Clinical effectiveness of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments for the management of anxiety in community dwelling people living with dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis
(2023)
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Nimmons, D., Aker, N., Burnand, A., Jordan, K. P., Cooper, C., Davies, N., …Walters, K. (2023). Clinical effectiveness of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments for the management of anxiety in community dwelling people living with dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 157, 105507. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105507
Musculotendinous ruptures of the achilles tendon had greater heel-rise height index compared with mid-substance rupture with non-operative management: a retrospective cohort study (2023)
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Carmont, M. R., Gunnarsson, B., Brorsson, A., & Nilsson-Helander, K. (2023). Musculotendinous ruptures of the achilles tendon had greater heel-rise height index compared with mid-substance rupture with non-operative management: a retrospective cohort study. Journal of ISAKOS, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jisako.2023.12.006Introduction
Achilles Tendon Ruptures (ATR) may occur at varying locations with ruptures at the mid-substance (MS) of the tendon most common, followed tears at the musculotendinous (MT) junction. There is scant li... Read More about Musculotendinous ruptures of the achilles tendon had greater heel-rise height index compared with mid-substance rupture with non-operative management: a retrospective cohort study.
Using video-based examiner score comparison and adjustment (VESCA) to compare the influence of examiners at different sites in a distributed objective structured clinical exam (OSCE) (2023)
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Yeates, P., Maluf, A., Cope, N., McCray, G., McBain, S., Beardow, D., …McKinley, R. B. (2023). Using video-based examiner score comparison and adjustment (VESCA) to compare the influence of examiners at different sites in a distributed objective structured clinical exam (OSCE). BMC Medical Education, 23(1), Article 803. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04774-4Purpose: Ensuring equivalence of examiners’ judgements within distributed objective structured clinical exams (OSCEs) is key to both fairness and validity but is hampered by lack of cross-over in the performances which different groups of examiners o... Read More about Using video-based examiner score comparison and adjustment (VESCA) to compare the influence of examiners at different sites in a distributed objective structured clinical exam (OSCE).
Clinicians’ views of prescribing oral and intravenous bisphosphonates for osteoporosis: a qualitative study (2023)
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Bishop, S., Narayanasamy, M. J., Paskins, Z., Corp, N., Bastounis, A., Griffin, J., …Sahota, O. (2023). Clinicians’ views of prescribing oral and intravenous bisphosphonates for osteoporosis: a qualitative study. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 24(1), Article 770. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-023-06865-1Background: Bisphosphonate medications, including alendronate, ibandronate and risedronate administered orally and zoledronate, administered intravenously, are commonly prescribed for the treatment of osteoporosis based on evidence that, correctly ta... Read More about Clinicians’ views of prescribing oral and intravenous bisphosphonates for osteoporosis: a qualitative study.
Complex high‐risk percutaneous coronary intervention types, trends, and outcomes according to vascular access site (2023)
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Shamkhani, W., Moledina, S., Rashid, M., & Mamas, M. A. (in press). Complex high‐risk percutaneous coronary intervention types, trends, and outcomes according to vascular access site. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, 102(5), 803-813. https://doi.org/10.1002/ccd.30846Background
Radial access is associated with improved outcomes following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI); however, its role in complex, high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention (CHiP) remains poorly studied.
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We studied retros... Read More about Complex high‐risk percutaneous coronary intervention types, trends, and outcomes according to vascular access site.
Risk-stratified monitoring for thiopurine toxicity in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: prognostic model development, validation, and, health economic evaluation. (2023)
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Nakafero, G., Card, T., Grainge, M. J., Williams, H. C., Taal, M. W., Aithal, G. P., …Abhishek, A. (2023). Risk-stratified monitoring for thiopurine toxicity in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: prognostic model development, validation, and, health economic evaluation. EClinicalMedicine, 64, Article 102213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.102213Background
Patients established on thiopurines (e.g., azathioprine) are recommended to undergo three-monthly blood tests for the early detection of blood, liver, or kidney toxicity. These side-effects are uncommon during long-term treatment. We deve... Read More about Risk-stratified monitoring for thiopurine toxicity in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: prognostic model development, validation, and, health economic evaluation..
Quantifying morphological changes in middle trapezius with ultrasound scanning and a novel histogram matching algorithm (2023)
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Philp, F., Meilak, E., Willis, T., Winn, N., & Pandyan, A. (in press). Quantifying morphological changes in middle trapezius with ultrasound scanning and a novel histogram matching algorithm. Gait & Posture, 106, S163-S164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2023.07.197Introduction
Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD) can affect upper-limb function through muscle degeneration, fatty infiltration and oedema. Muscle echogenicity, measured using ultrasound, could be used as a bioma... Read More about Quantifying morphological changes in middle trapezius with ultrasound scanning and a novel histogram matching algorithm.
Substantially more children receiving antidepressants see a specialist than reported by Jack et al. (2023)
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Taxiarchi, V. P., Chew-Graham, C. A., & Pierce, M. (in press). Substantially more children receiving antidepressants see a specialist than reported by Jack et al. BMC Medicine, 21(1), Article 345. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-023-03043-xWe would like to draw attention to evidence of substantial bias in the article published in this journal by Jack et al. (BMC Med 18:1-12, 2020). They provide an analysis of antidepressant prescribing to children and young people (CYP; ages 5 to 17) i... Read More about Substantially more children receiving antidepressants see a specialist than reported by Jack et al..
Time to Benefit of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors Among Patients With Heart Failure (2023)
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Chen, K., Nie, Z., Shi, R., Yu, D., Wang, Q., Shao, F., …Li, C. (2023). Time to Benefit of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors Among Patients With Heart Failure. Jama Network Open, 6(8), Article e2330754. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.30754IMPORTANCE Emerging evidence has consistently demonstrated that sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors reduce the risk of heart failure (HF) hospitalization and cardiovascular (CV) death among patients with HF. However, it remains unclear... Read More about Time to Benefit of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors Among Patients With Heart Failure.
What competencies do European general practice trainees value the most? A prioritisation exercise using a Delphi-informed approach (2023)
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Junge, H., Poppleton, A., Sun, S., Janos, S., & Dupont, F. (in press). What competencies do European general practice trainees value the most? A prioritisation exercise using a Delphi-informed approach. Education for Primary Care, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1080/14739879.2023.2222718General Practice has changed over the past decade. Expansion of clinicians' roles may create uncertainty, stress, and overload - particular for those at the start of their career. The WONCA Europe network for medical education, EURACT, has published... Read More about What competencies do European general practice trainees value the most? A prioritisation exercise using a Delphi-informed approach.
Traditional healers working with primary care and mental health for early intervention in psychosis in young persons: protocol for the feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial (2023)
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Farooq, S., Sheikh, S., Dikomitis, L., Haq, M. M. U., Khan, A. J., Sanauddin, N., …Lewis, M. (2023). Traditional healers working with primary care and mental health for early intervention in psychosis in young persons: protocol for the feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open, 13(7), e072471. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-072471Objectives: In low/middle-income countries (LMICs), more than half of patients with first-episode psychosis initially seek treatment from traditional and religious healers as their first care. This contributes to an excessively long duration of untre... Read More about Traditional healers working with primary care and mental health for early intervention in psychosis in young persons: protocol for the feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial.
The association between gout and psychological co-morbidity: results from a prospective cohort study (2023)
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Higgs, J. J. R. (2023). The association between gout and psychological co-morbidity: results from a prospective cohort study. (Thesis). Keele UniversityGout is associated with an increased risk of both physical-health co-morbidities and a reduction in physical health-related quality of life. However, the association between gout and psychological comorbidity (depression and anxiety) has received lit... Read More about The association between gout and psychological co-morbidity: results from a prospective cohort study.