Identification of prognostic factors and assessment methods on the evaluation of non-specific low back pain in a biopsychosocial environment: A scoping review (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Identification of prognostic factors and assessment methods on the evaluation of non-specific low back pain in a biopsychosocial environment: A scoping review. International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine, 25-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijosm.2018.07.001

This review lists biopsychosocial factors and assessment methods to use with non-specific low back pain. These should be included in evidence-informed educational interventions. This review supports a biopsychosocial approach in a manual therapy cont... Read More about Identification of prognostic factors and assessment methods on the evaluation of non-specific low back pain in a biopsychosocial environment: A scoping review.

Greater improvements in diet quality among overweight participants following a group-based commercial weight loss programme than those receiving support to lose weight in primary care (2018)
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Solis-Trapala. (2018). Greater improvements in diet quality among overweight participants following a group-based commercial weight loss programme than those receiving support to lose weight in primary care. Nutrition Journal, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12937-018-0370-x

Background
Relatively little is known about dietary changes and their relationships with weight change during behavioural weight loss interventions. In a secondary analysis of data from a multicentre RCT, we investigated whether greater improvements... Read More about Greater improvements in diet quality among overweight participants following a group-based commercial weight loss programme than those receiving support to lose weight in primary care.

Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy for knee arthritis: a feasibility study in primary care. (2018)
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Mallen. (2018). Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy for knee arthritis: a feasibility study in primary care. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 93 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-018-0288-2

Background: Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is a concentrate of autologous blood growth factors which has been shown to provide some symptomatic relief in early osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. The objective of this study was to test the feasibility and e... Read More about Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy for knee arthritis: a feasibility study in primary care..

Risk of fragility fracture among patients with late-onset psoriasis: a United Kingdom population-based study (2018)
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Mallen, Roddy, Bucknall, Muller, Hider, Helliwell, & Paskins. (2018). Risk of fragility fracture among patients with late-onset psoriasis: a United Kingdom population-based study. Osteoporosis International, 1659-1664. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-018-4491-z

This study aimed to examine fracture risk in patients with late-onset psoriasis. A cohort study was conducted using primary care records from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Psoriasis patients had a 10% increased risk of fracture compared to... Read More about Risk of fragility fracture among patients with late-onset psoriasis: a United Kingdom population-based study.

Hajj: what it means for general practice (2018)
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Saad, A., Mughal, F., & Chew-Graham, C. (2018). Hajj: what it means for general practice. British Journal of General Practice (BJGP), https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen18X101493

Annually, about 20 000 British Muslims journey to Saudi Arabia to undertake the Hajj, the greater Muslim pilgrimage.1 The National Travel Health Network and Centre advises intended pilgrims to see their GP 6 weeks prior to travel, to review their hea... Read More about Hajj: what it means for general practice.

Optimal primary care management of clinical osteoarthritis and joint pain in older people: a mixed-methods programme of systematic reviews, observational and qualitative studies, and randomised controlled trials (2018)
Report
Hay, E., Dziedzic, K., Foster, N., Peat, G., van der Windt, D., Bartlam, B., …Croft, P. (2018). Optimal primary care management of clinical osteoarthritis and joint pain in older people: a mixed-methods programme of systematic reviews, observational and qualitative studies, and randomised controlled trials. NIHR. PGfAR as project number RP-PG-0407-10386. Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

<jats:sec id="abs1-1"> <jats:title>Background</jats:title> <jats:p>Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common long-term condition managed in UK general practice. However, care is suboptimal despite evidence that primary care and community-based intervent... Read More about Optimal primary care management of clinical osteoarthritis and joint pain in older people: a mixed-methods programme of systematic reviews, observational and qualitative studies, and randomised controlled trials.

Predicting surgical intervention in patients presenting with carpal tunnel syndrome in primary care (2018)
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Burton, C. L., S Chesterton, L., Chen, Y., & Van Der Windt, D. (2018). Predicting surgical intervention in patients presenting with carpal tunnel syndrome in primary care. Clinical Epidemiology, 739 - 748. https://doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S154409

Purpose: Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a symptomatic compression neuropathy of the median nerve. This study investigated the value of candidate prognostic factors (PFs) in predicting carpal tunnel release surgery. Patients and methods: This is a re... Read More about Predicting surgical intervention in patients presenting with carpal tunnel syndrome in primary care.

Metabolic risk factors and the incidence and progression of radiographic hand osteoarthritis: a population-based cohort study (2018)
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Marshall, M., Peat, G., Nicholls, E., Myers, H. L., Mamas, M. A., & Van Der Windt, D. A. (in press). Metabolic risk factors and the incidence and progression of radiographic hand osteoarthritis: a population-based cohort study. Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology, 48(1), 52-63. https://doi.org/10.1080/03009742.2018.1459831

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether selected metabolic factors are associated with greater amounts of radiographic hand osteoarthritis (OA) incidence and progression. METHODS: The study identified 706 adults, aged 50-69 years, with hand pain and hand rad... Read More about Metabolic risk factors and the incidence and progression of radiographic hand osteoarthritis: a population-based cohort study.

Early Clinical Outcomes, Patterns of Failure, and Acute Haematologic Toxicity of Image-Guided Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (IG-VMAT) in the Definitive Treatment of Locally Advanced Carcinoma Cervix (2018)
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Ahmad, I., Chufal, K. S., Bashir, I., Bhatt, C. P., Bajpai, R., Sharma, L., & Rathour, S. (2018). Early Clinical Outcomes, Patterns of Failure, and Acute Haematologic Toxicity of Image-Guided Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (IG-VMAT) in the Definitive Treatment of Locally Advanced Carcinoma Cervix. Clinical Medicine Insights: Oncology, 12, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/1179554918783990

Purpose:To evaluate clinical outcomes and failure patterns in patients with locally advanced cervical cancer (LACC) treated definitively using image-guided volumetric-modulated arc therapy (IG-VMAT).Methods and materials:This retrospective review inc... Read More about Early Clinical Outcomes, Patterns of Failure, and Acute Haematologic Toxicity of Image-Guided Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (IG-VMAT) in the Definitive Treatment of Locally Advanced Carcinoma Cervix.

Physical and mental determinants of dropout and retention among nursing students: protocol of the SPRiNG cohort study. (2018)
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(2018). Physical and mental determinants of dropout and retention among nursing students: protocol of the SPRiNG cohort study. BMC Nursing, 27 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-018-0296-9

Background: The shortage of nursing professionals is of growing concern. The causes of this include the demanding physical and mental workload, leading to a dropout of nurses that may start during their education. However, it is unclear to what exten... Read More about Physical and mental determinants of dropout and retention among nursing students: protocol of the SPRiNG cohort study..

Representativeness of a digitally engaged population and a patient organisation population with rheumatoid arthritis and their willingness to participate in research: a cross-sectional study. (2018)
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(2018). Representativeness of a digitally engaged population and a patient organisation population with rheumatoid arthritis and their willingness to participate in research: a cross-sectional study. RMD Open, e000664 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1136/rmdopen-2018-000664

Objectives: To describe (1) the representativeness of (a) users of an online health community (HealthUnlocked.com (HU)) with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and (b) paid members of an RA patient organisation, the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS... Read More about Representativeness of a digitally engaged population and a patient organisation population with rheumatoid arthritis and their willingness to participate in research: a cross-sectional study..

Cost-utility analysis of interventions to improve effectiveness of exercise therapy for adults with knee osteoarthritis: the BEEP trial. (2018)
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Kigozi, J., Jowett, S., Nicholls, E., Tooth, S., Hay, E., Foster, N. E., & Holden, M. (2018). Cost-utility analysis of interventions to improve effectiveness of exercise therapy for adults with knee osteoarthritis: the BEEP trial. Rheumatology Advances in Practice, rky018 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1093/rap/rky018

Objectives: Evidence regarding the cost-effectiveness of enhancing physical therapy exercise programmes in order to improve outcomes for patients with knee OA remains unclear. This study investigates the cost-effectiveness of two enhanced physical th... Read More about Cost-utility analysis of interventions to improve effectiveness of exercise therapy for adults with knee osteoarthritis: the BEEP trial..

Guidance for deriving and presenting percentage study weights in meta-analysis of test accuracy studies. (2018)
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Van Der Windt. (2018). Guidance for deriving and presenting percentage study weights in meta-analysis of test accuracy studies. Research Synthesis Methods, 163 - 178. https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1283

Percentage study weights in meta-analysis reveal the contribution of each study toward the overall summary results and are especially important when some studies are considered outliers or at high risk of bias. In meta-analyses of test accuracy revie... Read More about Guidance for deriving and presenting percentage study weights in meta-analysis of test accuracy studies..

RE: Effective lifetime radiation risk for a number of national mammography screening programmes. (2018)
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(2018). RE: Effective lifetime radiation risk for a number of national mammography screening programmes. Radiography, 273 - 273. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2018.05.005

Impact of peer support on inpatient and outpatient payments among people with Type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohort study (2018)
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Yu. (2018). Impact of peer support on inpatient and outpatient payments among people with Type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohort study. Diabetic Medicine, 789-797. https://doi.org/10.1111/dme.13624

Aim
To investigate the impact of a low-cost diabetes peer-support intervention, aimed at reducing inpatient and outpatient care utilization and healthcare payments, by conducting a cohort study that followed up a randomized controlled trial.

Met... Read More about Impact of peer support on inpatient and outpatient payments among people with Type 2 diabetes: a prospective cohort study.

Rheumatoid arthritis and excess mortality: down but not out. A primary care cohort study using data from Clinical Practice Research Datalink. (2018)
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Mallen. (2018). Rheumatoid arthritis and excess mortality: down but not out. A primary care cohort study using data from Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Rheumatology, 977 - 981. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/key013

Objectives: To examine temporal trends in all-cause and cause-specific mortality in RA. Methods: Data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink were used. Incident RA cases and four age-, sex- and general practice-matched controls were identified... Read More about Rheumatoid arthritis and excess mortality: down but not out. A primary care cohort study using data from Clinical Practice Research Datalink..

Understanding physical activity promotion in physiotherapy practice: a qualitative study (2018)
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(2018). Understanding physical activity promotion in physiotherapy practice: a qualitative study. Musculoskeletal Science and Practice, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msksp.2018.01.009

Objective
Physical inactivity is a major public health issue and healthcare professionals are encouraged to promote physical activity during routine patient contacts in order to reduce non-communicable diseases and enhance individuals' quality of li... Read More about Understanding physical activity promotion in physiotherapy practice: a qualitative study.

Random-effects meta-analysis of the clinical utility of tests and prediction models (2018)
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(2018). Random-effects meta-analysis of the clinical utility of tests and prediction models. Statistics in Medicine, 2034-2052. https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.7653

The use of data from multiple studies or centers for the validation of a clinical test or a multivariable prediction model allows researchers to investigate the test's/model's performance in multiple settings and populations. Recently, meta-analytic... Read More about Random-effects meta-analysis of the clinical utility of tests and prediction models.

Seeking the patient perspective. (2018)
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Chew-Graham. (2018). Seeking the patient perspective. Health Expectations, 561 - 562. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12801

Editorial briefing.

Gout, Hyperuricemia, and Crystal-Associated Disease Network Consensus Statement Regarding Labels and Definitions for Disease Elements in Gout (2018)
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Bursill, D., Taylor, W. J., Terkeltaub, R., Kuwabara, M., Merriman, T. R., Grainger, R., …Dalbeth, N. (2019). Gout, Hyperuricemia, and Crystal-Associated Disease Network Consensus Statement Regarding Labels and Definitions for Disease Elements in Gout. Arthritis Care and Research, 71(3), 427-434. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.23607

OBJECTIVE:
The language currently used to describe gout lacks standardisation. The aim of this project was to develop a consensus statement on the labels and definitions used to describe the basic disease elements of gout.

METHODS: Experts in g... Read More about Gout, Hyperuricemia, and Crystal-Associated Disease Network Consensus Statement Regarding Labels and Definitions for Disease Elements in Gout.