... Read More about Remote consultations in sexual and reproductive health services: a systematic review of evidence on effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, experiences, access and equity.

Unlocking the Potential of mHealth: Integrating Behaviour Change Techniques in Hypertension App Design (2025)
Journal Article
Motta-Yanac, E., Victoria, R., Ellis, N. J., & Gidlow, C. J. (2025). Unlocking the Potential of mHealth: Integrating Behaviour Change Techniques in Hypertension App Design. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22(10), 1-12, 1487. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph22101487

Background: Smartphone apps offer a promising avenue for delivering scalable interventions for hypertension self-management. This study aimed to characterise the behaviour change technique ontology (BCTO) elements present in apps available on popular... Read More about Unlocking the Potential of mHealth: Integrating Behaviour Change Techniques in Hypertension App Design.